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HP Innovations: HPInnovations
New service package improves monomer production The Building Blocks business unit of Degussa AG has developed a new service package for monomers production facilities. SiYPro Simplify Your Pr..
New Developments
Flowmeter solution to small-line flow measurement The ST75 series flowmeter features wireless IR link communications. This is said to be ideal for flowmeters installed in..
HP Construction: North America
Chevron Global Refining is upgrading its Pascagoula, Mississippi, refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) capacity by about 25% from its current 63,000 bpd. This will increase the refinery's g..
HP Construction: South America
ABB has a $360,000 consulting agreement with PDVSA to improve electrical motors and pumps reliability in the Complejo Refinador Paraguaná (CRP) facility in Venezuela. ABB Performance Services con..
HP Construction: Europe
Uhde Inventa-Fischer and Zhejiang Euro-Asia Film Materials Co. Ltd. have started what is claimed to be the first and largest multi-line BOPET direct film casting line in Shaoxing, Peoples Republic of ..
HP Construction: Middle East
The Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corp. (Tüpras) has selected Axens for its gasoline pool upgrading project. Axens will provide its Benfree and Prime-G+ technologies as part of a program to produc..
HP Construction: Asia Pacific
Bayer MaterialScience AG is opening a toluene diisocyanate (TDI) production facility in Caojing, China. It is scheduled to begin operation in 2009 with a 160,000 tpy capacity. The project is part of..
Free Literature
Reduce system costs with perfluoroelastomer seals In a new brochure, "Optimize Total System Cost," DuPont Dow Elastomers claims that its Kalrez perfluoroelastomer seals can save engineers 10% to 20..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
Short-term energy markets outlook The WTI crude oil pri..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Price spiral could affect coal next
Significant increases in natural gas and oil prices have captured the attention of business developers, consumers and headlines. Not so visible, however, have been the recent increases in the cost of ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Rising oil cost spurs new appeal of GTL process
The perceived competition between LNG and Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) GTL is neither for markets (LNG serves the utilities market; F-T GTL serves the transportation fuels markets), nor for gas resources, sa..
HP Impact: HPImpact: CO2-free power promises advances in reforming
BP's recently announced hydrogen power station project could have spin-off benefits for sites that rely heavily on hydrotreating or sulfur removal or are based within greenhouse gas emissions trading ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Expanding economies, new technologies spur industrial valve sales
Global industrial valve sales were about $40 billion in 2004. By 2010, annual sales will exceed $50 billion, says a new report by the McIlvaine Company (www.mcilvainecompany.com). A number of publicly..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Oil supply to outpace demand by 2007, says new CERA report
Despite current fears that oil will soon "run out," global oil production capacity is actually set to increase dramatically over the rest of this decade, according to a new report by Cambridge Energy ..
HP Impact: US Gulf Coast must focus on value-chain products to compete
What is the future of the US Gulf Coast petrochemical industry? According to Avi Nash, market analyst and formerly a partner with Goldman Sachs, the US Gulf Coast petrochemical industry will be viable..
HP Impact: HPImpact: EU framework for water quality impacts downstream operations
The European Commission's Water Framework Directive (WFD) was intended to replace a patchwork of other legislation, often overlapping and even contradictory, on various aspects of water management and..