With a few genetic modifications, a type of soil bacteria which feeds on hydrocarbons shows potential as a biological factory for turning a renewable—but disappointingly untapped—reward into a replacement for omnipresent plastics.
Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) by IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), an internationally-referenced price reporting agency serving the oil, natural gas and biofuels industries, announces the blending of published spreads between benchmark OPIS NGLs and OPIS PetroChem Wire Olefins and Polymers in the OPIS NGL Forwards Report.
New research by Rice University chemical engineers may facilitate easier characterization of unconventional oil or gas shale formations.
Metrohm is pleased to present a fully automated solution for the determination of Total Acid Number (TAN) and Total Base Number (TBN) in up to 112 samples. This solution is based on the OMNIS Sample Robot and addresses the needs of QC laboratories in the petrochemical industry as well as contract laboratories looking for an efficient solution to cope with high sample loads at the lowest possible cost per sample.
Crude oil is the «lubricant» of the world’s economy. Numerous parameters define the quality of petroleum products and their derivatives. Metrohm’s new brochure «Petrochemical Analysis» is a summary of the most important of these quality parameters and the methods used to check them. Metrohm’s complete know-how (instruments and applications) on petrochemical analysis is accessible on the new webpage petro.metrohm.com
Studies related to X-ray performed by SLAC will aid the oil sector in improving guidelines for corrosion from sulfur in crude oil.
Amazon Filters reports on supply to a major offshore oil and gas operator of a bespoke system to ensure effective diesel filtration to protect critical turbines used for on-board power generation.
The inaugural PEFTEC event took place at the Antwerp Expo in Belgium on 18th and 19th November 2015, and feedback from conference speakers, exhibitors and delegates has been extremely positive.
The Antwerp Expo in Belgium will host a major international petrochemical industry event on 18th and 19th November. PEFTEC 2015 will include a comprehensive conference and seminar programme in addition to an exhibition featuring all of the world’s leading organisations involved with analytical testing and monitoring for process control, research and development, environmental monitoring, occupational safety and quality control in the petroleum and petrochemical sectors.
A new application brief explaining how the use of ED-XRF spectroscopy for at-line analysis of sulfur in fuels can cut production delays from days to minutes is available to download from the SPECTRO website.
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