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Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

API releases three new standards to improve refinery safetyThe American Petroleum Institute (API) issued three new first-edition standards to enhance refinery safety and inspection programs:RP 583, Co..

Clariant sells African water treatment business to South Africa’s AECI

The former Clariant Water Treatment business provides chemicals, services and engineering solutions to a wide range of industries such as mining, automotive, food and beverage and metals.

C3 Petrochemicals wins GHG permit from EPA for Texas PDH project

The plant will convert propane to propylene. The PDH process will use a continuous catalytic regenerator that does not use combustion or steam and results in lower GHG emissions.

US chemical council unveils annual environmental, safety award winners

"These four companies epitomize the chemical industry's commitment to a safer, more sustainable future," said ACC president Cal Dooley. "Each company has demonstrated exemplary achievements in environmental performance, worker safety and the health and well-being of the communities in which they operate."

API releases three new standards for improving refinery safety issues

The API issued three new first edition standards to enhance refinery safety and inspection programs as part of its core commitments to improving workplace safety and protecting the environment.

Study: GHG from US-refined crude oils unchanged by Canadian oil sands

The rise in Canadian oil sands imports was offset by declines in imports of other heavier sources of supply that have a GHG intensity within the same range as oil sands, the study says.

HP Petrochemicals: Future vehicle design will need collaboration among HPI and auto manufacturers

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: DuBose, Ben

The US automotive market is under stress to meet new corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) targets of 50 mpg for 2025 model vehicles. The tighter fuel specifications will bring together automobile man..

China: The next shale gas boom

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

The shale gas boom has largely been associated with North America. The luck of this region regarding shale gas is the result of 20 years of hard R&D efforts by Texas oilman George P. Mitchell and the ..

OxyChem, Mexichem win environmental permits for new Texas cracker

Issuance of the permits, combined with the already completed front-end engineering and design study, will enable Ingleside Ethylene to construct the 550,000 tpy capacity cracker.

EPA approves Flint Hills refinery upgrade in Texas

The EPA issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to Flint Hills in Corpus Christi, Texas, to modify its existing petroleum refinery.