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Asia: China eyes significant growth in petrochemicals

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2019
Contributing Writer: Gerden, E.
Petrochemicals / Refining / Construction / Crude oil / Economics / Engineering & Design / Asia/Pacific

China aims to grow its domestic petrochemical production during the next 5 yr–7 yr, driven by the ongoing modernization of major production facilities and an increase in foreign investments.

Editorial Comment: Exchanging ideas through collaborative environments

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2019
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee
Engineering & Design / Economics / Equipment / Environment / Environment & Safety / Carbon Management / Catalysts / Crude oil / Construction / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / Petrochemicals / Refining / People / Products / Safety / Americas

What is the best way to exchange ideas?

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2019
Petrochemicals / Refining / Management / Information Systems / Acid Gas Removal / Africa / Americas / Analyzers / Aromatics / Asia/Pacific / Biofuels / Boilers / Carbon Management / Catalysts / Cetane / Corrosion / Construction / Compressors / Crude oil / Desulfurization / Diesel / Distillation / Drivers / Drying / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Europe / Gas Processing/LNG / Gasification / Gasoline / Greenhouse Gases / Heat Transfer / Hydrotreating / Loss Prevention / Maintenance & Reliability / Middle East / Motors / Naphtha / Natural Gas / Octane / People / Piping / Polymers / Process Control / Process Optimization / Products / Project Management / Pumps / Reactors / Rotating Equipment / Safety / Sulfur / Treating / Turbines / Utilities / Valves

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the finalists for its third annual awards.

Automatic gauging addresses tank farm challenges

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2019
Endress+Hauser: Mallon, D.
Analyzers / Construction / Crude oil / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / People / Products / Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Petrochemicals / Process Control / Refining

Tank farms are often found on the premises of large refineries and petrochemical plants, or nearby.

Horizontal distillation column technology

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2019
Independent Researcher/Inventor: Katyal, A.
Petrochemicals / Refining / Gas to liquids (GTL) / Loss Prevention / Pumps / Valves

Gas-liquid contact operations are required for the separation of mixtures based on differences in the chemical properties (volatility, solubility, etc.) of various components.

Industry Metrics

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2019
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike
Crude oil / Diesel / Gasoline / Natural Gas / Petrochemicals / Refining

The US gasoline market received a boost from a gasoline supply outage on the East Coast, despite overall supply-side pressure resulting from higher regional refinery intakes.

Global Project Data

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2019
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee
Gas Processing/LNG / Petrochemicals / Project Management / Refining / Construction / Africa / Asia/Pacific / Americas / Europe / Middle East

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing’s</i> Construction Boxscore Database is tracking more than 1,300 projects around the world.

Business Trends: The new petrochemical market—Adapting to demand

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2019
Allegro Development Corp.: Murphy, R.
Petrochemicals / Economics / Natural Gas

A bit of advice for players in the petrochemical market: Hold on to your hats!

Industry Perspectives: HP Awards—Honoring the industry’s best

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2019
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee
Americas / Asia/Pacific / Middle East / Europe / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Engineering & Design / Environment / Gas Processing/LNG / Maintenance & Reliability / Petrochemicals / Process Control / Process Optimization / Refining / Catalysts / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / Natural Gas / People / Safety

In late June, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> announced the finalists for its third annual awards.

Editorial Comment: A shift in capital? Petrochemical projects take lead in active project market share

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2019
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee
Environment & Safety / Gas Processing/LNG / Greenhouse Gases / Natural Gas / Refining / Petrochemicals / Carbon Management / Construction / Crude oil / Desulfurization / Distillation / Economics / Environment / Polymers / Products / Sulfur / Treating / Africa / Americas / Asia/Pacific / Europe / Middle East

In mid-June, I joined Thad Pittman, Senior Research Analyst, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing’s</i> Construction Boxscore Database, to provide <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> subscribers with a global analysis on the downstream processing industry’s capital projects landscape.