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HP Construction: Middle East
L&T Hydrocarbon has a project order, valued around $150 million, from Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO). The order is to set up a greenfield project planned to treat an average of 3 million standar..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
Alfa Laval has won an order to supply its Packinox heat exchangers to a refinery in Kazakhstan. The order value is approximately SEK 55 million, and delivery is scheduled for 2012.The Packinox heat ex..
Study says isobutanol-gasoline blends are superior to ethanol in small engines
In side by side performance, durability and emissions testing of small engines, gasoline blended with isobutanol performed better than blends using ethanol, according to new research from renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels firm Gevo. The results demonstrated that unlike ethanol, blends incorporating isobutanol do not cause any irregular or unstable engine or performance issues.
GE buys majority stake in US fuel-storage terminals
GE is expanding into petroleum product terminals by investing $85 million to become a majority owner of Lightfoot Capital Partners, the company said on Monday. Lightfoot Capital is the majority-owner of Arc Terminals, which operates petroleum product terminals in eight US states.
US September oil demand up 2.5% from 2010 - API
At 19.9 million bpd, total US petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) rose 2.5% in September compared with September a year ago, according to figures released on Friday from the American Petroleum Institute (API). While motor gasoline demand was up only slightly by 0.3%, distillate demand reached a record for the month, the trade group said.
Refinery configurations: Designs for heavy oil
Conceptualization and economic models looked at scenarios to process clean gasoline, diesel from domestic feedstock
HP Construction: North America
Dominion is proceeding with its next major project in the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions, the construction of a large natural gas processing and fractionation plant along the Ohio River in Natrium,..
HP Construction: Europe
A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has a contract with Aibel AS to provide detailed design engineering services to support Aibel, which has been appoint..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) in Queensland, Australia, has selected Meridium, Inc. as the platform for its enterprise-wide APM initiative. The GLNG plant, which began construction earlier th..
HP Innovations: HPInnovations
Mercaptan oxidation in aqueous waste   Fig. 1. Mercaptan destruction rate.  Tert butyl mercaptan (TBM) and dimethyl sulfide (DMS) are oxidized to destruction in an aqueous-waste so..
- Methanex and Entropy partner to reduce emissions in methanol production 7/18
- Abraxas Power awards McDermott ECI contract for Canada's first green ammonia plant 7/18
- ClearSign Technologies to install 26 burners at U.S. Gulf Coast chemical facility 7/18
- Evolution in the rapid, onsite detection of microbial contamination in diesel fuel 7/18
- U.S. crude stocks fall, gasoline and distillate inventories rise 7/18
- Japanese refiners urge early orders from airlines amid jet fuel shortage 7/18
- 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
