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BridgeTex pipeline to deliver crude from Permian Basin to Houston Gulf Coast

The pipeline will transport up to 300,000 bpd of crude oil, with access to Houston Ship Channel refineries, Texas City refineries and other refineries throughout the Gulf Coast.

Korea Petrochemical taps Toyo to build EO/EG plant

Toyo will provide the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) based on the basic design package of US-based company Scientific Design (SD). The mechanical completion of this plant is scheduled for May 2014. Toyo has already built 13 EO/EG plants based on SD’s technology.

Foster Wheeler venture wins FEED work for Canada oil sands processing site

The project, located in northern Alberta, is expected to have an initial production capacity of 90,000 bpd over two phases and an estimated project life of up to 40 years. The project is currently under review by regulators, according to company officials. The contract value was not disclosed.

Aramco picks Técnicas Reunidas for engineering on Saudi refining projects

Técnicas Reunidas will build a hydrocracker plant and a diesel hydrotreater facility for an upcoming 400,000 bpd refinery and marine terminal project that Saudi Aramco is developing at Jazan, in the kingdom's southwest on the Red Sea coast. The facilities are scheduled to be operational by 2017.

Reliance picks Foster Wheeler for engineering on India paraxylene expansion

Foster Wheeler’s scope includes detailed engineering, licensor coordination and procurement services for the new paraxylene plant. The project will be executed from the company's Indian and UK operations.

Shell names Fluor downstream engineering partner for Europe, Middle East

Under terms of the agreement, Fluor will provide design, project and construction management, home-office and site-based engineering services. The agreement includes an option to be extended for another five years and opportunities to include Shell's upstream projects and other geographic regions.

Relief valve and flare action items: What plant engineers should know

Smith & Burgess LLC: Smith, D.
Smith and Burgess LLC: Burgess, J.

This article can help the plant engineer review the concerns developed by the design engineer. Implementing field modifications without performing such a review is costly and exposes a facility to unjustified risks.

Consider new technologies to raise diesel yield in bottom-of-barrel products

Axens: Morel, F.  |  Duddy, J.  |  Wisdom, L.

The debate continues over adding a new delayed coker vs. a residue hydrocracker upstream of an existing delayed coker.

Low-pressure absorption of CO2 from flue gas: Plant economics with incentives

Politecnico di Milano: Tellini, M.  |  Manenti, F.

The precedent to this article, published in the April 2011 issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, discussed the chemical feasibility and process engineering design to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from flue g..

Improve integration opportunities for aromatics units—Part 1

Fluor Enterprises, Inc.: Vaidyanathan, S.  |  Zhou, J.
Apex PetroConsultants: Kapur, S.

An aromatics complex is a combination of processing units that can be used to convert petroleum naphtha and pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) into the basic petrochemical intermediates: benzene, toluene and ..