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Hydrocarbon
Engineering
On the
front cover
(03)
Comment
(05)
World News
Contract awards, project updates, industry latest, news digest,
diary dates, mergers and acquisitions
(10)
Asia's silver lining
Ng Weng Hoong, Contributing Editor, profiles Asia and looks
at how storage is the evergreen silver lining in oil’s clouded
outlook
(18)
The importance of geotechnical
investigations
Michelle Wagner, Bob Kruger, Rebecca Zackavec, Marty Tellalian
and Mark Butts, CB&I, USA, emphasise the importance of early
and comprehensive geotechnical investigations for LNG tanks
(25)
Avoiding permitting pitfalls
Kyle Dunn, Trinity Consultants, USA, advises on avoiding air
permitting pitfalls for crude oil and condensate terminals
(30)
How safe are your tankers?
Peter Davidson, UKPIA, looks at managing safety risks for
tankers entering terminals
(36)
Rewriting risk assessment and
expectations
David Owen, Hawkes Fire, UK, talks fuel storage asset
protection
(43)
Why can't I use my smartphone?
Michael Hewson, Varec, Inc., USA, looks at mobile data capture
and validation applications for the oil and gas supply chain
(49)
A study in DBB plug valves
George Garcia, Cameron, USA, provides a guide as to how
double block and bleed plug valves work in tank and terminal
applications
(55)
The new global standard
Hans Westerlind, Emerson Process Management, Rosemount
Tank Gauging, Sweden, examines recent trends in overfill
prevention
(62)
A focus on North America
Muthuraman Ramasamy, Frost & Sullivan, USA, looks at the
North American terminal automation market
(67)
Control the heat
Daniel Potter and Derya Turgay-Herz, eltherm GmbH, Germany,
detail the process of engineering design and implementation
of electrical heat tracing systems for frost heave prevention of
large scale cryogenic LNG storage tank systems
(72)
Metering systems versus tank
gauging
Jim Smith and Nicole Gailey, FMC Technologies, USA, discuss
the advantages of dynamic metering systems in hydrocarbon
tank storage applications
(80)
15 questions with...
We talk to Melinda Whitney, President of the ILTA about
the upcoming 35
th
anniversary conference, the future of the
terminals sector and her favourite book
10
Metering for custody transfer and inventory at
tank storage is the cost effective choice due to
their superior accuracy, reliability and stability.
FMC Technologies’ patented the Smith
Meter® rotary vane PD meter 75 years ago and
continues today to develop the technology
and products to ensure highest quality
measurement of liquid petroleum products for
the next three quarters of a century.
2015
Volume 1
Number 01
ISSN 1468-9340
