Taiwan petrochemical plant explosion shuts unit (16 April 2013)
Taiwan’s state-owned refining firm CPC was forced to shut its 500,000 tonne/year No 5 cracker at its Kaohsiung complex on April 5 following a pipeline leak that led to an explosion at the site, a company official said, believed to be at a crude butadiene tank at the site. The subsequent fire was extinguished in about two hours and there were no casualties, the official said.
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Total suggests possibility of Islamist responsibility for 2001 AZF plant explosion (23 July 2012)
New evidence was submitted to the courts on July 4 during the criminal negligence trial of oil group Total's Grande Paroisse subsidiary, accused by prosecutors of responsibility for the huge blast at the AZF fertiliser plant in Toulouse on 21 September 2001 which left 31 dead and 30,000 homes damaged.
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Feedback on COMAH (29 May 2012)
UK Chemicals sector companies have until June 15 to feed in their experiences of working with national regulators and local authorities on the enforcement of the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) regulations. The government wants to use evidence gathered from businesses involved in chemicals, either manufacturing or storage, to improve enforcement and compliance.
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HSE Chair tells UK process industries to raise their game (03 April 2012)
At a special conference on the 15 March 2012, UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Chair Judith Hackitt CBE emphasised the critical role of process safety management to an audience of senior executives and board members from across the high hazard process industries.
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Support for South African petrochemical industry (04 October 2010)
EES has lent a hand of support to the petrochemical industry in South Africa with the proud launch of its specialist refinery support operating systems outside Johannesburg in South Africa.
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ISA100.11a at work (06 August 2010)
The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute has installed a multi-vendor User Test of the technology at an Arkema plant in Crosby, Texas, demonstrating interoperability among devices from multiple vendors. Arkema is a €5.6B diversified global chemicals manufacturer with 80 industrial sites in more than 40 countries and six research and development centres.
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Guidance on petroleum road tanker design and construction (18 June 2010)
The Energy Institute (EI) has recently published a new edition of Petroleum road tanker design and construction. It provides comprehensive recommendations for the design and construction of road tankers for the conveyance of petrol, kerosene, diesel and gas oil.
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Facility safety practices investigated (11 January 2010)
The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will be conducting a full investigation of the October 23rd 2009 explosion and fire at Caribbean Petroleum Refining. CSB investigators continue to examine the events and circumstances surrounding the catastrophic tank explosion and fire.
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3.2 Million-Ton Petrochemical Complex at Tianjin, China (11 January 2010)
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) celebrated partnership in their petrochemical complex at Tianjin, China. The two companies formed Sinopec Sabic Tianjin Petrochemical Company in 2008 as a 50/50 joint-venture to build and operate the facility.
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Multi-plant facility in the Netherlands chooses optimal migration approach (24 December 2009)
Sabic Innovative Plastics will migrate all existing PROVOX process control and safety systems at its multi-plant production facility in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands, to the ‘state-of-the-art’ DeltaV digital automation system from Emerson Process Management. The facility will also add Emerson's DeltaV SIS safety management systems.
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