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Hess, PdVSA to shut Hovensa refinery venture in Virgin Islands

HP News | 01.25.2012

Hovensa will shut down its 500,000 bpd St. Croix refinery in the US Virgin Islands amid weak demand, new competition. READ FULL STORY

• EARNINGS PREVIEW: Refining woes likely to limit US oil majors

  HP News Services | 01.23.2012

• EARNINGS PREVIEW: US chemical companies hurt by reduced demand

  HP News Services | 01.17.2012

• POLL FINDINGS: Gulf coast remains region of choice for new US crackers

  Ben DuBose | 01.12.2012

• HPInsight: The HPI's top January headlines from 1922 through 2012

  HP Editorial Staff | 01.05.2012

• POLL FINDINGS: EU unlikely to embargo Iranian oil despite recent threats

  Ben DuBose | 12.21.2011

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Features

• Overcome challenges in treating shale gases

  Weiland, R. H.,  Optimized Gas Treating, Inc., Houston, Texas; Hatcher, N. A.,  Optimized Gas Treating, Inc., Houston, Texas | 01.01.2012

  Manipulating process plant parameters helps meet pipeline specifications

• Consider lobe blowers combined with compressors

  Bloch, H. P.,  HP, Staff | 01.01.2012

  New blower meets low-pressure applications cost-effectively

• Case history: Replacement of existing pressure vessel

  Fearn, D.,  Fluor Canada Ltd., St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; McKay, J.,  Fluor Canada Ltd., St. John, New Brunswick, Canada | 01.01.2012

  Installing new equipment involves more processes to ensure safety and to meet new codes

HPI Handbooks

 
2011 Refining Processes Handbook 

This comprehensive industry reference source contains flow diagrams and descriptions of more than 194 leading-edge, licensed refining technologies. Specific processing operations include biofuels, coking, hydrotreating, hydrocracking, fluid catalytic cracking, resid catalytic cracking, alkylation, catalytic reforming, ethers and more. Forty licensors contributed process flow diagrams, products, process descriptions, economics, installations and other vital information. The flow diagrams and summary descriptions define typical licensed processes used by modern refineries.

Conference News

• SLIDESHOW: Exhibitors set stage for brisk business at 2011 ChemShow

  Ben DuBose | 11.02.2011

  Chemical processing executives descended upon New York City and showed off their latest technologies for the 2011 ChemShow, taking place from Nov. 1-3 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

• NPRA Q&A '11: New wireless technology can improve plant asset monitoring

  Ben DuBose | 10.12.2011

  Wireless technology is superior to most wired alternatives for modern plant asset monitoring, a senior applications consultant with Emerson Process Management said.

• NPRA Q&A '11: Oil sands are too dirty for the EU

  Stephany Romanow | 10.12.2011

  In his book, "Why we hate the oil companies", John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil Co., reiterates the need for having a diverse and varied set of resources to meet future energy demand.

• NPRA Q&A '11: Quench overrides can control hydrocracker temperature excursions

  Ben DuBose | 10.12.2011

  Hydrocracker high temperature excursions and runaway reactions can be avoided with the help of new advanced regulatory control strategies such as quench overrides, two officials said at the forum.

• NPRA Q&A '11: Refiners need better hydrogen management - KBC

  Ben DuBose | 10.12.2011

  An increased focus on proper hydrogen management could lead to significantly higher profits at many global refineries, according to Rick Manner, an official with KBC Advanced Technologies.

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