crude oil
Philadelphia Refinery to rely on Marcellus shale gas Last year Sunoco Inc (Sunoco) had announced to close the Philadelphia refinery in Pennsylvania, USA, on summer 2012 if no buyer could be found in the meantime. But the development of the shale gas in USA much faster than expected and in very competitive conditions offers a […]
Definition Mild Hydrocracking or MHC is referring to the refining process designed to performs a partial hydrocracking only. In the mild hydrocracking only about 20-60% at ~ 50-85 bar of the feedstock crude oil is cracked. Comments The objective of the Mild Hydrocracking process is to convert 20-60% of the vacuum gas oil at 343°C to […]
Enterprise to leverage its midstream Market Leadership with booming downstream in USA Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) is planning to build one of the world’s largest Propane DeHydrogenation (PDH) unit and Polymer Grade Propylene (PGP) unit in Texas, USA. These PDH and PGP projects are directly related to profitable development of NGL-rich natural gas production. With […]
Weatherford won Garraf $200 million processing facility Garraf or Gharraf is the fifth biggest oil field in Iraq with estimated 1 billion barrels reserves. Garraf is located halfway between the southern cities of Karbala and Nasiriya in Thi Qar governorate in the Southern of Iraq. In 2009 Petronas, with its partners, successfully won the Garraf oilfield […]
Fujairah builds the third world biggest oil storage hub The Strait of Hormuz is channelizing 35% of the global oil maritime traffic. In a context of increasing tension with the neighboring Iran, Fujairah in the UAE is developing one of the biggest oil storage and export terminal in the world. The storage capacity of the […]
Definition Liquefaction refers to the physical transformation of gas into liquid. In the oil and gas industry this liquefaction of gas may be processed just by compression, just by refrigeration, or both in combination depending on the gas. Comments In most of the cases the gas liquefaction is performed for storage and transportation purpose. Previous […]
Foster Wheeler and Sofcon completed the FEED Foster Wheeler and its local partner A. Al-Saihati, A. Fattani & O. Al-Othman Consulting Engineering Co., (SOFCON) have completed the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for the Saudi Aramco Riyadh Refinery Clean Transportation Fuel project. In April 2011, Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group and A. Al-Saihati, A. […]
Definition SAGD is the acronym of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage. The Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage is a process to produce oil from tar-sands. Comments The SAGD process has been developed in Ontario, then in Alberta by Imperial Oil (ExxonMobil) in the years 1970s. Canada holds the most important reserves of extra heavy crude oil, also called […]
