HP Innovations
New process produces methanol from waste Isis Innovation, the technology transfer company for the University of Oxford, has announced that researchers in the school's chemistry department have discove..
HP Associations: Association news in brief
Aker Solutions manager wins award in India Pothen Paul, Aker Solutions' India country manager, has been named the "business leader of the year for ..
HP Construction: North America
Lignol Energy Corp. recently provided an operational update on its fully integrated industrial-scale bio-refinery pilot plant in Burnaby, British Columbia. Construction of the pilot plant comme..
HP Construction: South America
Foster Wheeler Iberia, S.A.U., has a contract with YPF, S.A. to provide the basic design package for the new fractionation unit and gas plant for the new delayed coking unit at the La Plata ref..
HP Construction: Europe
Fluor Corp. has an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for Galp Energia's Porto refinery conversion project in Portugal. Fluor began the front-end engineering and design (F..
HP Construction: Middle East
Technip has a 20 million plus contract with State Co. Oil Project (SCOP) for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of a new refinery to be built in Karbala, Iraq. The refinery will have..
HP Construction: Asia-Pacific
Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. and Foster Wheeler (G.B.) Ltd. have a contract with Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL) for a grassroots refinery in Paradip, Orissa, India. Foster Wheele..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
Harnessing social networking Shell faces similar business challenges as its peers in the oil and gas industry, says Mike Hinkle, lead IT architect ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Economy, capacity additions pressure polyolefins markets
The first half of 2008 saw polyolefins prices rising to record highs as industry supply and demand balances enabled producers to pass through extraordinary feedstock prices. In contrast, second-half 2..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Asia's thirst for oil likely to swell again, but when?
Over the past decade, Asian demand growth has been a critical driver of the global oil markettypically accounting for about 40% to 50% of global incremental demand. In 20032004, a surge in..
HP Impact: HPImpact: EPA chemicals oversight questioned in new GAO report
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) assessment and control of toxic chemicals has been added to a "high-risk" category on a newly updated government report. Biennially, the US Government Accou..