Maintenance & Reliability
TotalEnergies Texas (U.S.) FCC work to continue to late November
A planned overhaul of the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker at TotalEnergies’ 238,000-bpd Port Arthur, Texas refinery is expected to continue into late November, said people familiar with plant operations.
API Announces the 5th Edition of RP 572 on Pressure Vessels Inspection Practices
The American Petroleum Institute is pleased to announce the release of the 5th edition of Recommended Practice 572, Inspection Practices for Pressure Vessels.
Kuwait's KIPIC has sufficient stocks despite al-Zour shutdown
Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company has sufficient stocks of diesel, naphtha, kerosene and fuel oil to meet obligations to local and foreign customers despite an almost complete shutdown of the al-Zour refinery.
Digital Feature: Achieve Water Authority Compliance with Automated Wastewater Treatment for Industrial Facilities with Cooling Towers
U.S. industrial facilities with cooling towers must meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and local wastewater requirements for effluent, including those under the Clean Water Act. Failing to do so can result in severe fines that quickly escalate.
Differential thermal expansion and welding problems in dissimilar joint of carbon steel to austenitic stainless-steel piping in high-temperature applications
Joining dissimilar piping materials has found widespread application in various process plant piping, most notably in jacketed piping with carbon-steel jackets and austenitic stainless-steel core piping with stainless-steel end closures that require welding to carbon-steel jacket piping.
To improve maintenance, check out the view from the edge
Today’s hydrocarbon process manufacturing operations are almost unrecognizable from those of just 10 yr ago.
Editorial Comment: Celebrating the technologies and people in the global hydrocarbon processing industry
On October 11, Gulf Energy Information celebrated the inaugural Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards.
Digital Feature: The perfect match: How to evaluate chemical resistance and fluid compatibility of materials
Matching the right elastomer to an application is key to ensuring an o-ring's optimal performance and mitigating premature failure.
Lukoil's Romanian refinery shuts down for planned maintenance works
Romania's Petrotel Lukoil refinery, owned by Russia's Lukoil, will shut for one month from Wednesday for planned maintenance works.
Pemex shuts large CDU at Deer Park, Texas (U.S.) refinery
Pemex shut down the 270,000 barrel-per-day crude distillation unit at its Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Monday because a process line ruptured.
- Pakistan-China to sign MoU on oil-to-chemicals complex in June 5/17
- China biofuel makers bet on sustainable aviation fuel 5/17
- AMETEK Land provides thermal imagers to large ethylene producer 5/17
- China's refinery output falls for first time in 20 mos due to maintenance 5/17
- Dow, SCG Chemicals sign MoU to transform 200,000 tpy of plastic waste into circular products 5/17
- Ukraine long-range attacks continue to disrupt Russian refining, energy operations 5/17