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Process Optimization

HP Impact: Compliance in emerging risk areas

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Ernst & Young recently held a seminar on risk compliance for today’s global oil and gas companies. One session in particular during the seminar focused on emerging risk areas in the energy market..

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

CB&I has a contract from Enterprise Products Partners L.P. for the license and basic engineering of a propane dehydrogenation unit on the Texas Gulf Coast. The unit will use the CATOFIN propane dehydr..

HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Honeywell has been selected to upgrade the safety and control system at Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname’s refinery to Honeywell’s Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) solution. The u..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Saipem has signed a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical for the naphtha and aromatics package of the PETRORabigh II Project, expan..

HP Construction: Asia Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has awarded Technip a contract to supply a license, basic-engineering package, and engineering and procurement services for the refinery offgas cracker (ROGC) plant. Thi..

HP Construction Profile: Texas-based refinery has a long history

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

The Valero Port Arthur Refinery was commissioned in 1901 and has had many process additions and improvements throughout its history (see pg. 38). In 2001, nearly $850 million was invested in a delayed..

What you don’t know can hurt you

Littelfuse: Glenney, J.

Be certain systems are safely grounded

Engineering and construction news

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

CB&I to buy Shaw GroupCB&I has agreed to acquire Shaw Group, a US-based engineering company primarily focused on serving clients in the power generation and government services sector. The acquisition..

Technip formally acquires Shaw energy, chemicals

Proceeds from the sale were approximately $290 million in cash, Shaw said. The completion of this deal also satisfies one of the conditions of the recently announced agreement for CB&I to acquire Shaw.

Hebei Haiwei to license CB&I propylene technology for new China plant

The unit will use the CATOFIN propane dehydrogenation process from Lummus Technology, which employs Süd-Chemie’s latest catalyst to produce 500,000 tpy of propylene. The plant is expected to start up in 2015.