Global ethylene production capacity increased by only 1.9% in the past year, reflecting the smallest annual increase in capacity in the past decade since 1996.
COPESUL (COMPANHIA PETROQUIMICA DO SUL), Brazil, the largest producer of ethylene in Brazil, commissioned and started up a second ethylene unit at Triunfo, Brazil, at the beginning of March.
A new planning process that defines an ideal well under optimum conditions, then works to eliminate all barriers to that perfect state, has cut drilling times and costs for units of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group.
Discussions of pending and issued regulations were rife at the 98th National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) annual meeting in San Antonio last week.
Even as the number of US interstate natural gas pipeline companies continues to dwindle through mergers and acquisitions, the survivors must grapple with what is arguably the most critical issue they face: capacity turnback.
CMS Energy Corp., Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC, and TEPPCO Partners LP have formed the Centennial Pipeline joint venture to convert a 26-in., 720-mile natural gas pipeline to carry refined products from Longville, La., to Bourbon, Ill.
UNDER A CONTRACT FROM OIL & National Gas Corp., Bombay, Asian Marine Contractors (AMC) recently completed replacement of two risers and subsea isolation valves on the NF platform, Bombay High, with use of remotely operated pipeline isolation systems.
At yearend 1999, prospects for newbuilding in the world's tanker fleet would suggest a disturbing oversupply, according to Clarkson Research Studies' semiannual Shipping Review & Outlook.
Application of new technologies led to substantial commercial reserve additions during 1990-97 on the Northwest Europe continental shelf, and further additions are possible.
Nine members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries voted at their meeting last week in Vienna to increase the group's production by 1.45 million b/d effective Apr. 1. The action returns the nine nations to the total 21.069 million b/d they were allowed to produce before they reduced output a year ago (OGJ, Mar. 29, 1999, p. 18).
An explosion and fire Mar. 27 at Phillips Petroleum Co.'s K-Resin styrene-butadiene copolymer (SBC) plant at its Houston Chemical Complex (HCC) near Pasadena, Tex., killed one worker and injured 71 others.
A new line of carbon steel float and thermostatic steam traps is suited for new and replacement applications in hydrocarbon and chemical processing operations. The new CS Series traps are intended for high pressure modulating steam applications.
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