Refining
Nigeria's Port Harcourt refinery restart imminent, minister says
Nigeria's oil refinery in Port Harcourt will restart operations "after the Christmas break" following an overhaul, the petroleum minister said, following several delays.
Eni's Plenitude unit valued at 10 B euros in deal with EIP
Eni has agreed to sell a 9% stake in its low-carbon and retail unit Plenitude to Energy Infrastructure Partners (EIP) through a deal that values the unit at 10 B euros ($11 B) including debt.
Venezuela's PDVSA to settle debt to Curacao's refinery with fuel supply
Venezuela's state-run Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. will supply fuel to Curacao's refinery to settle debts left by the oil company after ceasing operations at the Caribbean island's facility in 2019.
China's Nov diesel exports down 44.9% on last year despite weak domestic demand
China's diesel exports in November were down 44.9% on last year at 1.16 MMt, as domestic demand remains above pandemic levels but faces continued headwinds from the country's property slowdown.
Digital Feature: The Need to Go Beyond the Digital Twin
Is building a Digital Twin enough to meet the challenges and manage all the data available in today's project lifecycle? To move beyond the “Digital Twin” and to the next level of global industrial assets data management, Hexagon introduces the digital and data-driven Smart Digital Reality™, enabling customers to globally leverage data throughout their asset’s lifecycle.
Digital Feature: Building Industrial Confidence
In this article, we introduce the concept of Whole Person Competence Development (WPCD) and its significance in building a competent and fully enabled workforce. By adopting a holistic approach to employee development, organizations can foster deeper levels of engagement, satisfaction, and personalization across their workforce. The WPCD emphasizes the importance of engaging and leveraging a person's entire being so that they can bring the best of who they are to everything they do.
Digital Feature: So you’ve rolled out new software. How do you make it stick?
It is a great feeling when a software project ends – the system is installed, the users are trained and adoption seems to be trending up. Everyone is happy and among the project champions and implementers, there are high-fives all around. Cut to nine months later; the team is being trained in some new process, and the solution that was implemented all those months ago has lost the buzz that it had when it was new – and worse, usage of the system, which was good initially, seems to be trending down. This is a common situation, and as vendors of enterprise software solutions, we here at Hexagon may see it more than most. So, what do companies do? What works?
Digital Feature: Day in the life of-Part 1
Here at Hexagon, we have engineers and product developers with lots of real-world experience. We know our customers want software and services that will directly make improvements in operational performance. But how do you evaluate the often confusing and nebulous claims made in product brochures? Today we look into the work done in a typical day by a unit production engineer and a site control systems engineer.
Fire breaks out at refinery in Iranian city of Isfahan
A fire at a crude oil distillation unit at a refinery in the central Iranian city of Isfahan injured four people.
Shell to sell Schwedt refinery stake to UK's Prax Group
Shell said it had agreed to sell its 37.5% stake in the PCK Schwedt oil refinery, which supplies most of Berlin's fuel, to Britain's Prax Group, attempting to draw a line under its co-ownership of an asset majority-owned by Russia's Rosneft.
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