Petrochemicals

Honeywell UOP introduces IIoT software to improve plant performance

Honeywell UOP is introducing a new software-based service designed to allow refiners and petrochemical and gas processing plants to improve performance.

GE Digital acquires Meridium to enhance asset performance management software

Integration of Meridium’s offerings into GE’s Predix platform gives customers greater access to APM capabilities and enables more rapid realization of Industrial Internet value.

New Technology Ventures issues new patent for sulfur removal

New Technology Ventures has received a patent for a method for sulfur removal that simplifies and streamlines oil and gas processing by removing bottlenecks in sulfur recovery units.

New intelligent, cyber-secure standalone power supply from Bedrock Automation

MSA Safety acquires laser-based gas detection technology provider Senscient

Safety equipment manufacturer MSA Safety Inc. has acquired Senscient, Inc., a provider of laser-based gas detection technology, useful in industrial, oil and gas production and petrochemical processing applications.

Callidus Technologies inaugurates flare testing facility

Callidus Technologies has inaugurated a new facility for the testing of gas combustion flares at its manufacturing facility in Beggs, Oklahoma.

GAIL’s Unipol PE process line starts operations in Pata

GAIL Ltd. has successfully started its first Unipol PE process line with the capacity to produce 400 Mtpy of polyethylene.

India to buy 6 MMbbl of Iran oil for emergency reserves

India is set to buy 6 MMbbl of Iranian crude for its strategic oil reserves as negotiations with the United Arab Emirates' national oil company for supplies are stuck over commercial terms.

Koch acquires process optimization solution provider EFT Energy

Koch Industries acquired EFT Energy, a software-as-a-service and solutions provider in the fields of industrial and manufacturing predictive analytics, process optimization, and industrial and commercial energy management.

Linde, Petronas JV to build air gas facility at Pengerang petroleum complex

Linde Malaysia and Petronas Gas Berhad will build an industrial air gas facility that supply the needs of Petronas’ refinery and petrochemicals integrated complex in southern Malaysia.