Thinnes, Billy
HP Construction: North America
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HP Construction: South America
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HP Construction: Europe
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HP Construction: Middle East
Flowserve Corp. has received final approval from Saudi Aramco on a master purchase agreement to supply pumps, valves and services for the Yanbu’ export refinery project (YERP). Under the terms of..
HP Construction: Garyville refinery major expansion facts
Completed on schedule during the fourth quarter of 2009, the Garyville Major Expansion (GME) units are fully integrated with the original refinery operations. With the expansion, the refinery’s r..
HP Impact: Strong second quarter for US refiners
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HP Impact: Low-carbon fuel standard could cause ‘crude shuffle’
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HP Impact: BP to pay $50.6 million for Texas City explosion
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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 ..
HP Reliability: Consider bearing protection for small steam turbines
In most small machines there is a need to limit both contaminant ingress and oil leakage. Inexpensive lip seals are sometimes used for sealing at the bearing housing, but lip seals typically last only..

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