03.13.2012 | Ben DuBose
Included here are recaps of three of the Tuesday morning technical sessions at the Annual Meeting.
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This article first appeared in one of Hydrocarbon Processing's show daily newspapers at the AFPM Annual Meeting in San Diego from March 11-13. To read a free PDF of this story from online editor Ben DuBose, click here.
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