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Advances in benchmarking capital project costs

A scope based approach to benchmarking project costs can provide insights to improve competitiveness.

Effective execution of capital projects is essential to the financial health of refining, chemical, energy, and midstream companies. Unfortunately, engineering and construction project performance has stagnated over the past decade. Reports of multibillion dollar projects over-running by hundreds of millions of dollars are common and almost unnewsworthy. Some industry owners and operators have responded to disappointing project performance by implementing more elaborate project assurance practices......

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Webinar | Honeywell Predict® Corrosion Suite

On Tuesday 23rd October, learn how the fight against corrosion never stops - it is a fact of life every day across Oil & Gas, Refining and Pipeline operations, what-if you could have insight into real-time corrosion rates in your process?

Honeywell Predict® Corrosion Suite provides the next generation of corrosion management solutions, intelligent software providing real time corrosion quantification. Unlike conventional corrosion management methods, unique prediction models are employed that encapsulate deep domain expertise and extensive process data to correlate corrosion rates to specific process units, damage mechanisms, and operating conditions......

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MESPON 2018

What is MESPON? The MESPON Forum is an interactive conference aimed at fostering enduring, cooperative relationships between sour gas and sulphur plant operators across the UAE and the Middle East.

Who Should Attend? Sour gas and sulphur plant operators and maintenance personnel with a common goal of sharing technical knowledge in sour gas treating, sulphur recovery and sulphur product handling.

Operations Network. A forum designed for sharing, learning, brainstorming and collaborating amongst peers and industry experts for the purpose of achieving world-class management of sour gas and sulphur facilities.

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Axens

Axens is an international provider of process Technologies Licensees, Catalysts, Adsorbents and Services (technical assistance, consulting) to the Refining, Petrochemical, Gas and Alternative Fuels industries. The main scope of Axens’ business is focused on the conversion of Oil, Gas, Biomass and Coal to fuels and major petrochemical intermediates. Improving the performance of our clients and helping them to be more successful constitute our only mission......

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CATnap Catalyst Passivation Process

Cat Tech is pleased to present the CATnap® Catalyst Passivation Process - an exclusive, patented technique for unloading catalysts from petroleum processing units. CATnap technology passivates pyrophoric or self-heating catalysts by the application of a proprietary CATnap catalyst coating chemical. The catalysts’ surfaces (and equipment surfaces are coated with an organic film which retards oxygen penetration and reaction......

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ERTC Newspaper

Key steps for refiners ahead of IMO 2020 ... Q&A with Diomidis Stamoulis ... Maximising FCC performance and yields with catalyst innovations ... European refineries towards a sustainable world ... Precious metals catalyst: understanding the technology ... Process selection: a refinery study of FCC vs Gasolfin for naphtha cracking into propylene ... Creation of energy efficiency action plan for oil refinery with advanced energy analysis ... Renewable components in European refining companies ... Operating in the jungle of renewables ... Online Cleaning technology applied to a major European refinery ... Accurate, real-time H2S measurement achieved with in-line analyser......

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Q3 Issue of PTQ

Managing fouling in refinery networks ... Dealing with depleting sour gas reserves: Part 1 ... Revamping a hydrocracker's overhead condenser ... Optimising preflash for light tight oil processing ... Splitting distributed control for a refinery expansion ... Cyber security in the refining world ... Countering marine corrosion in instrumentation tube ... Energy savings from electric capacity control ... Revamp of a reciprocating compressor unit ... Advanced turbomachinery controls improve ethylene plant yield ... Mixing in large crude tanks ... Improved feedstocks for ethane crackers ... Controlling the dew point of natural gas ... Testing and experience in FCC catalyst selection ... Implementing real time optimisation technology......

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Sulphur Recovery SUPERCLAUS® Process

The SUPERCLAUS® process recovers elemental sulfur from H2S-containing gases originating from gas treating and sour water stripper plants. Yields ...
Hyper/Secondary compressor components

Burckhardt Compression is the recognized worldwide market leader and pioneer in Hyper Compressor technology since 1951. Our long standing know-how and ...
Squeeze more value out of your FCC gasoline

As sulfur legislations tighten, it becomes more difficult for refiners to meet the specifications from their FCC gasoline post-treatment units. Particularly ...
Isomalk-3 - A robust n-C4 isomerization processs

A Robust n-C4 Isomerization Process. Isomalk-3 is a low-temperature isomerization technology for processing n-butane into isobutane, its branched isomer. ...
Isomalk-4 C7 paraffin isomerization technology

Isomalk-4 is a low-temperature isomerization technology for processing C7 paraffins contained in wide-range naphtha streams. In a conventional refinery ...

ProMax blocks – saturator

This video illustrates the capabilities of the Saturator block within ProMax.
Separator sizing

This video demonstrates how to size a separator vessel using ProMax.
Axens Impulse™ movie

Impulse™ is a complete, high performance range of hydrotreating catalysts allowing for even more difficult feedstock to be processed without cycle ...
Heat exchanger cleaning - inspection clean vs standard cleaning

Dunn Heat Exchangers optimal cleaning to an "inspection clean" status ensures operational efficiency and a longer duration between cleaning ...
Sindie: trace sulfur in fuel analysis

Imagine a smarter sulfur analysis solution free of compromise and hassle. Sindie® benchtop analyzers offer just that - easy and hassle-free operation, ...

From hydrogen production to sulphur recovery - let ceramics pave the way

Learn how to boost the reliability and performance of your hydrogen production and sulphur recovery plants through the deployment of Blasch’s ...
Intelligently predict and prevent corrosion across your operations

Learn how the fight against corrosion never stops - it is a fact of life every day across Oil & Gas, Refining and Pipeline operations, what-if you ...