Safety
Highlights from a maintenance and reliability audit
Staffers in many plants in modern industry are assigned to job functions related to reliability assessment and implementation.
Refinery tower inspections: Discovering problems and preventing malfunctions
A previous survey identified installation mishaps to be one of the top five causes of tower malfunctions.
Refining: Despite decline, Group 1 base stocks are here to stay
Given increasingly stringent automotive specifications and the advent of the International Maritime Organization’s 2020 sulfur regulations, the continued decrease in Group I base stocks demand should come as no surprise for anyone in the industry.
Maintenance: How to conduct successful turnaround maintenance at refineries
PricewaterhouseCoopers reports that, since 2014, the oil and gas industry has put off noncritical spending to reduce costs.
Industry Perspectives: The Main Column podcast: Crucial topics shaping the industry
In the February issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, the editors asked our global readership what topics they would like to hear on the publication’s new podcast series: The Main Column.
Safe and sustainable alkylation: Performance and update on composite ionic liquid alkylation technology
Market and regulatory factors are pressuring refiners to adopt safe and sustainable processes for the production of clean-burning and environmentally friendly fuels.
Engineering Case Histories: Case 109: Catastrophic failures and the human factor
A catastrophic failure is defined (for this article) as a failure where lives have been lost and human causes have been a factor.
Integration can enhance fire safety and protection systems
The world population is expected to reach 9.2 billion people by 2040,1 and the global GDP is also likely to double over that same period.
Optimization: Plan before main air blower disaster strikes
Weeks before a planned overhaul of its coker unit, a synthetic crude plant’s main air blower for the furnace failed, throwing the engineers’ plans into disarray.
Case study: Extend tube life in a waste heat boiler
The sulfur recovery unit (SRU) separates sulfur from sulfur compounds.
- Verso Energy awards FEED contract to Rely for the DEZiR eSAF project 11/17
- Iran confirms seizure of tanker with petrochemical cargo headed for Singapore 11/17
- Asian gasoline margin spikes to highest since August 2023 11/14
- Lukoil-Moldova grants free use of airport fuel terminal to government amid U.S. sanctions 11/14
- Croatia rejects Russian vacuum gasoil cargo after U.S. sanctions 11/14
- Bulgaria wins UK sanctions reprieve on refinery, petrol stations 11/14
