Apr 28, 2021
New 1.9 km pipeline to be installed in East Anglia
Oil and Gas News
Apr 27, 2021
Pipelines
Acron and Haldor Topsoe successfully completed a gas plant revamp project which allows it to now produce 2,500 metric tonnes per day (MTPD) of ammonia.
Ammonia-4 plant operated by Acron is one of the largest ammonia units in Europe.
The plant in Novgorod city was commissioned in 2016 at a cost of $500 million (€414 million).
Acron decided to increase its capacity... [Read More]
Product News
Apr 27, 2021
Tungsten electrodes are used during tungsten inert gas (TIG) or plasma welding and are the most important consumable during the process.
However, they are often manufactured using thoria - dust from which poses a risk to health.
Recognising both the performance requirement and the health concerns, Huntingdon Fusion Techniques’ (HFT) MultiStrike tungsten electrodes... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Apr 27, 2021
Pipelines
Two main pipelines that provide 90% of Sydney’s drinking water will be better protected from development under proposed new planning laws.
The planning guideline is designed to be a comprehensive resource for developers and councils to ensure new developments consider the impacts on the the Upper Canal and the Warragamba Pipelines in Western Sydney.
Minister for Planning... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 26, 2021
Pipelines
bp has announced gas production from Raven field - the third stage of its major West Nile Delta (WND) development off the Mediterranean coast in Egypt.
The WND development, costing approximately $9 billion (€7.4 billion), includes five gas fields across the North Alexandria and West Mediterranean Deepwater offshore concession blocks in the Mediterranean Sea.
bp and... [Read More]
Features
Apr 26, 2021
Construction managers and engineers are increasingly under pressure to increase efficiencies across their sites and they can make huge gains by using the right equipment for the job. One such piece of equipment is the submersible dewatering pump, which is vital in construction, mining and quarrying applications, enabling users to remove water, sludge, and slurry. ... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Apr 26, 2021
Pipelines
A facility close to Dinas Powys in Wales that will generate clean, green energy from sewage has taken a step closer towards completion.
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has invested more than £50 million (€57million) to create a new energy generating facility at its Cog Moors Wastewater Treatment Works.
The Advanced Anaerobic Digestion (AAD) facility, which recovers energy... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Apr 23, 2021
Pumps
A major project to help protect London’s water supply for the next decade has begun in Walton-on-Thames.
Thames Water’s Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) reservoir, which stores around 10% of all the capital’s water, will be almost empty for the next year while essential maintenance is carried out.
The reservoir is one of the largest in the region and ordinarily holds... [Read More]
Features
Apr 23, 2021
Pressure on industrial sites to meet strict trade effluent standards is mounting, but with many companies lacking inhouse treatment expertise, on site trials are becoming an increasingly appealing option.
This is the view of Adam Parmenter, business executive at wastewater specialist WPL.
He said that increasing environmental scrutiny on water companies from government,... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Apr 23, 2021
Pipelines
Anglian Water has completed its clean-up of the sewers in Southend-on-Sea which began in December last year discovering some pipes were 85% full of unflushables.
The team cleared more than 80 kilometres of sewer pipes in the area and collected more than 200 tonnes of unflushables and waste from the pipes – roughly the equivalent of two blue whales.
Using specialist... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 22, 2021
Pumps
The UK Government has revealed that it will set a target to reduce carbon emissions by 78% by 2035.
George Webb, CEO of Liquid Gas UK, broadly welcomed this news, but added that new heat pumps alone were not the answer. He said introducing LPG and renewable bioLPG were part of the solution
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “We want to continue to raise the bar... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Apr 22, 2021
Pipelines
American Water Works announced that it is going to invest $1.5 million (€1.25 million) to replace 6,000 feet of ageing water main in Wilkes-Barre to ensure high-quality water services for customers.
Its subsidiary Pennsylvania American Water will start replacing the existing four- and six-inch cast iron pipes with new six- and eight-inch ductile iron pipes along... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 22, 2021
Pipelines
China’s pipeline contractor and operator PipeChina has announced the start of construction of a $1.3 billion (€1.1 billion) natural gas trunk line in the northern part of the country.
The new natural gas pipeline will connect an import terminal at Tianjin in the north-east with Xiongan, near Beijing.
This new trunk pipeline will be about 413 km in length and... [Read More]
Product News
Apr 21, 2021
HRS Heat Exchangers has introduced the new C Series of industrial multitube heat device with a smaller tube diameter.
This will help to improve heat transfer in certain situations and create a more compact unit.
The new C Series further increases the number of models in the HRS Industrial Multitube range.
The HRS C Series is suitable for applications with low... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 21, 2021
Pumps
FourPhase has successful deployed its DualFlow solids removal technology for an independent E&P company on the Danish Continental Shelf in the North Sea.
The two-month project saw the solids and production performance specialist for the oil and gas sector deliver an initial diagnostic intervention to identify the source of sand from wells on the platform.
The solution... [Read More]
Features
Apr 21, 2021
As the manager and operator of the CHEMPARK in Krefeld, Germany, CURRENTA offers services that effectively facilitate the day-to-day operations of resident companies and enables them to fully focus on their core business. One of its elementary tasks is to supply energy.
The company supplies the production plants with all the necessary forms of energy in the required... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Apr 20, 2021
Pipelines
President Joe Biden’s goal of replacing the nation’s lead pipes to improve drinking water quality may be hit by incomplete local records.
A better way to reduce lead contamination in the nation’s drinking water, a former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) water chief said, was by enforcing an existing rule requiring utilities to replace some of their lead pipes... [Read More]
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