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Closed-loop control can clamp down on crude unit corrosion

Nalco Company, Energy Services Division: Hilton, N. P.

Automating the detection process and controlling applications in real time dramatically boosts performance

HP Impact: BP’s energy outlook to 2030

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Global energy demand will continue to grow over the next 20 years, albeit at a slowing annual rate, fueled by economic and population growth in non-OECD countries. Increased energy efficiency and stro..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

BASF will build a single-train 300,000 metric-tpy production plant for toluene diisocyanate (TDI) at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. It will also expand additional plants for TDI precursors by cons..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Qatargas has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Samsung Engineering Ltd. for a diesel hydrotreater (DHT) unit that will treat 54,000 bpsd of diesel, from high-sulf..

HP Construction: Asia Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Total is consolidating its positions in petrochemicals in Asia with a new expansion and upgrading project for the Daesan complex in South Korea, which the group owns with Samsung as part of the Samsun..

HP Innovations: HPInnovations

IVD vacuum vessel aids in corrosion prevention   Fig. 1. The IVD vacuum vessel   applies aluminum coatings for   corrosion protection.  Thermal processing systems manufac..

US sees lower 2011 oil use, becomes net exporter

US oil demand in all of 2011 dropped 1.8%, or by 345,000 bpd, from 2010 to a two-year low of 18.835 million bpd, government data released Wednesday show. US oil output climbed 7.4% to 5.877 million bpd, the highest level since 1999.

EIA warns of diesel price spike if Sunoco closes Philadelphia refinery

HP Editorial Staff: HP News Services

Ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel - already at a record high for this time of year - could spike higher if Sunoco proceeds with plans to shut the 335,000 bpd refinery in July.

Calumet, MDU to explore building diesel refinery in North Dakota

MDU Resources and Calumet say they will explore the feasibility of jointly building and operating a 20,000 bpd diesel refinery in southwestern North Dakota. Site selection, permitting, crude oil feed procurement, marketing and engineering studies are currently underway.

US January petroleum demand falls from 2011 on lower heating oil use - API

Total petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) fell 5.7% this January compared with January 2011 to just over 18 million bpd, according to monthly data from the American Petroleum Institute (API). The slide in heating fuel demand reflects January’s relatively warm temperatures, the group said.