Refining

Innovations

Global Project Data

According to <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i>’s Construction Boxscore Database, there are nearly 470 active refining projects around the globe.

Industry Metrics

US margins recorded losses as crack spreads declined for all products except fuel oil, despite lower refinery crude intakes.

Viewpoint: Oil and gas downstream looks to digitalization for sustained excellence

The combination of US tax reforms and changes to global bunker fuel specifications in 2020 as part of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO’s) new regulations are set to turn the US oil and gas downstream into a cash cow.

Software: Operations intelligence software for real-time visibility

The tiny company town of Sinclair sits in south-central Wyoming.

Digital: Riding the digital transformation wave

For refiners, the future is full of uncertainty. Due to market forces—e.g., the macroeconomics of oil and gas supply and demand, the increasing demand for petrochemicals and new marine low-sulfur fuel requirements—organizations are faced with many business challenges that require increasingly flexible operations.

Refining: Chinese refining industry eyes production cuts, consolidation

The Chinese refining industry is on the verge of massive production cuts and consolidation. A new tax rule aimed at curbing alleged tax evasion by independents and the end of an era of liberalization in the industry are driving the downsizing.

Editorial Comment: The reemergence of a collaborative platform

Readers have witnessed that throughout the life of the publication, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> has always published information on new technologies to increase efficiency, safety and profitability in downstream processing operations, while introducing techniques to decrease environmental footprint and emissions and produce high-quality, clean fuels and petroleum products for consumers around the world.

Impact of opportunity crudes on refinery desalter and wastewater treatment performance—Part 2

Refiners are becoming increasingly dependent on opportunity crudes to stay competitive and support margins in the industry’s present uncertain state.

Process safety as a profit center?

In today’s economic environment, new capital spending is harder to find than loose change buried under the couch cushions.