Oil Change: Using Microbes to Produce Edible Oils
With the food system threatening to crumble under the weight of a growing population, Chris Chuck...
With the food system threatening to crumble under the weight of a growing population, Chris Chuck...
Environmental concerns regarding the palm oil industry are well documented. However, IOIEO’s Sust...
Tod McGreevy and Ramin Lakani discuss the shifting dynamics of oil, gas and biofuels used for tr...
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 9781119794868; Wiley-Scrivener; 2022; eBook US$236; Print $295
In his ongoing series looking at the history of chemical engineering, Martin Pitt considers the h...
Paul Hodges discusses the challenges that companies should consider on the path to a sustainabl...
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 978111947641; Wiley-Scrivener; 2021; US$295
ExxonMobil’s Fawley refinery celebrates 70 years. David White discusses how its history is intert...
Lars Krause and Michael Carus discuss crediting the value of bio- and CO2-based and recycled mate...
Industry will be forced to adapt, says Paul Hodges
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of IChemE’s Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the futur...
Nick Flinn describes the technologies that may play a crucial role as the energy transition develops
Qua Kiat Seng charts the evolution of vegetable oil production
ON 26 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar on how mobile refrigeration can be used to...
What do you do when you unexpectedly lose a crucial piece of your refinery complex? Shahidan Lail...
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 9781118233696; Wiley-Scrivener; 2018; eBook £200.99; Hardcover, £223.00
Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the U...
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy cha...
How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents
Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a...
Preventing asset failure in the refining industry using machine learning
How to stay on budget with large, complex projects
How refineries can overcome CDU challenges to boost the bottom line
FBP journal – a new avenue for the research
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Vladimir Haensel’s brainchild, the platforming process, underpins transport and plastics producti...
Effective use of control valves at critical points can increase conversion and reliability in ole...
Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in Norway to learn about a government-backed scheme to set up ...
Fluid catalytic cracking has been called ‘the most revolutionary chemical engineering achievement...
THE US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has launched an investigation into a ...
GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland will cease refinery operations in the second quarter of 2025 wit...
VEOLIA has sold its North American sulfuric acid regeneration business to private equity group Am...
HONEYWELL is promising to reduce emissions intensity from olefin production by up to 50% with its...
SHELL Downstream South Africa (SDSA) and bp Southern Africa (bpSA) have agreed to sell each of th...
YOUR flight abroad could one day be powered by human waste after a UK company announced plans to ...
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) and bp have licensed their Fischer-Tropsch process to a huge new US$4bn US p...
BP has been granted approval to produce biofuels as its former Kwinana refining site in Australia.
AIR LIQUIDE has been awarded a contract to help build a £1.5bn (US$1.9bn) plant in Teesside, UK t...
GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland could cease operations in 2025 and become a fuel import terminal...
TWO PEOPLE were hospitalised, and three others also injured, after a spill of caustic solution at...
FAILURE to learn from a similar incident investigation released less than a year prior is among s...
SHELL has acquired a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental, a company specialising in the produ...
SAUDI Aramco and TotalEnergies have taken a final investment decision (FID) to construct a huge p...
ESSAR Oil UK, which produces 16% of the UK’s transport fuels, plans to build a £360m (US$430m) ca...
WORLEY has won a contract to help engineer the UK’s first lithium refinery as developers seek to ...
TWO workers have died after sustaining injuries in a fire at a BP-operated refinery in Toledo, Oh...
THE UK has established a Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre in Nottingham to help the country ...
THE Queensland Government has given the green light to stage three of the New Hope Group’s open-c...
Scientists at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) together with Li...
ONE person was killed by a fire which broke out at an ethylene glycol facility belonging to the s...
MEMBRANE reactors, chemical looping processes and thermochemical splitting of water by advanced n...
AUSTRALIA’S oil and gas trade group has said the country should develop new fields to boost energ...
SHELL has announced it will stop buying Russian oil and gas following its contentious purchase of...
WOOD has been appointed as Owner’s Engineer by Green Lithium and will build and operate what is e...
GROWING sugar beet in Scotland and processing it at a new biorefinery could help the country beco...
SHELL will build a new pyrolysis oil upgrader unit at its Pulau Bukom site in Singapore as part o...
WOOD and technology company Honeywell have announced that they will combine green refining and hy...
MAJOR producers of food, ceramics, glass, paper and cars – including PepsiCo and Jaguar Land Rove...
INDUSTRY in north-west England has published a manifesto, calling on the UK Government to impleme...
CHEMICAL engineers at MIT have genetically engineered yeast that are tolerant to toxic biorefinin...
“PROCESS safety is more than just life preservation, it’s about making sure that we look after th...
THE controversial Keystone XL pipeline has been formally scrapped, ending a decades-long struggle...
NEW ZEALAND’S sole refinery is another step closer to being converted into an import terminal aft...
EXXONMOBIL is closing its Altona refinery in Victoria, Australia. The decision comes hot on the h...
