Marathon Oil Corp. has installed new process-control equipment and systems at its Garyville, La., refinery. Migration to the new control system required close cooperation with its primary automation ...

Geared to young and seasoned professionals alike, “Beyond back-to-basics: Process principles and concepts” is a series of articles designed to present a straightforward approach to mastering the ...

This article first considers the background: why optimization of refinery process units is so necessary and so common, and what analytical tools exist to help. The main problem in refining is that, ...

Need some Polish dumplings in the heat of summer? Try Whiting, Ind., and it’s Pierogi Fest in late July. Need some heavy crude to go with that? Whiting is a good place for that too, where BP undertook ...

Siang Lim is a Data Scientist and Process Control Engineer at the Burnaby Refinery. He has more than 7 yrs of APC and data science experience in the downstream energy industry. Siang completed a BASc ...

ABB’s TALYS ASP400 series is a simple yet rugged fiber optics-based FT- NIR analyzer that is specifically designed for use in the petrochemical and refinery industry. The TALYS ASP400 serves as a ...

Operates and monitors refinery process units (e.g., crude/vacuum, hydrotreating, reforming, FCC, alkylation, isomerization, utilities, tank farm) to meet production ...

The next steps beyond 5G promise great advantages in terms of bandwidth and latency, making possible many new process-control ...

Update at 4:26 p.m.: The Texas Environment Quality Commission has cited the refinery twice in the past six months. Once in October 2015 for not preventing unauthorized emissions and again in March for ...

Air quality regulators rolled out a new proposal this week to keep a toxic chemical used at refineries in Torrance and Wilmington from escaping and harming the public. They will explain the steps and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Petrobras received a license on Monday allowing it to boost crude processing by 35 percent at its controversial RNEST refinery, the local government said, a move ...