A massive fire occurred at Pertamina’s Balongan oil refinery located 225 kilometers east of Jakarta in Indonesia. Five people have been seriously injured while several others are reportedly missing, the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Major cleaning for an oversized “immersion heater”: This is how heat exchanger cleaning ensures efficiency — When there is no more flow in the tube, it is time for maintenance. But what if apparatus cannot be bored out or mechanically cleaned? Chemical industrial cleaning can help to clear the pipe.

Lyondell Basell announced that China Sinopec International and Sinopec-SK (Wuhan) have selected their Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (Hostalen ACP) technology.

The project is claimed to be one of the largest oil and gas projects in the world and Fluor’s JV firm is the brain behind the creation of the plant design. The new 3D plant model will enable project engineers from across the globe to see real-time developments in the design.

The new storage facility is located at Padur in Karnataka and boasts of a storage capacity of 2.5 million tonne. The agreement has strengthened and expanded the strategic energy partnership between India and the UAE.

The founders of Nanoscribe developed a revolutionary high-precision 3D printing method at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and quickly become the market leaders in their field. Now, the company won the Baden-Württemberg state prize for young companies.

How can gas mixtures from industrial production be put to good use to produce valuable materials and save crude oil at the same time? The research consortium of the project Carbon4pur has found answers to this question and has presented the final results after three and a half years of research work.

Under the terms of the contract, Technip FMC will be in charge of addressing debottlenecks of Midor’s existing units and will also be responsible for the delivery of new units.

Boehringer Ingelheim has completed the expansion of its biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. With a two-year investment totaling $ 228 million, the research-driven pharmaceutical company is creating 300 new jobs and increasing its worldwide bioreactor capacity to 290,000 liters.

Schlumberger New Energy’s new venture Neolith Energy will establish the lithium extraction pilot plant in Clayton Valley, Nevada, USA. The company will make use of a differentiated direct lithium extraction (DLE) process for the sustainable and efficient production of high-purity, battery-grade lithium material.