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US company announces first CNG delivery contracts

Compressed natural gas (CNG) trucking and delivery firm NG Advantage LLC today announced that it has secured multi-year contracts for delivery of CNG, starting in early 2013. NG Advantage believes this is the first announcement of contracts for CNG delivered to enterprises beyond the pipeline in the US.

Use dynamic simulation for advanced LNG plant design

Hyperion Systems Engineering, Modeling and Simulation: Harismiadis, V. I.
Hyperion Systems Engineering: Stavrakas, D.  |  Sood, A.  |  Bhattad, G.
Saipem SpA: Fantolini, A. M.  |  Pedone, L.  |  D’Orazi, L.  |  Prodan, R.

The work performed for the project shows that dynamic simulation can be an excellent tool for the support and verification of process design during the engineering, procurement and plant construction (EPC) stages.

PERU LNG: Executing Peru’s largest industrial project

Hunt Oil Co.: Sharma, S.
CB&I: Hill, D.  |  Rano, P.  |  Humphrey, G.  |  Mayer, M.

The PERU LNG project includes a liquefaction plant, marine export facilities with an island breakwater, and a 408-km pipeline that connects to an existing pipeline in the Ayacucho mountains. Hunt Oil Co. is the operator.

HP Insight: How long is an economic cycle for the HPI?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

As summer takes hold in the Northern Hemisphere, demand for energy in various forms increases. In looking back over the past 90 years, energy demand and pricing cycle through high and low points. In 2..

HP Construction Profile: Rotterdam LNG facility wins top project award

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

The Gate megaproject is one of Europe's largest LNG terminals. With two jetties, it can unload simultaneously two vessels of the Q-Max type, the world's biggest LNG carriers.

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

PCHEs boost power from waste heatHeatric recently supplied Echogen Power Systems Inc. with Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers (PCHEs) for Echogen’s Supercritical CO2 (ScCO2) power generation cycle. ..

LNG and GTL drive 50 years of technology evolution in the gas industry

Technip: Castel, J.  |  Gadelle, D.  |  Hagyard, P.  |  Ould-Bamba, M.

The technologies needed to shape an industry transformation exist and have been proven on a large scale, the authors say.

Benchmark oil, gas prices poised for divorce

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: DuBose, Ben

In the global HPI, changing market dynamics are putting a premium on petrochemical and refining units that can crack ethane.

The psychology of energy pricing: A look at market behavior during oil shocks

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

A review of the energy price shocks of the 1970s and 2000s shows the range and extent to which fundamental and technical factors may influence oil market sentiment.

Qatar LNG: Mega-trains and major ambitions

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Qatargas hopes to become the world’s premier LNG producer by 2015, seeking innovation, operating excellence, corporate citizenship and environmental responsibility.