The industrial manufacturing sector is grappling with an unprecedented number of challenges.
Oil refineries provide a smorgasbord of challenging applications for instrumentation engineers and technicians.
Raw wellhead natural gas is a complex mixture of methane (CH4), hydrocarbon condensates, natural gas liquids (NGL), water, contaminants, hydrogen sulfide (H2S), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen, mercury and other compounds.
Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the finalists for its second annual awards.
Increasing competitive pressures in process industries, including oil and gas, are driving dramatic changes in the operational needs of process plants, utilities and pipelines.
Historical statistics indicate that 25% of projects have budget overruns and a further 50% have schedule slippage.
Over the past few decades, the world has seen a surge in demand for oil and gas, and global markets have responded to meet these growing energy needs.
In early June, Hydrocarbon Processing and Eni—an Italian multinational oil and gas company—hosted the annual International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC) in Milan, Italy.
As the world’s hydrocarbon appetite continues its rapid turn toward lighter fare (e.g., natural gas for power generation, transportation and industry), massive, near-term investments in global, capital-intensive, fully digitalized LNG infrastructure are needed.
As global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade continues to rapidly expand, the challenge of liquefaction process selection—a key element of an LNG project—becomes increasingly important.