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A Shell unit will begin oil deliveries on the Houston to Nederland portion of its Zydeco pipeline - a month after a spill forced the line shut.
The 22-inch pipeline, which has a total capacity of 360,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, stopped operations in April after a limited release of crude oil was detected in the Intracoastal Waterway, east of the Sabine River, Reuters reported.
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Leading carbon capture solutions provider Carbon Clean has awarded a new contract to global engineering experts KBR for the detailed design of a carbon capture plant for Ørsted's FlagshipONE project in Sweden.
Carbon Clean was awarded the contract for the full design and supply of the carbon capture plant earlier this year.
This new contract is for the detailed design, following KBR’s…
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GIDARA Energy announced that it has received the environmental permit for the biomethanol plant to be built at Biopark, in the port of Amsterdam.
A new stage in the development of the plant to be built. This facility converts local waste into advanced methanol.
The environmental permit, granted by Province of North Holland, allows GIDARA Energy to build its Advanced Methanol Amsterdam…
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A new project aims to use artificial intelligence to supercharge hydrogen production in Scotland, helping the country meet its net-zero targets and powering thousands more homes and businesses each year.
Computer scientists at the University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen-based software company Intelligent Plant will use explainable AI (XAI) to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) to tackle…
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China's crude oil imports from Russia rose 8.6% in April from a year earlier, as larger private refiners also embarked on purchases of the discounted fuel, Reuters reported.
Arrivals from Russia - including seaborne shipments and supplies via pipelines - totalled 7.1 million tonnes or 1.73 million barrels per day (bpd), according to customs data recently released.
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LIBERTY Pipes Hartlepool becomes first UK producer of hydrogen pipeline material
LIBERTY Pipes Hartlepool has successfully passed trials to become the first UK producer of pipelines for safe transportation and storage of hydrogen.
Physical testing specialist Element Materials Technology has confirmed that LIBERTY’s 42 inch submerged arc welded (SAW) line pipe meets international…
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Pumps
The UK’s first system drawing heat from deep underground to provide low-cost heating for nearly 4,000 homes is one of seven innovative projects backed by government funding.
The Langarth Deep Geothermal Heat Network will involve drilling to a depth of 5,275 meters to extract the heat from granite rocks beneath the United Downs Industrial Site in Cornwall.
It is one of seven state-of-the-art…
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Pumps
The UK’s first system drawing heat from deep underground to provide low-cost heating for nearly 4,000 homes is one of seven innovative projects backed by government funding.
The Langarth Deep Geothermal Heat Network will involve drilling to a depth of 5,275 meters to extract the heat from granite rocks beneath the United Downs Industrial Site in Cornwall.
It is one of seven state-of-the-art…
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Pipelines
The ROSEN Group and National Gas have started work on an intensive research project to find ways to mitigate the potential for embrittlement of pipeline steel in hydrogen service.
This project will utilise ROSEN’s newly developed materials testing laboratory dedicated to testing under hydrogen conditions.
The conversion of existing pipeline infrastructure to transport hydrogen or blended…
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Eni has begun offloading the first LNG cargo into Snam’s new regasification terminal in Piombino.
The terminal has a total processing capacity of 5 billion cubic metres per year, or approximately 7% of Italy's gas demand.
The LNG was produced at Egypt’s Damietta liquefaction plant, one of the facilities where Eni has invested with the strategic goal of growing its integrated liquefied gas…
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Cadent, which manages the worth-west UK’s gas network, will modernise around 418km of its pipelines over the next 12 months.
This is the same length as 4,000 football pitches, or the same height as more than 2,600 Blackpool Towers.
The £80 million (€91 million) investment will be delivered by 600 skilled gas engineers.
They will be upgrading vital pipes to plastic to ensure a long-term…
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Neste is working on a 120 MW electrolyser project to produce renewable hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.
The company has now decided to proceed to the basic engineering phase with the project. The investment decision readiness is expected to be reached in early 2024. If an investment decision is made, green hydrogen production could start in 2026.
“Our project is one of the largest…
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Air Products, the world's largest producer of hydrogen and a first-mover in energy transition projects, plans to build a multi-modal hydrogen refuelling station.
This will be built near its new net-zero hydrogen energy complex under construction in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The station will be Air Products' first in Canada and the first commercial-scale hydrogen refuelling station in Alberta.…
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Oil and gas major bp has reported another set of strong results as energy prices remain high.
Profits hit $5 billion (€4.55 billion) in the first three months of this year, the BBC reported, although this was down from $6.2 billion (€5.6 billion) last year with oil prices having fallen from the peak seen after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
BP reported record annual profits last year as the…
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Level Monitors
TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory has secured £950,000 (€1.07 million) from Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, to build the world’s first national standard liquid/dense phase CO2 calibration facility.
The new facility will support EU targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050.
Providing…
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INEOS Olefins & Polymer Europe has signed a renewable power agreement with Skagerak Energitjenester to provide 100% green energy to its Rafnes and Bamble plants in Norway.
Combined with the recently announced INEOS Inovyn deal in Norway, all of INEOS’s assets in the region are now supplied with 100% green power generated from hydroelectric production.
The Rafnes cracker produces ethylene for…
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UK-based Envorem has developed its new Greentech technology that uses a little-known property of water to rapidly and inexpensively process oil production sludges.
This technology, developed with assistance from the University of Brighton, uses very little energy to disassemble sludges, clean the solids and recover the entrained oil for recycling - all without using chemicals or generating…
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Pipelines
Dow has selected Linde as its industrial gas partner for the supply of clean hydrogen and nitrogen for its proposed net-zero carbon emissions integrated ethylene cracker in Canada. Final investment decisions for both the Dow and Linde projects in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, are subject to approval.
Final investment decisions are expected in fourth quarter this year for a potential start-up in…
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