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Danish marine pumps specialist Svanehøj has been awarded a contract to supply pump systems for two CO2 carriers that will transport liquid CO2 to the Northern Lights storage facilities in Norway.
Northern Lights is developing infrastructure to transport CO2 from industrial emitters in Norway and other European countries by ship to a receiving terminal in western Norway for intermediate…
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Pipelines
The government of Morocco plans to build a new 7.8km water pipeline in Casablanca.
This follows a contract signed with Société Nouvelle Travaux Maroc (SNTM) for the project.
The launch of the drinking water project comes just one month after the commissioning of its first phase, which consisted of the construction of a connection pipe between the north of Casablanca and the Mediouna…
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Dollinger series GP-146 high efficiency filters from Celeros Flow Technology are designed to remove dirt, pipe scale and other contaminants from process air and other gases.
Acting as the last line of defence against particulates that could contaminate the end product or damage expensive equipment, the Dollinger GP-146 is equipped to deliver reliable filtration over extended periods while…
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Valves
An aviation fuel station at a major Indian airport has been enhanced with the installation of intelligent electric actuators from Rotork.
The airport wanted to upgrade to the latest in intelligent actuation technology, benefitting from the ability to gather data to plan for maintenance activities in advance, as well as a high degree of accuracy and reliability.
The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose…
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Pipelines
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has released two revised liquid pipeline leak detection standards to improve operational integrity and advance operators’ mitigation capabilities.
Published together because they address similar issues, Recommend Practice (RP) 1130, Computational Pipeline Monitoring for Liquids, and RP 1175, Pipeline Leak Detection—Program Management, are second edition…
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Pipelines
Shell Brasil Petróleo has signed a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) to formally acquire a 25 percent stake of the Atapu field.
Shell paid $ 1.1 billion (€1.05 billion) to Petrobras for the increased stake in the field. With the contract now signed, Shell will start receiving its additional share of oil from the field.
“This transaction is the latest proof point of our commitment to…
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Pumps
MOL Group, an international, integrated oil, gas and petrochemicals firm, has teamed up with Power Plug to build one of Europe’s largest-capacity green hydrogen production facilities in Hungary.
Green hydrogen will reduce the carbon footprint of the Danube Refinery operation and enable emission-free mobility in the longer term.
Utilising a 10-megawatt (MW) electrolysis unit from Plug Power,…
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Pipelines
Northumbrian Water has been awarded over £6 million (€7.1 million) worth of funding for projects which will help to reduce leakage and enable innovation across the utilities sector.
The funding has been granted to two separate projects; The National Leakage Research and Test Centre (NLRTC), which was awarded £5.3 million (€6.3 million), and Stream, which was awarded £880,000 (€1.05…
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Celeros Flow Technology (FT) has enhanced its comprehensive pump re-engineering service, which aims to optimise pump performance, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and renewing obsolete equipment.
The Celeros FT re-engineering programme supports customers who need to replace components or repurpose their flow control equipment.
“Various companies offer to re-manufacture like-for-like…
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Pumps
Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract to supply and install a 46 MW dual-fuel power plant to the Caribbean Island of Antigua.
The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order was placed by Antigua Power Company Limited (APCL).
The plant will operate primarily on regasified liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The project combines a power plant and an LNG gas terminal, storage and…
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Pipelines
Plans to create a CO2 network at Protos to capture some 800,000 tonnes of carbon emissions have been revealed.
Peel NRE, part of Peel L&P, has revealed its vision for a network of CO2 pipelines at Protos, the strategic energy and resource destination near Ellesmere Port.
The Protos CO2 network would connect to the regional CO2 pipeline, being developed as part of HyNet North West.
It is part…
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Valve automation in metering skids for the oil and gas industry is a challenging task. High availability and easy integration of valves and actuators are crucial for these applications.
Using a master station to control all the actuators within the metering system has proven to have multiple benefits. This is illustrated by the use of AUMA’s new SIMA² Master Station in metering skids built…
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Pipelines
Borealis and Axens have inked an agreement for the Rewind® Mix process to purify and upgrade 50 000 tpy of pyrolysis oils produced from plastics wastes at a petrochemical plant in Sweden.
The unit at the Borealis facility in Stenungsund is planned to be in commercial operation in 2025, subject to Final Investment Decision (FID), and will produce a virgin-like recycled feedstock to be further…
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Technip Energies and Alterra Energy have signed a global joint development and collaboration agreement to integrate Alterra’s commercially available liquefaction process technology with Technip Energies’ pyrolysis oil purification technology.
This will maximise the adoption of recycled feedstock and improve circular economy solutions for the global petrochemical industry.
Alterra provides…
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Pipelines
A pioneering energy project to gather vital evidence about the suitability of the existing gas network to transport hydrogen is underway in the South Bank area of Teesside.
Northern Gas Networks (NGN) is using a network of existing natural gas mains to carry out standard gas operational procedures under 100% hydrogen conditions for the first time.
The testing is taking place on an area of…
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Proco Products has announced the new ProFlex™ Rubber Check Valve product into its portfolio.
The ProFlex™ Series 730CBD Coarse Bubble Diffusers is a pollution control technology device used to aerate or mix wastewater for effluent/sewage treatment.
A coarse bubble diffuser is used to ensure that sewage and Hi specific gravity content is properly “agitated”, or diffused to ensure proper…
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The China-Russia pipeline, which measures over 800 km and was constructed in a record 180 days, is exposed to extreme conditions.
To ensure accurate pipeline monitoring and control even in severe environments, remote telemetry specialist Ovarro provided 22 TBox-MS Modular remote telemetry units (RTUs).
Capable of transporting millions of tonnes of Russian crude oil into China annually,…
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Pipelines
The head of the regional government of Catalonia is confident a gas and green hydrogen pipeline from the north eastern Spanish region to France will be built this decade.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has boosted political support in Spain for the Midi-Catalonia (Midcat) pipeline project, which was rejected in 2019 by French and Spanish regulators arguing it did not respond to market needs back…
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