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HP Impact: Compliance in emerging risk areas

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Ernst & Young recently held a seminar on risk compliance for today’s global oil and gas companies. One session in particular during the seminar focused on emerging risk areas in the energy market..

HP Impact: Future bright for molybdenum

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Roskill recently released a market outlook on molybdenum. The company expects that molybdenum growth rates will exceed global GDP rates to 2016.Global demand for molybdenum bounced back from the impac..

HP Construction: Asia Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has awarded Technip a contract to supply a license, basic-engineering package, and engineering and procurement services for the refinery offgas cracker (ROGC) plant. Thi..

From mill to wing: How waste materials could become the next green aviation fuel

LanzaTech: Holmgren, J.

We are in the midst of an energy revolution, with new types of liquid fuels from new sources and an increased supply of traditional fuels unleashed from existing sources thanks to new technologies. Wh..

What you don’t know can hurt you

Littelfuse: Glenney, J.

Be certain systems are safely grounded

Engineering and construction news

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

CB&I to buy Shaw GroupCB&I has agreed to acquire Shaw Group, a US-based engineering company primarily focused on serving clients in the power generation and government services sector. The acquisition..

Indian oil companies eye investment opportunities in Canada's LNG sector

"With huge shale gas discoveries in the US and Canada," LNG imports could be cheaper than other sources, said junior oil minister R.P.N. Singh, who added that transportation and the mechanism of determining LNG prices could affect the economies of LNG imports.

Hebei Haiwei to license CB&I propylene technology for new China plant

The unit will use the CATOFIN propane dehydrogenation process from Lummus Technology, which employs Süd-Chemie’s latest catalyst to produce 500,000 tpy of propylene. The plant is expected to start up in 2015.

Jacobs wins work on RSPL India soda ash project

Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is providing detailed engineering, project management, procurement and construction supervision services for RSPL’s greenfield project. The capacity of the facility is estimated at 500,000 tpy of light soda ash. Officials did not disclose the contract value.

Cosmo Oil to close Sakaide refinery in Japan amid falling local demand

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry set rules in July 2010 requiring refiners to raise residual cracking capacity to a designated percentage of crude refining capacity, as calculated by a formula, by March 2014. By closing the refinery, Cosmo expects to save Y10 billion a year in costs.