The C3 splitter in an olefins plant is one of the most important and critical pieces of equipment: it separates polymer-grade propylene from propane.
Operational flexibility is one of the key parameters that leads to success and sustainability in refinery production.
Compressed air is an important utility in refining and chemical industries and is widely used to drive pneumatic equipment and machinery.
The naphtha hydrotreater/continuous catalyst regeneration (NHT/CCR) platformer produces reformate to be utilized as a blending stock in the gasoline pool (FIG. 1).
The use of advanced process control (APC) technology on LNG liquefaction trains is well accepted with some of the earliest implementations developed in the late 1990s.
Because it provides the energy and materials required for global development, the refining industry is critical to the world economy.
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Gulf Energy Information’s Global Energy Infrastructure database is tracking nearly 1,100 projects around the world. At 40%, the Asia-Pacific region holds the largest market share in total active projects followed by the Middle East and the U.S. These three regions represent nearly 70% of all active projects in the hydrocarbon processing industry.
For additional downstream construction project data, visit Global Energy Infrastructure.
| Project: | Long Son Petrochemicals Complex |
| Location: | Long Son, Vietnam |
| Operator: | Siam Cement Group |
| Cost: | $5.4 B |
| Capacity: | 1.65 MMtpy |
| Completion date: | completionDate |
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Project: | Huizhou Petrochemical Complex |
| Location: | Huizhou, China |
| Operator: | ExxonMobil |
| Cost: | $10 B |
| Capacity: | 1.6 MMtpy |
| Completion date: | completionDate |
| Status: | Under construction |
| Project: | Visakh Refinery |
| Location: | Visakhapatnam, India |
| Operator: | Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. |
| Cost: | $3.1 B |
| Capacity: | 134,000 bpd |
| Completion date: | completionDate |
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Project: | LyondellBasell PO/TBA Complex |
| Location: | Channelview, Texas (U.S.) |
| Operator: | LyondellBasell |
| Cost: | $2.4 B |
| Capacity: | 1.47 MMtpy |
| Completion date: | completionDate |
| Status: | Under Construction |
Discover how several global impacts—such as Russia’s war in Ukraine, supply chain crises and inflation—have and will impact spending and business activity in the global petrochemicals, refining and natural gas/LNG industries. HPI MARKET DATA 2023 is the processing industry’s most trusted forecast of capital, maintenance and operating expenditures.
This handbook-type industry reference source is produced by the staff of Hydrocarbon Processing. It contains flow diagrams and descriptions of more than 170 commercially viable gas processing processes from 25 licensors. Included are drying, treating, dehydrogenation, effluent cleanup, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, syngas, sulfur, liquid treating, etc. Each process description includes a flow diagram as well as application, economics and licensor information. The processes are indexed by process and contributing company.
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