China National Offshore Oil Corp. Ltd. or CNOOC, said Tuesday that it has received a notice to respond to prosecutors of a lawsuit filed in Chinese court on behalf of 29 fisherman seeking damages from oil spills at its Penglai 19-3 oil field in Bohai Bay in June.
Talisman has announced its capital spending plans for 2012. The company expects to spend slightly over $4 billion this year, a decrease of approximately $500 million over 2011, although it will increase spending on liquids opportunities within the portfolio. Talisman will release its year-end 2011 results on February 15. All values in this release are in US$ unless otherwise stated.
Muftah H El-Naas Associate Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, and Director, Unit of Internally Funded Projects, Research Affairs, UAE University, Al-Ain
Petroleum refining is an essential step in converting crude oil into useful products such as fuels and petrochemicals. The refining process usually results in generating huge amounts of wastewater that must go through a combination of treatment steps to reduce the concentrations ...[more]
Vladimir Georgievich Kutcherov Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Information on the phase behaviour of crude oils under pressure is a subject of great interest in view of the problem of production and transport of hydrocarbons from offshore zones in the Arctic, which will be widely expanded in the near future. The main goals of experimental...[more]
Yanyong Liu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba
Fischer–Tropsch (F–T) synthesis produces sulphur-free hydrocarbons from synthesis gas (syngas), which is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Syngas can be obtained from biomass, coal and natural gas by gasification and/or reforming. Therefore, by using the F–T synthesis ..[more]
Alexandre Eykerman Sales Director, LNG/CNG, Wärtsilä Ship Power
Since 2005, dual-fuel (DF) engines have been the preferred method of propulsion for liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, and are the most suitable for powering vessels operating in emission-controlled areas (ECAs). With 4,000,000kW of DF technology expected to be in operation by 2010, the Wärtsilä 50DF...[more]
Joost Ballieux International Sales Manager, Peinemann Equipment BV
Sasol, in Moers, Germany, asked its in-house contractor Schliemann to come up with a safer and more automatic system to clean its heat exchangers. Schliemann, an independent contractor in Germany, decided to turn to Peinemann of Holland, a leader in specialised heat exchanger cleaning and extraction equipment...[more]
Eric Kaysen Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety, Flint Hills Resources, LP
Flint Hills Resources, LP, which operates refineries in Alaska, Minnesota and Texas with a combined processing capacity of more than 800,000 barrels per day, has reduced emissions substantially in the last dozen years. As part of its continuous improvement approach, the company has spent ...[more]
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