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Environment & Safety

Digital Technologies: A sustainable approach for digitalizing the petrochemical industry

Pharos University: Ezzat, A. A.

In the petrochemical industry, business leaders are continuing to push for new approaches to optimize technology applications without disrupting their operational targets and key performance indicators.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Flowserve Corp., a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, has released the Flowserve FlowSync™ Bluetooth Actuator App.

Colombia police seize $329 MM in property, bank accounts tied to stolen oil

Colombian police have seized property and bank accounts worth $329 MM, proceeds from the sale and export of stolen crude oil, officials said.

Fire at Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi refinery put out

Firefighters managed to put out a fire in one of the bitumen production unit's lines at Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery, Kuwait National Petroleum Company said in a statement.

Russia reports fuel spill in Northern Dvina river

An oil products spill in the Northern Dvina river in Russia's Arkhangelsk region has resulted in a large oil slick on the water surface, the head of environment watchdog Rosprirodnadzor said.

UN starts removing oil from decaying tanker near Yemen in Red Sea

The United Nations said it had started the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from a decaying supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast in a complex operation it hopes will ward off a regional disaster.

Greenpeace challenging UK's new North Sea oil and gas licenses

Britain's decision to authorize new licenses for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea came under scrutiny at London's High Court, as Greenpeace argued the government failed to assess emissions produced by burning extracted fuel.

Full output resumes at Norway's Mongstad oil refinery

Full output has resumed at the Mongstad oil refinery in Norway, operator Equinor said, following a partial outage on July 12 due to a lightning strike near the plant.

UN could start removing oil this week from decaying Yemen tanker

An operation to start removing some 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker moored off Yemen's coast could start by the end of the week, the United Nations said.

Shell suspends loadings of Nigeria's Forcados crude oil

Shell has suspended loadings of Nigeria's Forcados crude oil due to a potential leak at the export terminal, a spokesperson for its local subsidiary, SPDC, said.