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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

Troubleshooting TEG Gas Dehydration Units: Glycol Losses, Foaming and BTEX Emissions

Process Engineering

Troubleshooting TEG Gas Dehydration Units: Glycol Losses, Foaming and BTEX Emissions

A field-oriented guide to TEG dehydrator problems: mapping glycol loss, diagnosing foaming, managing reboiler chemistry and rich-lean exchanger fouling, and controlling BTEX and VOC emissions with circulation tuning and flash tanks.

20 Oct 2026 · 10 min read

Managing Spill and Ignition Risks in Ship-to-Ship Crude Transfer Operations

Managing Spill and Ignition Risks in Ship-to-Ship Crude Transfer Operations

How HSE and marine teams can control spill and ignition risk in crude STS transfers: POAC competence, hazard identification, fender and hose management, personnel transfer and emergency response, aligned with OCIMF and ISGOTT guidance.

19 Oct 2026 · 10 min read

Tank Bottom Corrosion and Inspection Intervals at High-Throughput Crude Terminals

Asset Integrity and Corrosion

Tank Bottom Corrosion and Inspection Intervals at High-Throughput Crude Terminals

How product-side and soil-side corrosion attack crude tank floors, why higher stock turnover undermines historic corrosion rates, and how to keep API 653 internal inspection intervals defensible using updated rate data and RBI.

19 Oct 2026 · 9 min read

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21 Oct Uniper Extends CEO Lewis's Tenure by Five Years Uniper will keep its chief executive, Lewis, in the role for another five years, the German power and gas utility has announced. The company described the move as an early reappointment and said it "provides continuity of leadership during a critical phase of strategic execution". The announcement d 21 Oct Equinor Scales Back Electrification at Troll Gas Field Equinor has cut back the electrification program for Troll, the largest gas field in Norway. In the company's assessment, sticking to the original plan would have interrupted output from the field at the wrong time. The announcement signals a change of course for a program aimed at converting how th 21 Oct Oil Majors Set for Q3 Profit Jump on Iran Conflict Boost The largest oil and gas companies are preparing to report a sharp rise in third-quarter earnings, according to a preview published by Offshore Engineer. The publication attributes the expected jump to stronger refining and trading results, which it links to the conflict between the United States, Is 21 Oct Union Vega Orders Two Breeze-Designed Battery-Hybrid PSVs Union Vega Offshore has placed an order with Fujian Mawei Shipyard for two battery-hybrid platform supply vessels (PSVs), with four more held as options. The newbuilds are to be built to the Breeze design. As structured, the contract commits the owner to two firm vessels while leaving room for the s 20 Oct China's LNG imports slip 1.4 percent in September Liquefied natural gas imports into China in September were 1.4 percent lower than in the same month a year earlier, according to figures the country reported. The comparison is year on year, setting September's purchases against those of September in the prior year rather than against the preceding

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