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Spanish oil transport and storage company CLH Group has approved a sustainability strategy aimed at achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The plan aims to reduce the company’s net emissions of greenhouse gases by 50% by 2025, and make CLH a carbon-neutral organisation by 2050.
The company is working on reducing…
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With topics such as the future demand for hydrogen being discussed and the latest technologies being launched, StocExpo, the world’s largest and longest running international bulk liquid storage event, returns to Rotterdam in March 2020 with an eye firmly on the future.
Thousands of professionals, experts and analysts from leading oil majors, including Shell, BP and ExxonMobil, and the…
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Calima Energy, which owns and operates drilling and production rights in British Columbia, Canada, has been granted a permit to construct a pipeline to connect the company's well-pad to regional pipeline and processing infrastructure.
Regulatory approval has been given for the company to construct and operate a 19.5km steel 8-inch service pipeline, which will connect existing and future Calima…
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Subsea 7 has won a sizeable contract from Aker BP for the Ærfugl Phase 2 gas field development, located around 210km west of Sandnessjøen in the Norwegian Sea.
The engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract is estimated to be worth between $50 million (€45 million) and $150 million (€135 million).
It is for a long-distance tie-back involving the…
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UK utility provider Yorkshire Water has awarded Clean and Waste Infrastructure and Customer Focussed Infrastructure frameworks with a combined value of £650 million (€770.4 million).
The £400 million (€474.1 million) Infrastructure Networks framework covers the delivery of infrastructure pipeline projects for both clean and wastewater assets. The £250 million (€296.3 million) Customer…
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The commissioning of the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia has been celebrated, with ceremonies held simultaneously in Helsinki and Paldiski.
The event was attended by guests of honour Sauli Niinistö, president of the Republic of Finland, Kersti Kaljulaid Estonia's president, Mika Lintilä, Minister of Economic Affairs, and Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, deputy…
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British pump manufacturer Atlantic Pumps, part of the Intrax Global Group, has achieved ISO 9001 accreditation.
The ISO standard is the internationally recognised quality management system standard issued to companies that can demonstrate a continual ability to provide strong levels of service and products that meet customer and regulatory requirements.
“We are pleased to have our quality…
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Ironwood Midstream Energy Partners has completed its acquisition of midstream assets located in South Texas in the US, including around 150 miles of active crude oil gathering pipelines.
The assets, which were acquired from Twin Eagle Gardendale Pipeline, include the Gardendale and Asherton gathering systems, which total approximately 150 miles of crude oil gathering pipelines with connections…
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The 18 billionth barrel of crude oil from Alaska North Slope has passed through the Trans-Alaska pipeline system (TAPS), marking a significant milestone.
Commenting on the achievement, Tom Barret, president of TAPS operator Alyeska Pipeline Service, said: “This marks another significant operational milestone for TAPS, for Alaska and Alaskans, for the oil and gas industry, and countless…
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As communities around the world face increasingly severe environmental conditions that can threaten critical pipelines, Sanexen Water has launched a product that could protect them from extreme seismic and flooding events.
The company’s Aqua-Pipe technology has been proven to maintain its integrity and does not rupture during rigorous simulated in-ground earthquake scenarios.
Sanexen…
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China has officially launched a new state-owned oil and gas pipeline company – China Oil & Gas Piping Network Corporation – in an effort to revamp the country’s oil and gas pipeline sector.
Commenting on the development, Soorya Tejomoortula, oil and gas analyst at GlobalData, said: “The formation of a national pipeline company is another step to provide stimulus to the country’s…
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Slurry pumps manufacturer GIW Industries has launched the GIW TBC-92 slurry pump for operations in oil sands.
Named for its 92-inch impeller, the pump is the largest and heaviest slurry pump available in the mining industry.
GIW now has pumps in service at all operating Canadian oil sands hydrotransport applications. The TBC-92 is designed to tackle heavy-duty slurry transport, while…
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The British Pump Manufacturers’ Association (BPMA) has recently signed a reciprocal membership agreement with the UK’s Heating & Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC).
Headquartered in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, the HHIC is the industry voice for the UK domestic heating and hot water industry. It operates 16 working groups covering the full spectrum of technical and commercial influences…
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Senex Energy has announced that Project Atlas has achieved first gas sales into the Australian East Coast market ahead of schedule, with gas being sold to Queensland power generator CleanCo.
Following start-up of the first two trains of the five-train gas processing facility and pipeline, production of sales gas is now underway.
The buyer of the gas is Queensland Government-owned…
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Subsea UK has announced a new board of senior subsea leaders, with a mix of expertise and knowledge across the industry.
The new board members for 2020 are Dorothy Burke, managing director at Ecosse IP, Suzy Davies, vice-president HSSE greenfield projects at Aker Solutions, Michael Jones, CEO of SMD, Barry Macleod, CEO of Rever Offshore, Tom Moore, Subsea Maintenance Lead at Shell UK and…
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A new report from Energy & Utility Skills and Balfour Beatty has called on the water industry to protect the sustainability of its supply chain and workforce.
The whitepaper, titled ‘Two Sides of a Coin’, highlights the vital role of the supply chain in delivering for customers, as well as the risks of failing to address current issues with the procurement process, contracting models,…
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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 to address this…
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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 fail to address…
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