Project Management
Engineering Case Histories: Case 94: Why mentors are important for industry
When I started working in industry 50 years ago, it was management’s job to have a senior engineer watch over my work. Much of the quality of my analytical work and technical discipline were formed early in my career with help from these engineers.
Automation Strategies: Rethinking automation: A stepwise approach to the IIoT
Energy producers are under tremendous pressure to reduce operational costs and maximize efficiency throughout the value chain. This is easier said than done.
Editorial Comment: In defense of intellectual property integrity
In the publishing business, a key editorial responsibility is ensuring the integrity of all articles that are chosen for publication. This column elaborates on additional ways that prospective authors can help ensure that readers trust what we print.
Automation Strategies: Drive maximum asset capability with operational technologies
Owner-operators across the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) strive to gain maximum business value from their process plant assets. Here, automation assets and other operational technology (OT) typically play a major role.
Modularization: The key to success in today’s market
The world economic order is rapidly changing. A transition is underway, led by the sudden collapse of crude oil and natural gas prices. Here, the pros and cons of modularization vs. field construction are outlined.
Engineering Case Histories: Case 93: Hints on searching the literature
Gathering accurate data is essential for failure analysis and other types of research.
Project Management: Performance excellence culture improves processes, giving lasting results
In the downstream industry, where production is at an all-time high and uncompromised safety is imperative, plant owners and operators are responding by implementing the latest time-saving technologies and systems to automate and improve human processes.
GE and Baker Hughes to create fullstream digital industrial service company
GE and Baker Hughes have entered into an agreement to combine GE’s oil and gas business and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oil and gas technology provider with a unique mix of service and equipment capabilities.
Lessons learned in commercial scale-up of new chemical processes
Commercializing a new chemical process can be as simple as installing one or more homogenous batch reactor(s), or as complex as designing a fully integrated chemical complex requiring one or more heterogeneous reaction steps processing gas, liquid and/or solids, with other units required to prepare feeds, recover products/byproducts and recycle streams.
Intelliwave and Shell sign global framework agreement
Intelliwave Technologies Inc. has signed a global framework agreement with Shell to support Shell's ProjectVantage program.
- EnEarth awards FEED contract to Kent for the Prinos CO₂ Storage Project in Northern Greece 3/12
- Axens joins consortium trying to develop an eFuels plant in Australia 3/12
- Southern Energy Renewables announce $1.4-B methanol and SAF complex in Louisiana 3/12
- Clariant successfully demonstrates advanced pyrolysis oil upgrading technology for circular plastics with Borealis and SINTEF 3/12
- Indorama Ventures' consortium to develop state-of-the-art rPET facility in Nigeria 3/12
- China teapots maintain refinery runs to cash in on lucrative fuel sales 3/12
