http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/10-1/kurita-america-launches-kurita-dropwise-condensation-technology-in-north-america/ Kurita America, part of a leading global provider of industrial water treatment solutions the Kurita Group, has introduced Kurita Dropwise Condensation Technology in the North American marketplace. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/10-1/global-refinery-margins-fall-to-multi-year-seasonal-lows-in-september/ Refinery margins for petroleum refiners across the world are shrinking, indicating reduced profitability from refining crude oil and selling petroleum products. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/10-1/imi-to-supply-valves-to-world-s-first-net-zero-carbon-emissions-ethylene-cracker/ IMI has won the contract to supply an innovative package of transfer line and decoke valves for the world’s first net-zero carbon emissions ethylene cracker, located in Canada. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2024/september-2024/maintenance-reliability-and-inspection/truly-effective-reliability-requires-predictive-maintenance/ To navigate this new digital world, organizations must find ways to bring in new technologies to support the limited personnel they have, but without increasing the complexity of those people’s jobs or overwhelming them with raw data they are not trained to use. The solution is to implement a predictive maintenance technology plan founded on a boundless automation vision of seamlessly moving contextualized data wherever it is needed. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/09/global-refiners-face-profit-slump-as-new-plants-come-online/ Oil refiners in Asia, Europe and the U.S. are facing a drop in profitability to multi-year lows, marking a downturn for an industry that had enjoyed surging returns post-pandemic and underlining the extent of the current slowdown in global demand. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/09/babcock-wilcox-awarded-feed-contract-for-canada-s-first-waste-to-energy-plant-with-ccs/ Babcock & Wilcox has been awarded a contract to conduct front-end engineering and design (FEED) for Varme Energy Inc.’s planned waste-to-energy with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project in Alberta, Canada. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/trans-mountain-oil-pipeline-expansion-pushes-rivals-to-cut-rates-for-now/ Pipelines that historically carry Canadian crude to the U.S. are cutting rates and looking to ship different grades of crude oil due to rising competition from the newly expanded Trans Mountain pipeline. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/linde-to-invest-2-b-in-canada-to-supply-hydrogen-to-dows-alberta-chemical-complex/ Industrial gases firm Linde said it would invest more than $2 B to build a clean hydrogen facility for supplying to Dow's Path2Zero production complex in Alberta, Canada. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/us-west-coast-refiners-still-waiting-for-tmx-margin-boost/ Canada's expanded Trans Mountain (TMX) oil pipeline, which commenced commercial operations in May, so far has had little impact on crude costs at refineries on the U.S. West Coast. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/08/globaldata-north-america-to-dominate-global-renewable-refinery-capacity-additions-through-2028/ Global consumption of renewable fuels produced in refineries is increasing due to environmental concerns about fossil fuels, technological advances and growing regulations on carbon emissions.