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Gas Processing/LNG

Hydrocarbon Processing 2020 Awards WINNERS

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

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards 2020—FINALISTS

This special section details all finalists within each category for the fourth annual <ital>HP</ital> Awards. The winners will be announced on Oct. 1.

Business Trends: Autonomous operations in process manufacturing—Part 1

IBM Corp.: Agnihotri, R.

Progress in the driverless car segment has served to illuminate one of the major future goals in industrial and process manufacturing: autonomous operations in process plants—in other words, the autonomous plant. While AO for process plants has received interest from the process automation and control industry, limited serious discussion has taken place in the process operations and IT domains.

Project Management: Four tips for navigating a shutdown, turnaround or outage successfully

Prometheus Group: Veen, M.

In the oil and gas sector, managing a shutdown, turnaround, or even an outage is an unavoidable requirement.

Improve the safety and efficiency of natural gas sweetening units

Endress+Hauser: Thomas, M.  |  Sreekumar, P.

After natural gas is extracted from onshore and offshore sites, it must be transported and processed.

Global Project Data

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing’s</i> Construction Boxscore Database is tracking nearly 1,600 projects around the world.

Business Trends

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Rovuma LNG, a JV comprised of ExxonMobil, Eni and China National Petroleum Corp., will likely delay its final investment decision (FID) on the group’s $30-B Mozambique LNG project.

Flow modeling as a tool for WHRU performance optimization

Petro-Chem Development Co. Inc.: Gupta, A.
Airflow Sciences Corp.: Gentry, M. R.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have become a growing concern for many industrialized countries over the past few years.

Consider purpose-driven methods for communicating with engineers

Laporte Consultants Corp. USA: Johnston, G.
ShureLine Construction: Shahani, G.

Technology has dramatically transformed communication methods and, more importantly, the ways that engineers share information with colleagues and clients.

How to use technology to mitigate job-hopping and retain millennial workers

Parsable: Whittle, L.

Workforce experts and employers often suggest that the millennial generation is responsible for sparking the job-hopping trend.