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Allison Newell explains the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the tools and approaches needed for a truly diverse workplace
DR Allison Newell is an environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) consultant with her own consultancy ESGenuine. She works with a number of tank terminal companies, and others, helping them to improve their corporate social responsibility…
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FGE’s Grayson Lim reports on the trends in Asia’s crude markets
The rapid economic development in Asia has resulted in strong oil demand growth in recent decades. In tandem with this, close to 13.3 million bpd of refining capacity was added during 2010-2020. Despite the current subdued state of refining business largely due to the COVID-19 crisis, around 3.1 million bpd of refining capacity…
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China’s economy weathered the COVID-19 storm but there are still pressures to face
China’s bounceback from the pandemic shocks of early 2020 was one of the few economic success stories of last year. This year, however, the world’s second largest economy has rattled global financial markets as long-running worries about the huge debts amassed by its commercial sector crystallised around the…
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Stolthaven Terminals president Guy Bessant tells Tank Storage Magazine about the company’s planned new terminal with Revivegen in Taiwan
Stolthaven Terminals recently announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Taiwanese company Revivegen Environmental Technology to build a greenfield terminal in Kaohsiung Port, Taiwan. The terminal will mostly handle and store petrochemicals and…
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Vopak India managing director Deepak Dalvi discusses the company’s partnership with Aegis Logistics for LPG in India
Vopak has been active in India since 2011, when it bought CRL Terminals at Kandla Port in Gujarat from a local operator, seeing the potential of the growing Indian market. The company owns two terminal sites in the country, a chemical terminal and a vegetable oils terminal, with…
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Kees Oerlemans from nVent explains how smart electric heat tracing systems and innovative tank insulation are helping tank farm owners react to changing demand
Seismic change is on the horizon for the chemical storage sector. For many years, the industry has relied on oil production as its main source of new investment streams. In 2020, however, this well-established trend was challenged. As a…
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Dr Zsuzsanna Gyenes from the IChemE Safety Centre explains why you should only try to manage what matters, and not try to manage everything
Process safety and plant integrity can be supported by the thorough application for both lagging and leading indicators, or metrics. These are as useful as the knowledge of their practical application as well as the limitations.
What is very common for…
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Jess Twemlow from Ricardo looks at the six benefits for a business
A life cycle assessment (LCA) determines the environmental impact of a product at each stage of its life cycle. It looks at the impact of extracting raw materials for the product, the resources used during manufacturing, how it is distributed to the end-user, its impact when people are using it, and what happens after it has…
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Tim Doggett from the Chemical Business Association reviews the implications of the Rules of Origin for UK–EU trade for the chemical industry
the uk’s international trade figures over the last two years have been riding a rollercoaster as a result of Brexit, the end of the transition period, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The figures have shown what the Office of National Statistics…
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Steve Elliott from the Chemical Industries Association looks at how the UK chemical industry bucked the downward trend in 2020 and how it will continue to thrive
For the UK chemical industry, 2020 was meant to be a year of preparing for the end of the transition period between the UK and EU before getting to grips with our subsequent new trading relationship. Although this still transpired, it…
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Why the chemical industry needs to stay focussed on sustainability and flexibility in the supply chain
The last few years have been exceptional for all industries and there have been many trends and changes.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have increased consumers’ concerns, not only for their own health, but the health of the planet. Increasing concern over carbon…
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Yogesh Mehta tells Tank Storage Magazine about Petrochem Middle East’s new terminal, the move into manufacturing, and a recruitment drive for fresh talent
Petrochem Middle East began life in 1995, and in the 26 years since, has grown to be the largest chemical distributor in the Middle East and the tenth largest chemical distributor in the world. It supplies industries including the…
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The 55th edition of EPCA Annual Meeting will be held online on 5–7 October 2021
The theme of the 2021 annual meeting of the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA), ‘Future Reimagined’ will drive the conversation and reflection on the future of the petrochemical industry along with its value chain and its place in the world.
In October 2020, the 54th EPCA Annual Meeting concluded with a…
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A family of products for the fuel loading industry
woodfield is a global leader in designing, manufacturing and providing sales and services for customised bulk fluid handling and safety access solutions. We provide solutions and systems for loading and unloading of a huge array of products in the oil and gas, chemical/petrochemical and cryogenic sectors, for road, rail, marine and aviation bulk…
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Re-Gen Robotics’ Managing Director Fintan Duffy discusses how years spent manually cleaning oil tanks, gave him the drive, passion and expertise to grow a robotic tank cleaning company that would take workers out of tanks for good
Up until the launch of Re-Gen Robotics in March 2019, the only tank cleaning option available to terminal operators was to send personnel inside fuel tanks with…
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Joseph Nassif, president at Noon Advisory Group, gives a preview of the presentation he will be giving at this year’s ILTA Conference & Tradeshow in Houston
strategy has been defined by multiple business authors as set of management practices, tools and decisions that yield an advantaged competitive position for the business. Simply said, it means managing the maintenance function better…
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Foam has been the main extinguishing agent of choice for flammable liquid fires for more than 100 years, but the tank storage industry is now at a crossroads with its usage
there is growing concern about the long term environmental and health effects of one specific family of chemicals that has been used extensively in firefighting foam for more than 50 years. These are fluorosurfactants,…
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In another of the Tank Talk webinar series Alex Hennessey, customer success manager for DroneDeploy, talks about the best ways of using drone data to inspect, document and improve efficiency at the terminal
DroneDeploy is the leading software platform for commercial drones. It is a cloud-based platform that creates a digital twin of all sites, assets, and infrastructure. Partnering with…
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Learn about the findings in a new joint study into the energy transition, recently presented in a Tank Talk webinar by FETSA and UPEI
The Federation of European Tank Storage Associations (FETSA), representing European bulk liquid storage, and UPEI – the Voice of Europe’s Independent Fuel Suppliers, recently published a landmark study on the implications of the energy transition for the…
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Well Services Group explains why there is space in the market for conventional cleaning methods as well as reduced or non-person entry alternatives
the world of product storage is ever changing with the introduction of new fuels and technology. Yet the methodology to clean a tank or process vessel has stayed relatively unchanged for many years, i.e., transfer of products, de-sludge and process,…
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