Environment & Safety
Achieve excellence and sustainability in your next turnaround
To consistently achieve pacesetter results on plant shutdowns and turnarounds, it is imperative that companies have a systematic turnaround management process (TMP).
AFPM ’14: BNSF executive outlines rail safety priorities to handle volatile crude
Rose said BNSF and railroads across the country are concerned with three critical safety components: preventing derailments, mitigating their severity and mobilizing response measures effectively.
Foster Wheeler to buy Siemens environmental services business
Combined, these businesses design, engineer, retrofit and service a broad range of clean air technologies for power and industrial plants including: wet and dry flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and particulate control, acid gas control, mercury control, NOx reduction and combustion optimization systems.
Scott Safety unveils new universal gas detector
Meridian features hot-swappable plug-and-play sensors that make it easier to replace parts in hazardous locations, without the need to power down the instrument. The toxic and oxygen sensors are range-agnostic, allowing for a change in sensor range, without recalibration.
Linde buys Quebec safety equipment distributor
Linde Canada is adding Quebec-based Distribution Equiprotek to its portfolio. Linde specializes in industrial and specialty gases, as well as welding and cutting equipment and safety supplies.
Continuous corrosion monitoring enhances operational decisions
Operators with permanently-installed continuous corrosion monitoring systems have better understanding of the corrosion and erosion rates occurring within their facility.
Address inlet pressure loss concerns with restricted lift relief devices
For the past 30 years, standard-sized relief devices have been sized such that it is difficult to meet the installation criteria in American Petroleum Institute (API) standard (STD) 520. This problem ..
Convert heavy oil residue into synthetic fuel
Over the past several decades, oil extractors and refiners have been maximizing the production of easy-to-drill, high-quality light sweet oil, mostly concentrated on the Arabian Peninsula. With “..
HP Editorial Comment: The silent assassin: Corrosion
This month’s special report focuses on corrosion. Often, uncontrolled corrosion undermines the mechanical integrity of process equipment and infrastructure. It is often identified as the root cau..
HP Global: Africa’s drive to a clean fuel regime
The challenges facing Africa’s drive to a clean fuel regime are captured by a success story in South Africa and a heartbreaking tale in Kenya, with both countries striving to achieve low-sulfur (..
- 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
- Digital Exclusive: SPECIAL FOCUS: Digital Technologies—Utilize process simulation digital twin to optimize condensate yield
- Digital Exclusive-Flare system design: Liquid pockets in flare headers
- Hydrogen-rich content gasoline: A new concept for paraffinic gasoline reformulation
- Alarm rationalization at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) refineries
