By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters UK) - Washington state's Department of Labour & Industries said on Wednesday it found 23 serious safety and health violations at Shell Oil's 145,000 barrel per day bpd refinery in Anacortes, Washington. Shell said it was weighing a possible appeal of...
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Delek US Holdings Inc DK has begun negotiations to purchase a U.S. refinery in a possible $1 billion deal, parent company Delek Group Ltd DELKG said on Sunday. In a statement to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Delek Group...
In the space of seven years and through aggressive acquisitions, Valero has gone from a bit player with one oil refinery to a Fortune 15 company with the largest number of refineries in North America, filling stations nationwide and 22,000 employees. As late as the fourth quarter of 2002, Valero...
Gulf State Utilities installed a Westinghouse 501D5 industrial gas turbine in its Louisiana Station, located adjacent to an Exxon Refinery in Baton Rouge. Steam for additional power and for purchase by Exxon was generated in a heat recovery steam generator HRSG, with 500 mmBtu/hr of supplementary duct burner firing with...
The summer demand on gasoline production limits large refinery at peak capacity. The solution is HPSI engineers temporary system that enables the refinery to increase production from 50,000 bbl per day to 55,000 bbl per day. HPSI modified the chillers with a pressurization system to create a complete self contained...
Petroleum refineries are marvels of modern engineering. Within them a maze of pipes, distillation columns, and chemical reactors turn crude oil into valuable products. Large refineries cost billions of dollars, employ several thousand workers, operate around the clock, and occupy the same area as several hundred football stadiums. The U.S....
A major oil refinery in the western United States had developed a problem. They had replaced a number of cooling tower drives, and were accumulating the used ones on-site. The oil refinery used their cooling tower drives to chill condensed steam generated by the manufacturing processes. Several of the cooling...
A major Gulf Coast refinery experienced a significant decrease in the activity of their hydrotreating catalyst. The hydrotreater feedstock was primarily composed of distillate from the refinery's delayed coker unit. It was theorized that the loss in activity was caused by silicon contamination. The silicon deposits on the surface of...
A refinery in Mexico was experiencing high corrosion rates in the atmospheric crude unit overhead exchangers. BJ Chemical Services was invited to investigate the problem and propose solutions. A BJ Chemical Services FastBreak additive was selected for use and a field trial was initiated. High desalter efficiency was realized using...
Production of cleaner fuels uses more energy-intensive processes - to reduce the sulphur content in diesel, or benzene in petrol, for example. Higher fuel consumption can result in higher emissions, which is in conflict with BP's desire to reduce the impact of our facilities on local air quality. This challenge...
Advanced refinery planning requires the ability to respond rapidly to changes in the market or refinery capacity. Traditional methods for running the linear planning tools rely on time-consuming processes for data collection, verification and scenario analysis, resulting in delayed decisions. Rapid and informed decision making requires integrating plant, trading and...
TThis study examines the impact strategy, core competence, and involvement of HR executives in strategic decision making on the refinery managers' evaluation of the effectiveness of HR and refinery performance among 86 U.S. petro-chemical refineries. Survey results indicated that higher involvement of HR in organizational strategy is strongly related to...
This paper is directed to failures in petroleum refinery piping systems that caused serious fires. A number of refinery fires in recent years are traceable to variations in the chemical composition of piping materials. These fires are typically more destructive than those due to other causes and can take place...
This report shows the output of California's refineries which has not been able to keep up with demand growth in recent years and the State has become a net importer of all categories of petroleum products. Moreover, the outlook is that permitting restraints and technical limitations will make it more...
This paper elaborates on the requirement of power in Spain and solving the problems for producing power. The single RB211 engine installed operates continuously, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The refinery itself demands a maximum load of 16 MW, which means that the excess can be exported...
This article presents a different way to view refineries and petrochemical plants as part of the supply chain and a way to design for data integration of any application to any other application via COTS software products configurable/adaptable/integratable-offthe-shelf software products. The resulting nimble refiner or petrochemical plant is likely to...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/622896/ecopetrol_s_a_ref) has announced the addition of the "Ecopetrol S.A. Refining Operation Asset Summary Report" report to their offering. Summary Ecopetrol S.A. Refining Operation Assets Summary Report is an essential source for company data and information. The report examines company Ecopetrol...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/00a5ce/conocophillips_ref) has announced the addition of the "ConocoPhillips Refining Operation Asset Summary report" report to their offering. ConocoPhillips Refining Operation Asset Summary report Summary ConocoPhillips Refining Operation Assets Summary Report is an essential source for company data and...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e0066a/compania_espanola) has announced the addition of the "Compania Espanola de Petroleos, S.A. Refining Operation Asset Summary Report" report to their offering. This report is an essential source for company data and information. The report examines company Compania Espanola de Petroleos, S.A.'s key...
SAN ANTONIO -- On July 9, 2008, the Board of Directors of Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO) declared a regular quarterly cash dividend on the company's common stock of $0.15 per share. The dividend is payable September 10, 2008 to holders of record at the close of business on August 6,...
