Engineering & Design

IT dependencies complicate OT security

Cyber-securing oil and gas automation to ensure safe, reliable and efficient physical operations is becoming more challenging. This article explores the modern yet evolving threat environment, how expectations for cybersecurity are changing, how information technology/operational technology (IT/OT) dependencies have emerged as an important issue in most cybersecurity programs, and how owners and operators are addressing this new issue.

Strategies to resolve process variability via regulatory process control

This article discusses strategies to address process instability for effective process control. 

Synergize FCCUs and hydrocracking processing units to maximize refining margins

Optimize process design and commercialize newly developed processes through close collaboration between licensor and client

This case study follows the installation of new sulfur recovery units in Kuwait by Kuwait Oil Co. This article highlights key aspects of collaboration and technological advancement in process design development and project execution between the operator and licensor to the benefit of both parties.

Sipchem, LyondellBasell collaborate on feasibility for a world-scale mixed-feed cracker in Saudi Arabia

Sipchem and LyondellBasell have been awarded a feedstock allocation from the Ministry of Energy of Saudi Arabia supporting a joint feasibility study for a world-scale mixed feed cracker complex combined with a diversified derivative portfolio.

Engineers find greener path to making key industrial chemical

Scientists have discovered a potentially greener way to produce ethylene oxide, according to a new study.

MODEC enters into carbon capture FEED contract with SAMSUNG E&A for FPSO vessel

MODEC has entered into a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with SAMSUNG E&A for an offshore carbon capture pilot project, selecting Carbon Clean’s modular CycloneCC technology.

Nextchem to provide technology for Pacifico Mexinol's ultra-low carbon methanol plant (Mexico)

When it initiates operation in 2028, Pacifico Mexinol's facility is expected to be the largest single ultra-low carbon methanol facility in the world, producing approximately 350,000 tpy of green methanol and 1.8 MMtpy of blue methanol from natural gas with carbon capture.

Quanta Technologies unveils new LEADR FCC refining catalysts

The technology improves the environmental and diffusion performance of Fluid Cracking Catalysts (FCC) by narrowing the particle size distribution of the catalyst.

KBR awarded PMC contract for $2-B fertilizer plant in Angola

As part of the $2-B project, KBR will provide project management services overseeing engineering, procurement, and construction phases. The facility will produce 2,300-tpd ammonia and 4,000-tpd urea.