Refining
HPIn Processing: Latin America important to U.S. refiners
Last month, I discussed the increased U.S. refining business activity that occurred during the first half of this year. However, not all activity is limited to the U.S. Refiners in Asia are currently ..
HPIn Processing: Deal-making heats up in 1998
After a busy first half of 1997, transactions in the refining sector seemed to slow somewhat – virtually no deals were made after my June 1997 column on refining consolidation. This proved to be ..
HPIn Processing: Clean fuels update
Last month in the "Editorial," I discussed the new low-sulfur proposal presented by a coalition of U.S. refiners. I mentioned that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was due to release a d..
The future of European refining
Although recent economic and financial happenings in Asia-Pacific have shifted everyone's focus there, it is not the only area of the world projected to have major changes over the next few years. Eur..
FCCU main fractionator revamp for CARB gasoline production
Here is one refiner's experience with a major project to produce clean gasoline
HPIn Processing: The end of MTBE?
Events unfolding in California over the past few months could signal the end of the use of MTBE as a gasoline additive. Arising concerns over water contamination from leaking gasoline underground stor..
HPIn Processing: Process engineering tools
One of the privileges of the editor's job is that we regularly get "desk copies" of newly published books. Although HP does not have an official column for book reviews, recently I have received some ..
HPIn Competitiveness: Greenhouse gases and the refining industry
This December, an event will occur that could have significant repercussions on the worldwide refining industry through the next decade. The event is the 1997 Convention on Climate Change in Kyoto, Ja..
HPIn Processing: A refining recovery
Great, it happened again. As soon as an “HP In Processing” is printed, along comes some information or an article that supports the opposite of what I had written. Just one of the occupation..
Trends in catalysis research to meet future refining needs
Environmental and clean-fuel requirements are creating a demand for new and innovative catalysts
- Eneos plans to shut Marifu CDU in mid-January for maintenance 12/26
- China's 2026 first batch fuel export quotas steady year on year 12/26
- Singapore fuel oil stockpiles rise to two-week high 12/26
- Asia refinery 2025–2026 maintenance/outages 12/26
- Serbia's NIS gets U.S. approval to negotiate sale of Russian stake 12/26
- India's Reliance gets one-month US concession to buy Rosneft oil 12/24
