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Process Control

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Endress+Hauser’s Loading Metering Skid (LMS) is a solution for the custody transfer of light hydrocarbons—including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and marine gas—to and from tanker trucks, railcars and ships.

Honeywell to measure flow on new China LNG line

The Guangxi LNG project across China will use gas measurement, equipment and software from Honeywell Process Solutions to measure the flow and pressure in the pipeline.

Lukoil selects Honeywell controls to boost efficiency at Russian refinery

HP Editorial Staff: HP Editorial Staff

The Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery will use Honeywell software for on-line blend optimization and reformulation, allowing for efficient production of fuels to required specs.

Use advanced automation and project management to simplify refinery construction

Yokogawa Corp. of America: Spiropoulos, E.

Process automation in oil refineries is undergoing major changes, driven by customers frustrated by what they consider to be slow and incremental advances from the main automation OEMs in the industry.

HP Automation Strategies: Safety lifecycle management challenges in hydrocarbon processing plants

ARC Advisory Group: Scalia, J.

Many automation and SIS vendors to the downstream HPI do not provide safety lifecycle management software that extends beyond initial commissioning work. In many cases, only the bare minimum SIF proof testing has been performed for the most critical protective and mitigative functions.

HP Free Literature

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Paper, publication, video and mobile library app support the spread of HPI information and technology.

HP New Developments

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

New product developments in the hydrocarbon processing industry.

Ecolab buys China water treatment firm Jianghai

Jianghai provides water treatment technologies, chemistries and services to several industries in China, including customers in power and chemicals.

YASREF selects Intergraph’s SmartPlant solutions to run Saudi refinery

The implantation team not only gathered large amounts of accurate data but has also validated and audited the data prior to final handovers by EPCs, the company said.

Intergraph, eVision to align on safety solutions

The integration between Intergraph's asset life cycle information solutions and eVision solutions supports improved effectiveness for safety critical operations work processes.