Thinnes, Billy
HP Associations: International Refining Conference debuts in Rome
Hydrocarbon Processing’s International Refining Conference (IRC) debuted June 21–23 in Rome, Italy. Hosted by eni, the event included a two-day, two-track technical conference as well as an ..
HP Construction: North America
Enterprise Products Partners’ refined products storage facility in Port Arthur, Texas, which was built to support the expansion of a nearby refinery, has commenced commercial operations and recei..
HP Construction: South America
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HP Construction: Europe
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HP Construction: Middle East
Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has a feasibility study and front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil for a new grassroots refinery..
HP Construction: Africa
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HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
Technip has three lump sum turnkey contracts from Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL). The contracts are worth a total value of approximately €25 million. They are for an expansion pr..
HP Impact: MIT studies the future of natural gas
Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas ge..
HP Impact: PLC and PLC-based PAC market poised to rebound
The global programmable logic controller (PLC) and PLC-based programmable automation controller (PAC) market declined significantly across all regions of the world in 2009. The market declined in emer..
HP Innovations: Stackable reactor enables superior heat transfer
The stackable structural reactor (SSR) from Catacel Corporation is a direct replacement for the loose ceramic catalyst media traditionally used in the stationary steam-reforming process by industrial ..
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- Lummus expands R&D capabilities to enhance innovation and water and wastewater technologies 4/17
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- BASF, SABIC, and Linde celebrate the start-up of the world's first large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnace 4/17
- U.S. crude stocks rise, gasoline, distillate inventories fall 4/17
- Russia's offline primary oil refining capacity revised up for April 4/17