http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/09/port-of-rotterdam-power-outage-affects-bps-refining-operations/ A power outage in the Rotterdam port area in the Netherlands briefly interrupted operations at bp's 400,000-bpd oil refinery. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/09/marathons-detroit-refinery-workers-to-strike-starting-wednesday-teamsters-says/ About half of the workforce at Marathon Petroleum's Detroit (U.S.) refinery will begin striking on Wednesday, following months of unsuccessful negotiations over pay and safety concerns. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/09/digital-feature-cracking-the-chemical-industry-s-carbon-code/ This article focuses on how Evonik is decarbonizing chemical processing operations at its Herne site in Germany. This work details the installation of an advanced proprietary proton exchange membrane electrolyzer that will produce H2 and oxygen onsite from renewable energy. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/indorama-ventures-dhunseri-and-varun-beverages-plan-multiple-cutting-edge-recycling-facilities-in-india/ Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd., a global sustainable chemical producer, through its direct subsidiary IVL Dhunseri Petrochem Industries Ltd., and Dhunseri Ventures Ltd. have formed a joint venture (JV) with Varun Beverages Ltd., PepsiCo's second-largest bottling company globally outside the U.S., to establish several greenfield state-of-the-art polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling facilities in India. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/dnv-and-mumbai-port-sustainability-foundation-sign-mou-to-advance-sustainability-efforts/ Classification society DNV has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Mumbai Port Sustainability Foundation (MPSF), a non-profit entity under the Mumbai Port Authority, to cooperate on activities and projects related to decarbonization, digitalization, emissions management and safety. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/czech-police-safely-detonate-world-war-2-bomb-at-oil-refinery/ Czech bomb disposal experts on Friday detonated a World War 2 bomb found on the site of an oil refinery, causing no major visible damage to the Polish-owned plant that has halted operations since the discovery last week. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/afc-leads-financing-for-africas-largest-gas-to-methanol-complex/ Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, is arranging a project development facility to support Africa’s largest gas-to-methanol plant, with the aim of significantly reducing CO2 emissions by offsetting flaring of natural gas and turning it instead into a valuable chemical for solvents, paints, plastics and car parts. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/shell-to-leverage-proprietary-structural-performance-management-software-for-various-facilities/ Under this agreement, Shell will leverage Akselos’ Structural Performance Management (SPM) software to monitor the structural health of critical assets across the Shell portfolio in near real-time. Akselos’ SPM software will help enable Shell to optimize the lifecycle of critical assets safely and sustainably.  http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/linde-to-invest-2-b-in-canada-to-supply-hydrogen-to-dows-alberta-chemical-complex/ Industrial gases firm Linde said it would invest more than $2 B to build a clean hydrogen facility for supplying to Dow's Path2Zero production complex in Alberta, Canada. http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/adnoc-deploys-pioneering-ai-enabled-process-optimization-technology/ Following successful initial operations, ADNOC announced the deployment of an industry leading artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled process optimization technology--Neuron 5--across all ADNOC facilities across thousands of critical pieces of equipment essential for production, including compressors, valves and generators.