http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/03/dnv-launches-recommended-practice-for-a-common-digital-language-in-the-energy-sector/ DNV has released DNV-RP-0670 Asset information modeling framework to improve asset information management in the energy sector. This recommended practice (RP) addresses challenges in engineering assets by enhancing information flow among organizations, individuals and IT applications. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/march-2025/process-optimization/minimize-risks-and-unlock-profitability-with-opportunity-crudes/ This article focuses on new digital technologies that enable refiners to extract the most profit out of opportunity crudes. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/03/hima-s-smart-safety-test-supports-basf-new-verbund-site-in-zhanjiang/ BASF’s largest new construction project in China, the Zhanjiang Verbund Site Project (ZVSP), requires high personnel and time expenditures for tests, especially factory acceptance tests (FATs), integration factory acceptance test (IFATs) and loop tests. To reduce these efforts, BASF has opted for the HIMA Smart Safety Test, an integral part of SILworX®, HIMA’s engineering, diagnostics and test tool that enables a flexible, automated test concept over the entire lifecycle of a safety system. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/03/digital-exclusive-the-implementation-and-automation-of-an-alarm-management-system-in-a-complex-control-environment-at-knpc-s-mina-al-ahmadi-refinery/ With the recent advancements in technology and availability of control support applications, the role of an alarm management system (ALMS) has taken a center stage to fulfill the requirements of safe and enhanced operations. This article details how refinery personnel implemented an ALMS at KNPC's Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery in Kuwait, especially with the facility's complex control rooms and multiple distributed control systems. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/03/abb-signs-agreement-with-dow-as-the-automation-partner-to-support-path2zero-ethylene-complex-in-canada/ ABB has signed a Leveraged Procurement Agreement to support as the automation partner for Dow’s Path2Zero project at Fort Saskatchewan in Alberta, Canada. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/03/digital-exclusive-optimize-plant-design-in-the-hydrocarbon-processing-industry-with-advanced-cad-tools/ Hydrocarbon processing transforms crude oil and natural gas into valuable products such as petrochemicals and fuels. These transformations occur in hydrocarbon processing plants popularly known as refineries, which comprise different processing systems that must work together to ensure efficiency and safety. These systems include electrical, air, cooling, compression and flaring, just to name a few. System components must be installed so they maximize efficiency without hindering production. This article will explore the evolution of computer-aided design (CAD) technology, its advantages and uses throughout the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/03/digital-feature-sponsored-three-questions-oil-and-gas-companies-should-ask-to-improve-their-operations-risk-management/ The article will discuss the five broad categories that most of this industry’s risk falls under and address the three—equally important—areas that can have a major impact on the quality of an oil and gas company’s overall operations risk management (ORM) strategy. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/03/sparta-commodities-launches-advanced-fuel-oil-intelligence-tools-to-empower-global-traders/ Designed specifically for traders and analysts, this new vertical introduces live blending intelligence, dynamic arbitrage tracking, and AI-driven analytics, providing actionable intelligence across global fuel oil blending and bunkering hubs. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/03/hexagon-prepares-for-the-spin-off-of-its-asset-lifecycle-intelligence-division-and-related-businesses/ Hexagon AB has announced that the board of directors, after a comprehensive assessment, has directed management to prepare for the separation of its Asset Lifecycle Intelligence (ALI) division and related businesses (NewCo) by way of a Lex Asea distribution (or spin-off) to its shareholders, as previously announced on October 25, 2024. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2025/february-2025/special-focus-digital-technologies/improve-reliability-with-predictive-maintenance-insights/ Machine-learning-equipped advanced analytics platforms empower SMEs to solve some of the toughest process problems efficiently, implement effective process improvements, transition from reactive to predictive maintenance strategies, increase productivity and uptime, and operate more profitably.