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The role of microbiology in oil industry, from the laboratory research to the pilot MEOR test

One-half to two-third of the oil ever found is still in the reservoir even after primary and secondary production.
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Upstream Information Systems developments from the perspective of integration in the last 5 years

Thanks to the spread of efficient information technology (IT) systems over the past twenty years, but especially in the last decade, the upstream process has been accelerating significantly in the oil and gas industry.
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iCore – Development results and prospects

A new approach to modelling conventional and special core analyses has been studied and identified as a feasible answer to challenges arising in certain aspects of data acquisition processes in this field.
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Examination of the relationship between ESCR and the molecular structure of HDPE blow molding grades

The environmental stress crack resistance (ESCR) is an important property of HDPE (high density polyethylene) products especially of blow molded products.
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Examination of the effects of different internal electron donors of Ziegler-Natta catalysts on propylene polymerization

There are two polypropylene (PP) plants operating at TVK (Hungary) based on Spheripol process, at nominal capacity of 100 and 180 kt/y respectively.
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New pathways for microbial inoculate fermentation

A consortium for R&D was founded to develop and test effective and economical technologies facilitating the decrease of environmental risks.
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Oil-source rock correlation using GC fingerprints

In petroleum exploration it is important to know the origin of the found oils: to relate them to each other and to their source rocks (oil-oil and oil-source rock correlation), estimate their thermal maturity based on geochemical parameters.
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Spreading of plate heat exchanger applications in oil and gas industry

The paper presents an examination of the general types and typical heat properties of the used plate heat exchangers in modern gas processing plants.
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Application assessment of membrane-based gas separation technology

A significant proportion of natural gas fields in production or in development held by MOL Plc. in and out of Hungary contain large quantities of inert gases in combination with methane as principal component.
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Hydrocyclone separation in oil industry – Part 2.

By the end of the last century the application of oil industry hydrocyclones had become common practice primarily in the field of crude oil production but the hydrocyclone separation technologies had appeared also in the refining processes.
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Steam-cracking of waste plastics to produce monomers

Thermal decomposition of different types of waste polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) is presented.
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Object-based modelling in a turbidite type reservoir

The three medium size turbidite systems (Földvár Felsô A-1, Földvár Felsô A-2, Földvár Felsô A-3), summarized as the Földvár gas reservoirs (Hungary), have been captured in a 3D geological model on the base of a layer cake modelling technique.
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The sand of time in the pump –
An introduction to a new type of tubing pump: Farr Plunger Plusz (B&Sz)

During the extraction of oil fields, numerous factors can worsen the efficiency of down hole pumping.
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Hydrocyclone separation in the oil industry – Part 1

The oldest traditional method employed in the oil industry for the separation of different fluid phases is settling.
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Laboratory modelling on enchanced gas and condensate recovery

Gas condensate fields produce gradually less condensate because of retrograde condensation when pressure drops beneath the dewpoint pressure.
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Integrated modelling of Pusztaföldvár Underground Gas Storage from reservoir to the surface

The objective of this article is to present a fully integrated model of an underground gas storage (UGS) field from the reservoir level up to the separator level.
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Killing two birds with one stone - Barlahida 3D seismic acquisition and processing

Ten years ago MOL E&P required a new 3D acquisition in the Zala area, Western Hungary.
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VGO hydrocracking plant reconstruction in Slovnaft Bratislava Refinery (BR)

In 2009, the Slovnaft Bratislava Refinery vacuum gas oil hydrocracking unit was revamped.
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Development of special polypropylene grade for spunbond application at Slovnaft Petrochemicals

The article provides a broad overview on global polypropylene fiber production and especially on market trends for nonwoven where polypropylene plays an important role.
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Installation of an electrostatic precipitator in the FCC plant of Duna Refinery (DR)

After the revamp of DR FCC unit in 2005 over the limit dust emission was measured in the flue gas of the unit.
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IT application
– Quality improvement at Petrochemicals Division

This article includes an overview of TVK quality improvement and the applied IT solutions, Lotus Notes applications and its advantages.
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Possibilities for processing of used lubricating oils

In this paper the options of recycling of used lubricating oils including reprocessing, reclamation and rerefining are discussed.
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Experiences of the SIL project

Who has never heard the phrase ’this shutdown loop is SIL3’, but do we actually know what that phrase means? What does such a statement entail to MOL that an instrumented safety tasks should be compliant with SIL1, SIL2 or SIL3?
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Gas supply security or enhanced gas recovery?

In January 2006, a serious havaria situation emerged in the gas transmission of Central Europe due to the dispute between Ukraine and Russia leading to a shutdown of gas supplies.
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Transporting benzene and toluene by pipeline – First at MOL in the world

Start of TVK Olefin 1 unit in August 2003 and of the new Olfin-2 Plant in the following year has created a 710 kto/year transport demand increase between Százhalombatta and Tiszaújváros.
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Possibilities for processing for used lubricating oils – Part 1.

In this paper the necessity and importance of recycling of used motor oils are reviewed.
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Chemically stabilized rubber bitumens

It was proven that blending bitumen with crumb rubber, which is produced from scrap tires, is not just a waste treating method, but an excellent solution to improve the performance of asphalt pavements compared to roads made of conventional bitumen. The application of rubber bitumen is most widely spread in the US, where the production of the rubber modified binder is in situ, close to the road construction.
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Capture diesel growth opportunity in Danube Refinery – Hydrocracking Project Package

The emerging challenge for the EU refining industries is the rapidly growing diesel demand. While simply adding more distillation capacities could help to ease the diesel situation, such stand-alone solutions would, however, also result in higher motor gasoline output to an already long EU motor gasoline market.
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Ethylene Recovery from Ethyleneoxide Unit Offgases

This paper depicts one possibility how to increase the benefit at the Ethylene oxidation 2 unit in Bratislava Refinery. The refinery offgases can contain valuable components e.g. ethylene, propylene or hydrogen, which are used only as fuel gases. There are some possibilities, how to remove them from the offgas stream and use as important raw material.
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Examination of new turbo-feed pumps construction for Power Plant boilers

Unit P4.1 Power Plant is situated in Refinery Slovnaft Plc. Power Plant main task is supply superheated steam (pressure levels 0.4, 1.0 and 3.5 MPa) and electric power to Slovnaft refinery. High pressure superheated steam is produced on five high pressure steam boilers with installed load on 780 tonns per hour. Electric power is produced on four steam turbines with installed power 114 MWe.
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Implementation of Operator Training System in the MOL Danube Refinery

The Operator Training System (OTS) is a useful tool developed to train operators in a virtual environment under offline conditions. With the help of the OTS, operators are able to learn how to operate existing/future plants to maximise the asset value via solving operational problems in the shortest possible time.
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Kutatás-Termelés Divízió szakmai tevékenysége

After a widespread consultation process with the management of the Exploration and Production of MOL Plc. the authors summarised the professional activity of the Division. The scope of activities covers the whole upstream process from generating exploration project ideas to supply the produced and prepared hydrocarbon into pipelines.
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Mol szénhidrogén-kutatási siker Pakisztánban

MOL Pakistan and Partners (OGDC, PPL, POL) had several major discoveries in the NW frontier Province of Pakistan, in the Kohat plateau. Previous operator drilled 3 dry, relatively shallow wells and left with a basically strikeslip-type interpretation.
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