As energy security and the optimisation of hydrocarbons have become global priorities, the role of refineries – a key element in turning an extracted substance into something valuable – has grown in ...

After raising $60 million, Westwin Elements built its pilot plant in Lawton, Okla., a miniature 40-acre plant that produced ...

A revamp of the crude unit in ConocoPhillips’ Ponca City, Okla., refinery has allowed the refiner to process a lower-cost slate and increased overall refinery profitability. This article, the second ...

Purpose: Optimize, troubleshoot, and design refinery process units to maximize throughput, yield, energy efficiency, reliability, and regulatory compliance while safeguarding people, assets, and the ...

Green Fuels Operating, by its title alone, is emerging as an anomaly in the energy industry. In an industry long recognized as a significant source of air pollution, the company that is planning a net ...

Researchers at the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources (SER) spent much of the fall semester overseeing the construction of a coal-to-products field demonstration plant at the Wyoming ...

I.1 Process monitoring and optimization: Lead daily technical stewardship of assigned units (e.g., crude/vacuum, hydrotreating, reforming, FCC, hydrocracking, sulfur ...