August 2004

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HPIn Europe: A crisis, a crunch and a bottleneck

The excitement of starting to write for HP has been tempered over the past month or so by a family crisis ? the birth by emergency ceasarian of a little son with a syndrome of ailments. One of the few..

Wright, Tim L., Hydrocarbon Processing Staff

The excitement of starting to write for HP has been tempered over the past month or so by a family crisis ? the birth by emergency ceasarian of a little son with a syndrome of ailments. One of the few people I've clawed together the time to call in between hospital visits is an FCC consultant I'd met on the refining technology circuit a few years earlier. Another contact I spoke with described a distillate crisis heading Europe's way (see below). So in that hazy, half-shaven period after a child's birth, my mind's been occupied by changing, feeding, gasoline plant optimization and the prospect of a shuddering crunch in the diesel market here. Debottlenecking. A couple of years

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