Economics
Digital: ROI is the secret sauce for sustainable digital transformation
Digital transformation is a broad term that can mean vastly different things to different people.
Regional Focus: Russia looks to double petrochemicals and LPG exports by 2025
Russia hopes to become one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of petrochemicals and LPG by 2025 by doubling its domestic output and exports.
Executive Viewpoint: Interconnected neural networks drive breakthrough optimization
We have all learned that technology alone will not improve our operations.
Editorial Comment: Petrochemicals: Changing technologies and configurations to satisfy future demand
For nearly a decade, capital investments in new petrochemical capacity have skyrocketed. This
Strategies to minimize piping thermal maintenance system cost without compromising performance
Where process fluid must be maintained within a certain operating temperature window, the piping will likely require the application of a thermal maintenance system.
Best practices for pygas-based styrene extraction
Pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) is a by-produced fraction of hydrocarbons generated from a steam cracker.
Fuels and chemicals: Finding the right refinery configuration for a less predictable world
The refining industry links the upstream production of crude oil with the end markets for fuel products, as well as for the petrochemical/chemical industry.
Optimizing for viability—VDU revamp in a brownfield project
Revamping an existing column in an operating plant for higher throughput is a challenge, especially when the column is already operating at its rated capacity.
Reduce OPEX and improve sustainability through digital energy optimization strategies
Oil and gas companies are looking for quick ways to reduce OPEX amid the pandemic and oil and gas market crises.
Digital: Optimize plant turnarounds with AI-powered software
How much time and costs can be saved by scheduling with an AI-powered solution?
- Aramco signs MoU with Microsoft to help advance industrial AI and digital talent transformation 2/23
- Chandra Asri's chlor alkali-ethylene dichloride project reaches 50% completion 2/23
- Solvay to reduce production at Torrelavega soda ash plant due to market conditions 2/23
- Zeon Corp. holds groundbreaking for new cyclo-olefin polymers plant 2/23
- Honeywell adjusts acquisition agreement for Johnson Matthey's Catalyst Technologies business down to £1.325 billion 2/23
- Indorama Ventures and AMB Spa introduce industrial-scale breakthrough for recyclable multilayer trays 2/23
