Environment & Safety
Suncor Energy reports employee death at Alberta oil sands facility
Suncor emergency service personnel responded at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday when an employee was severely injured while working at the Fort McMurray oil sands site.
GE, Aramco launch global innovation challenge for seawater desalination
The goal of this challenge by GE and Saudi Aramco is to identify novel ways to lower these costs around the world, either through technology advances, process improvements, or both.
BP wins top safety honors for US pipeline business
Don Porter, who leads BP’s US pipelines business, accepted API’s Occupational Safety and Environmental Performance awards in the large operator category on behalf of the company.
IChemE unveils new process safety alliance with Texas A&M Engineering
The memorandum of understanding will see both IChemE and Texas A&M commit to collaboration in process safety education, CPD products and strategic leadership and direction.
Major refinery uses reliable fiscal metering system
Reliance Industries Ltd., ranked 99th on the Fortune 500 list of the world’s major corporations, operates the largest refinery and petrochemical complex. Located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India (Fig...
HP Innovations
Modular generator creates precision gas mixturesKIN-TEK’s FlexStream Modular Gas Standards Generating System (Fig. 1) creates precise gas mixtures. The FlexStream system dilutes emissions from pe..
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.
- Valero Energy Q4 profit beats estimates; shares surge 1/30
- Dow launches "Transform to Outperform" to raise the competitive industry benchmark for productivity and growth to enable improved returns 1/30
- Russian oil refineries' peak maintenance expected in January and September 1/30
- U.S. lifts some Venezuela sanctions to ease oil sales 1/30
- Keppel, Aster plan sustainable aviation fuel project in Singapore 1/30
- Boeing, Israel's Technion to develop sustainable aviation fuel, as sector grapples with 2050 goal 1/30
