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How to properly apply a plant asset management strategy

Siemens: Norinder, J.

Facilities employing leak-detection and custody-transfer systems receive many benefits with this program

Keys to successful alarm management

HP Editorial Staff: Gooch, J.

Here are the features you want in alarm management software

HP Reliability: Tutors can provide answers

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

As you read this column, much additional data on the nuclear disaster on the east coast of Japan’s main island will have become available. But, the terms safety and reliability will still be on o..

HP Integration Strategies: HPI needs to develop standards for asset information management

ARC Advisory Group: Miller, Paul

ARC Advisory Group’s 15th Annual World Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 7-10, 2011, attracted more than 650 participants, representing 250 different organizations from 20 different countr..

HPIn Europe: Nervous Petroleum Week crowd thinks the geopolitically unthinkable

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Wright, Tim L.

These are nervous times in energy markets and on the bridges of oil tankers. Things are going belly up for oil users (which is everyone). And, as I fly home from International Petroleum (IP) week in L..

HP In Brief: HPIn Brief

Eni recently presented its 2011–2014 strategic plan to the financial community in London. In the new plan, Eni confirms the consolidation of its leadership in the Italian and European gas markets..

HP Impact: Natural gas enters a new era of abundance

Technological advances in the production and transportation of natural gas are raising new opportunities for the fuel but also challenging traditional ways of doing business in gas markets, according to a new comprehensive report by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA) and the World Economic Forum.

HP Construction: North America

Chevron Lubricants will construct a lubricants manufacturing facility at the company’s Pascagoula refinery. The $1.4 billion Pascagoula base-oil project is projected to generate approximately 1,0..

HP Construction: South America

Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I., a joint venture of Braskem S.A. and Grupo Idesa S.A. de C.V., has selected LyondellBasell’s Lupotech T process technology for a new 300 kilotons/yr low-density polyethylen..

HP Construction: Inauguration of the Ras Laffan Olefins Co. (RLOC) Cracker, Qatar

A joint venture between Qapco1 (63.63%), Total Petrochemicals France (36.36%) and QP (Qatar Petroleum)2 (0.01%) was established in June 2002 to implement the Qatofin project. This project includes participation in one of the world’s largest ethane crackers in Ras Laffan, a linear-low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant in Mesaiseed and the related ethylene pipeline linking both sites.