Environment & Safety
Total inks new labor agreement with global union
A committee made up of members from Total and IndustriALL will meet annually to ensure that the agreement has been implemented and to identify and promote best practices.
Blast at Brazilian refinery burns three workers
The fire and explosion at Petrobras' 323,000-bpd Landulpho Alves (RLAM) complex is the second major accident to occur at Brazil's second-largest refinery within a week.
Chemical board issues safety bulletin on Alabama plant ammonia release
The safety lessons were derived from an investigation into a 2010 anhydrous ammonia release that occurred at Millard Refrigerated Services, located in Theodore, Alabama.
Honeywell begins production of new low-GWP blowing agent, propellant
Honeywell projects that use of its low GWP Solstice materials to replace HFCs will eliminate more than 350 metric MMt in CO2 equivalents by 2025.
ABB wins TÜV certification in Canada for safety system engineering
The company’s Calgary and Burlington offices are the first to implement TÜV certified functional safety management system for design, engineering and delivery of safety instrumented systems.
Without reliability, there can be no safety
Reliability and safety are complimentary concepts. For instance, unless process reliability at a plant is extraordinary, safety cannot be assured. Achieving the highest level of safety at a processing..
HP Innovations
Conductivity meter resolves SDA dosingA major Asian refinery approached Stanhope-Seta and D-2 Technologies to assess its options for automatic dosing of static dissipater additive (SDA) in the jet fue..
PetroChina picks UOP process to purify hydrogen at new refining complex
With support from UOP’s local service team, GXPC successfully commissioned a UOP Polybed PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption) system to purify hydrogen, which is a critical ingredient used in modern refining processes to produce clean transportation fuels like diesel, gasoline and jet fuel.
Air Products sells new hydrogen-fueling station to Hyundai Australia
The fueling station will initially be used to fuel a Hyundai ix35 hydrogen-powered zero-emission fuel cell electric vehicle, the first hydrogen-powered car to be imported into Australia.
Chemical safety board calls for modernization of PSM regulations in US
As a result of these findings, the CSB made recommendations at the federal, state, and local levels to prevent major incidents by adopting a more rigorous regulatory system that requires covered facilities to continuously reduce major hazard risks.
- Technip Energies awarded proprietary equipment contract by CP Chem for low-CO2 cracking furnace technology 7/29
- Slovakia will halt diesel supplies to Ukraine unless oil transit restored, PM says 7/29
- TFG Marine signs agreement with Consort Bunkers for four newbuild methanol carriage bunker tankers 7/29
- India to boost refining capacity to 6.19 MMbpd by 2028 7/29
- Cepsa swings back to profit in 2Q on higher prices, wider refinery margins 7/29
- Libya's NOC denies it is in talks to supply crude oil to Nigeria refinery 7/29
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- Alarm rationalization at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) refineries
