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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.

Largest ethane cracker: Borouge’s Ruwais manufacturing complex

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

The latest expansion project includes an ethane cracker (EU3), two PE and two PP plants, and a low-density PE (LDPE) unit.

HPI major events and trends, 1920s to present

1920s: THE FORMATION OF THE MODERN HPIDuring this period, a new industry was evolving focused on the refining of crude oil into fuels and other products. New demand for crude oil-based products, such ..

HP Innovations: HPInnovations

Linde debuts hydrogen for fuel-cell vehiclesThe Linde Group’s hydrogen (H2) for fuel-cell vehicles—a byproduct of biodiesel production at Linde’s pilot plant in Leuna, Germany—rece..

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has signed a strategic umbrella agreement with The Dow Chemical Co. to provide project management, consulting, engineering, procurement,..