Oct 20, 2020
Atos wins contract to deliver efficiencies at Northumbrian Water
Water/Wastewater News
Oct 19, 2020
Valves
METRUS has been celebrating its golden anniversary this year.
The company was founded by Lothar Seer in 1970 as LS-Mechanic and has produced more than 2,000 valve test benches, serving customers in over 80 countries.
While working as an employee of Sempell, engineer Seer was in charge of developing test benches for the valve manufacturers’ production.
Inspired by... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Oct 19, 2020
OPW, a Dover company and a global leader in fluid handling solutions, has announced it has acquired the ISO Liquid Tank Container product line from Girard Equipment.
OPW will manufacture the ISO Liquid Tank Container product line at OPW’s facility in Lianyungang City in China with emphasis on increasing OPW’s presence and product portfolio in the Asia-Pacific, Latin... [Read More]
Product News
Oct 16, 2020
Blacoh’s patented SurgeWave Transient Monitoring Systems solves the need for pipeline operators to detect and record transient pressure events occurring in water, wastewater and petroleum pipelines.
The system is unique in that it employs a system of dynamic pressure transducers and digital technology to monitor pipelines for indefinite periods of time.
When a transient... [Read More]
Features
Oct 16, 2020
White metal or Babbitt bearings are used in a wide variety of rotating machinery and, just like conventional roller or ball bearings, they need to be replaced when they reach the end of their service life.
Replacements can be manufactured by specialists such as Sulzer’s Southampton Service Centre, which has recently upgraded its facilities.
For some of the largest... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Oct 15, 2020
Pipelines
A documentary about how new technologies and innovations are helping to reshape the way water is managed is set to reach a global audience of millions.
Brave Blue World, narrated by Liam Neeson and featuring actors and activists Matt Damon and Jaden Smith, will be available to watch on Netflix from 21 October.
It is set reach to reach an audience of 193 million subscribers... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Oct 15, 2020
Valves
Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has opened a new application and innovation centre in Denmark.
The centre, in Kolding, will reinforce the company’s technology leadership within hygienic fluid handling.
Investing in the new 1,600sq m centre supports Alfa Laval’s strategic focus of accelerating product innovation... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Oct 14, 2020
Pumps
United Utilities has been testing and replacing some equipment at one of its biggest water treatment works in the UK.
The work is being carried out at the Huntington water treatment works in Cheshire where the water company was busy replacing old pumps and motors while keeping the site running and the taps flowing for its customers in the north-west.
The pumps were... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Oct 14, 2020
Pumps
Wilden, a worldwide producer of speciality pumps, is celebrating its 65-year anniversary.
Wilden was founded in 1955 by Jim Wilden in the US when he revolutionised the pumping industry by inventing the air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pump.
Since that time, Wilden has been recognised as one of the leaders in AODD pump technology for a wide range of applications in... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Oct 13, 2020
Pipelines
bp, in partnership with OQ, PETRONAS and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Oman, has revealed that production has begun from the Ghazeer gas field - 33 months after the development was approved.
Its Block 61 Phase 2 facility was initially expected to come into production in 2021. The first phase of development of Block 61 – Khazzan – was brought online in September... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Oct 13, 2020
Pipelines
MWH Treatment (MWHT) has successfully secured a place on Thames Water's non-infrastructure framework for the asset management period 2020-25 (AMP7).
MWHT, a sector solution provider operating across the UK water industry, will be continuing to work closely with Thames Water to ensure delivery of resilient waste water services to its 15 million customers across London... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Oct 12, 2020
Pipelines
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the oil and gas sector leading to a sharp fall in fuel prices coupled with an over-abundant supply of oil and gas.
Pipeline operators in Canada have been forced to reduce their capital expenditure during the year.
Despite capital expenditure prioritisation to conserve cash, Canadian pipeline operators might still look to analyse the... [Read More]
Features
Oct 12, 2020
Siltbuster Process Solutions (SPS), the water treatment specialist, has provided equipment for a special trial project that sees one of its lamella clarifiers treating a raw water supply.
The client is trialling different chemical dosing set ups on actual water, running the tests for several weeks to generate data for a thorough review.
For the pilot, SPS was tasked... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Oct 9, 2020
Flowmeters
TESTA Analytical Solutions has developed a new flowmeter that enables continuous measurement of flow rate without interference in chromatography systems.
Flow rate is one of the most important parameters in any liquid chromatography system as it determines retention time or volume and has by nature a major influence on reproducibility.
Compatible with all HPLC and GPC/SEC... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Oct 9, 2020
Pipelines
ExxonMobil has made its final investment decision to proceed with the Payara field offshore development in Guyana after receiving government approvals.
Payara is the third project in the Stabroek Block and is expected to produce up to 220,000 barrels of oil per day after startup in 2024.
The $9 billion (€7.6 billion) development will target an estimated resource base... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Oct 8, 2020
Pipelines
TD Williamson crews isolated a ruptured 14-inch natural gas liquids pipeline while it continued to flare off, enabling repairs while the system remained in service and creating the conditions for the fire to extinguish itself.
The west Texas pipeline exploded after it was hit by a third-party contractor excavating the right-of-way nearby.
The explosion and massive fire... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Oct 7, 2020
Pumps
The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has won the Community Initiative Award at the 2020 Aquaculture Awards for its work with the Outer Hebrides Local Energy Hub (OHLEH) project on the Isle of Lewis - the first local circular economy of its kind in Scotland.
The success of the project, which sees fish waste (transferred from SSC’s processing plant) co-digested with household... [Read More]
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