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Marathon selling most of its Minnesota downstream assets

Marathon Petroleum Co. LP (MPC) has entered into definitive agreements with ACON Investments, LLC (ACON) and TPG Capital, LP (TPG) for the sale of most of Marathon's Minnesota downstream assets.

GE snaps up Dresser for a cool $3 billion

GE has purchased Dresser, Inc. for $3 billion. The deal includes all of the Dresser businesses, which provide products and services for compression, flow technology, measurement and distribution infrastructure for customers in more than 150 countries.

BP hires AMEC for onshore EPMS

AMEC has entered into a global agreement with BP International Ltd. to provide engineering and project management services (EPMS) for BP's onshore facilities developments around the world.

BlueFire turns to MasTec for Mississippi ethanol facility

BlueFire Renewables, Inc. has finalized and signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, Mississippi.

Increase your margin by 25%

Advanced Industrial Modeling Inc.: Korchinski, W.
Chevron: Beerbaum, A.
PREP Consulting Inc.: Geddes, D.

Here’s how to make sure that the planning LPs always match the plant

Improve exploration, production and refining with ‘add-at-will’ wireless automation

Chevron Corp.: Laframboise, G.
Emerson Process Management: Karschnia, B.

After the technology was validated, a wireless infrastructure was installed blanketing 80% of a US refinery

Advanced process control in the plant engineering and construction phases

Bechtel Corp.: Sakizlis, V.  |  Vakamudi, K.
Honeywell Process Solutions: Coward, A.  |  Mermans, I.

Testing MVC performance using a dynamic model offers several benefits

Building and installing a reliable industrial Ethernet infrastructure

Belden: Shuman, B.

Here are six practical guidelines to consider

How to have a successful data reconciliation software implementation

INOVx Solutions: Ayral, T.
Inlibra Software Solutions Corp.: Won, H.  |  Cho, W-S.
FertiNitro: Samad, I.

Follow these guidelines to ensure success

Troubleshoot silicon contamination on catalysts

Braskem S.A.: Britto, J. M.  |  Reboucas, M. V.  |  Bessa, I.

What are the sources, impacts and possible solutions to controlling this problem in your hydrotreater?