Thinnes, Billy
HP Construction: Asia Pacific
Kentz Corp. Ltd. has a site-wide specialist instrumentation contract for the Pluto LNG project on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia. This brings Kentz's combined value of work secured on the p..
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Fallout from Tesoro accidentTesoro Corp. has temporarily curtailed operations at its Anacortes, Washington, refinery by shutting down crude processing treating capacity involved in the recent explosio..
HP Impact: Underground gas storage on the rise
 Billy Thinnes, News Editor     Comments? Write:BT@HydrocarbonProcessing.comCEDIGAZ (www.cedigaz.com) recently released a report on global underground gas storage (UGS). ..
HP Impact: Responding to oil supply emergencies
We live in an uncertain world. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and unforeseen economic collapses all lurk somewhere in the nebulous future, possibly near term or possibly long term. Each of these..
HP Impact: Refiners in a tough market
A recent paper from Wood MacKenzie suggests the current global and US market environment for refiners is very challenging, with the industry suffering low utilizations (due to the economic crisis redu..
HP Impact: Medium voltage motor drives sales projected to decline in 2010
 Billy Thinnes, News Editor     Comments? Write:BT@HydrocarbonProcessing.comThe worldwide medium voltage motor drives market was estimated to be worth $2.17 billion in 20..
HP Associations: Fossil fuels still meet energy needs of the world
 Over Out in the Arizona desert during the waning days of March, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) gathered its members for its 108th annual meeting. The assembled repres..
HP Construction: North America
Praxair, Inc., has a contract with ExxonMobil to build, own and operate an air separation unit to supply additional nitrogen for enhanced oil recovery operations at ExxonMobil's Hawkins, Texas, gas-pr..
HP Construction: South America
Braskem and Novozymes recently announced a research partnership to develop large-scale production of polypropylene from sugarcane. Braskem and Novozymes will develop a green alternative based on Novoz..
HP Construction: Europe
CB&I has a contract of approximately $50 million with Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide engineering services for the Goliat floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) project. The project is..
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