Americas
HP Water Management: Water is the next oil
In the future, increased demands for high-quality fresh water supplies will translate into voluntary and, ultimately, regulatory mandates. These constraints will require facilities to limit or to redu..
HP Insight: Technology and market share: Challenges requiring ever-changing solutions
In this issue of HPInsight, workforce, fuel quality and capacity overhang are a few of the challenges that the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) must address and resolve. Expansion of the refining..
HP Impact: BP’s energy outlook to 2030
Global energy demand will continue to grow over the next 20 years, albeit at a slowing annual rate, fueled by economic and population growth in non-OECD countries. Increased energy efficiency and stro..
HP Impact: Octagonal opportunity for carbon capture
Filtering CO2 from factory smokestacks is a necessary, but expensive, part of many manufacturing processes. However, a collaborative research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technolo..
HP Construction: North America
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, will provide technology to produce propylene at Dow Chemical Co.’s production site in Texas. Dow Texas Operations will use Honeywell UOP C3 Oleflex technology in a n..
HP Construction: South America
Exterran Holdings, Inc., has a contract from Petrobras for the design, fabrication and sale of a major natural gas processing and treating facility in Itau, Bolivia. The facility is a dew-point gas pr..
US sees lower 2011 oil use, becomes net exporter
US oil demand in all of 2011 dropped 1.8%, or by 345,000 bpd, from 2010 to a two-year low of 18.835 million bpd, government data released Wednesday show. US oil output climbed 7.4% to 5.877 million bpd, the highest level since 1999.
Air Products to acquire DuPont stake in US, Taiwan nanomaterials venture
Air Products has agreed to acquire all of DuPont's interest in DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials, the two companies' 50-50 joint venture serving the global semiconductor and wafer polishing industries. The venture state-of-the-art applications and formulation laboratories in the US and Taiwan.
Obama says US reducing dependence on foreign oil
President Barack Obama on Thursday released research that he said showed US dependence on foreign oil shrinking in each year since he took office. Obama then called on Congress to eliminate subsidies to the oil industry.
Canada oil sands producers form alliance to share environmental technology
Canadian oil sands producers have formed a new alliance named Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), seeking to accelerate the pace of improving environmental performance in Canada's oil sands. COSIA also announced Dr. Dan Wicklum as CEO of the new alliance.
- IHI, Vopak to launch ammonia terminal project in Japan 7/11
- India's BPCL plans to shut Bina refinery unit for 15-day maintenance in August 7/11
- Soaring electric truck sales deal new blow to diesel use in China 7/11
- Russia`s Tatneft launches new hydrocracking unit on TANECO refinery 7/11
- IEA: Global oil market may be tighter than it looks 7/11
- India must boost its petchem output to counter China's dominance, Reliance says 7/11
