Safety
Executive Viewpoint: How digital transformation improves safety and reduces emissions
Digital transformation is a strategy for improving performance by applying technologies for measurement, connectivity, data storage, analytics and visualization
Business Trends: Why we value engineering data
In the 21st century, one cannot escape the concept of data.
Editorial Comment: HPI spending forecast to reach $491 B in 2021
Who could have known that the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) would have been hit with such market volatility entering the new decade?
Advances in compressor anti-surge valve design enhance reliability and performance
Centrifugal and axial compressors are some of the most critical components used within a process plant to handle gases.
What went wrong with my furnace?
We should learn from our own mistakes and experiences, but it is wiser to keep track of and learn from all past mistakes and experiences, including those made by others.
Editorial Comment: Optimizing operations by advancing process controls, instrumentation and automation technologies
When driving by or visiting a refinery or petrochemical plant, one cannot help but gaze at the expansive sea of metal towers.
Selecting the right rotary control valve
The primary function of a control valve is to regulate flow. Accurate, consistent and reliable performance of this task affects many important process unit or plant metrics,
Extracting business value from digitalization in oil and gas
Most oil and gas companies are investing in digitalization; however, they often fail to move beyond proof of value (PoV) or pilot projects.
Increase uptime by reducing systematic failure risk
Pondering the history of industrial incidents, it would be incorrect to assume that most failures occur randomly.
Achieve process safety, asset integrity and reliability with an integrated HAZOP study
Abnormal situations in refining and petrochemical plant operations can interfere with plant reliability and efficient operations, especially for highly complex processes.

- Colombia's Ecopetrol to invest up to $700 MM in SAF production plant 4/2
- Ergon to invest $400 MM to expand gasoline production at Vicksburg refinery (U.S.) 4/2
- DB Schenker to use Neste's renewable diesel to decarbonize logistics in Asia 4/2
- U.S. EPA's upcoming proposal on biofuel blending mandates to cover two years 4/2
- ExxonMobil to invest more than $100 MM in Baton Rouge upgrade to produce high-purity isopropyl alcohol 4/2
- Stockholm Exergi to begin building one of the world's largest carbon capture projects using CATACARB Enhanced HPC 4/2