Equipment

Digital Exclusive—Valve maintenance: An open and shut case?

Maintaining valves throughout a plant’s lifetime helps to preserve optimal performance, minimize supply disruptions and reduce environmental impacts; however, it can be challenging. Remote locations, extreme operating conditions and the often-aggressive properties of the fluids being transported can pose specific servicing and maintenance challenges.

Sizing pressure relief piping systems: Dual isenthalpic-isentropic flow

The use of Belleville hold-down supports in piping to overcome vibration problems

Corrosion that would not quit: The curious case of the corroding crude column

Materials storage/corrosion/preservation technology and surplus materials utilization process

Verdant Specialty Solutions completes acquisition of Lubrizol’s Elmendorf, Texas (U.S.) manufacturing and R&D assets

The Elmendorf acquisition significantly strengthens Verdant’s position in the oil and gas production chemicals market, expanding its technology offering with the addition of H₂S scavengers, scale inhibitors, corrosion inhibitors, and other specialty oilfield chemicals.

Asia refinery 2025–2026 maintenance/outages

The table lists planned and unplanned refinery shutdowns for 2025 and 2026 compiled through a survey of Asian oil refiners and market sources.

Digital Exclusive: Root cause analysis on hydrochloric acid corrosion in a diesel hydrotreater unit

KBR wins green ammonia project by IGNIS in Spain

KBR has been awarded a technology and engineering contract by IGNIS for a new green ammonia facility in A Coruña, Spain.

Hitachi secures order for additional centrifugal compressors for Aster Chemicals and Energy's ethylene export expansion project

This project is a part of Aster's initiative to double its ethylene export capacity and strengthen Singapore's role as an energy and petrochemical hub in Southeast Asia.