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Process Optimization

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Air Products will supply Valero Energy Corp. with a combined additional 200 million scfd of hydrogen for Valero’s refineries in St. Charles, Louisiana, and Port Arthur, Texas. As part of this awa..

HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Argentina’s second liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility, a joint development between YPF S.A., ENARSA and Excelerate Energy, GNL Escobar (GNLE), began receiving cargoes on May 24, 2011, an..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Alfa Laval has received an order for compact heat exchangers from a refinery in Russia. The order value is about SEK 70 million and delivery is scheduled for 2012. The heat exchangers will be used in ..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

A grassroots diesel hydrotreater unit (Prime-D), licensed by Axens, was successfully put into production at Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery. The 105,000-bpsd unit—reportedly one of the wo..

HP Construction: Asia-Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

SKC Co., Ltd. and Uhde Inventa-Fischer have a contract for the supply of a plant for producing high-quality polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for the manufacture of films in Jincheon, Republic of Korea..

HP Construction: Construction begins for Shell FLNG facility in Australia

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: DuBose, Ben

Prelude gas field project is progressing at rapid pace, with first LNG production expected by 2017

HP Innovations: HPInnovations

Fischer-Tropsch process commercialization acceleratesThe high throughput experimentation (hte) company has extended its collaboration with BP International Ltd. in the field of Fischer-Tropsch (FT) sy..

KBR wins technology, process design deal on China coal-based ammonia plant

KBR was awarded a contract by China National Coal Group Corp. to provide ammonia technology, process design package and technical services for two 1,660 tpd ammonia synloop units at a complex in Tuke Industrial Park, Erdos, Inner Mongolia, China.

KBR wins technology deal for phenol/acetone plant in China

KBR has been awarded a contract from Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical Co. to license its phenol technology for Lihuayi’s grassroots, 220,000 tpy phenol/acetone plant in Lijin County, Shandong Province, China.

PGI Energy JV chosen as subcontractor for Motiva refinery expansion in Texas

PGI Energy has formed a joint venture with SETX Instrumentation & Electrical as a subcontractor under general contractor Bechtel-Jacobs and refiner Motiva for the construction of the 660,000 bpd refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The expansion work will make the Port Arthur refinery the largest in the US.