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Valves, Pumps and Turbomachinery: Using 3D metallic printing for manufacturing refinery pump impellers

Siemens Energy: Navrotsky, V.

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D metallic printing, is identified as one of the game-changing technologies in recent years for the oil and gas industry.

Reliability: Viewing every maintenance intervention as an upgrade opportunity

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

When a long-time maintenance supervisor was promoted to the head of his refinery’s reliability department, he wanted to make “Precision Maintenance is Our Passion” his banner and headline.

Industry Perspectives

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

With the increasing prominence of hydrogen technologies circulating into the global market, Gulf Energy Information—publisher of <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> and <i>Gas Processing & LNG</i>—has launched our latest publication: <i>H2Tech</i>.

How to support condition monitoring with wireless instrumentation networks

Emerson: Cureton, A.

When <i>Wireless</i>HART first hit the market in 2008, most of the native devices using it were process measurement instruments.

Reliability: What to do when equipment reliability is on a downward slope

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

When a reliability professional located halfway around the world asked for guidance on how to reverse declining equipment reliability at his world-scale fertilizer plant, we answered.

Editorial Comment: Optimizing operations by advancing process controls, instrumentation and automation technologies

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

When driving by or visiting a refinery or petrochemical plant, one cannot help but gaze at the expansive sea of metal towers.

Selecting the right rotary control valve

Emerson: Helfer, W.  |  Jablonski, J.

The primary function of a control valve is to regulate flow. Accurate, consistent and reliable performance of this task affects many important process unit or plant metrics,

Extracting business value from digitalization in oil and gas

Petasense: Bradley, D.

Most oil and gas companies are investing in digitalization; however, they often fail to move beyond proof of value (PoV) or pilot projects.

Engineering Case Histories: Case 110: A checklist for vibration analysis

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Periodically, I receive questions from engineers around the world on why a piece of critical machinery is vibrating excessively.

High-pressure gas compressor dry gas seal system enhancement case study

Saudi Aramco: Al Dossary, F.  |  Al Turiki, A.  |  Al-Alshaikh, T.

The Khurais producing department (KhPD) consists of four oil trains: each oil train is responsible for receiving, stabilizing and purifying the crude oil from the wells by removing sand, water, gas and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) contents to make the oil ready for use and shipment to refineries.