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Refining

Reliability: Pre-select a multidisciplinary failure analysis provider

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Suppose you are among the average mid-size plants that simply cannot afford to hire, train or otherwise employ subject matter experts (SMEs) in every one of the different disciplines within your company.

Understand API and ASME standards to prevent oversizing PSVs

Anvil Corporation: Taylor, B.

If you have ever sized or selected a pressure safety relief valve (PSV) using vendor sizing programs or hand calculations, you have probably run into a strange anomaly.

Bringing Industry 4.0 to the terminal

Oceaneering International Inc.: Kessler, R.

The oil and gas industry is no stranger to the power of Industry 4.0 solutions that aggregate sensor and planning/forecasting data into a single shared view, as well as deliver valuable analytics and real-time alerting capabilities.

The benefits of unmanned aerial vehicles in plant inspection services

Spitfire Aerial Services: Smith, M.

As the technology surrounding unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones (FIG. 1), continues to advance, so too do the ways they are used.

Process design consideration for a deep-cut vacuum distillation unit—Part 1

In the recent past, many US refineries have been reconfigured to process heavy opportunistic sour crudes.

Revamp results for CCR catalytic reforming unit with atmospheric regenerator

Honeywell UOP: Kniuksta, A.
Star Petroleum Refining Public Co. Ltd.: Piriyawiwatwong, W.  |  Pipithvittaya, N.

The reformate market is changing.

Improve refinery production and efficiency with asset monitoring

Emerson Automation Solutions: Donnangelo, M.

The sheer volume of equipment in a refinery—from vessels, columns, huge structures and mazes of pipes to pumps, valves, controllers and instruments—is staggering.

India cuts fuel tax, refinery prices to ease pain of rising crude

India is cutting prices of petrol and diesel by 2.50 rupees ($0.03) a liter, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday, the government’s latest step to tackle the impact of a sharp rise in crude oil prices and a weak local currency.

Global Project Data

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

According to <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i>’s Construction Boxscore Database, more than 320 new projects have been announced in the downstream processing industry over the past year.

Onsite

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Jenny Hebert and George Yaluris of Albemarle accept the <i>HP</i> Award for Best Catalyst Technology.