Refining
HP Boxscore Construction Analysis: 2014 global construction outlook—Part 2
According to Hydrocarbon Processing’s HPI Market Data 2014, total capital spending is estimated to exceed $77 B. Part 2 of this outlook examines notable construction activities in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
HP Industry Perspectives: It is not dirty oil, just oil with dirt in it
There are an estimated 8 trillion bbl of heavy oil reserves located throughout the world, as shown in Fig. 1. The quest now is how to cost-efficiently bring these reserves of “dirty oil” to ..
HP News
 Irving Oil refinery begins $60-million turnaroundA major turnaround is underway at Irving Oil’s refinery in Saint John, Canada. It began in early March and is expected to last until mid-Ap..
HP Innovations
Modular generator creates precision gas mixturesKIN-TEK’s FlexStream Modular Gas Standards Generating System (Fig. 1) creates precise gas mixtures. The FlexStream system dilutes emissions from pe..
Reliance plans maintenance at Jamnagar PX plant
Reliance Industries has taken a planned maintenance shutdown of one of its three paraxylene (PX) units at Jamnagar. The scheduled shutdown period is for a period of six weeks.
AFPM ’14: BNSF executive outlines rail safety priorities to handle volatile crude
Rose said BNSF and railroads across the country are concerned with three critical safety components: preventing derailments, mitigating their severity and mobilizing response measures effectively.
Foster Wheeler to service OMV’s Europe refineries
Under the deal, Foster Wheeler will provide services on privileged basis for OMV refineries located in Burghausen (Germany) and Schwechat (Austria). The services to be supplied, through specific work orders, include front-end loading for projects of any size as well as EPCm work.
Siluria unveils new commercial technology to make liquid fuels from gas
"The successful scale-up of a commercially-ready process for producing fuels from natural gas represents another key milestone in our strategy," said Siluria chief executive Ed Dineen.
Valero buys Aventine corn ethanol plant in Indiana
The Mount Vernon ethanol plant has been shut down for approximately two years, but Valero plans to begin a restart program and resume production within the next several months.
UOP to supply technology, equipment for Pakistan Refinery clean fuels
In addition to licensing and modular equipment, UOP will provide catalyst, adsorbent, engineering, technical support and a drier regeneration control system for extended catalyst life for PRL’s Penex unit, which will process 5,000 bpd of light naphtha. The unit is expected to start up by mid-2015.
- CTCI awarded $417-MM EPC contract to build ethylene storage in Qatar 11/15
- Russian refineries cut oil runs due to losses, closures loom 11/15
- Spain's Moeve swings to quarterly loss on weak refining margins 11/15
- Asia naphtha supply expected to remain tight over next two years 11/15
- Countries, companies lag in response to tackle methane emissions, U.N. says 11/15
- U.S. energy draws up a wish list for new Trump administration 11/15
