ABOUT US
Since it was formed in 1987, our company has been committed to serving the refining and petrochemicals industries by providing the most comprehensive and insightful business and technology information available. Our intelligence newsletters, strategic reports, online services, and consulting services are of the highest quality, produced by a dedicated team of technology analysts, consultants, and editors. We share the same mission-Translating Knowledge into Profitability-for our clients worldwide.
Our success is a result of product offerings in the Refining Knowledge Management Network (RKMN). The RKMN portfolio includes a weekly business newsletter (Worldwide Refining Business Digest Weekly.e), a quarterly technology newsletter (Worldwide Refinery Processing Review), and industry status reports (grouped under the Worldwide Refining and Petrochemical Industry Monitor program).
We also publish multi-client, strategic reports to evaluate urgent issues and identify upcoming challenges for refiners and suppliers.
In May 2008, Hydrocarbon Publishing Company and the Crude Oil Quality Group (COQG) co-hosted the Opportunity Crudes 2008 conference in Houston, Texas (US). The next Opportunity Crudes conference will be held in 2010.
Our clients include refiners, petrochemicals producers, engineering firms, equipment companies, and catalysts and chemicals suppliers. A partial list of subscribers to our newsletters, reports, and services includes:
US & CANADA
Air Products and Chemicals
Albemarle Catalysts
Aspen Technology
BASF Catalysts
Bechtel
BP
CB&I
CDTECH
Chevron
Citgo Petroleum
ConocoPhillips
Criterion Catalysts & Technologies
ExxonMobil
Flint Hills Resources
Fluor
Foster Wheeler
Giant Industries
Haldor Topsoe
Hess
Honeywell
Husky Oil (Canada)
Imperial Oil (Canada)
INTERCAT
Invensys Intelligent Automation
Irving Oil (Canada)
Jacobs Engineering
KBR
LyondellBasell
Marathon Petroleum
Motiva Enterprises
PQ
Praxair
Saint Gobain-Norpro
Shell Canada (Canada)
Stone & Webster/Shaw Group
STRATCO/Du Pont
Sud Chemie/United Catalysts
Suncor Energy (Canada)
Sunoco
Syncrude Canada (Canada)
Tesoro
UOP
Valero Refining
W.R. Grace/Davison
WorleyParsons
EUROPE
Agip Petroli (Italy)
Albemarle Catalysts (the Netherlands)
AMEC Engrg. (UK)
Axens (France)
BP Int'l (UK)
BP Oil Espana (Spain)
CEPSA (Spain)
Chimec SpA (Italy)
Davy Process Technology (UK)
DEA Mineralol AG (Germany)
Edeleanau GmbH (Germany)
EniTecnologie (Italy)
Fortum Oil and Gas Oy (Finland)
Haldor Topsoe (Denmark)
Hellenic Fuels and Lubricants AE (Greece)
Holborn Europa Raffinerie GmbH (Germany)
IPLOM (Italy)
ISAB (Italy)
Johnson Matthey (UK)
KBC Process Tech (UK)
MiRO Mineraloelraffinerie Oberrhein (Germany)
MOL RT Hungarian Oil & Gas (Hungary)
Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries, S.A. (Greece)
OMV Refining & Marketing GmbH (Austria)
Petroleos del Norte SA (Spain)
Rafineria Gdanska SA (Poland)
Repsol YPF SA (Spain)
Scranraff (Sweden)
Shell Global Solutions (the Netherlands)
Slovnaft, as (Slovakia)
Snamprogetti (Italy)
StatoilHydro(Norway)
Techimont (Italy)
Technip Italy (Italy)
TOTAL (France)
Uhde GmbH (Germany)
Wintershall AG (Germany)
LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN
Ecopetrol (Colombia)
ENAP (Chile)
EG3 SA (Argentina)
Hovensa (V.I.)
Intevep SA (Venezuela)
IMP (Mexico)
ISAURA SA (Argentina)
Pemex (Mexico)
Petrobras (Brazil)
Petroleos de Venezuela SA
Petroperu (Peru)
Petrotrin (Trinidad and Tobago)
Petrox SA (Chile)
Refineria Dominicana (Dom. Rep.)
Refineria Isla (Curazao) SA (Neth. Antilles)
YPF S.A. (Argentina)
MIDDLE EAST
Abu Dhabi Nat'l Oil (UAE)
King Fahd University of Pet. & Min. (Saudi Arabia)
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (Kuwait)
Kuwait National Petroleum (Kuwait)
Qatar National Oil Distribution Co (Qatar)
Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
Tupras Genel Mudurlugu (Turkey)
AFRICA
Caltex Oil (S. Africa)
Engen Petroleum (S. Africa)
Nat. Pet. Ref. of
S.Africa (Pty) Ltd.
Suez Oil Processing (Egypt)
ASIA- PACIFIC
Attock Refinery (Pakistan)
Caltex Refineries (NSW) (Australia)
Chinese Petroleum (Taiwan)
Chiyoda (Japan)
Engineers India (India)
Fuji Oil (Japan)
ITOCHU Int'l (Japan)
Hindustan Petroleum (India)
Hyundai Eng. & Const. (S. Korea)
Idemitsu Kosan (Japan)
Indian Oil Corp. (India)
JGC (Japan)
LG-Caltex Oil (S. Korea)
New Zealand Refining (New Zealand)
Nippon Oil (Japan)
Pertamina (Indonesia)
PetroChina (China)
Petron (the Philippines)
Petronas (Malaysia)
Research Institute of Petroleum Refining/CPCC (China)
Shell Co of Australia (Australia)
Singapore Rfg (Singapore)
Sinopec (China)
SK Corp. (S. Korea)
Thai Oil (Thailand)