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Engineering Case Histories: Case 98—Why performing calculations is important to an engineer’s career

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2017
Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.
Maintenance & Reliability / Refining / Economics / Engineering & Design / Loss Prevention / Management

Engineering calculations can help an engineer’s career by controlling the risks taken. The author has followed this path.

Automation Strategies: Expanding scope of automation events and alerts

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2017
ARC Advisory Group: Cosman, E. C.
Environment & Safety / Gas Processing/LNG / Maintenance & Reliability / Petrochemicals / Refining / Economics / Loss Prevention / Management

Detecting, reporting and responding to abnormal situations or events are important functional elements of a complete process automation strategy.

Reliability: Technology transfer training is most effective for small groups

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2017
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.
Gas Processing/LNG / Maintenance & Reliability / Petrochemicals / Economics / Refining / Management

Training can take many different forms.

Editorial Comment: HP Top Project Awards 2017

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2017
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee
Petrochemicals / Refining / Construction / Americas / Asia/Pacific / Europe / Middle East

It’s that time again! <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> has announced the nominees for its annual Top Project awards.

Ensure uniformity of air preheater flow to obtain maximum heat transfer efficiency

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2017
Reliance Industries Ltd.: Badshahwala, M.  |  Patil, R.  |  Gupta, A.
Refining / Furnaces / Heat Transfer

Uniform flow distribution inside process equipment is desirable for maximizing performance.

Diversification: The catalyst for the Middle East’s downstream transformation

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2017
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee
Petrochemicals / Refining / Construction / Crude oil / Desulfurization / Distillation / Engineering & Design / Products / Sulfur / Middle East

Over the past several years, the Middle East has made substantial investments to increase its downstream processing capacity.

Optimize a refinery H2 network using spreadsheet tools

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2017
Ecopetrol: Salgado, H.
Process Optimization / Refining / Natural Gas / Naphtha / Hydrotreating / Hydrogen / Hydrocracking / Engineering & Design / Economics / Compressors

One of the major goals in every refining complex is to minimize the utilization of its hydrogen (H<sub>2</sub>) generation units by maximizing the H<sub>2</sub> recovery from residual streams.

Industry Metrics

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2017
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike
Petrochemicals / Refining / Natural Gas / Diesel / Crude oil / Gasoline

US product crack spreads surged amid refinery outages as Hurricane Harvey affected US Gulf Coast (USGC) refinery operations.

Iran bans oil refinery products traffic with Iraqi Kurdistan

News 9/29/2017 7:26:59 AM
Middle East / Refining

ANKARA (Reuters) — Iran has banned transportation of oil products by Iranian companies to and from Iraq's Kurdistan region, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said on Friday, after Tehran vowed to stand by Baghdad against Iraqi Kurds' independence vote.

Lukoil postpones maintenance of Volgograd refinery unit to 2018

News 9/27/2017 7:46:39 AM
Europe / Maintenance & Reliability / Refining

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia’s Lukoil has postponed maintenance of hydro-cracking unit at its Volgograd refinery to March or April 2018, three trading industry sources told Reuters on Wednesday.