Americas
HPIn Europe: European consumers mull their options as
Although I’ve watched it coming, it still feels like a historic moment to see the oil industry pack up its things and leave. If you sell catalysts, pumps, inspection services, display ads or anti..
HP Integration Strategies: MPC vs. ARC—Not an ‘either/or’ decision
Overview.In the 35 years since they introduced distributed control systems (DCSs), automation system suppliers have provided the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) and other customers with far more..
HP Reliability: Packing not best practice for firewater pumps
Statistics show that for every 1,000 pump failures in hydrocarbon processing plants, there will be a fire. Fig. 1 shows a typical visible outcome, and the final bill for remedying such disastrous resu..
HP Innovations: HPInnovations
New alternative technologies for oil spill cleanupC.I.Agent Solutions, a global leader in solutions for fuel and oil spill cleanup and containment, exhibited at Clean Gulf 2010 and featured its latest..
PAA Natural Gas Storage buys Southern Pines storage facility
PAA Natural Gas Storage has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SG Resources Mississippi. The primary asset of SG Resources is the Southern Pines Energy Center natural gas storage facility.
EIA releases annual natural gas analysis
The Natural Gas Annual 2009 provides information on the supply and disposition of natural gas in the US. Production, transmission, storage, deliveries and price data are published by state for 2009.
ASTM Petroleum Committee working on ETBE test method
The eventual approval of a proposed new test method currently being developed by ASTM International Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants will allow a recently approved D02 specification to attain full compliance with form and style for ASTM standards.
Repsol receives first Q-MAX shipment from Qatar under multi-year contract
On December 23, Repsol received the first shipment of LNG from Qatargas, under a multiyear agreement which secures supply for the Canaport LNG terminal in St. John, Canada.
Repsol sells stake in REFAP refinery for $350 million
Repsol has agreed to sell to Petrobras its 30% stake in the Alberto Pasqualini refinery (REFAP) in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Following the transaction, Petrobras becomes the only shareholder of the refinery, which has a nominal capacity of 190,000 bbld.
Specialty chemical plant being built in Louisiana
Myriant Technologies, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Myriant Lake Providence Inc., will soon begin building a new 392,000-square-foot plant at the Port of Lake Providence, Louisiana. Myrant hopes the plant will be the world's largest bio-based succinic acid plant.
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