Safety
This year’s hurricane season still expected to be a doozy
The update states that the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be much more active than the average 1950-2000 season.
Valve design reduces costs and increases safety for US refineries
The goals were achieved by using alloys with superior corrosion resistance
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 ..
Case 57: Troubleshooting the cause of sudden impacts
Finding the cause can be elusive but calculations help
HP Reliability: Not ready for 29-year-old pump packing
In 2009 we were informed about “a nuclear plant that was never commissioned after its original construction. This plant has been sitting idle for 29 years and is only now starting up.” The o..
HP Integration Strategies: The three dimensions of energy management
While we’ve seen many examples of good practices in energy savings and efficiency initiatives, and hear much discussion about the merits of energy-management systems (EMSs), energy management lac..
Advice for 2011: Be dynamic, be flexible; more pain to come
“Analyze this” is the fad quote and action that actor Robert De Niro famously demands of his unwilling therapist in the film of the same name. Playing Paul Vitti, a New York gangland supremo..
- OMV receives €450-MM loan from the European Investment Bank for its 140-MW green hydrogen production facility 7/13
- Poland's Unimot says it will supply crude to Germany's Schwedt refinery 7/13
- Hormuz traffic slows to two-month low as renewed U.S., Iran strikes raise safety risk 7/13
- Sinopec deepens aviation fuel push with CNAF restructuring 7/13
- Indian naphtha premiums surge as Gulf, Russian supply tightens 7/13
- Less than a month's supply: Europe's jet fuel stocks are wafer thin as Iran tensions flare 7/13
