Meche, Helen
HP Construction: South America
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has announced that Petrobras has selected UOP to provide all of the process technologies for two new maximum diesel refineries to be built in Brazil. UOP hydrocracking an..
HP Construction: Europe
Because of the persistently high demand for polyamide 12, worldwide, Germany-based, Evonik Industries will continue to expand its laurolactam capacity further. This expansion represents a boost to the..
HP Construction: Africa
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI) held a naming ceremony for the Usan FPSO, reported to be the world’s largest floating production storage and offloading facility. The Usan FPSO can refine ..
HP Construction: Middle East
Axens (Performance Programs) has delivered a process operations simulator (POS) to Aromatics Oman LLC for its ParamaX complex that started up at the beginning of 2010. The POS integrates all of the co..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
Total and China Power Investment Corp. (CPI) will build a coal-based petrochemical plant in China. The two companies signed a letter of understanding (LOU) in Paris, France, to study the construction ..
HP Construction: North America
C&I Engineering has completed the startup of what is said to be the world’s only dimethyl sulfide (DMS) plant, which is a cooperative venture between Hunt Refining Co. and Gaylord Chemical Co. LL..
HP Construction: South America
Ecopetrol has successfully started up two new units for producing ultra-low-sulfur diesel(Prime-D) and ultra-low-sulfur gasoline (Prime-G+), as part of its hydrotreating (HDT) project at its Barrancab..
HP Construction: Europe
Burckhardt Compression will deliver three process gas compressors to LUKOIL for its refinery-upgrade project in Volgograd, Russia. The compressors will be used as hydrogen-makeup compressors in the di..
Free Literature
Lubricating oils and ULSD—new energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence application reports Various additives are formulated in base lube oil to enhance performance and create the desired lubrici..
New Developments
Easy tank gauging New easy tank-gauge sensor and display for tank-level measurement are said to be easy to install, use, maintain and understand. The Levelese tank gauge installs with screw or fl..
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