DIY Common Sense SEO

November 3, 2009 – 4:12 PM
Common Sense

The possible SEO options are endless. Don't be a fool doing things without good reason.

SEO - the art of being googled by the most relevant googlers, bingos, and yahoos.

The world of SEO is often clouded with arguments of what the best practice is for various technical tactics.  It is made more confusing by arguments of what constitutes white-hat (good) and black-hat (evil) tactics. In this post I will not get into complex or controversial SEO. There are a million things you can do for SEO, many that YOU shouldn’t attempt and many that NOBODY should attempt.  I’m going to skip all that and give you the most basic and long-lasting SEO tactics that exist.  These are the tactics you will want to use as a foundation for all your SEO efforts, whether you decide to soldier on into more advanced SEO, or find a trustworthy SEO company worth outsourcing to.

  1. Unique & Useful Content
    Every webpage has information on it. To have a page win in search engines, it must first win in content.  The information you provide should be useful, organized, unique, and entertaining (at least give it a goofy picture).

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5 Common Traits of Great Websites

September 2, 2009 – 7:15 PM

The Creative Services Team at Petropages have been creating some amazing websites in an industry where amazing websites are not so common. Here I want to overview 5 common traits in the websites they have made that differentiate them from average websites.

1. Great Looks

So fresh and so clean

So fresh and so clean

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New Projects in the Process and Power Generation Industries

July 17, 2009 – 8:04 AM

Below are details of 7 recently awarded contracts to different engineering firms.  As new projects are given out to engineering, procurement and construction firms in the petrochemical industry, we will continue to aggregate the data and post the relevant information.  The 7 upcoming projects are:

  1. Jubail Export Refinery Project
  2. Integrated Gas Systems Projects at the Ruwais and Habshan Gas Plants
  3. Distributed Control System (DCS) Modernization Project
  4. Modernization of Oil Refinery in the Skikda, Algeria
  5. Pilot-scale Algae-based Integrated Biorefinery
  6. New 250 KTA Polypropylene Facility at PT PERTAMINA (PERSERO) Balongan Complex in West Java, Indonesia
  7. FEED for Topsides Facilities for the Chevron Jack & St. Malo Project

1. Jubail Export Refinery Project

  • Estimated Cost: $1.6bn
  • Operating Company: SATORP (Saudi Aramco and Total of France)
  • Engineering Firm: Samsung Engineering
  • Construction Firm: Samsung Engineering
Description: Samsung Engineering (President & CEO Yeon-Joo Jung) stated that the company won 2 refinery plants amounting to 1.6bn USD from SATORP, a joint venture that includes Saudi Aramco and Total of France. Samsung Engineering was awarded 2 main plants out of the 5 process packages from the ‘Jubail Export Refinery Complex’ project which will be constructed in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia.The Aromatics plant, at a value of $700M USD, will produce 700,000 MTPA of Paraxylene and 140,000 MTPA of Benzene. Samsung Engineering will provide the engineering, procurement and construction of this package on a lump-sum turn key basis, with completion scheduled for August 2012.The Delayed Coker unit with a contract value of approximately $900M USD, which was obtained through a strategic collaboration between Samsung Engineering and Japanese global leading EPC company Chiyoda. By June 2013, the unit is expected to produce 100,000 BPSD of light hydrocarbon such as LPG and naptha through a thermal cracking process of heavy hydrocarbon.
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2. Integrated Gas Systems Projects at the Ruwais and Habshan Gas Plants

  • Estimated Cost: $9.2 billion
  • Operating Company: Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd (GASCO)
  • Engineering Firm: JGC, Tecnimont, Hyundai Engineering and Construction, CBI, Petrofac, and Korea’s GS Construction and Engineering
  • Construction Firm: JGC, Tecnimont, Hyundai Engineering and Construction, CBI, Petrofac, and Korea’s GS Construction and Engineering
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New Projects for Engineering Firms

July 16, 2009 – 1:56 PM

Below are details of  recently awarded contracts to different engineering firms.  As new projects are given out to engineering, procurement and construction firms in the petrochemical industry, we will continue to aggregate the data and post the relevant information.

  1. First Phase of Imperial Oil’s Kearl Project
  2. Ohio USA—Coal-Fired Power Plant
  3. New Pipeline from Alaska to Canada
  4. Pre-FEED Contract for CO2 Capture Plant
  5. PNG LNG Upstream Projects Services Contract by ExxonMobil
  6. New Jubail Export Refinery in Saudi Arabia
  7. 800,000 Tons/Year Liquefied Natural Gas Plant in China

1. First Phase of Imperial Oil’s Kearl Project

  • Estimated Cost: $1.5 billion
  • Operating Company: Imperial Oil
  • Engineering Firm: Fluor; awarded July 7, 2009
  • Construction Firm: Fluor; awarded July 7, 2009
Description: Infrastructure and offlease facilities for the first phase of Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands project, a surface mining and bitumen extraction operation located 70 kilometers northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

2. Ohio USA—Coal-Fired Power Plant

  • Estimated Cost: $3.25 billion
  • Operating Company: American Municipal Power-Ohio
  • Engineering Firm: Bechtel
  • Construction Firm: Bechtel
Description: 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Meigs County, Ohio. The facility will use state-of-the-art emission control equipment, making it one of the cleanest plants of its type in the country. The plant will supply power to municipal electric systems in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and West Virginia.

3. New Pipeline from Alaska to Canada

  • Engineering Firm: Bechtel
  • Construction Firm: Bechtel
Description: Gas mainline portion of a project that will deliver natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to markets in Canada and the United States. The mainline project includes the pipeline and associated compressor stations from Alaska’s North Slope to Alberta, Canada. Bechtel was chosen in part because of its extensive experience designing and constructing major pipelines, including some of the worlds longest.

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Finding Industrial Suppliers

July 7, 2009 – 3:45 PM

Here at PetroPages we try to make it as easy as possible for professionals from the process industries to find the right supplier.  They can find suppliers by navigating through a system of 5000 product categories organized in a simple drill down manner that are also searchable.  In addition to searching for the suppliers you need you can also

Ask Us to Find the Supplier for You

PetroPages gives you access to individuals like myself to provide you with the appropriate supplier for your application. I am a mechanical engineer with over 30 years of experience in the chemical processing industry. If you will send us an email with your requirements, we will supply you with a bidders list complete with contact information (for free of course). And we do not burden the sale with a cost to the supplier. Our revenues come from suppliers paying to advertise on our site. Your inquiry allows us to show our clients and prospects that our site is a viable advertising option.

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