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Refineries’ pandemic turmoil—KNPC’s gasoline demand: Opportunities and challenges

Kuwait National Petroleum Co.: Matar, M. B.  |  Alqallaf, D. A.  |  Alesmail, I.  |  Al-Mutairi, F.

The COVID-19 pandemic is regarded as one of the most exceedingly difficult challenges faced in the oil and gas industry's history.

Riding the dragon: Sulfur plant thermal reactor temperature measurement

Optimized Gas Treating, Inc.: Jensen, D. R.  |  Hatcher, N. A.  |  Bailey, M. D.
Delta Controls Corp.: Coady, M.

Of all the fundamental measured process variables, temperature is perhaps the most reliable.

Marathon Petroleum implements Topsoe technology at Martinez renewables facility

Marathon Petroleum’s refinery in Martinez, California (U.S.), has been repurposed to produce renewable diesel--using Topsoe's HydroFlex technology--through the company’s joint venture with Neste.

Reliable naphtha reforming catalyst testing

Avantium: Vilela, T.  |  Otyuskaya, D.

Naphtha-to-gasoline refining plays a significant role in the petrochemical refining industry.

Defossilizing the FCCU via co-processing of biogenic feedstock: From laboratory to commercial scale

bp Energía España Castellón refinery: Fernández, A.  |  Mena, A.  |  Rivas, C.
W. R. Grace: Bescansa, M  |  González, R.

Oil demand is expected to reach record highs this year1 after a sharp rebound following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Critical considerations for retrofit designing a platformer reactor’s partial bypass piping in a NHT plant

Saudi Aramco: Kittur, A.

The naphtha hydrotreater/continuous catalyst regeneration (NHT/CCR) platformer produces reformate to be utilized as a blending stock in the gasoline pool (FIG. 1).

Complete hydroconversion of crude oil to light hydrocarbons

Contributing Author: Patron, L.

One of the prevailing factors of the energy transition toward a low-carbon energy system is that the decarbonization of transport will lead to the contraction of the main markets in which crude oil refining products are sold.

Business Trends: The journey to sustainable profitability: How to benchmark the efficiency of your investment

Honeywell UOP: Couch, K.  |  Griffiths, M.  |  Ritchie, J.  |  Srivastava, P.

Because it provides the energy and materials required for global development, the refining industry is critical to the world economy.

From crude oil to light olefins: Development and industrial application of the next-generation catalyst for catalytic pyrolysis process

SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing: Sha, Y.  |  Wang, P.  |  Zhou, X.  |  Zhu, G.  |  Lu, W.  |  Ouyang, Y.  |  Song, H.  |  Lin, W.  |  Luo, Y.

Light olefins, particularly ethylene and propylene, are the most crucial building blocks for the petrochemical industry.

VOC reduction at Raffineria di Milazzo’s SRU complex—Part 2

Raffineria di Milazzo: Falzone, S.  |  Licandro, G.  |  Lagana, F.  |  Tarantino, M.  |  Arces, I.  |  Grillo, R.

Based on new environmental regulations focusing on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at the emissions point of a refinery’s sulfur recovery unit (SRU), Raffineria di Milazzo—a JV between Eni and Kuwait Petroleum Italia—carried out troubleshooting activities to identify and implement suitable actions to minimize the concentration of VOCs at the emissions point of the SRU complex.