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Oil and gas web client computing devices facilitate integration of web-based HMI/SCADA applications

Operators in oil and gas manufacturing facilities have long depended on human machine interfaces (HMI) to offer a visual summary of process systems that simplifies the monitoring of crucial status and control data. A well-crafted graphical user interface enhances situational awareness, decreases workload and empowers operators to oversee the entire process, facilitating their focus to quickly address any abnormal scenarios.

bp, Iberdrola take FID on Spain's largest green hydrogen plant

bp and Iberdrola have given the green light for construction of a 25-MW green H2 project at bp's Castellón refinery, which is expected to be operational in 2H 2026.

Babcock & Wilcox awarded FEED contract for Canada’s first waste-to-energy plant with CCS

Babcock & Wilcox has been awarded a contract to conduct front-end engineering and design (FEED) for Varme Energy Inc.’s planned waste-to-energy with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project in Alberta, Canada.

AIChE and IChemE sign MoU to strengthen international STEM talent pool

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)—two professional societies dedicated to advancing the application of chemical engineering expertise internationally—have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further collaboration for the benefit of chemical and process engineering and society as a whole.

Russia's Sibur plans domestic bond issue to fund $10-B Amur gas-chemical complex

Sibur plans to place domestic bonds before the end of the year to fund the $10-B Amur gas and chemical complex, which will produce 2.3 MMtpy of polyethylene and 400,000 tpy of polypropylene once completed.

Motiva awards Honeywell UOP a contract for Port Arthur (U.S.) aromatics project

Motiva announced that it has advanced its aromatics project by executing a license for Honeywell UOP’s aromatics technologies for a world-scale aromatics unit to produce benzene and paraxylene.

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.

Oxylus Energy raises $4.5 MM seed round for clean fuel technology

Oxylus' solution is the first low-temperature and low-pressure conversion of carbon dioxide to green methanol. The methanol can be used as a drop-in fuel replacement or upgraded to jet fuel and other green petrochemicals.

Lummus to supply ethylene technology to Silleno's PE plant in Kazakhstan

Lummus Technology announced a contract award from Silleno for an ethylene unit, which will be part of the first polyethylene plant to be built in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Catalyst for 'one-step' conversion of methane to methanol

Scientists demonstrate highly selective catalyst for low-temperature, direct conversion of natural gas to liquid fuel.