Environment & Safety
Review unit-wide impacts on closed-drain drums
API 521 standard helps decipher the correct operating pressure for this system
HPIn Europe: Biofuels audience warms to advocate for third industrial revolution
Here is a thesis on energy that’s being expounded at the heart of European policy-making these days: Thirty years after peak oil per capita and at the apex of peak globalization, the machines and..
HP Water Management: Legionella — to test or not to test?
Legionella pneumophila (“legionella”) bacteria cause Legionellosis, a pneumonia-like illness that infects persons with compromised immune systems and can be fatal. These bacteria are common ..
HP Viewpoint: Consider new developments in antifouling coatings for rotating equipment
Innovative materials and applications protect critical centrifugal compressors and steam turbines from erosion and corrosion
HP Innovations: HPInnovations
EYESIM Virtual Reality now available on iPhone and iPadFollowing the successful launch of the innovative Virtual Reality training system EYESIM, Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of te..
The ultimate path to H2S-free gas
Advanced technologies offer competitive advantages over traditional methods
Albemarle touts new technology to extract lithium from brine, cites growing global market
US specialty chemicals producer Albemarle said on Friday that it has developed a proprietary technology for lithium extraction from brine.
Air Products wins railroad safety award for chems
For the third consecutive year, US industrial gases firm Air Products received a Pinnacle Award for chemical transportation safety from Union Pacific Railroad.
BP plans $388mn cleaner diesel project at Cherry Point refinery in Washington
BP will begin a $388mn project in May to install hydrogen diesel units at its Cherry Point refinery in Washington, according to a recent report in the Bellingham Herald newspaper.
BP, Dow Chemical plants in Texas City lose power as regional outages continue
The BP chemical plant in Texas City, Texas, lost power on Wednesday morning, marking the latest in a string of outages for the area’s numerous plants and refineries - including nearby producer Dow Chemical.

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- bp's Whiting refinery (U.S.) continues to flare days after severe thunderstorm 8/22
- Bachmann introduces latest version M-Target for Simulink 8/22
- U.S. to rule on biofuel waivers, but big oil refiners may need to wait 8/22
- Chinese independent refiner Hongrun buys Canadian, Brazilian crude 8/22
- Ukrainian attack suspends Russian oil flows to Hungary, Slovakia 8/22