Environment & Safety
Global HPI spending likely to jump 15% in 2014
Newfound optimism stems from rising availability of gas supplies in several nations, rich shale reserves in North America, and a new expansion wave for petrochemicals.
Veolia to distribute MIOX water treatment line
MIOX has expanded its industrial cooling tower installation base while developing technologies that support water management and recycling for industrial and oil and gas applications. Many MIOX customers have pioneered solutions by integrating MIOX on-site generated chemistries.
Emerson acquires US safety controls firm Enardo
Enardo manufactures tank and terminal safety equipment, including hatches, vent, pressure and vacuum relief valves and flame arrestors used in the oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical and other industries. The company employs 140 at its headquarters and operations in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
HP Viewpoint: IT/OT integration—Is it safe?
Information technology (IT) includes conventional computers, operating systems, networking components and software platforms. All IT developments continue to increase in importance for industrial cont..
HP Industry Perspectives: POLL FINDINGS: Pipelines remain crude route of choice for North American refiners
While the Keystone XL pipeline project remains in limbo, the concept behind it is very much alive.Roughly 70% of industry respondents predict that pipelines will be the most popular crude oil transpor..
HP Brief
Changes on the horizon at Harburg refineryNynas has received approval from the European Commission to take over production and responsibility for the base oil plant and associated production units at ..
HP Impact: Lukoil projects energy trends out to 2025
Lukoil recently offered an outlook on the long-term prospects for the global hydrocarbon processing industry. The outlook’s objective is to analyze trends that will (in Lukoil’s view) determ..
HP Impact: Statoil issues report on In Amenas terrorist attack
Statoil’s board has concluded an investigation into the terrorist attack at the BP gas plant in In Amenas, Algeria. The investigation team visited the In Amenas plant on April 16 and issued its f..
Shell, Technip to collaborate on improving CO2 capture technologies
The agreement enables both Technip and Shell Cansolv to offer a full chain of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for post-combustion CO2 capture projects.
Marathon puts out fire at Galveston Bay refinery
The fire in the 451,000 bpd refinery's hydrotreater unit burned for about a half-hour on Monday. The refinery, formerly known as BP Texas City, has had numerous problems in recent years.
- 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
