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Accelerating energy innovationA three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has now identified a suite of policy and investment strategies that could accelerate innovation in the US, helpin..
HP Construction: North America
Sundrop Fuels, Inc., plans to construct and operate its first production facility on about 1,200 acres of land that it has purchased near Alexandria, Louisiana. The inaugural plant will use sustainabl..
HP Construction: South America
Toyo Engineering Corp., in consortium with Y&V Ingeniería y Construcción, C.A., has a project management consultant (PMC) contract for the heavy-oil upgrading project of Petróleos de Ve..
HP Construction: Europe
Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, has been awarded a contract by CJSC Vostochnaya Neftechimicheskaya (VNHK), a subsidiary of OJSC Rosneft, for the license and basic engineering of a naphtha steam-cra..
HP Construction: Middle East
The State of Qatars Minister of Energy and Industry, Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, and Shells CEO, Peter Voser, have signed an agreement to develop a world-scale petrochemicals complex i..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
The Linde Group is set to build and operate a new hydrogen plant in the Jilin Chemical Industrial Park (JCIP) in northeast China. The company will be investing around 42 million in the first pha..
HP Impact: Bio-based polymers could be next big thing
Biofuels and bio-based chemicals have been promoted as a potential solution for dependence on petroleum. They also have favorable greenhouse gas emissions compared to fossil fuels and petrochemicals b..
HP Impact: European pipeline performance
European oil industry group CONCAWE has collected 40 years of spillage data on European cross-country oil pipelines with particular regard to spillages volume, cleanup and recovery, environmental cons..
HP Innovations: HPInnovations
AESSEAL wins big at IMechE awards Fig. 1. Award-winning AESSEAL offers a wide range of products. The UK-based mechanical seals manufacturer was nominated for seven out o..
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New Developments
New line of welded pipe and tube products Penn Stainless Products new Specialty Pipe and Tube Division now offers nonstandard welded tubular items in stainless, duplex, nickel, 6-moly and c..