http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/06/honeywell-drives-industrial-transition-from-automation-to-autonomy-with-new-ai-enabled-digital-suite/ Honeywell announced new digital technologies that leverage artificial intelligence and are designed to accelerate the industrial shift from automation to autonomy. http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/06/lummus-technology-completes-acquisition-of-napcon-from-neste-expanding-digital-and-ai-capabilities/ Lummus Technology announced the successful closing of its acquisition of the NAPCON portfolio, the digital technology business of Neste. Initially announced in April 2025, the transaction includes the transfer of Neste's NAPCON intellectual property, select assets and key personnel. http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/05/industrial-ai-a-game-changer-in-fast-tracking-digital-transformation-in-the-energy-sector/ To mark the official opening of Schneider Electric’s flagship Energy Innovation Center in Houston, Texas (U.S.), Hany Fouda, Senior VP of Process Automation, highlights the largely untapped potential of Industrial AI and warns that the energy and chemicals sectors must embrace and fast-track digital transformation to catch up with other industries. http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/05/schneider-electric-unveils-industrial-gen-ai-copilot-in-collaboration-with-microsoft/ Schneider Electric, a leader in energy management and automation, has introduced its industrial copilot, developed in collaboration with Microsoft. Designed to boost productivity and enhance workforce efficiency, it integrates Microsoft Azure AI Foundry with Schneider Electric's advanced and secure industrial automation solutions. http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/05/emersons-aspen-technology-business-releases-new-software-with-expanded-ai-capabilities-enhanced-visualization-and-simplified-workflows/ Emerson announced a new release of the flagship software of its Aspen Technology business. The release introduces a significant expansion of industrial AI capabilities, enhances user experience, provides new capabilities to accelerate progress toward sustainability goals and improves operational performance.  http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/04/neste-divests-its-napcon-technology-to-lummus-technology/ Neste has signed an agreement to sell its proprietary technology NAPCON to Lummus Technology. NAPCON covers solutions in the field of interactive operator training simulators and game-aided learning systems, real-time process optimization, AI based process predictors and real-time process information gathering, monitoring and analytics. http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/04/digital-exclusive-ten-ways-ai-is-expediting-construction-projects-in-the-processing-industry/ Like most construction megaprojects, processing projects have scaled up in complexity while offsetting that complexity using tools such as computer-aided design (CAD), building information modeling (BIM) and project management software. The bad news for the processing industries is that complexity has been outpacing the implementation of productivity tools—however, this may be about to change. http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/04/seeq-announces-launch-of-seeq-for-connect/ Seeq, a global leader in industrial analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and enterprise monitoring, has launched its latest software product, Seeq for CONNECT, featuring seamless integration with AVEVA’s industrial intelligence platform CONNECT. http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/04/aiq-and-gulf-energy-information-collaborate-to-further-enrich-energyai-with-industry-intelligence/ Gulf Energy to provide AIQ with exclusive access to its proprietary datasets, and industry-leading documents. ENERGYai is already trained on petabytes of operational data from ADNOC, and this agreement will provide the solution with access to even greater quantities of relevant, high-quality industry information. http://web1v10.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/03/digital-exclusive-the-implementation-and-automation-of-an-alarm-management-system-in-a-complex-control-environment-at-knpc-s-mina-al-ahmadi-refinery/ With the recent advancements in technology and availability of control support applications, the role of an alarm management system (ALMS) has taken a center stage to fulfill the requirements of safe and enhanced operations. This article details how refinery personnel implemented an ALMS at KNPC's Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery in Kuwait, especially with the facility's complex control rooms and multiple distributed control systems.