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Crude Slate Planning When Supply Routes Change: Assays, Constraints and LP Modelling
Planning

Crude Slate Planning When Supply Routes Change: Assays, Constraints and LP Modelling

How refinery planners can re-optimise the crude slate after a supply route change: refreshing assays, challenging constraints, structuring the LP, and linking it to cargo selection and scheduling.

23 Oct 2026 · 9 min read

Offshore Emergency Shutdown Philosophy and Evacuation Analysis for Hurricane-Exposed Installations
HSE

Offshore Emergency Shutdown Philosophy and Evacuation Analysis for Hurricane-Exposed Installations

How to separate precautionary and emergency shutdown, define temporary refuge roles, and build evacuation timing studies that give a defensible margin before hurricane conditions close off helicopter and vessel options.

23 Oct 2026 · 10 min read

FPSO Turret and Mooring System Design for Harsh-Environment Deepwater Fields
Mechanical

FPSO Turret and Mooring System Design for Harsh-Environment Deepwater Fields

How turret position, bearing load paths and mooring line selection interact on new-build harsh-environment deepwater FPSOs, with a comparison of turret types, line options and a design decision checklist.

22 Oct 2026 · 10 min read

Refining Heavy, High-Sulfur Opportunity Crudes: Desalter Performance and Vacuum Unit Impacts
Refining and Petrochemicals

Refining Heavy, High-Sulfur Opportunity Crudes: Desalter Performance and Vacuum Unit Impacts

How heavy, high-sulfur opportunity crudes strain desalters, asphaltene stability and vacuum units, and how process engineers can evaluate a slate change with blend testing, monitoring and downstream checks.

21 Oct 2026 · 10 min read

Corrosion under insulation: risk-based inspection strategies for aging process piping
Asset Integrity and Corrosion

Corrosion under insulation: risk-based inspection strategies for aging process piping

How CUI develops, which temperature and service conditions carry the highest risk, and how to build a risk-based inspection programme for older process piping, from data gaps and ranking to method selection and safe insulation removal.

20 Oct 2026 · 10 min read

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Tamboran CEO Abbott Adds Managing Director Role Tamboran has expanded the role of its chief executive, Abbott, who now also serves as the company's managing director. The early-stage natural gas exploration and production company presented the appointment as a formal step rather than a change of personnel, noting that the role formalizes his exec US Commercial Crude Stocks Fall 3M Barrels Week Over Week United States commercial crude oil inventories fell by 3 million barrels week over week, based on the latest weekly petroleum status report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The report placed commercial stocks, which exclude crude held in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, at 412.517 mi Aluminium sheds war premium as LME Week opens in London LME Week 2026 opened in London on Monday, bringing industry leaders together around three main themes: the macroeconomic outlook for base metals, demand tied to artificial intelligence and the energy transition, and the resilience of critical mineral supply chains. The price backdrop they are meetin Iran's Floating Oil Storage Drained Under US Blockade Iran has run down most of the crude it once held in floating storage amid a U.S. Navy blockade of the country's ports, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing data from Kpler. The drawdown of oil parked on tankers, the report said, points to further tightening in global oil supply. The figures Trion campaign tops 10 wells as first subsea tree set Woodside Energy reported in its third-quarter results that ten of the 24 subsea wells planned for the Trion project in the ultra-deepwater US Gulf had been drilled by the end of September. The company also reported that the first subsea tree had been installed on the development. The two milestones

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PDF ATEX / IECEx Compliance Checklist A 289-point field checklist for hazardous-area equipment inspections. PDF Anti-surge Design Checklist 277 design decisions for a centrifugal compressor anti-surge system. XLSX SIL Verification Worksheet PFDavg, RRF and achieved SIL for a safety instrumented function. XLSX Offshore RCM Starter Template Criticality screening, RCM worksheet and failure-finding interval in one workbook. XLSX Turnaround Scope Planner Scope register, crew loading, long-lead orders and gate timeline for a turnaround. XLSX Cause & Effect Matrix Builder An ESD / F&G cause & effect matrix that checks itself (15 checks). XLSX Relief Scenario Matrix 18 overpressure scenarios per item, the governing case and the API 521 fire case. XLSX Alarm Rationalisation Worksheet Master alarm database, priority matrix and ISA-18.2 alarm KPIs.

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