Pressure on leakage levels coming from UK water industry regulators is creating noise in the UK leak location technology market, says David Frost, managing director of Servelec Technologies, which has recently acquired pinpoint leak detection specialist Primayer. The scale of leak reduction required by water companies in England and Wales in AMP7 is sharpening strategies... [Read More]

B2B Selling Cloud FPX has announced the acquisition of Intelliquip, a leader in front-end configure price quote (CPQ) software built for the fluid handling equipment industry. Through the acquisition, FPX will broaden its existing line-up of purpose-built solutions that simplify the selling of complex manufactured goods. “Generic ‘one size fits all’ CPQ solutions... [Read More]

US construction and infrastructure company Primoris Services has won two new pipeline awards worth over $45 million (€40.7 million). The contracts were secured by Rockford Corporation, which is part of the company’s Pipeline and Underground segment. They cover two natural gas pipeline projects, located in West Texas and Northern Virginia, for a combined total of... [Read More]

Engineering consultancy WSP will lead the conceptual design of a new hydrogen pipeline in the North West of the UK, supporting the country’s target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The pipeline project, known as HyNet, will be the most advanced hydrogen and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project in the UK. It includes the development of... [Read More]

Trans Mountain has marked the start of pipeline construction, with the first pipe on the ground in Alberta, Canada. The company’s president and CEO Ian Anderson was joined by Seamus O'Regan, Minister of Natural Resources, Government of Canada, Sonya Savage, Minister of Energy, Government of Alberta and local government representatives in Acheson, Alberta at an event... [Read More]

US oil and gas trade association the American Petroleum Institute (API) has made considerable revisions to a key safety standard aimed at enhancing the oil and natural gas industry’s commitment to worker safety, incident prevention and environmental protection in offshore operations. The standards, API Recommended Practice 75 (RP 75), provides guidance for establishing,... [Read More]

Gardner Denver Petroleum & Industrial Pumps has launched a new pump designed for dual-fuel gas engines, electric motors, diesel engines and gas turbine direct drives: the Thunder 5,000 HP Quintuplex pump. “The Thunder 5,000 HP Quintuplex pump has successfully made it through validation testing,” explained Edward Bayhi, vice-president and general manager of the... [Read More]

Pumps of all shapes and sizes can be looked upon as the beating hearts of the UK wastewater treatment process, especially when recurring storm events lead to increased volumes of rag and debris entering the system. This is when specific solids handling capabilities become ever more critical. So get the right pump in the right place at the right time and the expense... [Read More]

Swiss water leak detection solutions company Gutermann has released Zonescan NB-IoT, the world’s first water leak detecting noise logger based on Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) to permanently monitor water distribution mains. To date, successful pilot projects using the Zonescan NB-IoT have been carried out in France, the UK and Australia. The projects reduced... [Read More]

Russia has started supplying gas to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline as part of a $55 billion (€49.6 billion) deal between Russian gas group Gazprom and China’s oil and gas major CNPC. According to Gazprom, a ceremonial event making the start of the first-ever pipeline supplies of Russian gas to China took place on 2 December. Russian President Vladimir Putin,... [Read More]

Seeq Corporation has recently achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Industrial Software Competency status. The designation recognises that Seeq has demonstrated technical steps proficiency and proven customer success building solutions targeting one or more of the primary steps in discrete manufacturing or process industries in product design, production design, production/operations. These... [Read More]

Inter Pipeline and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) have partnered to research opportunities to reuse and recycle plastic in Canada. The 10-year agreement, which is known as Plastics Research in Action (PRIA), will be funded through a $10 million (€9.1 million) commitment from Inter Pipeline, which represents the largest applied research partnership... [Read More]

The World Bank has approved a grant worth $52.5 million (€47.7 million) to support the Afghanistan Gas Project, which will provide sustainable supply of natural gas to independent power producers in northern Afghanistan. The project will provide direct financing and technical assistance for the construction, operation and maintenance of a gas pipeline from Sheberghan... [Read More]

Subsea 7 has been awarded a substantial contract by Woodside for phase 2 of the Julimar-Brunello project, located offshore Australia. The contract, which is worth between $150 million (€136.2 million) and $300 million (€272.4 million), was awarded earlier this year, subject to final investment decision of the Julimar-Brunello joint venture participants Woodside... [Read More]

Wilo subsidiary Wilo USA has acquired the assets of US manufacturer J-Line Pump, doing business as American-Marsh Pumps. Headquartered in Collierville in the US state of Tennessee, American-Marsh Pumps currently employs 55 people. “The acquisition of American-Marsh Pumps strengthens our strategic market position in the US, and expands the product portfolio for... [Read More]