Refining
Canadian oil sands: Opportunities, technologies and challenges
Energy resources found at the Arctic Circle have potential
Optimize your hydrocracking operations
The hydrocracking experience for a Gulf Coast refinery illustrates potential problems with poor catalyst selection
Minimize your refinery flaring
This facility installed a flare gas recovery system improving emissions and increasing revenue
Biofuels are coming—How will this affect refiners?
Changing blending and product demands will require significant adjustments by refiners
HPIn Europe: Replace fuel oil with distillate? Refiners ask how
"It can't be done, at least not in that timetable." You get a pretty strong reaction when you put the ideas contained in a Marpol submission by the independent tanker owners association to a seasoned ..
How to handle low-liquid loadings
Better tray design techniques reveal dynamics to improve minimum liquid load conditions
HPIn Europe: Canceled projects to sustain margins as costs soar
Five hundred announced projects. Sixty-six new refineries. A total of 180 upgrading projects and another 180 for clean fuels. The numbers were both stunning and somewhat implausible at this year's Eur..
HPIn Europe: Tanker group: Marine distillate not fuel oil from 2010
My friend who runs an oil tanker business has just heard from his trade organization that it has made a submission in a working group that high-sulfur and low-sulfur fuel oil should be replaced by a n..
HPIn Europe: Maiden voyage into refining yields renewables megaproject
When Sir Richard Branson, the UK billionaire businessman, first said he wanted to build oil refineries, a friend of mine – a well-known consultant – got on the phone to Virgin Group headquar..
HPIn Europe: Agency demands CO2 capture at Norway refinery
Last year, I said that the next refinery constructions in Europe or the US would only get the go-ahead if they included plans to capture and store CO2. I played it just a bit safe by restricting my pr..
- EU warns of prolonged energy shock, forced cuts if Iran war continues 4/15
- Europe's summer flights at risk as Iran war exposes refining decline 4/15
- Slovak refiner says no deal yet on Adria pipeline tests 4/15
- Japan's weekly gasoline prices largely flat as subsidies offset price spikes 4/15
- Botswana has not requested stake in Lobito refinery, Angola's Sonangol says 4/15
- Tasnee announced delay to SEPC's ethylene/polyethylene plant expansion project 4/15
