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Fuel additive developer Clariant Refinery Services has opened a new crude and fuel oil laboratory in Bradford, the UK.
The new lab, which will focus on applications for transport and storage, will support a technical services team equipped to address challenges experienced by refineries, storage terminals, pipeline provider and logistics companies around the globe.
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Anglo American has awarded Greece’s Corinth Pipeworks a contract for the manufacture and supply of steel pipes for the Los Bronces Pipeline Replacement project.
The contract, which covers pipe for the 35km slurry pipeline in Chile, includes the supply of 24-inch LSAW pipes in heavy wall thickness up to 31.75mm and three layer polyethylene coating. The total quantity of steel pipes, which…
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Satellite data analytics provider Rezatec has won a contract for a pipeline risk assessment from utility HERA Group, through its Italian partners Isoil Industria.
Italian multi-utility HERA Group commissioned Isoil to help further understand network dynamics and sensitivities, as well as reduce non-revenue water by using new technologies to interact with existing ones.
Isoil then partnered…
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NV5 Global has been awarded a contract to provide environmental consulting and inspection services for the replacement of 61 miles of ageing natural gas pipeline infrastructure in Ohio and West Virginia in the US.
The contract, which is valued at around $6 million (€5.5 million), is expected to take 19 months to complete. NV5 will document compliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory…
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Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge has announced plans to purchase Rio Bravo Pipeline Company from NextDecade, for a maximum price of $25 million (€23 million).
Under a definitive agreement signed by the two companies, $15 million (€13.8 million) will be paid at closing, with the final balance to be paid after NextDecade reaches a positive final investment decision on its Rio Grande LNG…
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Edwards Vacuum has launched a new compact dry pump, the nXRi, which features lower input power and zero maintenance, bringing performance improvements and cost benefits to a range of applications.
Initial variants will provide pumping speeds of either 60 or 90 m3h-1, four times more pumping speed than a similar sized dry pump. The compact footprint and height allow the Edwards nXRi dry pump to…
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Rotork has announced that its electric and fluid power actuators have been installed on a new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, located offshore Brazil.
Metroval selected Rotork intelligent IQ3 multi-turn electric actuators, as well as CP and GP quarter-turn pneumatic actuators, to control plug and butterfly valves on an FPSO, which will operate in the Libra oil fields…
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Canada’s TC Energy has approved two new expansion projects totalling $1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) on its natural gas pipeline systems.
The 2023 NGTL Intra-Basin System Expansion will deliver natural gas from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) to markets within Alberta on the NOVA Gas Transmission system. The Alberta Xpress project will see the expansion of the ANR Pipeline to…
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SOCAR-AQS and Halliburton have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a new joint venture to provide a range of oilfield products and services in Azerbaijan.
The joint venture will be based in Baku, Azerbaijan, and will focus is business development and operations both on onshore and offshore Azerbaijan.
“Combining our unrivalled knowledge, experience and infrastructure in…
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Energy engineering company Saipem has been awarded several engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contracts around the world, worth over $500 million (€457.9 million) combined.
The first EPCI contract has been awarded by Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia, as part of a long-term agreement between the two companies. The scope of the offshore work includes the design,…
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Water industry software innovator Innovyze has announced the addition of Electro Scan to its partner network of wet infrastructure technology providers.
The partnership will enable Focused Electrode Leak Location (FELL) inspection data to be analysed in real-time within the asset repair and rehabilitation engine of Innovyze’s InfoAsset Planner solution.
The renewal and replacement of…
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UK start-up Xergy Group is launching a digital platform to transform how the upstream oil and gas industry resources projects and attracts talent.
Led by industry stalwarts James McCallum and Colin Manson, Xergy Group has launched Proteus, which will transform the way in which the industry sources and uses talent to resource and deliver projects with increased profitability.
A lack of…
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Cortez Subsea is preparing to lay a mechanically connected subsea pipeline, offshore Malaysia. The company is currently mobilising the Grand Canyon II offshore vessel for the project to lay the first ever subsea pipeline using mechanical connectors.
The Global 1201 vessel will also be mobilised to install the pipeline system for the Tembikai Non-Associated Gas (TNAG) Development by Vestigo…
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Airborne Oil & Gas has received its most significant flowlines contract to date, which will see the manufacturer of thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) deliver 10km of its technology to a supermajor in West Africa.
This is the second award for TCP flowline from the undisclosed company, and follows an earlier successful delivery of a 4km length of flowline, which was manufactured by Airborne…
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Spanish infrastructure, energy and telecommunications group Elecnor has been awarded a contract to carry out one of the largest water transmission and supply projects to date in Oman.
The contract, which is worth €192 million, was awarded by the Public Authority for Water (Diam) in an international call for tender. Elecnor won the bid in a joint venture agreement with Omani company…
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The US Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has proposed a rulemaking that would revise federal pipeline safety regulations by requiring the installation of remotely controlled or automatic shutoff valves on certain pipelines.
The published Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is for certain newly constructed or entirely replaced natural gas…
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Global insurance company Hiscox has partnered with smart water leak alarm provider LeakBot to provide leak detection systems to customers.
The partnership, which should help protect homes from water damage in the event of a leak, will make Hiscox the first insurer in the UK to offer a free LeakBot to all new and existing buildings insurance customers.
With the average cost of damage caused…
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Northern Ireland Water (NI Water) has completed a £1.6 million (€1.9 million) upgrade of the Ballinagard Water Pumping Station, as part of the utility’s Water Pumping Station Improvement Programme.
Pumps and control panels at the station were upgraded to provide greater robustness and efficiency to enable water to be pumped to the local Croppy Hill Reservoir, near Londonderry in Northern…
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