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UOP unveils natural gas processing, hydrogen unit

Honeywell’s UOP has established a new business unit dedicated to natural gas processing solutions and hydrogen. The unit will increase Honeywell UOP’s focus on developing technology, equipment and adsorbents as well as the design and execution of projects for global natural gas and hydrogen customers, the company said.

Sinopec paying $2.2bn for Devon US shale acreage

Devon Energy reached a deal with Sinopec in which the Chinese oil major will pay $2.2 billion for a one-third interest in five alternative US shale plays. The deal includes positions across five shale regions: the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, the Niobrara, the Mississippian, Ohio Utica Shale and the Michigan Basin.

Total enters US shale venture with Chesapeake

Paris-based energy group Total entered a joint venture with Chesapeake Energy to develop energy from shale formations in Ohio. Total will take 25% of the two companies' chunk of the Utica shale formation located in 10 counties in eastern Ohio.

Enterprise to build ethane pipeline from Appalachia to US Gulf

Enterprise plans to move ahead with a planned 1,230-mile pipeline to deliver growing ethane production from the Marcellus and Utica shale regions to the US Gulf coast. The pipeline will begin in Pennsylvania with 595 miles of new pipeline extending to Missouri, where Enterprise plans to reverse an existing pipeline and place it in ethane service.

Apply new enhanced tubes to optimize heat transfer in LNG trains

Technip France: Ploix, B.
Wieland-Werke AG: Lang, T.

New developments for heat exchangers reduce capital and plot size of key equipment

Select optimal schemes for gas processing plants

Energy Industries Engineering and Design Consultant Company (EIED): Khorsand Movaghar, M.  |  Maleki, M.

With careful analysis, meet product requirements and environmental standards

Improve process control for natural gas heat exchangers

Jacobs Canada Inc.: Lai, H-M.

Simulation model shows how to optimize plant controllability and safety

HP Insight: Global HPI: 90+ years old and still going strong

In 2012, Hydrocarbon Processing (HP) will celebrate its 90th anniversary as a publication for the professionals involved in the daily activities of the global hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). Mu..

HP Viewpoint: Opportunities of abundance: How shale gas changes the energy landscape

America’s Natural Gas Alliance: Banaszak, S.

Today’s reality is that the US has enough natural gas to meet growing demand, allowing the country to focus on domestic uses and export possibilities.

HP Viewpoint: LNG’s future: Branching out

Mustang Engineering Inc.: Walther, S. T.

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry is mature and poised to branch out in many new directions in the coming decades as it continues to grow in capacity.