BP will stop fuel production at its Kwinana Refinery in Western Australia and convert it to an im...
THE Australian Government and “struggling” oil refiners are in talks to secure a rescue package b...
SEEKING to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Shell has announced that it will install new stat...
AN INTERNATIONAL research team has developed new membrane technology that could reduce carbon emi...
A FIRE at Milnerton Refinery in South Africa has killed two employees and injured seven.
AN explosion at an oilseed processing plant in the UK has injured three people.
NORTH American cobalt company First Cobalt has announced a C$2.1m (US$1.6m) work programme as par...
SOUTH African integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol has announced production cuts to help...
EXXONMOBIL is cutting capital spending this year by 30% and operating expenses by 15% in response...
BP has announced that it will not be cutting any jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
SPAIN’S oil and gas firm Repsol has outlined plans to be carbon neutral by 2050.
HUSKY Energy has received the required permit approvals to move forward with its more than US$400...
THE UK Government has warned in a document it has been forced to disclose that a no-deal Brexit c...
CHEVRON and Woodside Energy are to supply South32-operated joint venture (JV) Worsley Alumina wit...
DUPONT Clean Technologies is licensing its alkylation technology to Shenghong Petrochemical for a...
NESTE and LyondellBasell are claiming an industry-first with the parallel, commercial-scale produ...
LINDE is investing US$1.4bn to expand its gasification complex at Jurong Island in Singapore as p...
REFINERY owner Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) has announced that it is to permanently close ...
EXXONMOBIL has made a final investment decision to spend more than US$1bn expanding its Fawley re...
SAUDI ARAMCO is buying Shell’s 50% share of the SASREF joint venture in Jubail Industrial City, S...
AN explosion and fire occurred at the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor, Malaysia, a re...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it is investing in an expansion project for its Singapore refining ...
SAUDI Aramco has agreed to buy a 70% stake in SABIC for US$69.1bn. It is part of national plans t...
DANISH engineering firm Haldor Topsøe is selling a 30% stake in its business to Singapore state i...
WESTERN Indian state Maharashtra, is to relocate a planned Saudi Aramco refinery due to protest b...
INEOS will invest £1bn (US$1.3bn) in the UK, modernising the Forties pipeline system, building a ...
MERIDIAN Energy Group has announced plans to build what it claims will be the world’s cleanest re...
THE Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has sold off a 35% stake in its refining business to I...
SAUDI Arabia plans to build an oil refinery and a petrochemicals complex in South Africa. This is...
SAUDI Arabia is to invest US$10bn in Pakistan. The Wall Street Journal reports that this investme...
THE oil company Neste is to invest €1.4bn (US$1.6bn) to enable the production of additional renew...
SAUDI Arabia has announced more than US$50bn worth of deals in oil, gas, infrastructure and other...
EXXONMOBIL and BASF are carrying out a full-scale commercial demonstration of a new gas-treating ...
AN explosion has shut down Canada’s largest refinery, operated by Irving Oil in Saint Paul, New B...
INDIGENOUS communities and Chinese companies are planning to build a 167,000 bbl/d refinery in Al...
VIVERGO FUELS has said it is looking to close the UK’s largest bioethanol plant by the end of Sep...
EXXONMOBIL is planning on upgrading its Fawley refinery, in the company’s biggest investment in t...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has said that a deteriorated valve may have caused the explosi...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that its new 1.5m t/y ethane cracker has commenced operations at its int...
AFRICA’S richest man, Aliko Dangote, has agreed a US$650m loan to build the world’s largest singl...
BASF and ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing will work together to develop new gas-treating solven...
IN a bid to diversify its economy away from oil production, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (A...
KBR has been named the second project management contractor for the design of Saudi Aramco and SA...
MARATHON PETROLEUM has agreed to buy Andeavor in a US$36bn deal that will create the largest US r...
AN explosion at a Husky Energy-owned oil refinery in the US has reportedly injured at least 15 pe...
AN explosion and fire has hit Valero Energy’s 225,000 bbl/d Texas City refinery, with no injuries...
Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Saudi Aramco has made an agreement with a consortium of Indian o...
MOTIVA ENTERPRISES has signed MoUs with UOP and TechnipFMC worth as much as US$10bn to explore us...
SAUDI ARAMCO has agreed a deal to take joint ownership of Petronas’ refinery currently under cons...
Angola’s state oil company Sonangol has announced plans to reduce the country’s fuel imports by b...
AN explosion at an oil refinery in Taiwan set off a fire yesterday that took hours to extinguish.
SINOPEC ENGINEERING has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to upgrad...
BAHRAIN PETROLEUM COMPANY (Bapco) has awarded a US$2.4bn expansion contract for its Sitra oil ref...
THE WORLD’S largest dynamic hydrogen electrolysis plant has been inaugurated in Germany, and has ...
EXXONMOBIL will reorganise its refining and chemical operations in an attempt to boost profits am...
SYNGAS made from solar energy has been processed into kerosene for the first time, which research...
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