Equipment
Emerson to join the Margo initiative, an open-standard pathway to optimize edge applications
Emerson is joining the Linux Foundation’s Margo, a new open-standard initiative designed to make edge applications, devices and orchestration software work together seamlessly across multi-vendor industrial automation environments.
Oil and gas web client computing devices facilitate integration of web-based HMI/SCADA applications
Operators in oil and gas manufacturing facilities have long depended on human machine interfaces (HMI) to offer a visual summary of process systems that simplifies the monitoring of crucial status and control data. A well-crafted graphical user interface enhances situational awareness, decreases workload and empowers operators to oversee the entire process, facilitating their focus to quickly address any abnormal scenarios.
Effective inventory management during a turnaround
Nothing will impede a successful plant turnaround like improper planning. One aspect of this planning is effective inventory management, and the keys to achieving this are properly identifying and communicating maintenance needs.
Louisiana (U.S.) oil refineries start recovering from Hurricane Francine
Six oil refineries in Louisiana in the path of Hurricane Francine began recovering on Thursday from the storm's passage overnight, companies and sources familiar with operations at the plants said.
Singapore's largest data center to use Neste renewable diesel to power generators
Neste has helped ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) to become the first data center operator in Singapore to power its backup generators with renewable diesel.
Ceres Power Holdings signs SOEC systems license with Thermax to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries
The partnership will accelerate solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) system development within the hard-to-abate green ammonia, petrochemical and steel industries in India and other territories.
Russia's Yaroslavl refinery FCCU shut for 2-weeks unplanned maintenance
Russia's Yaroslavl oil refinery (YANOS) operated by Slavneft, a subsidiary of Rosneft and Gazprom neft, has shut its gasoline-producing fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) for unplanned maintenance expected to last two weeks.
Fire at Moscow refinery will not cause fuel shortages, minister says
A recent fire, caused by a drone strike, at a major Moscow refinery will not lead to fuel shortages in the region as production from other refineries would compensate for the temporary disruption.
Port of Rotterdam power outage affects bp's refining operations
A power outage in the Rotterdam port area in the Netherlands briefly interrupted operations at bp's 400,000-bpd oil refinery.
Digital Feature: Cracking the chemical industry’s carbon code
This article focuses on how Evonik is decarbonizing chemical processing operations at its Herne site in Germany. This work details the installation of an advanced proprietary proton exchange membrane electrolyzer that will produce H2 and oxygen onsite from renewable energy.
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