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Process Optimization

Technip inks Venezuela production equipment deal

Technip was awarded a procurement, installation and operation support contract by Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) covering subsea, onshore and offshore facilities, for an accelerated production system at the Mariscal Sucre Dragon development in offshore Venezuela.

Axens to design, license technology to Iraq refinery

Iraq’s State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), part of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, has awarded Axens the basic design and license contracts for the construction of the new refinery in Nassiriya, Iraq.

Find benefits in automating boiler systems

WorleyParsons: Bourji, A.  |  Ballow, D.  |  Choroszy, M.

Dynamic models unravel potential problems in high-pressure steam production and consumption

Process gas chromatography: Avoid the iceberg of hidden expenses

Emerson Process Management: Gaura, M.

Total cost of ownership can quickly add up for field analytical equipment

Consider model-based inferential properties for reformers

AspenTech: Beautyman, A. C.
Eni: Biroli, S.  |  Autuori, A.
Aspen Technology: Lodolo, S.

A European refiner opts to apply embedded multivariable predictive controllers as part of an advanced process control system

Intelligent severity optimization project pays off in two months

East China University of Science and Technology: Wang, H.  |  Wang, Z.  |  Du, W.  |  Wang, D.  |  Qian, F.
Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co. Ltd.: Tang, Z.

Major olefin producer uses new process control to fine-tune energy consumption

Refinery configurations: Designs for heavy oil

CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum: Garg, M. O.  |  Kumar, S.  |  Nanoti, S. M.  |  Sharma, Y. K.

Conceptualization and economic models looked at scenarios to process clean gasoline, diesel from domestic feedstock

HP Reliability: Suction specific speed choices have consequences

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

A refinery engineer was in a quandary over requests from a project group. High volume/pressure/temperature pumps in hydrocarbon service were involved and the refinery’s standards had, in 2007, be..

HP Integration Strategies: Automation-related lessons learned from March 11 disasters in Japan

ARC Advisory Group: Kai, Shin

On July 22, four months after the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami struck the Pacific Coast side of eastern Japan, Japanese engineers from various process and other industries gathered in Tokyo to..

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Dominion is proceeding with its next major project in the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions, the construction of a large natural gas processing and fractionation plant along the Ohio River in Natrium,..