Engineering & Design
Alfa Laval Wins $6.6 MM Refinery Order
LUND, Sweden — Alfa Laval, a company in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, has won an order to supply welded heat exchangers to a refinery in the Middle East.
Shell begins main construction on Pennsylvania petchem complex
HOUSTON – Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC announced the official start of the main construction phase of its major petrochemicals complex in Pennsylvania, USA. This follows the successful completion of the site preparation and detailed design and engineering work.
Continental receives in-principal approval of first refinery
SAMARINDA, KALIMANTAN TIMUR, Indonesia — Continental Energy Corporation announced that its Indonesian subsidiary PT Continental Hilir Indonesia (CHI) has received the in-principal approval of the Governor of the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan for the construction and operation of a crude oil refinery to be built at KIPI Maloy located in the Kutai Timur Regency of East Kalimantan.
ABB teams up with Saudi firm Arkad for turnkey oil and gas projects
ZURICH/KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) — Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB is putting its turnkey projects arm for the oil and gas industry into a joint venture majority owned by Saudi Arabia's Arkad Engineering & Construction, as ABB seeks to "optimize" its business portfolio, the company said on Monday.
CB&I’s MEG-1 project achieves setting 350-ft wash tower
CB&I’s LA MEG-1 project achieved a major construction milestone with the erection of a 350-ft wash tower.
Innovations
ABB has introduced a new MID/OIML R117 certified high-accuracy CoriolisMaster Coriolis mass flowmeter for custody transfer applications in the oil and gas industry (FIG. 1).
Safety: Process safety and risk management— An industry view
In 2017, Petrotechnics released its process safety and risk management (PSM) survey.
Business Trends: Preparing for a sea change in global refining
The global oil refining industry has been buffeted by many events in recent years.
Operations: Maximizing the opportunity of discounted crudes
As the oil and gas industry adjusts to a business environment in which crude oil prices will likely remain lower for longer, refiners continue looking for ways to maximize their profitability.
Refining: Alkylation—What’s a refiner to do?
Within the refining industry, gasoline production and alkylation capacity are running at near all-time highs.
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