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Fluor selected for petchem project expansion in the Philippines

IRVING, Texas — Fluor Corporation announced that it was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the utilities, offsites and infrastructure scope of work for JG Summit’s petrochemical complex expansion in Batangas City, Philippines. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in Q3 2017.

Dynea announces start-up of formaldehyde plant

LILLESTRØM, Norway — Dynea AS announced the successful commissioning and start-up of a formaldehyde plant using silver crystals as catalyst.

Fluor awarded contract for world’s largest propylene oxide, tertiary butyl alcohol plant

IRVING, Texas — Fluor Corporation announced that it was selected by LyondellBasell to perform the engineering and procurement for its propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) project located at its Channelview and Bayport complexes outside of Houston. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value into backlog in the Q3 2017.

SNC-Lavalin awarded engineering, licensing contract for Dorogobuzh project

MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin announced that it has been awarded a contract by Novgorodskiy GIAP, a subsidiary of Acron Group, for the development of engineering design packages and licensing services for a fertilizers project located in the Smolensk region of the Russian Federation.

Show Preview: ADIPEC

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

The 20th edition of Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) will take place 13–16 November at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.

Engineering Case Histories: Case 98—Why performing calculations is important to an engineer’s career

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Engineering calculations can help an engineer’s career by controlling the risks taken. The author has followed this path.

Troubleshooting the repetitive failure and shaft seizure of a hot oil circulation pump

Saudi Aramco: Allah, W. K.  |  Al-Abood, A.  |  Ballard, F.  |  Brashler, K.

The Shaybah NGL recovery plant has a single-stage, double-suction between bearings, radial-split design for hot oil circulation.

Diversification: The catalyst for the Middle East’s downstream transformation

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Over the past several years, the Middle East has made substantial investments to increase its downstream processing capacity.

Optimize a refinery H2 network using spreadsheet tools

Ecopetrol: Salgado, H.

One of the major goals in every refining complex is to minimize the utilization of its hydrogen (H<sub>2</sub>) generation units by maximizing the H<sub>2</sub> recovery from residual streams.

The next generation of advanced process control

APC Performance LLC: Kern, A.
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Andrew, Bob

In this article, Hydrocarbon Processing provides published references on model-based control, and contributing author Allan Kern presents his views on model-less control.