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Implico Group has announced that its booth at this year’s Tank Storage Asia trade show is being designed around the slogan “from entrance to exit”. The consulting company will use its stand to demonstrate the ways modern software and cloud solutions can optimise their tank terminal processes.
Like last year, Implico will team up with its hardware partner Timm Elektronik, the two…
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Recruiter for the oil and gas sector Petroplan has teamed up with Bahco, an international tools supplier, to explore health and safety in the industry.
In particular, the campaign wants to look at the current state of safety, how things have improved and what progress still needs to be made.
The two companies are specifically interested in the opinions of workers ‘in the field’, and…
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Pipelines
Metals and industrials group Liberty House has completed the purchase of two pipe mills in Hartlepool, UK.
Concerns had been growing at the pipe mills in the north-east of England after months of uncertainty. Following the purchase from Tata Steel UK however, Liberty House has announced plans to add around 100 new jobs in a bid to rebuild the struggling operation.
The company hopes to position…
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The Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) in North Carolina is set to install 22,000 meters of advanced meter infrastructure (AMI), allowing the agency to “streamline processes and better respond to customer inquiries and service requests.”
Mueller Systems’ Mi.Net AMI has been chosen as the system for the new project. It will enable OWASA to access water meter information in…
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Flowmeters
Scotland based specialists in flow measurement research and development NEL are leading a major research programme to enhance flow measurement standardisation across Europe between multiphase flow metrology testing facilities.
17 global partners are involved in the three year MultiFlowMet II project, including meter vendors, research specialists and multiphase test laboratories. It is part…
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Global water technology specialist Xylem has reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2017.
Xylem’s net income over the period is reported at $99 million (€84 million), or $0.55 per share, the company delivering a net adjusted income of $106 million or $0.59 per share in the quarter. Year on year for the period, this represents a 23% increase on 2016, excluding the…
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As the primary component of natural gas, methane is a common, problematic by product of oil drilling.
A greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the course of a century, methane is a costly challenge for the energy industry. Piping it from remote areas is expensive, so companies burn off about a third of the gas they produce in bright flares that can be seen from space.
In…
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Pipelines
A new study has revealed “the first direct evidence” that the Flint water crisis was caused by a lack of corrosion control chemicals.
University of Michigan researchers studied the service lines in Flint’s damaged drinking water system to confirm the cause of the crisis. Their findings support the generally accepted view that lead leeched into the system because the water…
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Sheffield based precision engineering company Evenort has announced the acquisition of Alexander Comley, a company based in the Midlands that specialises in the production of large flanged products.
According to a statement from the two companies, the purchase will better serve customers based both in the UK and abroad by allowing the newly formed group to offer a single source for all its…
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Pipelines
New research calls for the implementation of new safeguards for cured in place pipe repair (CIPP), and a study of the potential health and environmental concerns for workers and members of the public who come into contact with emissions from the pipe repair method.
CIPP was first invented in the 1970s, and is widely used to repair sewer, stormwater and drinking water pipes. The method involves…
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Carbon nanotubes immobilised in a tuft of quartz fibre have the power to remove toxic heavy metals from water, according to new research from Rice University in the US and Swansea University in the UK.
Researchers have calculated that one gram of the remarkable material could treat 83,000 litres of contaminated water to meet World Health Organisation standards – enough to supply the needs…
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Pumps
The North American double diaphragm pumps market is undergoing a resurgence, according to new research from Frost & Sullivan.
In recent years the market has endured subdued growth, a consequence of low oil prices and a ‘sluggish’ North American economy. However, a “robust” need for air operated double diaphragm pumps (AODD) and metering pumps in the water and chemical…
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The Utrenneye gas condensate field, which will serve as the resource base for the Arctic LNG-2 project, can supply more than 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas a year, according to Russian news agency TASS, citing Novatek CEO Leonid Mikhelson.
Led by Novatek, Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer, the Arctic LNG-2 project will be located offshore near the remote Gydan…
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For over a century, scientists have used a formula known as Darcy’s Extended Law to model how fluids move through rocks. The premise of the law is that gases move through rocks via their own, separate, stable, complex, microscopic pathways.
Darcy’s Extended Law has long underpinned engineers’ approaches to modelling fluid flow, but engineers from Imperial College London have now…
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Mueller Industries, an international company specialising in flow control and industrial products, has published its second quarter earnings report for 2017.
The Memphis, Tennessee headquartered company has announced operating income of $46.8 million for the second quarter, compared to $44.4 million in the same quarter of 2016. According to the company’s report, net income for the period…
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Valves
US electrical engineering firm Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the acquisition of TechInvent2 AS, a Norwegian enterprise that holds the rights to FluidCom, a chemical injection metering valve (CIMV).
According to Yokogawa, FluidCom prevents blockages and corrosion in oil wells, pipelines, and other facilities and employs a patented technology for thermal control. It incorporates the…
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Flowmeters
Hydrotechnik has unveiled a significant extension to its calibration department, a £100,000+ flow test rig enabling them to provide full in house flowmeter recalibrations traceable to National Standards.
The new rig runs on oil, which will be beneficial for hydraulic, lube and diesel use customers. The oil’s viscosity is adjusted from 15 to 100cst with 32cst being the norm. A 5…
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Xylem has been selected to provide advanced UV disinfection technology to support “first” UV drinking water treatment application in Florida.
According to the water technology company, its Wedeco UV technology will deliver “safe, clean drinking water for 110,000 people in City of West Palm Beach”.
Cryptosporidium is the leading cause of waterborne disease outbreaks…
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