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HP Water Management: Need a package boiler in a hurry?
Acquiring a package boiler is an unplanned event that requires process engineers to solve this completely unfamiliar problem. To reduce the chaos of replacing them, here are helpful ways to resolve this situation.
HP Industry Perspectives: 2012: Is it over yet?
According to a year-end report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the global economy is still stumbling three years after the “great recession of 2008.” The Euro area is challenged t..
HP Impact: Increased operating costs in the Asia-Pacific region could derail growth
Rising operating costs will be the biggest barrier to oil and gas companies’ growth in Asia-Pacific next year, according to a 2013 outlook for the industry by GL Noble Denton. While the sector..
ExxonMobil commissions Singapore expansion of petrochemical plants
It includes a new ethylene steam cracker, two polyethylene plants, a polypropylene plant, a metallocene elastomers unit, an oxo-alcohol unit and an aromatics expansion.
PetroChina boosts Lanzhou refinery jet fuel yields with new hydrodesulfurizer
The refining unit, known as a hydrodesulfurizer, will help the PetroChina subsidiary produce 1 million tpy of jet fuel, making it the largest jet-fuel production base in western China, parent company China National Petroleum Corp. said Monday in an in-house newsletter.
India reports monthly decline in refinery runs
Refinery runs were down 3% from the previous month. However, throughput rose 6.6% on year, and was ahead of the government's target of 14.93 million tons, the data showed. The government didn't give any reasons for changes in the output. The data are based on production from 20 refineries.
Reliance Industries controls Jamnagar refinery fire at west India complex
Reliance, India's largest private refiner by capacity, has two refineries in the Jamnagar complex in the western state of Gujarat. This refinery is the older one and supplies products to the local market, while a new 580,000-bpd refinery is focused on exports. The crude unit will likely be restarted in two days.
WorleyParsons wins FEED work for expansion of Singapore LNG terminal
The expansion plans include the installation of additional facilities to increase the terminal’s capacity from its current 6 million tpy throughput to a new annual capacity of 9 million tpy, as well as the construction of a fourth tank. The design will also explore possible future expansions.
CB&I to build Esso Australia gas conditioning plant
CB&I’s work scope includes the engineering, procurement, fabrication, and construction of the Longford gas conditioning plant, which is designed to handle 400 million cubic feet/day of gas from the Kipper, Tuna and Turrum fields in Bass Strait. The deal is worth about $550 million.
Alfa Laval to supply Australia LNG heat exchangers
The Alfa Laval compact heat exchangers will be used in a new major gas processing facility in Australia, where they will recover and reuse heat in the gas cleaning process, prior to the liquefaction. By reusing heat, the heat exchangers will contribute to bringing down energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

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