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Business Trends: Quality in construction: Taking a holistic approach

Graycor: Anderton, S.  |  Gallagher, B.

When it comes to quality in construction projects, it is easy to focus only on materials and installation—it makes sense that high-quality components lead to a high-quality end product.

Industry Perspectives: Despite reaching $180 B, new project announcements are down year-over-year

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Over the past year, the Global Energy Infrastructure database has tracked more than $180 B in new project announcements.

Sponsored Content: How do we deliver energy to a world that cannot stop?

In over 85 years, Aramco has never missed a shipment to a customer for operational reasons. One of the main factors behind this extraordinary level of consistency and reliability is our Oil Supply Planning and Scheduling system (OSPAS), which ensures that every part of our supply network works like a well-oiled machine, 24/7.

Shell begins operations at polymers plant in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania facility is the first major polyethylene manufacturing complex in the Northeastern United States and has a designed output of 1.6 MMt annually.

Online Feature: Crude C4 alternatives for a successful grassroots petrochemicals project

The C4 value chain configuration chosen for a new petrochemical complex greatly depends on key project business case drivers, such as steam cracker feed slate, commercial and market conditions, and product value-uplift potential.

Fire breaks out at Chevron's El Segundo, California refinery

Chevron said fire crews responded to an isolated fire inside its 269,000-barrel-per-day El Segundo refinery in California on Tuesday, with no injuries due to the incident.

Kuwait's KIPIC says first phase of Al-Zour refinery starts commercial operations

The commercial launch comes after the project started last month to produce and sell primary quantities of fuel oil and supply it to local power stations.

ADNOC Refining secures new international partners furthering the UAE’s industrial growth

Under the agreement ADQ, Veolia, and Vision Invest consortium will own and operate two world-scale waste management plants, which sustainably treat and dispose of industrial waste generated from across ADNOC’s operations.

Leading capital projects in a VUCA environment

Graycor: Anderton, S.  |  Gallagher, B.

A convergence of events has disrupted the construction industry.

Shift focus to more open control technology

Emerson Automation Solutions: Chow, M.  |  Crews, A.

Plant control system modernizations that are necessary to meet today’s goals and strategies often come with organizational hurdles.