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Essar Oil UK plans to build a £360 million (€41 7 million) major new carbon capture plant at its Stanlow refinery in line with its ambition to become a leading low carbon refinery by 2030.
Essar is investing over £1 billion (€1.15 billion) into a range of energy efficiency, fuel-switching, and carbon capture initiatives, designed to decarbonise its production processes significantly by…
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bp Trinidad and Tobago LLC (bpTT) has confirmed that its Cassia C development has safely delivered the first gas supplies.
Cassia C is bpTT’s first offshore compression platform and its biggest offshore facility. It will enable bpTT to access and produce low pressure gas resources from the Greater Cassia Area. The platform, bpTT’s 16th offshore facility, is connected to the existing Cassia…
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Manchester Airport has unveiled plans to become the first UK airport with a direct supply of low carbon hydrogen fuel after announcing a partnership with HyNet – one of the UK’s leading Government-backed industrial decarbonisation projects.
The airport has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the two founding partners of HyNet. Progressive Energy, which develops projects to…
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Shell Petroleum has acquired 100% shareholding of Nature Energy Biogas for nearly $2 billion (€1.9 billion).
Nature Energy, based in Denmark, is a producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) from agricultural, industrial and household waste.
By purchasing the shares in Nature Energy, Shell will acquire the largest RNG producer in Europe, its portfolio of cash generative operating plants,…
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Technip Energies and Baker Hughes have announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that sets the groundwork for a 1-2 million tons per annum (MTPA) liquefied natural gas (LNG) modularised solution for the onshore market.
With the ambition to reduce time- to-market for LNG to meet today’s energy demand, this joint development aims to provide an additional offering to the two companies’…
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Pumps
Valmet will supply a flue gas condensing process to Vantaa Energy’s new high-temperature incineration plant in Vantaa, Finland.
The plant is designed to process household and industry waste that is classified as hazardous and not suitable for recycling.
The order is included in Valmet’s orders received of the fourth quarter of this year.
Its value will not be disclosed, but such an order…
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ABB has introduced its energy management system ABB Ability™ OPTIMAX® to the green hydrogen market to help reduce costs of production by enabling real-time visibility of energy consumption across operations.
Green hydrogen made via electrolysis – a process of using electricity from renewable sources to split water into hydrogen and oxygen – is widely considered an important energy…
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TotalEnergies and Air Liquide are aiming to produce renewable, low carbon hydrogen at the Grandpuits zero crude platform.
Under a long-term contract committing TotalEnergies to purchase the hydrogen produced for the needs of its platform, Air Liquide will invest over €130 million in the construction and operation of a new unit producing hydrogen.
This unit will partly use biogas from the…
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ExxonMobil have released a statement about the strike action taking place at the Fawley oil refinery in the UK.
In the statement, the oil and gas company said that the action involved trade union members who were employed by contracting companies onsite.
An ExxonMobil spokesperson said: “This action involves trade union members employed by contracting companies operating onsite. Operations at…
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Valves
Severn was successfully approached by a leading international oil company to replace the main water injection valve on their FPSO due to the existing valve not being able to generate the required pressure.
This problem was estimated to be costing the company a significant loss in oil production and a quick response and solution was vital.
Severn were asked to provide a complete replacement…
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Flowmeters
Promass Q, a high-tech Coriolis flowmeter line from Endress+Hauser, aims to help end any instrument inaccuracy in the oil and gas industry.
Globally, over 90 million barrels of crude oil, natural gas, and refined hydrocarbons are produced, transported, stored and sold to end users every day.
Promass Q is now available for larger pipes — up to 10 inch (DN 250)—for measuring flow rates up to…
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Pumps
Sulzer has successfully finalised an extensive modernisation project at its Kotka pump factory.
The automation and digitalisation of the processes will take the production to a completely new level, cutting production throughput time by 93%.
Sulzer has been manufacturing pumps in Kotka for 130 years. Now the company is entering a new era with the new, state-of-the-art pump production line that…
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GMB members who work as engineers at the Fawley oil refinery in the UK have begun a two-week strike over pay beginning on November 21.
Almost 100 membersof the union, boilermakers, welders, pipefitters, mechanical fitters and scaffolders will take part in the strike, which has the potential to impact on fuel supplies.
There was hope of a last-minute deal to prevent industrial action and the…
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Pipelines
Producer of thermoplastic composite pipes (TCP) Strohm has been awarded a contract from ECOnnect to provide more than 11km of TCP.
This will be installed at the TES Wilhelmshaven Green Gas Terminal in Germany and the project, which is being developed by provider of green hydrogen at scale Tree Energy Solutions (TES), aims to provide sustainable, clean and affordable energy in the form of green…
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Pipelines
Shell Pipeline’s Zydeco oil pipeline that runs from Houston to Port Neches in Texas is operating at reduced capacity.
Reuters has reported that due to project work at Port Neches the key link is expected to remain at reduced capacity until mid to late December.
The Zydeco pipeline system alleviates transportation bottlenecks of crude arriving in Houston from the Eagle Ford, Permian and Bakken…
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ExxonMobil and Pertamina have signed an agreement at the G20 Summit in Bali to further progress their previously announced regional carbon capture and storage hub for domestic and international CO2.
The Heads of Agreement builds upon a joint study and memorandum of understanding that was signed at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, to assess carbon capture and storage technologies, low-carbon hydrogen…
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Linde and SLB have entered into a strategic collaboration on carbon capture, utilisation and sequestration (CCUS) projects to accelerate decarbonisation solutions across industrial and energy sectors.
The collaboration will combine decades of experience in carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and sequestration; innovative technology portfolios; project development and execution expertise; and…
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Emerson has signed a five-year framework agreement with Equinor to provide operational support services to ensure continued safe and optimised oil and gas production.
The service agreement for the Martin Linge platform in the Norwegian North Sea includes options for three additional five-year periods, covering maintenance and upgrades of the control technology, software and instrumentation.…
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