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Europe: United Kingdom

Economic Advisor, Chemical Industries Association (CIA): Eastwood, A.

The United Kingdom (UK) is Europe’s fourth largest chemical economy, after Germany, France and Italy. It accounts for 8% of the European Union’s (EU’s) $900 billion overall chemical pro..

Surviving and thriving in era of enhanced OSHA PSM audits

SSOE Group: Reese, C.
Midland Engineering: Taylor, B.

The US agency is developing special emphasis programs to target specific industries, notably refining and chemicals, with owners facing rigid inspections and stiffer fines.

HP Control: What’s new with Foundation fieldbus—Part 1

ARC Advisory Group: O'Brien, L.

FOUNDATION fieldbus continues to increase its installed base in the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). The organization continues to develop the technology, making it easier to use, creating certi..

HP Brief: Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Marathon Petroleum Corp. plans to purchase BP’s Texas City refinery and related assets Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) has signed a definitive agreement to purchase BP’s 451,000-bpcd Texas Ci..

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Neste Oil makes progress on microbial oil plantFinland’s Neste Oil recently completed the first phase of a pilot plant for producing microbial oil. The €8 million plant is expected to be com..

HP Industry Perspectives: Industry Perspectives

Key industry officials answer a poll question from HydrocarbonProcessing.com

Fiatech and PCA lead charge for unified industry interoperability activities

Fiatech and the POSC Caesar Association (PCA) have endorsed unifying all industry-wide ISO 15926 interoperability initiatives under the name iRING.

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Invensys introduces new technology offeringsSoftware and technology provider Invensys Operations Management recently released a program to help clients modernize and improve the performance of aging c..

Why don’t we properly train control engineers?

Whitehouse Consulting: King, M. J.

While there are managers in the process industry that see training control engineers as a “no-brainer,” these are very much in the minority. They may send staff on courses covering configura..

Consider automated fault detection systems to improve facility reliability

REDUCT & Lobbe Technologies Inc.: Szladow, A. J.

Automated fault detection and diagnosis systems (AFDDSs) are well established in many consumer and industrial sectors.1 The conventional limit-value based (high/low alarms) fault detection and diagnos..