Maintenance & Reliability
Praxair sells US advanced components unit to NGK
Praxair has sold its advanced components business to Fremont, Calif.-based FM Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan’s NGK Insulators. The advanced components business designs, engineers, manufactures and supplies electrostatic chucks (ESCs) and critical chamber components for semiconductor processing equipment.
Maintenance continues at BP Texas City refinery alkylation unit - source
Routine maintenance at an alkylation unit is ongoing at BP’s oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, a person familiar with operations at the plant said on Monday. The refinery is able to process up to 406,570 bpd of crude oil.
Case history: Replacement of existing pressure vessel
Installing new equipment involves more processes to ensure safety and to meet new codes
Consider lobe blowers combined with compressors
New blower meets low-pressure applications cost-effectively
Case 66: Fiberglass mixing tank flexing vibration
The design of fiberglass and polymer tanks had many problems in the 1980s. Most of these problems were resolved with experience, new materials and manufacturing techniques, along with new national con..
HP Reliability: Dealing with asset management and life extension
The business manager for an asset management solutions (AMS) firm in the Middle East faced a big task. He had been asked to execute a major project for an oil and gas producer and wanted to have his q..
HP Innovations: HPInnovations
New diode laser caters to range of applicationsServomex Group’s SERVOTOUGH LaserCompact 2900 (Fig. 1), a tuneable diode laser (TDL), is designed to deliver true continuous in-situ monitoring acro..
Linde hydrogen plant receives Responsible Care Certification
Linde North America announced today that it has received certification of its Salt Lake City, Utah hydrogen plant under the Responsible Care program offered by the American Chemistry Council.
Colfax launches Total Lubrication Management unit
US-based fluid-handling products and technology firm Colfax launched a new business titled Total Lubrication Management, which it says will provide oil, gas and chemical processing facilities with a holistic approach to lubrication of rotating machinery. Based in Houston, the company said it designs and establishes lubrication programs through a three-step program.
Fluor wins maintenance deal for RasGas in Qatar
Fluor Corp. announced today that Qatar National Facilities Services (QNFS), a Qatari-based company partly owned by Fluor, signed a five-year comprehensive maintenance services contract with RasGas Co. Ltd.
- Serbia secures U.S. sanctions waiver for its NIS oil firm 3/20
- Tanker carrying fuel originally bound for Cuba diverts to Trinidad 3/20
- Vietnam accelerates shift to ethanol fuel as Iran war drives up energy prices 3/20
- Damaged Russian tanker days away from Libyan shores, Italian official says 3/20
- India’s Reliance buys about 155,000 bpd Russian oil after pause 3/20
- China's Sinochem cuts refinery runs, seeks prompt-delivery crude 3/20
