Expansion of Ultra-Low Sulfur Product Slate Anticipated to be Complete in 2018
Bechtel has been awarded a contract to upgrade the ExxonMobil refinery in Beaumont, Texas, where the company will apply ExxonMobil's proprietary SCANfining technology to increase the production of motor fuels. "The Bechtel team will apply extensive technical knowledge and global experience to efficiently and safely deliver an enhanced refining facility at Beaumont," said Jack Futcher, president of Bechtel's Oil, Gas and Chemicals business unit. "We look forward to continued collaboration with...
Successful Pilot for Amec Foster Wheeler’s VESTA Once-Through Methanation Technology
Amec Foster Wheeler announces that the pilot plant of its new VESTA once-through methanation technology, with wide H2/CO flexibility, has been successfully tested and is ready for commercial application. The pilot plant in China was developed with the support of partners Wison Engineering (Wison) and Clariant. Test results confirm a number of advantages for VESTA over existing technologies including: The VESTA technology is a once-through operation with no need for expensive compressors...
U.S., Enbridge Reach $177 Million Settlement after 2010 Oil Spills in Michigan and Illinois
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice today announced a settlement with Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership and several related Enbridge companies to resolve claims stemming from its 2010 oil spills in Marshall, Mich. and Romeoville, Ill. Enbridge has agreed to spend at least $110 million on a series of measures to prevent spills and improve operations across nearly 2,000 miles of its pipeline system in the Great Lakes region. Enbridge will als...
Government Subsidies Keeping Wind Energy Afloat: NCPA
Dallas, TX –State subsidies to renewable energy give an unfair advantage to more expensive and inefficient sources of energy, while requiring taxpayers and ratepayers to pick up the tab, warns a new report from the National Center for Policy Analysis. In Texas, the wind energy industry is thriving – largely due to government influence. A mandated Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires Texas retail electricity markets to obtain 10,000 MW of energy from renewable sources in 2025, a...
Big Data Moves Into Buildings
Reduce operating costs, boost energy efficiency, achieve sustainability goals: The energy data of a building or enterprise holds the key. But in and of itself, even a massive amount of data does not represent meaningful information. This is why building technology needs big data methods – processes to meaningfully correlate large amounts of data, like those that are being used in finance and marketing. Powerful analysis tools for energy management provide the necessary data from which suitable m...
Education for Sustainability’s Sake
By Jean Chui Energy efficiency and sustainability are at the heart of the philosophy on education of the United World College South East Asia (UWCSEA). From the facilities to its curriculum and student-led projects, the school made a big effort to green all its building and integrate sustainability into everyday life for its 3000 students. The college is supported by solutions from Siemens and ETH Zurich’s Future Cities Laboratory. In sunny Singapore atop the roof of the United World...
Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute (JXEPDI) Increases Substation Design Efficiency
As an energy industry leader, the Power Construction Corporation of China (POWERCHINA) provides the full range of services from planning, survey, design, and engineering to finance, construction, installation, and operation and maintenance of hydropower, thermal power, new energy, and infrastructure projects. POWERCHINA’s subsidiary, Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute (JXEPDI), delivered the 220 kilovolt Duxiling Substation for owner-operator China State Grid Corporation to support economic...
ScottishPower Strikes a Strategy for Asset Management and Process Safety
Energy company ScottishPower, a division of Iberdrola, was the first power generator and the second company in the world to be certified on BSI Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS 55:2008), which benchmarks best practices, in asset management. AssetWise Performance Management and the Bentley Asset Performance Management (APM) Methodology, coupled with the Amor Group Process Safety Methodology and KPI Dashboard, played a key role in ScottishPower’s achievement. The Need for Change/Challen...
Improving Pipeline Information Sharing
On September 9, 2010, a section of natural gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded leading to significant property damage and the death of 9 people. The cause of the explosion was ultimately traced to defective welds and a decision to increase the pipeline operating pressure. Legal action was taken against the operating company, and a number of its executives are facing criminal indictments. Of particular interest is the charge, under the U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968,...
Situational Intelligence Aids Preparation for the Next Sandy
Severe weather – you can find it every day on the Weather channel, moving across America as large storms (often with tornadoes) that pose a direct threat to the lives and power supply for thousands of utility customers. Space-Time Insight situational intelligence helps utilities rapidly repair outages caused by severe weather. A 10-day outage for 288,000 customers: The $138 million bottom line A serious storm with major outages is expensive. Major events such as Hurricane Sandy can cost in t...
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