Trends and Resources
HP Associations: HPIn Associations
"HPIn Associations" offers event listings and keeps track of association leadership. We interview professional staff and high-ranking advisory board members, asking about their goals, lobbying p..
HP Innovations
New process upgrades heavy ends as refinery fuel Multiphase superfine atomized residue (MSAR) fuel is a liquid fuel consisting of very fine oil particles dispersed in a water carrier. Heavy residual f..
New Developments
Asset management software RealityLINx version 5.0 is said to offer management-of-change features such as 3D modeling, improved laser-scanning image support and enhanced synchronization with popular CA..
HP Construction: North America
Bechtel Corp. has a detailed design and construction agreement with Motiva Enterprises LLC for a project that will add 325,000 bpd to Motiva's Port Arthur, Texas, refinery. A joint venture of B..
HP Construction: Europe
Total has sanctioned construction of a 1 million-tpy desulfurization unit at its Leuna refinery in Germany. Scheduled for commissioning in fall 2009, the new unit will supply the German domestic mark..
HP Construction: Middle East
Uhde has opened a new electrolysis plant for the production of chlorine and caustic soda at Vestolit in Marl, Germany. The plant was commissioned in April 2007 and has a production capacity of ..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
Praxair China has plans to build a new specialty gases facility in Nanjing, China. The plant, scheduled to start up in August 2008, will consist of a specialty gases laboratory, calibration equ..
Free Literature
Biodiesel instrumentation details AMETEK Petrolab's four-page brochure presents an overview of its complete line of instruments available for testing biodiesel fuels in ac..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
Cyber-security standards Industry leaders from a number of major control system users and manufacturers have created an organization to establish a..
HP Impact: EIA projects higher product costs for US winter season
Average October 1 to March 31 prices and expenditures for all space-heating fuels are projected to be higher than winter 20062007. Residential natural gas prices are expected to average $13.14/t..
HP Impact: 'Food vs fuel' debate impacts biofuels outlook regionally
The US is experiencing the highest level of new investment in biofuels in recent years, making it the fastest expanding market in the world for biologically derived renewable fuel, according to recent..
HP Impact: Talent squeeze forecast to delay upstream project work to 2010
Large oil and gas production projects worldwide are likely to continue to suffer delays owing to an expanding shortfall of qualified project engineering resources. Compared with the estimated number o..
HP Impact: Air pollution control industry benefits from global initiatives
By 2015, revenues for suppliers of air pollution control systems, services, consumables and components will reach $80 billion. The strong growth trend will not be slowed by global warming initiatives..
HP Impact: BP exec discusses success in the 'new energy era'
The politics of energy are changing fast. Energy is right at the top of the political agenda. "But now more than ever in our history, the future of our industry will be shaped by government policies a..