Asia/Pacific
Fine-tune relief calculations for supercritical fluids
Improvement in process simulation can assist in relief load and valve sizing.
HP Insight: Global solutions wanted for growing industry
World War II was one of the defining events that drove innovation for the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). During the 1940s, solutions were needed to resolve shortages of transportation fuels an..
HP Reliability: Pumps and the Bhopal connection
In the 2012 June issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, our readers will find a highly informative article that should remind equipment specialists of their professional and ethical responsibilities. These ..
HP Integration Strategies: Making the business case for reliability
The global process industries lose $20 billion, or 5% annual production, due to unscheduled downtime and poor quality. ARC estimates that almost 80% of these losses are preventable. In fact, 40% of th..
HP Water Management: Avoid failures in water projects: Part 1
Your company is planning an expansion—building a new process unit or constructing an entire new plant. Regardless of the scope, the facility staff will specify project requirements, complete the ..
HP Construction: Asia Pacific
Fluor Corp. has a contract award from PETRONAS Gas Berhad, a subsidiary of PETRONAS, to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification termin..
Update on valves used in hydrogen service
Recommended practices can better scrutinize performance issues such as design, packing and metallurgy to mitigate failures.
Reliance Power, Shell to build new LNG terminal on India's east coast
Royal Dutch Shell, Reliance Power and Kakinada Seaports will jointly build a terminal on India's east coast to import liquefied natural gas. The 5 million tpy terminal is expected to start operations by 2014 and its capacity may be doubled to 10 million tons later, the Indian company said in a statement.
Formosa shuts top Taiwan naphtha cracker amid weak downstream margins
Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical, Asia's top naphtha buyer, has shut the biggest of its three naphtha crackers in Mailiao due to low petrochemical margins, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
WR Grace buys Noblestar catalysts unit in China
W. R. Grace & Co. has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Noblestar Catalysts, a China-based manufacturer of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts. The deal has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, but is subject to the satisfaction of other closing conditions.
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