With an aim to meet India’s new Bharat Stage VI low-sulphur emissions standards, Indian Oil has chosen Emerson as its automation contractor. The global technology and engineering company will be responsible for modernising and enhancing emissions control operations of the company’s refineries.

Capable of producing 1.5 million tonnes of ethylene per year, the complex will include the first mixed-feed cracker in the Gulf region to be integrated with a refinery.

Primus Green Energy announced plans to develop and deliver a 160 metric tonnes per day methanol plant to an operating site in Alberta, Canada.

The continuous online analysis of oils and fats in waste water is known to be one of the most toughest applications. Many oil-in-water analysers have trouble handling this highly contaminated oily and fatty waste water. Not so for the QuickTOC (Total Organic Carbon) analyser from LAR.

For more than 150 years, the German mechanical engineering industry has offered solutions for the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Some VDMA members originated as companies that supplied technology to oil pioneers in Celle and its surrounding areas. Since then, however, the product range has widened significantly.

Vibrating fork technology has shown its value and reliability in a range of critical level monitoring applications. This article explains how frequency monitoring functionality provided by Wireless-Hart vibrating fork switches can support an increased range of applications that help improve safety and process performance.

Under the terms of the agreement, EDL has been given the responsibility to modernise lube oil and wax production at SOC’s dewaxing unit. Apart from this, a deoiling unit based on EDL’s technology will also be integrated to produce fully refined wax.

The 1,694 million dollar contract has been bagged by the Consortium of BHGE, Mc Dermott and L&T hydrocarbon for the integrated development of the KG-DWN-98/2 (Cluster-2) Project in the East Coast of India.

The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of industry investments at risk, IHS Markit says.

Sonatrach and Total have signed two agreements as part of the comprehensive partnership announced in 2017. This includes a new concession contract to jointly develop the Erg Issouane gas field located on the TFT Sud permit, signed by Sonatrach, Total and Alnaft (the National Agency for the Valorization of Hydrocarbon Resources).