Environment & Safety
HP Insight: Reality ‘bites’ for the energy industry
As this issue goes to press, HP will be releasing its 2003 industry forecast. So what should the HPI expect to happen over the next 15 months? Well, the news is cooling if not at times ..
Optimize FCC flue-gas emission control – Part 1
Upcoming environmental regulations will require tighter control measures for FCC units. So, what are the best options?
Consider new refinery compliance standards now being set through litigation actions
In addition to established environmental laws, the U.S. EPA uses enforcement settlements to devise more stringent performance for manufacturing facilities, especially refineries
HP Insight: Planning models for joint venture refineries function as a contract
In a joint venture (JV) refinery, the shareholders supply crudes of their choice and share the operating cost of processing those crudes into final products. In return, the shareholder..
HP Automation Safety: Are fire and gas systems SISs?
ISA 84.01 or IEC 61511 standards make no specific mention of "fire and gas (F&G)" systems. However, many are asking the question: Are F&G systems classified as safety systems? Why woul..
Hazard identification and management – an overview
Processing hydrocarbons is a risky business. Yet, HPI companies daily use systems that manage potentially hazardous chemicals with the utmost safety and produce high-value products
What is an SIF?
Edward M. Marsza, Contributing Editor One of the biggest problems in implementing safety instrumented systems (SISs) is poor definition of the safety instrumented function (SIF). More t..
Minimize flaring with flare gas recovery
To reduce facility-wide air emission, a refinery retrofitted the flare system and reuses waste gas as fuel gas
Is regulatory compliance a burden or an opportunity?
Using a proactive approach can reap significant benefits
HP Automation Safety: Periodic inspection and test – requirements and benefits
As companies gain experience implementing the ISA 84.01 and IEC 61511 standards, several have gotten toward the end of the safety life cycle with real projects. The final phase of the s..
- Methanex to indefinitely idle 860,000-tpy Trinidad and Tobago methanol plant 6/30
- Several injured in fire at Haldia Petrochemicals' plant in eastern India 6/30
- Shell forecast: Global LNG demand expected to grow by 65% by 2050 6/30
- INEOS Enterprises completes sale of its ultra-pure sulfur dioxide and derivatives business to Ecovyst 6/30
- Neste to invest over €400 MM in Porvoo refinery maintenance turnaround 6/30
- Middle East producers push on with oil and LNG loadings despite ship attacks 6/30
