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Management

Project Management: Protect operating margins with outsourced asset management

The oil and gas sector is under pressure to maintain operating margins. Although oil prices have stabilized in recent months, they have, nonetheless, fallen dramatically in the last year. This has bee..

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Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Clariant has appointed Britta Fuenfstueck as a new member of its executive committee.

Enhance PSM design with metrics-driven best practices

Michael Marshall LLC: Marshall, M.

This study shows the attributes and benefits of a data- and metrics-driven system focused on the process safety design integrity, reliability and control of process plant flares and pressure relief systems.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

In a market with reduced capital investment budgets, revamps and upgrades are becoming increasingly prevalent to extend asset service life.

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Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Smaller-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) specialist Velocys Plc has named David Pummell as chief executive officer (CEO).

Honeywell acquires remaining 30% stake of gas processor UOP Russell

In 2012, Honeywell acquired a 70% stake in the Thomas Russell Co. to form UOP Russell, which became part of Honeywell UOP.

Use discrete event simulation as decision support for storage and shipping—Part 1

Over the past decades, one engineering firm has been using discrete event simulation (DES) to study shipping and storage as an integral part of project execution throughout all phases of a process facility’s design, construction and operations.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Pepperl+Fuchs’ VisuNet RM Shell 4.0 remote monitor firmware for industrial thin client work stations offers significant enhancements through an optimized touchscreen user interface, advanced security features, Windows Embedded Standard 7 and plug-and-play startup capabilities.

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Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section board has elected Ian Phillips, chief executive of the Oil and Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC), as its new chairman.

HP Automation Strategies: A portfolio approach to operations IT solutions management

ARC Advisory Group: Cosman, E. C.

The need for more automated and efficient operations has led end users to accumulate large and increasingly complex collections of operations-related information technology (IT) solutions.