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HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

MODEC, Inc., has commissioned a UOP Separex membrane system for processing natural gas on a new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO is using the Honeywell UOP Separex m..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has a contract to provide detailed engineering, procurement support and support services during construction of a new ester production plant at OXEA GmbH’s existing ..

HP Construction: Africa

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd. (KPRL) has implemented a new solution from IBM to increase the productivity and efficiency of the company’s oil refinery operations in East Africa. The agreement w..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Tecnimont S.p.A., the main operating company of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A., has an engineering procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract on a lump-sum turnkey basis for a new fertilizers..

HP Innovations: HPInnovations

New diode laser caters to range of applicationsServomex Group’s SERVOTOUGH LaserCompact 2900 (Fig. 1), a tuneable diode laser (TDL), is designed to deliver true continuous in-situ monitoring acro..

Indian Oil to cut jet fuel prices amid weaker crude

Indian Oil Corp. on Saturday said it will trim jet fuel prices by 1.0% beginning January 1 due to a softening in international benchmark rates. State-run fuel retailers revise jet fuel prices every fortnight in line with international crude oil prices.

US oil demand fell in November on lower gasoline consumption - API

Total US petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) fell 1.1% in November compared with November a year ago, pulled down by a 1.8% decline in motor gasoline demand to an 11-year low for the month, according to a monthly report from the American Petroleum Institute (API).

US refining profits poised to drop in 2012

HP Editorial Staff: HP News

As a WTI cost advantage fades, the sluggish US economy will play a bigger role in profits made from the sale of refined petroleum products.

Spain's Repsol buys Russian oil company Eurotek

Spanish oil company Repsol said Thursday it has agreed to buy Russian oil firm Eurotek for $230 million, its second deal in the country in as many weeks. The deal follows the Dec. 20 announcement of a new joint venture with Russian-Kazakh peer Alliance Oil Co.

Petrobras halts some Reduc refinery ops after fire

Brazilian state-controlled oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro, or Petrobras, said it halted operations at a distilling unit at its Duque de Caxias, or Reduc, oil refinery in Rio de Janeiro state Monday due to a small fire. The incident won't cause any shortfall in products output.