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Executive leadership—essential to ensure world-class turnarounds

Project Assurance, Inc.: Singh, B.

Many factors are involved in achieving ‘safe, reliable and cost-efficient’ turnarounds

Advanced process control: A historical perspective

ProSys, Inc.: Delaney, M. C.

A blend of art and science with a history worth recounting

HP Reliability: Consider procedure cards, technical books and maintenance conferences for training

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Because our memories are imperfect and we don’t want to risk making mistakes, we learned to jot down brief reminder notes on paper. Some people call it a cheat sheet, or a checklist. An airline p..

HP Water Management: Water is the next oil

MarTech Systems, Inc.: Huchler, L. A.

In the future, increased demands for high-quality fresh water supplies will translate into voluntary and, ultimately, regulatory mandates. These constraints will require facilities to limit or to redu..

HP Insight: Technology and market share: Challenges requiring ever-changing solutions

In this issue of HPInsight, workforce, fuel quality and capacity overhang are a few of the challenges that the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) must address and resolve. Expansion of the refining..

HP Impact: BP’s energy outlook to 2030

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Global energy demand will continue to grow over the next 20 years, albeit at a slowing annual rate, fueled by economic and population growth in non-OECD countries. Increased energy efficiency and stro..

HP Impact: Octagonal opportunity for carbon capture

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Filtering CO2 from factory smokestacks is a necessary, but expensive, part of many manufacturing processes. However, a collaborative research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technolo..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Qatargas has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Samsung Engineering Ltd. for a diesel hydrotreater (DHT) unit that will treat 54,000 bpsd of diesel, from high-sulf..

HP Construction: Asia Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Total is consolidating its positions in petrochemicals in Asia with a new expansion and upgrading project for the Daesan complex in South Korea, which the group owns with Samsung as part of the Samsun..

Mitsui to license polyurethane technology to SABIC

The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) signed a TDI and MDI technology license agreement with Mitsui Chemicals under which Mitsui will provide manufacturing technology for producing TDI and MDI. The firms say they will explore future possibilities to collaborate in the polyurethane (PU) business.