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Process safety: Blind spots and red flags

Mustang Engineering Inc.: Shephard, T.

Improving safety for organizations involve more than technological solutions; understanding processes and plant interactions are a must

Case 61: Pressure loss in a reactor

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Much information is available from a simple analysis

Avoid these top-10 instrumentation headaches

AVEVA: Gibson, D.

Visual engineering program solves designer and engineer issues across the industry

HP Reliability: Oil mist and electric motor windings

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

We often get questions relating to oil mist and how it affects electric motor windings. For a quick answer, contact us at Gulf Publishing via e-mail. We’ll steer you in the right direction by exp..

HP Integration Strategies: Terminal automation: More challenging than it looks

Due to increasing market, competitive, regulatory and social pressures, terminal automation is more important today than ever before. Nevertheless, many smaller petroleum-product terminals continue to..

HP Water Management: Passivation in cooling water circuits

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

Passivation—the formation of a corrosion-resistant oxide on a clean metal surface—is the key to optimizing system reliability on the waterside of heat exchangers. Most plant personnel are aw..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

GE has been selected by Saudi Aramco, for agreements totaling nearly $500 million, to supply a broad range of equipment and services for an expansion of the Shaybah gasoil processing facilities. Valua..

How would you rate leadership of your capital projects?

Consultant: Patty, R. M.  |  Denton, M. A.

To achieve substantially improved benchmarks in project performance, profound change is needed

What are the ‘magnificent seven’ elements to successfully pick a contractor?

Valuable pointers help industrial plant managers minimize downtime, maintain quality and safety to improve operations

Human factors research identifies early warning signals to anticipate failures of workplace

A new independent research report has presented industry with a practical way to measure the human factors health of their safety regimes, potentially opening the way to significant advances in workplace safety, environmental stewardship and operational efficiency.