Engineering & Design
HP Global: State of the US petrochemical/chemical industry
After a promising start, the global economy faltered in 2014 with heightened geopolitical uncertainty; recessions in Brazil, Japan and many European nations; and slowdowns in China, the Euro Area and ..
HP Petrochemicals: Global PE demand growth to drive downstream expansions
According to IHS Chemical, global demand for polyethylene (PE) is expected to increase by more than 25% during the next five years, from approximately 85 million metric tons (metric MMt) in 2014, to m..
HP Boxscore Construction Analysis: Malaysia embarks on ambitious downstream transformation program
Goals include more production at offshore fields, as well as constructing downstream projects in Pengerang, Bintulu and the launch of the world’s first floating LNG vessel.
Motiva halts diesel expansion at top US refinery
“Motiva routinely adjusts our business plans, based on company needs and evolving state and federal regulatory requirements at any given time," a company spokesman said.
Fluor works on new delayed coker for ExxonMobil at Antwerp refinery
Fluor is responsible for the new delayed coker unit that will convert heavy, higher sulfur residual oils into transportation fuel products such as marine gasoil and diesel fuel.
Amec Foster Wheeler acquires UK specialist engineering firm Scopus
Headquartered in Aberdeen, with bases in international oil and gas hubs, Scopus employs around 300 employees who provide specialist engineering services to the global oil and gas, petrochemical and nuclear industries.
Neste Jacobs partners with Intergraph on global engineering design
The company seeks to position itself as the go-to provider of engineering solutions in the global marketplace by expanding their use of Intergraph solutions in its projects worldwide.
Improve execution of capital projects with advanced technologies
The E&C industry is now poised for a major leap forward in utilizing advancements in information technologies and, thus, enabling itself to greatly boost project performance.
Replan: Modernizing Brazil’s largest crude oil refinery
The project included installing two hydrodesulfurization (HDS) units for the cracked naphtha produced by two catalytic cracking units, a coker naphtha hydrotreating (HDT) unit, and a catalytic reforming unit.
3D laser scanning impacts asset lifecycle management
Few technologies have leaped from research lab to everyday use quite as rapidly as 3D laser scanning. Only a few years ago, this technology was a prototype method that captured fuzzy images of plant e..
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- ADNOC launches $80-B low-carbon energy and chemicals investment company 11/27
- Chevron sees California's fuel inventory law raising prices for customers 11/27
- Clariant’s MegaMax™ catalysts to power China’s first biomass-to-green methanol project 11/27
- easyJet, Renavia and WFS sign MoU for long-term supply of SAF 11/27
- Cyclyx to invest in second Cyclyx Circularity Center 11/27
