March 1998

Strong efforts will propel national enterprises into the global marketplace

I am requesting more input from you to include in this column or to publish as "Letters to the editor". Due to the rapid changes occurring in process control, primarily because of dramatic increases i..

Reciprocating compressors may experience valve failures. Excessive breakage, especially at startup, has left a bad impression on many responsible people. Installation dirt, liquid, and off-design temp..

Have you ever had to deal with paraffin wax deposition in your processing units? How about asphaltene fouling in your desalter? Have you ever noticed that asphaltene solubility is inversely related to..

I recently attended a three-day meeting that took place in a "luxury conference center ... with outstanding views over the city of O***." A single room cost about $300 a night. I was quite looking for..

It is proven that there is immense latent profitability to be tapped through equipment reliability and maintenance. I am speaking of sales volumes, earnings, return on capital employed, total stockhol..

ABB Lummus Global, Bloomfield, New Jersey, has agreed with Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering Corp. (LPEC) and SINOPEC TEC for the worldwide licensing of LPEC's catalyst cooler for residue fluid cataly..

Air Liquide and Gaz de France have signed a preliminary agreement concerning the supply of natural gas fuel to local authorities and other operators of vehicle fleets. The aim is to make this clean fu..

Samsung wins contract to build LLDPE plant Samsung Engineering Company, Limited has won a $200 million order from Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Company (SIDPEC), a government-supported organization in ..

The outlook for petrochemicals was addressed at the Chem Systems Petrochemical Review conference, Houston, January 28 – 29. The following summaries highlight the forecasts for several key product..

For the world oil industry, 1997 was a year of surprises, a year in which the market was challenged by supply and demand outcomes quite different from what conventional wisdom had predicted. So says a..

An outlook for European refining was presented by Olivier Appert, senior executive vice president, ISIS, in a presentation for the Institut Français du Pétrole's Panorama 98, in Paris, Franc..

Fig. 4. World refining capacity, over periods from 1970 - 1998, million barrels per calendar day ..

On May 9, Asia's largest chemical industry conference/exhibition will convene in Beijing, China. ACHEMASIA '98 is the fourth technical conference sponsored through the partnership of DECHEMA (the Germ..

Although recent economic and financial happenings in Asia-Pacific have shifted everyone's focus there, it is not the only area of the world projected to have major changes over the next few years. Eur..