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HP Impact: Energy firms must acknowledge cyber security as more than an IT problem

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Energy firms have spent vast sums on the security of their information systems, but they must reorient from a reactive, tactical posture regarding intrusions and attacks to a more strategic, holistic ..

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Neste Oil makes progress on microbial oil plantFinland’s Neste Oil recently completed the first phase of a pilot plant for producing microbial oil. The €8 million plant is expected to be com..

HP Industry Perspectives: Industry Perspectives

Key industry officials answer a poll question from HydrocarbonProcessing.com

Fiatech and PCA lead charge for unified industry interoperability activities

Fiatech and the POSC Caesar Association (PCA) have endorsed unifying all industry-wide ISO 15926 interoperability initiatives under the name iRING.

Rockwell Automation buys medium-voltage drives unit of China's Jiuzhou

With the purchase, Rockwell says it can now design, engineer and manufacture medium-voltage drives and power solutions for a broader base of Chinese and other customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Jiuzhou Electric had served as the contract manufacturer for Rockwell Automation for seven years.

HP Impact: New nanoscale reference material to be known as P25

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

New nanoscale reference material to be known as P25The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new nanoscale reference material for use in a wide range of environmental, hea..

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Invensys introduces new technology offeringsSoftware and technology provider Invensys Operations Management recently released a program to help clients modernize and improve the performance of aging c..

HP Integration Strategies: Recent trends shape the future of DCS

ARC Advisory Group: Young, B.

Several trends have already impacted the distributed control system (DCS) market and are likely to continue over the next few years. These include both product- and technology-related trends and gener..

Use a systematized approach of good practices in pygas hydrogenation via APC

Axens: Bader, J.-M.  |  Rolland, G.

APC with inferential modeling was successfully applied to pygas hydrogenation units. The lengthening of the catalyst run length limits downtime for both the pygas unit and upstream units such as the steam cracker.

Why don’t we properly train control engineers?

Whitehouse Consulting: King, M. J.

While there are managers in the process industry that see training control engineers as a “no-brainer,” these are very much in the minority. They may send staff on courses covering configura..