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Business Trends: Global refining overview—Part 1

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

The outlook of an industry can change dramatically in a short period of time. This series will examine the global refining sector in depth—where it stands, and where it is going.

Industry Perspectives: GasPro Americas to highlight natural gas industry developments

In mid-September, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> and <i>Gas Processing</i> will hold their second annual Gas Processing Americas (GasPro) Conference at the Norris Conference Center—CityCenter in Houston, Texas.

Project Management: Want your plant to work right? Insist on strong project definition

IPA Capital Solutions: Barshop, P.

Project definition is the planning of a project before execution, which begins when engineering is completed, equipment and materials are purchased, and construction of the new or modified plant is performed.

Wärtsilä to supply Finland LNG satellite terminal

Wärtsilä has signed a turnkey contract to supply a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal to be built in Raahe, Finland.

Uganda granting production licenses to support future refinery

Uganda targets the construction of a $2.5-B refinery to process more of the oil resources it discovered in 2006.

Technip, BTG to build pyrolysis plants for biomass-to-oil production

Technip signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with BTG BioLiquids to provide EPC services for its modular pyrolysis plants.

Sasol boosts Lake Charles ethane cracker price estimate by $2.1 B

Petrochemicals company Sasol Ltd. raised the price tag of its US ethane cracker project to $11 B from $8.9 B.

Sonangol suspends construction of Lobito refinery and Barra do Dande terminal

Sonangol suspended construction of the Lobito refinery and ocean terminal of Barra do Dande to reassess the development and implementation of these projects.

Brazil seizes $655 M in assets from Odebrecht, OAS, executives

Brazil's federal auditing court, ordered the seizure of about $655 M worth of assets from engineering firms Odebrecht SA and OAS SA and some of their executives, to recoup losses from contracts related to the country's biggest ever corruption scandal.

Veolia to provide wastewater treatment system for LACC ethane cracker and Lotte MEG plant

CB&I has chosen Veolia Water Technologies to engineer and procure a wastewater treatment package for a Lotte Axiall Chemical Company ethane cracker and associated monoethylene glycol plant being constructed in Lake Charles, Louisiana.