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A complex transformation

Sanjay Thute, VA Tech WABAG Ltd, India, presents a holistic approach to effluent treatment and sustainable water recycling.

 
 
 
 
 

Rethinking the value chain

Matt Flanagan and Patrick Long, Opportune LLP, USA, explore the importance of integrating crude refining with petrochemicals manufacturing, and its potential to create value in the long term.

 

Reducing the impact of a shutdown

While unplanned downtime will always impact productivity and profitability in an oil refinery or petrochemical plant, the effects often have implications that reach beyond the financial. Safety is critically important, but so is environmental efficiency.

 
 

Picking the right workhorse

Koch-Glitsch evaluates the available tray technologies for pressure distillation towers.

 

ExxonMobil cuts CAPEX by 30%

ExxonMobil has announced reductions in 2020 capital spending by 30% and cash operating expenses by 15% in response to low prices and COVID-19.

 
 
 
 

The future is now

As the pressure to act on climate change builds, McKinsey & Co. suggest that the oil and gas industry should consider a range of options to decarbonise.