Management

Lummus acquires water and wastewater treatment technologies from Siemens Energy

Lummus Technology announced that it has reached an agreement with Siemens Energy to acquire assets from their water solutions portfolio including intellectual property and copyrights, trade secrets, and research and development properties. The technologies address water and wastewater needs of the oil and gas industry using carbon adsorption, biological treatment and hydrothermal processes.

Valero responds to fire at Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery

Valero Energy Corp said crews had responded to a fire on Wednesday within its 290,000 barrel-per-day Corpus Christi West refinery in Texas.

Digital Feature: Reducing the carbon impact of oil and gas projects toward net-zero with operations science

This work provides details on how optimized project management can help companies minimize greenhouse gas emissions in capital projects and their supply networks. As explained, this approach is a significant opportunity that can be capitalized to further reduce not only emissions but also the cost and duration of project delivery.

How companies can take advantage of APM solutions to reduce planned maintenance

Brooks, M., AspenTech

According to Löfsten, “the costs of maintenance are estimated to be between 15% and 40% of production costs.” Consequently, efforts to reduce such costs without compromising risk to equipment, personnel safety and environmental integrity are welcomed.

Digital Technologies: Do not just monitor bad actor machines: Start when they are healthy

Divita, R., ITT Goulds Pumps

Often, facilities hesitate to invest in monitoring rotating equipment until the machine fails. By that time, there is no background information, such as vibration or temperature data, to help site engineers diagnose the machine’s failure. However, by implementing a remote monitoring solution on healthy equipment, users can set a baseline of machine health to gain essential insights when the machine begins to fail.

Strategic Biofuels to bolster U.S. green fuels project through U.S. DOE loan guarantee

Strategic Biofuels announced today that it has been invited by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) to submit a Part II application for a proposed $1.6 B loan guarantee under the Title XVII Innovative Clean Energy Loan Guarantee Program.

S-Oil holds groundbreaking for $7-B Shaheen crude-to-chemicals complex

S-OIL held a groundbreaking ceremony for the capital-intensive Shaheen crude-to-chemicals complex in Ulsan, South Korea.

bp CEO: Fuel efficiency has a bigger impact on demand vs. EVs

Fuel efficiency in new light vehicles is having a bigger impact on fuel demand than rising sales of electric vehicles, bp Chief Executive Bernard Looney said at CERAweek.

French protests are disrupting fuel supplies

Workers striking over proposed changes to France's pension system continued to block fuel deliveries and reduce electricity production at several sites.

Workers vote to halt production at TotalEnergies' Feyzin refinery

TotalEnergies workers on Wednesday took a majority vote to halt production at the Feyzin refinery close to Lyon as part of wider strike action across France against a planned pension reform.