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As CCS projects scale across Europe and beyond, insulation plays a vital role in efficiency, durability, and process reliability. PAROC® and FOAMGLAS® insulation solutions provide solutions across the wide temperature ranges found in CCS operations, helping reduce energy losses, minimise corrosion under insulation (CUI), protect personnel, and support long-term plant performance.
In the August issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering, Luis Alberto Torres-Morales, Jorge Luis Cabrera-Amador, and Leandro Ruiz-Ruiz, Braskem Idesa, alongside Ian Buttridge and David Lin, GTI Solutions, discuss how optimised demethanisers design can reduce methane slip and improve energy efficiency, with a particular focus on two retrofit projects.
In this special report, Antonio Dávila Ortega, the Netherlands, presents a conceptual framework for integrated pathway evaluation using KPI standardisation, compatibility assessment concepts, and MCDA methodologies for biofuel developments.
Recent Wood Mackenzie’s analysis warns that European gas storage at a historically low level, combined with renewed Strait of Hormuz disruption, has driven spot prices more than 50% above their June lows and placed winter 2026/27 supply security at risk.
Gulf crude exports fall 82% from January to June; Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar record zero exports as Strait of Hormuz remains severely constrained, Wood Mackenzie has reported.
MSA outlines the critical role that gas and flame detection plays across the LNG value chain.
In a recent blog, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) explains why the US imports crude oil despite being the world’s largest crude oil producer.
After the war in the Middle East began, fuel prices at the pump surged in some countries and barely moved in others. The IEA offers commentary.
Gastech 2026 will take place in Bangkok, Thailand from 14 – 17 September 2026, uniting global decision makers and energy leaders to address urgent supply security and system resilience priorities amid mounting geopolitical instability.
In the July issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering, Naomi Baker, BCCK, USA, explains why nitrogen removal is increasingly critical in natural gas processing and how cryogenic distillation provides an effective large scale solution by delivering high methane recovery, meeting stringent specifications, and enabling economically viable treatment of high-nitrogen gas streams.
In this special report, Marco Ayala, ABS Consulting, explores how oil, gas, and chemical facilities can map their tolerable risk state to sustain uptime amid supply chain and cyber vulnerabilities.
Jenny Cabrera, Octave, explores the operational, engineering and workforce strategies UK chemical plants can adopt to navigate a prolonged period of underutilisation.