Maintenance & Reliability
CB&I awarded contract renewal for refinery maintenance services
CB&I has been awarded a five-year contract renewal valued at approximately $350 MM for maintenance, turnarounds and capital construction for a major refinery in the Midwest.
Shell’s Singapore ethylene cracker to restart in a few weeks
Shell is expecting to restart its ethylene cracker at Pulau Bukom, Singapore, in the next few weeks following an unplanned shutdown.
Irving Oil performs $135 MM turnaround at Saint John refinery
Irving Oil began its 2016 fall turnaround project at its Saint John Refinery in late September.
Innovations
Where large machines are in use and the overall processes depend on a smoothly functioning plant, companies often rely on fixed maintenance schedules and diagnostic tools.
Reliability: Reassess and redirect your approach to a long-term career
It was not too long ago that a prospective employee could expect a 30-year career within an oil refinery or a petrochemical plant.
Australia's Gladstone LNG plant to take unit offline for maintenance
Australia's Gladstone LNG export plant will take one of its production lines out of service for planned maintenance for several weeks in October.
Shell declares force majeure on chemical supply from Singapore
Royal Dutch Shell has declared force majeure on base chemicals from its ethylene cracker at its Bukom manufacturing site in Singapore following an outage.
HTRI acquires SmartPM fouling management software and services
HTRI, a provider of research, software and services to the thermal process industries, has acquired SmartPM from IHS Markit, a business information provider.
Process disruption accelerates Neste's Porvoo refinery maintenance
Neste has begun maintenance at its Porvoo refinery early, due to a recent process disruption in a production line.
Valero Port Arthur refinery shuts large CDU, coker
Valero Energy Corp. shut the large crude distillation unit and a coking unit at the 335 Mbpd Port Arthur, Texas, refinery as part of an ongoing plant-wide overhaul.
- Honeywell collaborates with SAF One and Tata Projects to enable sustainable aviation fuel production 1/29
- Casale and OMNI Sign MoA to jointly advance waste-to-green methanol and hydrogen technologies 1/29
- GIZ and thyssenkrupp nucera partner to advance green hydrogen and power-to-X markets in India 1/29
- IACS issues new Unified Requirement on ammonia release mitigation systems 1/29
- TotalEnergies and Mozambique announce the full restart of the $20-B Mozambique LNG project 1/29
- CF Industries, POET launch low-carbon fertilizer pilot to cut ethanol production carbon intensity 1/29
