Weirauch, Wendy
HP Impact: First CAD search system based on 3D shapes
Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are routinely used in the HPI to design everything from pipe routes to water pumps. Once CAD information has been created and used, it is often stored and forgotten..
HP Impact: LNG: future options for North America
US demand for natural gas (NG) is rising, being strongly driven by the electrical power generation market. Yet, NG supply from the Lower 48 states is stalling, and imports from Canada are leveling off..
HP Impact: Standardized design practices reduce project man-hours
As operating companies and EPCs weathered the downturns and mergers of the past two decades, they have not been able to devote resources to keep their internal specifications updated or to follow the ..
HP Impact: US needs to increase gasoline supply, not raise taxes, says Rep
As gas prices continue to skyrocket, some in the US Senate have suggested that increasing gas taxes by 50 cents, and raising corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards would bring an end to the n..
HP Impact: Miscellany of note from the NPRA
Twenty-seven National Petroleum & Refiners Association (NPRA) member facilities worked a full year in 2003 without a recordable incident. This is up from 23 facilities in 2002. Data for the Injur..
HP Impact: Global petrochemicals to see robust earnings as supplies shrink
Demand for basic petrochemicals and thermoplastics, while growing slowly through the poor economic times, ?is on a relentless path to overwhelming supply,? according to Gary Adams of CMAI, a market re..
HP Impact: LPG opportunities center in Asia
The price of propane remains high. Thus, propane demand by the olefins industry has cycled downward beginning in early 2002; the propane was too expensive to crack into ethylene. At the same time, pro..
HP Impact: China petrochemicals market booming, but risks abound
A market analysis from CMAI forecasts China to account for 20 ? 35% of the growth in the polyolefins, styrenics, vinyls and polyester value chains through 2008. This demand has remained robust even th..
HP Impact: US refiners face challenges in making capacity decisions
Refining capacity and factors affecting decisions to alter that capacity were issues discussed at NPRA's annual meeting. ?Capacity decisions, by the nature of the assets involved, are influenced by bo..
- Chiyoda, AVEVA forge strategic partnership to power plantOS with AVEVA CONNECT 6/27
- SABIC announces closure of Olefins 6 facility in Teesside, UK 6/27
- LyondellBasell's polyolefin technologies selected by SHCCIG Yulin for petrochemicals complex in China 6/27
- Damaged unit of Iran's South Pars refinery back operating 6/27
- hte conducts research for JGC to advance decarbonization by identifying suitable catalysts for ammonia cracking 6/26
- TES and CPC Finland to develop 500-MW e-NG project in Finland 6/26
