Power-plant standards will be finalized by May 2012, and oil refineries by November 2012.
The invention is useful in all hydrocarbon processing units, such as, refineries, distillation columns and other petrochemical industries.
Around the world there has been little investment in new refineries since the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s, which saddled the region with huge overcapacity.
If speculators on the futures markets get carried away, pushing prices so high that refineries run at a loss, they will simply shut down, causing the price to fall again.
Without it we wouldn't have powerlines or oil refineries.
The temblor twisted roads and bridges, while shutting several copper mines and refineries, at least temporarily.
He promised Iran 20,000 barrels a day of petrol, even though Venezuela's refineries are struggling to supply the local market.
The price rise will help motivate the oil refineries, ensure supply in the domestic market, guide rational consumptions and promote emission cuts, an official with the NDRC said.
Indiana's shore is still lined with steel plants and refineries.
The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles of pipeline.
After studying the status of the refineries in China, a gasoline blending optimization software which has a hierarchical structure is developed.
Crude oil sits idle in Asian ports and outside refineries, waiting to benefit from further price hikes, in much the same way as dodgy mortgages are traded at the fringes of a bank's balance sheet.
The decline in crude quality and changing refinery product markets is increasing the hydrogen requirements of oil refineries.
The team has also proposed retrofits for existing oil refineries, mines and microchip factories that would reduce energy use by40 to60 percent, repaying their cost in just a few years.
Well, direct ones are pollution directly from factories, refineries, waste treatment plants etc, aren't they?
Pinon adds that Venezuela is unlikely to carry out threats of further cuts of exports to the U.S. because it relies on American customers and refineries to process its heavy crude.
The damage to ports, railways, power stations, refineries and consumer confidence has already interrupted the country's imports, with some coal shipments diverted elsewhere.
Also in the 1950s, petrochemical industries began locating in New Orleans, followed in the 1970s by oil refineries.
But to make the most of it, the world needs more refineries of a certain design, and those do not spring up overnight.
West Texas Intermediate, an American benchmark, lagged slightly thanks to diminished demand from refineries under repair.
Petroleum refineries, electrical power plants, and chemical plants.
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