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HP Impact: Egypt’s role in international energy markets

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Egypt’s influence is felt mainly through the operation of the Suez Canal and Suez-Mediterranean (Sumed) pipeline. In 2012, about 7% of all seaborne-traded oil and 13% of liquefied natural gas (LNG) traded worldwide transited through the Suez Canal.

Take a collaborative approach to improving LNG terminal performance

Honeywell Process Solutions: Fahl, M.  |  Kelly, P.
National Grid: Blair, N.

Personnel are now able to make the right decisions at the right time, and then execute appropriately. The CDP solution is seen as an area for growth and integration throughout the Grain LNG operation.

World’s largest GTL facility turns to LIMS for enhanced operations

Thermo Fisher Scientific: Thurston, C.

Pearl GTL is using a new laboratory information management system (LIMS) to manage, analyze and integrate data that keeps the plant functioning securely and efficiently.

Achieve uniform heat flux in a coker furnace

Reliance Industries Ltd.: Patil, R.  |  Mishra, V. P.  |  Das, A. K.

A delayed coker unit thermally cracks vacuum residue (VR) and converts it into products like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), naphtha, gasoil and petroleum coke. A majority of the thermal cracking takes..

HP Industry Perspectives: US oil and gas executives energized for the year ahead

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

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..

HP Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Train accident raises concerns on safetyThe train derailment that killed at least 38 people in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, has heightened safety concerns about crude oil shipments by rail. It has been ..

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Technology converts syngas directly to fuelsPrimus Green Energy’s proprietary STG+ technology combines and improves upon prior commercially proven methanol synthesis and methanol-to-gasoline (MTG..

Enterprise taps Foster Wheeler for gas processing services work

A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler has signed a master service agreement to support the North American capital project program of Enterprise Products Operating LLC.

HP Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Gazprom Neft refines Euro 5 diesel fuelGazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery has launched production of Euro 5 diesel fuel. Starting last month, all diesel fuel supplied by the Moscow oil refinery t..

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Training simulator to aid ethylene operatorsHyperion Systems Engineering has delivered to the Linde Group an operator training simulator (OTS) for ONGC Petro-additions Ltd.’s ethylene plant in Da..