Refining
Emerson to acquire UK-based Permasense Ltd.
Emerson has agreed to acquire UK-based Permasense Ltd., a provider of non-intrusive corrosion monitoring technologies for heavy industries, including refining, chemical, and pipelines.
Pertamina to form refinery JVs with Rosneft, Aramco
Indonesian state energy company Pertamina expects to sign a JV agreement with Russian oil major Rosneft for the Tuban oil refinery development project.
Production at Nigeria's Warri refinery unaffected by nearby explosion
Crude oil production at Nigeria's Warri refinery in the country's restive Niger Delta region has not been affected by an explosion heard near the site.
Automation Strategies: Identify challenges in alarm management
ARC Advisory Group recently conducted a survey on practices and trends in alarm management in the process industries.
Reliability: Reassess and redirect your approach to a long-term career
It was not too long ago that a prospective employee could expect a 30-year career within an oil refinery or a petrochemical plant.
US Water’s PhosZero chemistry named finalist in R&D 100 Award
US Water has been selected as a finalist by the R&D 100 Award Program for PhosZero, its unique antiscalant and corrosion inhibitor, cooling water chemistry.
Glencore unit to pay $27 million for biofuels compliance
Glencore’s bunker fuel unit has agreed to pay a $27 MM penalty and retire over $71 MM worth of credits for compliance with the US biofuels program to resolve charges it violated the policy.
ASTM seeks participants to develop cetane test method
ASTM International is welcoming participants to create the first constant volume combustion chamber test method that would measure the generic cetane number of diesel fuels.
EIA: Pipeline disruption leads to record gasoline stock changes in Southeast US, Gulf Coast
The outage of Colonial Pipeline Line 1 between September 9 and September 21 resulted in record changes in motor gasoline stocks in both the Lower Atlantic and Gulf Coast states during the week ending September 16.
Much of 2017’s oil demand growth may bypass refineries
US shale gas may displace a growing portion of the world's expanding energy demand, cutting into the need for oil products from refineries.
- Hanwha Ocean signs strategic MoU with Kanata Clean Power for proposed $15.7-B, 12-MMtpy FLNG project in Canada 6/18
- Burckhardt Compression secures milestone order for first industrial scale liquefied CO₂ carrier supporting Northern Lights CCS project 6/18
- Dynelectro dispatches 250-kW electrolyzer unit to Syntholene’s Iceland eSAF project 6/18
- EIA: U.S. crude inventories decline for tenth week to over 40-yr low 6/18
- Australia opens first carbon refinery, making new products from captured CO2 6/18
- ABB expands non-invasive sensing portfolio to advance simpler, safer temperature measurement 6/18
