Engineering & Design
HP Construction: Garyville refinery major expansion facts
Completed on schedule during the fourth quarter of 2009, the Garyville Major Expansion (GME) units are fully integrated with the original refinery operations. With the expansion, the refinery’s r..
Managing projects in a global environment
What does it take to facilitate projects in several time zones away?
Lummus Technology involved with PDH plant in China
Lummus Technology has a contract with Tianjin Bohua Petrochemical Co. Ltd. for the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit to be built in Tianjin, China.
How the inertia number points to compressor system design challenges
It facilitates predicting compressor system performance
Gas refineries can benefit from installing a flare gas recovery system
Take a look at these environmental and economic paybacks
Optimize operating parameters of absorbers/strippers in gas plants
Better recovery definition of C3s and C4s from gas absorber/stripper can lower costs
Increase crude unit capacity through better integration
In revamp projects, better energy integration provides more benefits with less capital investment and lower operating costs
HP Automation Safety: Cyber security certification for automation products and suppliers
The United Steelworkers Union (USW) issued a press release chastising the oil industry for the series of fires and explosions that keep happening at US refineries. USW pointed out that there has been ..
GDF SUEZ tabs Foster Wheeler for Cameroon LNG project
Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has a contract with GDF SUEZ to carry out the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) for the development of an onshore LNG plant and offshore gas gathering infrastructure.
Materials market update: Opportunities in a challenging economy
As companies emerge from the downturn, new capital project models will be vital

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- bp's Whiting refinery (U.S.) continues to flare days after severe thunderstorm 8/22
- Bachmann introduces latest version M-Target for Simulink 8/22
- U.S. to rule on biofuel waivers, but big oil refiners may need to wait 8/22
- Chinese independent refiner Hongrun buys Canadian, Brazilian crude 8/22
- Ukrainian attack suspends Russian oil flows to Hungary, Slovakia 8/22