Middle East
HP Integration Strategies: Consider procedural automation at a commercial-scale pilot plant
“All processes are batch processes to some degree. Even in ‘continuous’ process plants, processing units will need to be shut down at some point and then restarted to resume production...
HP Boxscore Construction Analysis: Outlook for major revamp projects—Part 2
Worldwide, refiners are investing billions in upgrading and modernizing projects. These efforts are focused on:Increasing flexibility to process heavier, sourer crudesImproving energy efficiencyMeetin..
HP Engineering Case Histories: Case 74: How to determine impact forces when troubleshooting
When troubleshooting failures, it is not unusual for the metallurgical report to indicate that the failure was the result of an impact type of force. The investigator who receives this information mus..
HP Industry Perspectives: US oil and gas executives energized for the year ahead
A recent survey of US executives by the KPMG Global Energy Institute supports growing optimism in the domestic energy and manufacturing industries. Much of the renewed enthusiasm is strongly linked to..
Kazakhstan to upgrade, expand Pavlodar refinery
The project will boost processing capacity to 7 million metric tpy of oil, up from 5 million tpy now. The works are slated for completion in 2018. Built in 1978, Pavlodar is the largest oil refinery in Kazakhstan.
Technip, ExxonMobil to license cumene technology for Saudi Rabigh project
Technip and ExxonMobil Chemical were awarded a contract to provide proprietary technology for a 384,000 tpy cumene plant as part of the Rabigh phase two project in Saudi Arabia. The contract includes technology license, engineering, training and start-up services for the cumene plant.
Dana Gas rebuilds, expands LPG production facility near northern Iraq
Dana Gas and its partners have invested some $1 billion in Iraq's Kurdistan, where it is producing joint gas from the Khor Mor in a joint venture with Crescent Petroleum, OMV and MOL.
China's Cnooc considers investment in Uganda refinery, pipeline plan
Cnooc has expressed interest in investing in Uganda's oil refinery and a crude export pipeline. The Chinese company reportedly expressed interest in two projects following a meeting between company chairman Wang Yilin and Uganda's prime minister Amama Mbabazi.
Veolia to build Saudi desalination plant at Sadara petrochemical project
With a capacity of 178,000 m3 per day, this new plant will supply the Sadara petrochemical complex built by Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco in Jubail Industrial City II. That complex is due to come on stream in June 2015. In the project, Dow Chemical and Aramco will produce solvents and glues.
South Sudan resumes crude exports from Sudan
Landlocked South Sudan has resumed crude oil shipments from Port Sudan for the first time in 18 months, as the two former civil war foes make renewed efforts to diffuse the latest spat over the use of transit oil facilities, the main obstacle for the newly independent nation's oil exports.
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- Russian oil refineries' peak maintenance expected in January and September 1/30
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- Keppel, Aster plan sustainable aviation fuel project in Singapore 1/30
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