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Maintenance & Reliability

Kuwait's KIPIC has sufficient stocks despite al-Zour shutdown

Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company has sufficient stocks of diesel, naphtha, kerosene and fuel oil to meet obligations to local and foreign customers despite an almost complete shutdown of the al-Zour refinery.

Digital Feature: Achieve Water Authority Compliance with Automated Wastewater Treatment for Industrial Facilities with Cooling Towers

U.S. industrial facilities with cooling towers must meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and local wastewater requirements for effluent, including those under the Clean Water Act. Failing to do so can result in severe fines that quickly escalate.

Differential thermal expansion and welding problems in dissimilar joint of carbon steel to austenitic stainless-steel piping in high-temperature applications

Freelance, Consultant: Choudhury, M. G.
Reliance Industries Ltd.: Tiwari, V. K.
KBR: Ashesh, A.

Joining dissimilar piping materials has found widespread application in various process plant piping, most notably in jacketed piping with carbon-steel jackets and austenitic stainless-steel core piping with stainless-steel end closures that require welding to carbon-steel jacket piping.

To improve maintenance, check out the view from the edge

Emerson: Overton, B.

Today’s hydrocarbon process manufacturing operations are almost unrecognizable from those of just 10 yr ago.

Editorial Comment: Celebrating the technologies and people in the global hydrocarbon processing industry

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

On October 11, Gulf Energy Information celebrated the inaugural Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards.

Digital Feature: The perfect match: How to evaluate chemical resistance and fluid compatibility of materials

Matching the right elastomer to an application is key to ensuring an o-ring's optimal performance and mitigating premature failure.

Lukoil's Romanian refinery shuts down for planned maintenance works

Romania's Petrotel Lukoil refinery, owned by Russia's Lukoil, will shut for one month from Wednesday for planned maintenance works.

Pemex shuts large CDU at Deer Park, Texas (U.S.) refinery

Pemex shut down the 270,000 barrel-per-day crude distillation unit at its Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Monday because a process line ruptured.

Vietnam's largest refinery Nghi Son says major maintenance completed

Vietnam's largest refinery Nghi Son completed major maintenance at the facility, one week ahead of schedule.

Vietnam's largest refinery Nghi Son restarting after maintenance

Vietnam's largest refinery, Nghi Son, is in the process of a restart after major maintenance that began late August.