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HPInternet: Primarily Petroliana

Competitive Analysis Technologies: Crowley, B.

Primarily Petroliana (http://www.oldgas.com/) is a site you won't normally stumble across. It is a site to visit that brings back memories of the oil industry's golden days. You can buy memorabilia li..

Fieldbus improves petrochemical plant operation - Fig 2

Smar Equipmentos Industriais: Castilho, L.
Deten Chemicals S. A.: Cruz, O.
Smar International Co.: Evans, D.

Fig. 2. System management is carried out over a network with ..

HP Control: Moving control into the field

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Kane, L.

I recently turned into our Production Dept. the articles for our May supplement, Fieldbus Technology. It will be mailed to readers of Gulf Publishing Co.'s three magazines – Hydrocarbon Processin..

HPInternet: OilMonitor

Competitive Analysis Technologies: Crowley, B.

The folks at PricewaterhouseCoopers have created a Web site that is useful to the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI), especially those running crude units and buying crude. The product is called Oi..

Unique approach to real-time optimization - Fig. 3

BP Amoco Kwinana refinery: Bester, P.
BP Amoco Coryton refinery: Jerrit, B.  |  Verne, T.

Fig. 3. The operator display provides online cost ..

Unique approach to real-time optimization

BP Amoco Kwinana refinery: Bester, P.
BP Amoco Coryton refinery: Jerrit, B.  |  Verne, T.

This method requires less software work than alternatives

HP Control: Cooperation needed between FF and OPC

Texas Consultants: Bosler, W. H.

Editor's note: The following is in response to my March '98 column, "Controversy in control," which requested input from our readers on controversial issues. Recently, representatives from OLE fo..

HPInternet: LawRunner: a legal research tool

Competitive Analysis Technologies: Crowley, B.

It has been said that the Internet is the largest library in the world, but all the books are on the floor. Here's one site that helps us to find government, legal and court information from all over ..

HP Control: The rise of the independent advanced control firm

Bass Rock Consulting: Robertson, D. B.

Recent years saw a shift in the control engineering business toward consolidation of companies in the field. During 1998 this trend began to reverse in favor of a proliferation of small independent fi..

HPInternet: Bunkerworld.com

Competitive Analysis Technologies: Crowley, B.

At the bottom of the barrel – after all the jet fuel, gasoline, diesel, and petrochemical and lube oil feedstocks have been removed at the refinery – there are still the bottoms, residual fu..