The sheer volume of equipment in a refinery—from vessels, columns, huge structures and mazes of pipes to pumps, valves, controllers and instruments—is staggering.
While electrical equipment typically has a lengthy lifespan, it is not meant to last, or be relevant, forever.
Refining is the process of separating crude oil into different hydrocarbon groups through distillation.
Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the finalists for its second annual awards.
Equipment failures are the thorn in every industrial plant’s side.
Oil and gas professionals are well aware of the pressures companies face in the market.
As demand for oil products increases, refiners are expanding the capacity of their crude processing facilities to accommodate higher throughput.
Most cone roof tanks are designed with roof-supporting structures inside the tank.
Users of large liquid hydrocarbon storage tanks at refineries and terminals must solve a variety of problems and make trade-offs related to vapor emissions and general structural integrity for these massive containers.
In the past few decades, new technologies, including both carbon rejection methods and catalytic conversion methods, have emerged.