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This episode examines the use of digital tools and resources to effectively plan a refinery/plant turnaround, as well as using those digital technologies to better plan maintenance and operations moving forward.

Hydrocarbon Processing spoke with Udo Dengel, Director Membranes and High Performance Polymers, Evonik, on the latest advancements in gas processing membranes technologies.

This episode, adapted from the article of the same in the July issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, explores how cloud-based analytics software is creating the reliability and maintenance teams of the future.

Hydrocarbon Processing sat down with Muhammad Islam, Vice President, Commercial and Technology, S&B Engineers and Constructors to discuss how projects are changing in the energy transition, what project owners/developers need to know about maximizing regulatory credits (e.g., U.S. IRA) and how EPCs can help project owners/developers to select the optimum flow-scheme and technologies for their respective projects.

Today's project profile is comprised of various stakeholders, processing technologies and vendors. Developers with little experience in major complex projects must now navigate financing challenges, conflicting EPC approaches and entrenched product retailers. These factors add up to a new project risk profile. This podcast examines three critical areas to managing these new project profile risks: project definition, technology selection and stakeholder requirements.

Adapted from the July issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, this podcast details the types of carbon capture technologies, phases of deployment and cost-effective ways to make carbon capture and storage projects economically.

Hydrocarbon Processing sat down with Vikas Dhole, General Manager, Sustainability for Aspen Technology to discuss emissions reduction, including how companies can/are monitoring it, how digital technologies can help reduce emissions and real-world examples of companies using digital technologies to reduce plant emissions.

One of the most popular and important topics affecting the oil and gas industry is emissions. This episode is a discussion with Owen Plowman, Vice President of Business Development, Actenum, and Wes Schumacher, Applied Applications Analyst, Actenum, on emissions forecasting capabilities, tools needed by company leadership to manage present and future emissions responsibilities, key components in emissions capture and a novel technology that can help companies with emissions abatement.

Hydrocarbon Processing sat down with Brian Boeger, Senior Technology Manager, Axens North America, to discuss sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), including incentives and regulations that are increasing its usage globally, the latest processing technologies being used to produce SAF, and the key attributes that make SAF technologies bankable and projects economically viable.

Hydrocarbon Processing had the pleasure of speaking with Bob Maughon, Executive Vice President of Sustainability, Technology and Innovation, SABIC. In this episode, Dr. Maughon provides insights into SABIC's drive for sustainability, including capital investments, EVs, the circular economy, electrically heated steam cracker furnaces, and much more.