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Automation Strategies: Effective change leadership critical for successful digital transformation

ARC Advisory Group: Reynolds, P.

Effective change leadership critical for successful digital transformation

Reliability: Pre-select a multidisciplinary failure analysis provider

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Suppose you are among the average mid-size plants that simply cannot afford to hire, train or otherwise employ subject matter experts (SMEs) in every one of the different disciplines within your company.

The benefits of unmanned aerial vehicles in plant inspection services

Spitfire Aerial Services: Smith, M.

As the technology surrounding unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones (FIG. 1), continues to advance, so too do the ways they are used.

Onsite

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Jenny Hebert and George Yaluris of Albemarle accept the <i>HP</i> Award for Best Catalyst Technology.

Business Trends

Argo Consulting: Free, A.  |  Renegar, CJ

Across the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI), executives are buzzing about operational excellence.

Reliability: How application engineers add value

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Making the vendor-manufacturer your technology provider has been our consistent advice to the user industries; we have recommended this highly effective approach for many decades.

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the winners for its second annual awards.

Viva Energy’s Geelong refinery reduces FCCU turnaround risk

CPFD LLC: Blaser, P.  |  Pendergrass, J.
Viva Energy Australia: Gabites, J.  |  Brooke, A.

Change involves risk. Many fluidized catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) can be operated more profitably, but changes to achieve more efficient operations can be risky.

Technical considerations for the Heydar Aliyev refinery revamp

SOCAR Turkey Enerji: Alkhasli, E.
Fluor Energy and Chemicals: Baerends, M.  |  Baars, F.
SOCAR: Khidirov, B.
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences: Asgar-zadeh, S.

The following case study describes the early development phases of SOCAR’s ongoing major revamp project at the Heydar Aliyev Refinery (HAR) in Baku, Azerbaijan, and its interface with the associated Azerikimya (AZK) steam cracking complex near Sumgait. References are made to the related SOCAR polymer project in Sumgayit, as well.

Improving certainty in uncertain times by building an IIoT-ready plant

Emerson Automation Solutions: Shamsi, M.

Historical statistics indicate that 25% of projects have budget overruns and a further 50% have schedule slippage.