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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..

HP Impact: Taking a glance at mergers and acquisitions

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Energy price fluctuations present both near-term challenges and interesting opportunities for the oil and gas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market. As Deloitte Consulting points out in a recently rel..

Sempra opens new underground gas storage facility in US

Sempra US Gas & Power LLC, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, will commence operations at a second underground natural gas storage facility in Simpson County, Mississippi. The capacity addition of 7.5 billion cubic feet (Bcf) increases the storage cavern's total storage capacity to 15 Bcf.

US company announces first CNG delivery contracts

Compressed natural gas (CNG) trucking and delivery firm NG Advantage LLC today announced that it has secured multi-year contracts for delivery of CNG, starting in early 2013. NG Advantage believes this is the first announcement of contracts for CNG delivered to enterprises beyond the pipeline in the US.

Use dynamic simulation for advanced LNG plant design

Hyperion Systems Engineering, Modeling and Simulation: Harismiadis, V. I.
Hyperion Systems Engineering: Stavrakas, D.  |  Sood, A.  |  Bhattad, G.
Saipem SpA: Fantolini, A. M.  |  Pedone, L.  |  D’Orazi, L.  |  Prodan, R.

The work performed for the project shows that dynamic simulation can be an excellent tool for the support and verification of process design during the engineering, procurement and plant construction (EPC) stages.

PERU LNG: Executing Peru’s largest industrial project

Hunt Oil Co.: Sharma, S.
CB&I: Hill, D.  |  Rano, P.  |  Humphrey, G.  |  Mayer, M.

The PERU LNG project includes a liquefaction plant, marine export facilities with an island breakwater, and a 408-km pipeline that connects to an existing pipeline in the Ayacucho mountains. Hunt Oil Co. is the operator.

HP Insight: How long is an economic cycle for the HPI?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

As summer takes hold in the Northern Hemisphere, demand for energy in various forms increases. In looking back over the past 90 years, energy demand and pricing cycle through high and low points. In 2..

HP Construction Profile: Rotterdam LNG facility wins top project award

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

The Gate megaproject is one of Europe's largest LNG terminals. With two jetties, it can unload simultaneously two vessels of the Q-Max type, the world's biggest LNG carriers.

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

PCHEs boost power from waste heatHeatric recently supplied Echogen Power Systems Inc. with Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers (PCHEs) for Echogen’s Supercritical CO2 (ScCO2) power generation cycle. ..

LNG and GTL drive 50 years of technology evolution in the gas industry

Technip: Castel, J.  |  Gadelle, D.  |  Hagyard, P.  |  Ould-Bamba, M.

The technologies needed to shape an industry transformation exist and have been proven on a large scale, the authors say.