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Process Optimization

HP Viewpoint: Clean fuel challenges for refiners

Operating companies are looking to new technology and innovation to provide practical solutions for meeting market demands and creating shareholder value.

HP Insight: Government, environment and taxes, oh my!

In this issue of HPInsight, the global hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) still battles some very familiar and present day challenges, such as economic cycles, feedstock spikes, government over reg..

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Sundrop Fuels, Inc., plans to construct and operate its first production facility on about 1,200 acres of land that it has purchased near Alexandria, Louisiana. The inaugural plant will use sustainabl..

HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Toyo Engineering Corp., in consortium with Y&V Ingeniería y Construcción, C.A., has a project management consultant (PMC) contract for the heavy-oil upgrading project of Petróleos de Ve..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, has been awarded a contract by CJSC Vostochnaya Neftechimicheskaya (VNHK), a subsidiary of OJSC Rosneft, for the license and basic engineering of a naphtha steam-cra..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

The State of Qatar’s Minister of Energy and Industry, Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, and Shell’s CEO, Peter Voser, have signed an agreement to develop a world-scale petrochemicals complex i..

HP Construction: Asia-Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

The Linde Group is set to build and operate a new hydrogen plant in the Jilin Chemical Industrial Park (JCIP) in northeast China. The company will be investing around €42 million in the first pha..

HP Innovations: HPInnovations

AESSEAL wins big at IMechE awards   Fig. 1. Award-winning   AESSEAL offers a wide range   of products. The UK-based mechanical seals manufacturer was nominated for seven out o..

Praxair sells US advanced components unit to NGK

Praxair has sold its advanced components business to Fremont, Calif.-based FM Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan’s NGK Insulators. The advanced components business designs, engineers, manufactures and supplies electrostatic chucks (ESCs) and critical chamber components for semiconductor processing equipment.

ExxonMobil licenses technology on oil sands steam injection to Baker Hughes

ExxonMobil has awarded the first license for its patented steam injection system and production method to Baker Hughes to improve the efficiency of in-situ oil sands projects. The technology provides more effective regulation and distribution of steam in long horizontal wells.