Gas Processing/LNG
Business Trends: Africa—Will increasing demand spark downstream capacity builds?
Over the past decade, Africa’s oil demand has increased by more than 1 MMbpd, to nearly 3.9 MMbpd. Africa’s oil production is more than double the amount it consumes, but lack of investment, failing infrastructure and inadequate refining capacity force the continent to rely on imports to satisfy increasing fuel demand.
Driving innovation in the downstream: IRPC returns to New Delhi
Gulf Publishing Company and Hydrocarbon Processing are pleased to announce that IRPC 2017 will be held April 18–20 in New Delhi.
Gastech: Advancing the role of gas and LNG in the global energy mix
Gastech is the largest and most important business and technology event for the natural gas and LNG sector, creating a global platform to address and discuss the latest challenges faced in Asia and on a wider international scale.
Industry Metrics
European refinery margins weakened due to slower gasoline export opportunities, despite the colder weather.
Mitigate CO2 emissions from industrial plants by conversion to fuels
An economical commercial process is necessary to provide an incentive for the utility industries to engender win-win support for government regulations on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
GE O&G '17: Snam CEO foresees LNG boost from 30 new markets
FLORENCE, ITALY—Near the conclusion of GE Oil & Gas' Annual Meeting 2017, Marco Alverà, CEO of Snam Group, spoke on Tuesday about fueling the future with natural gas.
GE O&G '17: LNG experts discuss solutions to cut emissions, expand production
An early-afternoon panel session on LNG technology was moderated by Pablo Avogadri, Turbomachinery Solutions CMO for GE Oil & Gas.
Novel configuration for near-IR analysis of refinery LPG composition and control
Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is a powerful tool that is in widespread use in the refining, chemical, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries. NIR spectroscopic process analyzers are commonly used in refineries for a variety of composition and physical property measurements, such as octane number, aromatics content and distillation properties of feed and finished products.
Handling mercaptans in gas processing plants
With the continued development of sour gas fields around the world, the removal of mercaptans from gaseous and liquid hydrocarbon streams is becoming a challenge for today’s gas processing plants.
Business Trends: India’s natural gas demand—a welcome sign for LNG exporters
India is emerging as the world’s new oil demand center. Complementing its thirst for crude oil, the country has the potential to become a hotbed for natural gas consumption over the next few years.
- US appeals court upholds biofuel blending mandates for 2020-2022 5/14
- SunGas Renewables, C2X partner to expand green methanol production capacity in North America 5/14
- HIF Global secures nearly $165-MM in investments to develop eFuels 5/14
- Ethylene downcycle puts nearly 25% of capacity at risk of closure 5/14
- GCC industry leaders solidify commitment toward plastic circularity 5/14
- ADNOC delivers first bulk shipment of CCS-enabled, low-carbon ammonia to Japan 5/14
