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Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

The hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) has known for some time that a great shift change is eminent. The experienced engineers, chemists and crafts hired in the 1970s and 1980s are reaching retirem..

Triton finalizes GEA Heat Exchangers acquisition

With this closing and with assumption of the activities of GEA Heat Exchangers, Triton takes over all companies in the former group, as well as all staff.

Foster Wheeler wins South African health, safety award for engineering

The NOSCAR award recognizes organizations that continuously commit to providing safe and healthy work environments for employees and is the highest rating in the NOSA system.

Foster Wheeler acquires South African services group MDM Engineering

MDM is a South African based provider of services from feasibility studies through to the engineering, procurement and construction phase.

ExxonMobil awards EPC work to Foster Wheeler to upgrade Antwerp refinery

Esso moves forward with resid upgrade and new delayed coking project

DuPont, Ethanol Europe to develop Macedonia cellulosic biorefinery

This collaboration agreement brings together three critical components for the preparation of detailed feasibility studies for a commercial-scale 2G ethanol plant to supply the European market.

Shell Chemicals offers gas-based fluids, solvents

The high-purity paraffinic fluids are made from gas-to-liquids (GTL) products manufactured at the world’s largest GTL plant -- Pearl GTL in Qatar, a joint venture of Shell and Qatar Petroleum.

North American ethane supply offers opportunity for Western Europe

On the verge of losing competitiveness, a robust supply of US ethane imports present an opportunity for some Western European producers, with a potential to transform region’s feedstock landscape.

Metso to upgrade Borealis automation in Finland

Metso will carry out automation and emergency shutdown system extensions to the existing Metso DNA system when the polyethylene plant is upgraded with third-generation technology.

Integrated software drives improvement in asset management, productivity

Meridium, Inc.: Amos, E.

The evolution is all about connecting people, information and devices to give a holistic view of plant operations used to better manage reliability strategy and operational risk.