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Management

People

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

BCCK Holding Co. (BCCK) has appointed Bob Swann as Director of project management and controls.

Business Trends: Understanding the viewpoints that shape the ever-evolving base oil landscape

ExxonMobil: Walko, T.

In April, ExxonMobil launched its <i>2018 Basestocks Industry Pulse Report.</i>

Viewpoint: Oil and gas downstream looks to digitalization for sustained excellence

KBC Advanced Technologies, Inc.: Routt, M.

The combination of US tax reforms and changes to global bunker fuel specifications in 2020 as part of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO’s) new regulations are set to turn the US oil and gas downstream into a cash cow.

Software: Operations intelligence software for real-time visibility

Siemens: Pawlewitz, J.

The tiny company town of Sinclair sits in south-central Wyoming.

Digital: Riding the digital transformation wave

AspenTech: Beck, R.

For refiners, the future is full of uncertainty. Due to market forces—e.g., the macroeconomics of oil and gas supply and demand, the increasing demand for petrochemicals and new marine low-sulfur fuel requirements—organizations are faced with many business challenges that require increasingly flexible operations.

Editorial Comment: The reemergence of a collaborative platform

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Readers have witnessed that throughout the life of the publication, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> has always published information on new technologies to increase efficiency, safety and profitability in downstream processing operations, while introducing techniques to decrease environmental footprint and emissions and produce high-quality, clean fuels and petroleum products for consumers around the world.

Process safety as a profit center?

aeSolutions: Scott, M.  |  Schuler, T.

In today’s economic environment, new capital spending is harder to find than loose change buried under the couch cushions.

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the winners for its second annual awards.

Getting onboard with modernization

Schneider Electric: Robling, D.

While electrical equipment typically has a lengthy lifespan, it is not meant to last, or be relevant, forever.

Viva Energy’s Geelong refinery reduces FCCU turnaround risk

CPFD LLC: Blaser, P.  |  Pendergrass, J.
Viva Energy Australia: Gabites, J.  |  Brooke, A.

Change involves risk. Many fluidized catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) can be operated more profitably, but changes to achieve more efficient operations can be risky.