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HP Innovations: HPInnovations
LNG vaporization process reduces emissions up to 90% Mustang Engineering's midstream group has developed an air exchange vaporization process that is claimed to efficiently and economically regas..
New Developments
Easy-to-operate modular control system The Regulus, a programmable logic controller-based modular control system, is said to temper leading technology with ease of use. Plant services can monitor..
HP Construction: HPIn Construction: North America
CB&I has a lump-sum, turnkey engineering, procurement and construction contract with Frontier El Dorado Refining Co. (Frontier). It will design and build a 24,000 bpsd ultra-low sulfur diesel hydrot..
HP Construction: HPIn Construction: South America
KBR has a license for a second catalyst cooler for Petrobras' residual fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit at its Capuava (RECAP) refinery in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The catalyst cooler installations pro..
HP Construction: HPIn Construction: Europe
CB&I has a lump-sum turnkey contract valued at between $725 and $750 million for Phase 1 of a grassroots liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Milford Haven, Wales, UK. The facility will be..
HP Construction: HPIn Construction: Middle East
Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., a Foster Wheeler Ltd. subsidiary, has a project management services contract with Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (Sipchem) for its acetyls complex to be built at J..
HP Construction: HPIn Construction: Asia-Pacific
Sinopec Qilu Petrochemical Co. Ltd. has started up what is claimed to be the world's largest single train plant that uses LP Oxo low pressure oxo alcohols process technology. The new plant in Zibo C..
Free Literature
Flame-and-gas detection solutions MSA Instrument Division's new bulletin, "MSA Flame-and-Gas Detection for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries," highlights its permanent and portable instru..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
Europe's refining future Oil demand growth in Europe's ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Europe's market for premium fuels grows
New EU motor fuels and their impact on refiners and the supply chain was the topic of an analysis by Walter Pfeiffer with Accenture Kronberg. Speaking at the recent ERTC meeting in Prague, he offere..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Politics, perceptions keep oil prices high
Market speculators have kept oil prices high, but energy analyst Amy Myers Jaffe, a researcher with Rice University, Houston, expects a "more bearish outlook" for 2005. Speaking at a recent engineer..
HP Impact: HPImpact: ASEAN, China join to form largest free-trade region
China has moved to expand its influence in a region long dominated by the US, signing an accord with Southeast Asian nations. The agreement aims to create the world's largest free trade area by 2010..
HP Impact: HPImpact: NPRA: MTBE ban impacts supply chain, causes price escalations
The National Petrochemicals and Refiners Association (NPRA) continues to stress the importance of balancing a supply-oriented fuels policy with continued environmental progress. Testifying before..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Fewer NA project cancellations, delays expected in 2005
The North American chemical processing industry saw a small decline in projects put on hold or canceled in 2004. Expectations are that trend will continue in 2005. In 2004, market research from I..
HP Impact: HPImpact: US specialty fuel additives demand to jump 6%/year
A new outlook forecasts that US gasoline and other fuel additive demand will become an $8.4-billion market in 2008. Volume will decline slightly to 38 billion pounds. This is the result of the ongoi..