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INEOS has finalised a 50/50 joint venture with SINOPEC for the Tianjin Nangang Ethylene Project in China.
This was originally announced in December 2022.
SINOPEC is currently constructing the plant, which is expected to be on-stream by next April.
The petrochemical complex includes a 1.2 million tpy cracker, a new 500 000 tpy high-density polyethylene plant to produce INEOS pipe grade under…
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Wood is working with National Gas to ensure Britain’s gas transmission system is secure and sustainable.
National Gas currently operates the entire GB gas transmission system and has appointed Wood to digitally upgrade 7,600 km of essential pipelines, compressor stations and terminal infrastructure as part of their commitment to energy transition.
Through a five-year framework agreement,…
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Cummins and Chevron USA have announced a memorandum of understanding to work together in hydrogen, natural gas and other lower carbon fuel value chains.
The announcement expands the two companies’ previous strategic collaboration on hydrogen and renewable natural gas and is expected to encompass other liquid renewable fuels, such as renewable gasoline blends, biodiesel and renewable diesel.…
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Amarinth has been contracted by Wood to overhaul the three oil containment skid packages managed and operated by Oil Spill Response Limited.
Amarinth supplied ten API 610 OH1 pumps with Plan 53B Seal Support systems to the Subsea Well Response Project six years ago.
The equipment helps contain and quickly remove oil from the sea and offload it into tankers for removal from an incident.
The…
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bp and OMV have signed a long-term sale and purchase agreement (SPA) covering supply of up to 1 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year for 10 years from 2026.
Under the terms of the agreement, bp will provide OMV with LNG from its diverse and global portfolio of LNG, which will be received and re-gasified through the Gate LNG terminal in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where OMV…
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Level Monitors
The new ABB XIO series is an extended range of all-in-one devices to monitor, control and manage oil and gas flow applications.
The ABB XIO-08, ABB XIO-04 and ABB XIO-00 each operate as an extension to the ABB Remote Module Controller (RMC) family, providing enhanced I/O capacity and increasing overall wellhead operational efficiency.
The series offers up to eight channels for customers to…
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Yorkshire Water has signed 15-year agreements with SGN Commercial Services and Centrica Energy Trading that will see biomethane gas to grid plants introduced at its Knostrop and Blackburn Meadows wastewater treatment works.
Biogas is produced as a by-product of Yorkshire Water’s sewage wastewater treatment processes and can be upgraded to separate methane from the other component gases.
As…
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Kent which is an engineering company in the area of oil and gas, carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), and hydrogen (H2) technologies, has partnered with The University of Manchester to produce new syngas and blue hydrogen technology.
The RECYCLE project (REthinking low Carbon hYdrogen production by Chemical Looping rEforming), a £ 5.1 million multi-organisation collaboration…
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Flowmeters
Rotork has helped upgrade and modernise a major Gatwick fuel farm - providing them with IQ3 intelligent actuators on Rotork’s Pakscan™ control network.
GASHCo is one of Gatwick Airport’s main fuel tank farms and has been using Rotork products for over 30 years.
The actuators installed on the site are used on the fuel hydrants housed at Gatwick Airport. Rotork’s site services team…
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Pumps
Wilo Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, a German pumps and systems manufacturer in the industry, celebrated a significant milestone with the ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion of its Dubai facility.
The expansion is aimed at increasing production capacity and growing current manufacturing capability, which coincides with a striking increase in its business volume across the…
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TotalEnergies and its partner SOCAR have begun production of the first phase of development of the Absheron gas and condensate field in the Caspian Sea - around 100 km south-east of Baku.
This first phase connects a subsea production well to a new gas processing platform, itself linked to Azerbaijan’s existing facilities in Oil Rocks.
It has production capacity of 4 million cubic meters of…
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Renewable green hydrogen firm Lhyfe will develop a 70 MW green hydrogen plant in Perl, Saarland, Germany.
Construction is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2027.
The plant is planned to deliver up to 30 tons of green hydrogen per day into the pipeline of the mosaHYc hydrogen island network.
Existing pipelines around Völkingen, Germany, Carling, France, Bouzonville, France, and Perl,…
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Essar Oil has signed an agreement with Oikos Storage, the Essex-based storer of refined petroleum products, to expand its operations into London and the south east of England.
Essar will store and distribute middle distillate fuels at Oikos’ Canvey Island facility to serve the Thames region. The agreement will leverage Oikos’ connectivity to the United Kingdom Oil Pipeline system to supply…
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Port of Bilbao and Port of Amsterdam, together with the Energy Agency of the Basque Government (EVE), Petronor, SkyNRG, Evos Amsterdam and Zenith Energy Terminals, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a renewable hydrogen corridor between Bilbao and Amsterdam.
The Dutch Minister for Climate and Energy Policy Rob Jetten said: “In order to realise a climate neutral energy…
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Lhyfe, one of the world’s pioneers in green and renewable hydrogen production, has been selected by Epinal Urban Community to create a green hydrogen fuel chain due in late 2027. Lhyfe aims to build a site producing green and renewable hydrogen for otherwise-difficult-to-decarbonise uses in the transport sector and industry.
Lhyfe produces its green and renewable hydrogen through the…
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OPEC oil output has fallen only slightly in June as increases in Iraq and Nigeria limited the impact of cutbacks by others, a Reuters’ survey revealed.
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has pumped 28.18 million barrels per day (bpd) in June, down 50,000 bpd from May's revised figure. In May, output dropped by 240,000 bpd as the latest cut took effect.
The survey suggested…
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Partners in the Israeli offshore gas project Leviathan said they would invest $568 million (€522 million) to build a third pipeline that will allow increased natural gas production and exports, Reuters reported.
Leviathan came online at the end of 2019 and produces 12 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas per year for sale to Israel, Egypt and Jordan. The idea is to boost capacity to include…
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KEW Technology has secured over £4.4 million (€5.1 million) of funding to take its successful research into waste-to-hydrogen technology solutions into ‘real-world’ demonstration at its Sustainable Energy Centre facility in the West Midlands, UK.
The award from the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero’s Hydrogen BECCS (Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage) Innovation…
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