Environment & Safety
Trip analysis: a quick tool for plant management
Rapidly identify problems and allocate resources for solutions using these indices
HP Automation Safety: Assessing HPI terrorism risk
The events of September 11, 2001 have caused many HPI managers to consider the risk of their facilities becoming potential targets. Intelligence that has been gathered and publicly diss..
The safe automation gap – Part 1
An organization's safety culture can help bridge this void
HP Automation Safety: Safety in software
It seems like everything I touch lately that has software in it is going bad. My desktop (PC) performance has deteriorated so badly that I decided to give it a lobotomy and reformat th..
HP Insight: A not so silent spring for MTBE
The furor surrounding MTBE twists and turns this Spring. In mid-February, results from the Stillwater Associates' draft report, "MTBE phase out in California," to the California Energy ..
HP Insight: A real danger to the HPI – Congress
The terrorist attacks' wake has spilled across many economicsectors, severely damaging industries from airlines to retailing.The greatest threat facing the hydrocarbon processing industries'(HPI) futu..
What does it take to meet the clean fuels challenge?
Refiners will use more tools other than technology to process clean fuels and be profitable
Consider improved catalyst technologies to remove sulfur
With new catalyst systems, hydroprocessing efforts more efficiently reduce complex sulfur compounds and lower blended fuels’ sulfur content
- AFPM response to U.S. EPA actions on RFS small refinery waiver backlog 8/25
- Indonesia urges EU to remove biodiesel import curbs after WTO ruling 8/25
- Canada's Alberta eyes investment in Japan's refining to boost oil exports 8/25
- U.S. EPA approves biofuel waivers for small refiners, stirring concerns over demand 8/25
- Update: Russian oil supplies to Slovakia may resume as soon as today 8/25
- Liquid Sun launches eSAF production pilot with ABB, Finnair, Fortum and Finavia 8/25
