Environment & Safety
HPIn SHE: Great expectations
I recently attended a three-day meeting that took place in a "luxury conference center ... with outstanding views over the city of O***." A single room cost about $300 a night. I was quite looking for..
HP Insight: New refining design focuses on feedstocks, not fuels
More than ever, the HPI must really think outside the traditional framework and break down old barriers. The industry must innovatively use available process technology to its fullest potential. Treme..
HPIn SHE: Animal crackers
An American friend of mine once remarked as the saga of Three Mile Island began to unfold: "Organizing a large-scale disaster is not as simple as it seems." I was reminded of his words one evening in ..
HP Insight: Rationing of energy
The Kyoto conference on global warming has produced several energy-rationing decisions that will impact all nations. No one is completely satisfied. Environmentalists claim that there are too many con..
HPIn SHE: ...but totally useless!
Two women were crossing the U.S. in a hot air balloon. During the night, a violent storm blew, wrecking all their navigational systems. The storm stopped just before dawn, and as daylight came, they f..
HP Insight: What is the true cost to stop global warming?
At this writing, the HPI is greatly concerned over the international global warming policy to be signed at Kyoto, Japan, in December. Over 150 nations will discuss future obligations by developed, ind..
HPIn SHE: An open letter to President Clinton
Two significant events happened recently. First, news came over the Reuters wire that, after five years of wrangling, U.S. President Clinton had agreed to not veto the creation of the Chemical Safety ..
HP Insight: Who's responsible for environmental compliance?
Environmental managers have the tremendous task of ensuring that their operating facility as a whole is in compliance. This is an awesome task for a lone manager with a reduced support staff. After te..
HPIn SHE: SHE gave me for my pains a world of sighs
Writing books is a roller coaster of emotions: depression halfway through when you think it will never be finished; elation when you send the copy off to the publisher; depression after you send the c..
Revise storage tank inspections
Recent changes in API standards affect mechanical integrity evaluations of atmospheric storage tanks
- Refinery closures may lead to higher gasoline prices on the U.S. West Coast 7/9
- INNIO Group, Gföllner Group establish JV, offering power solutions to the U.S. market 7/9
- Using lightning to make ammonia out of thin air 7/9
- bp sells 300 Dutch petrol stations to Catom 7/9
- U.S. crude stockpiles increase, gasoline falls on July 4 driving demand 7/9
- Nigeria's Dangote refinery plans 1.6-MMbbl fuel storage tanks in Namibia 7/9
