May 12, 2022
Protos Biofuels’ plant to convert syngas into biomethane and biohydrogen
Oil and Gas News
May 10, 2022
Pipelines
Ellesmere Port in the north west could be home to the UK’s first ‘hydrogen village’.
Up to 2,000 properties in the Whitby area of the town will stop using natural gas for heating and cooking, and instead use hydrogen.
The proposal, put forward by gas distribution network Cadent and British Gas, and supported by Cheshire West and Chester Council, has been confirmed... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
May 10, 2022
Pumps
The European Commission, Hydrogen Europe and 20 European companies including Topsoe have signed a declaration on increasing electrolyser manufacturing capacity in the EU.
The declaration backs EU´s new target to double the previous EU target to 10 million tons of annual domestic production of renewable hydrogen plus an additional 10 million tons of annual hydrogen imports.
Roeland... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
May 5, 2022
Other
Oil and gas major Shell has reported its highest ever quarterly profits as prices surged globally.
Shell made $9.13 billion (€8.6 billion) in the first three months of 2022, nearly triple its $3.2 billion (€3 billion) profit it announced for the same period last year.
However, the company also revealed that said exiting from the Russian oil and gas market due to... [Read More]
Other News
May 5, 2022
Renewable Energy Group has announced the acquisition of Dawson Oil Company.
This is a bulk fuel distributor and cardlock owner, located in Northern California and will bring about 24 million gallons of fuel sales per year to the REG portfolio.
“This acquisition is a strategic growth opportunity for us as California continues to lead the way in the adoption and transition... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
May 3, 2022
Pumps
Danish marine pumps specialist Svanehøj has been awarded a contract to supply pump systems for two CO2 carriers that will transport liquid CO2 to the Northern Lights storage facilities in Norway.
Northern Lights is developing infrastructure to transport CO2 from industrial emitters in Norway and other European countries by ship to a receiving terminal in western Norway... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 29, 2022
Valves
An aviation fuel station at a major Indian airport has been enhanced with the installation of intelligent electric actuators from Rotork.
The airport wanted to upgrade to the latest in intelligent actuation technology, benefitting from the ability to gather data to plan for maintenance activities in advance, as well as a high degree of accuracy and reliability.
The... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 29, 2022
Pipelines
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has released two revised liquid pipeline leak detection standards to improve operational integrity and advance operators’ mitigation capabilities.
Published together because they address similar issues, Recommend Practice (RP) 1130, Computational Pipeline Monitoring for Liquids, and RP 1175, Pipeline Leak Detection—Program Management,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 28, 2022
Pipelines
Shell Brasil Petróleo has signed a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) to formally acquire a 25 percent stake of the Atapu field.
Shell paid $ 1.1 billion (€1.05 billion) to Petrobras for the increased stake in the field. With the contract now signed, Shell will start receiving its additional share of oil from the field.
“This transaction is the latest proof point... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 28, 2022
Pumps
MOL Group, an international, integrated oil, gas and petrochemicals firm, has teamed up with Power Plug to build one of Europe’s largest-capacity green hydrogen production facilities in Hungary.
Green hydrogen will reduce the carbon footprint of the Danube Refinery operation and enable emission-free mobility in the longer term.
Utilising a 10-megawatt (MW) electrolysis... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 27, 2022
Pumps
Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract to supply and install a 46 MW dual-fuel power plant to the Caribbean Island of Antigua.
The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order was placed by Antigua Power Company Limited (APCL).
The plant will operate primarily on regasified liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The project combines a power plant and an LNG gas terminal,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 27, 2022
Pipelines
Plans to create a CO2 network at Protos to capture some 800,000 tonnes of carbon emissions have been revealed.
Peel NRE, part of Peel L&P, has revealed its vision for a network of CO2 pipelines at Protos, the strategic energy and resource destination near Ellesmere Port.
The Protos CO2 network would connect to the regional CO2 pipeline, being developed as part of HyNet... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 25, 2022
Pipelines
A pioneering energy project to gather vital evidence about the suitability of the existing gas network to transport hydrogen is underway in the South Bank area of Teesside.
Northern Gas Networks (NGN) is using a network of existing natural gas mains to carry out standard gas operational procedures under 100% hydrogen conditions for the first time.
The testing is taking... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 22, 2022
Pipelines
The head of the regional government of Catalonia is confident a gas and green hydrogen pipeline from the north eastern Spanish region to France will be built this decade.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has boosted political support in Spain for the Midi-Catalonia (Midcat) pipeline project, which was rejected in 2019 by French and Spanish regulators arguing it did not respond... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 22, 2022
Pumps
Baker Hughes has acquired Mosaic Materials to further develop and scale its next-generation capture technology for CO2 reduction from stationary sources and CO2 removal from the atmosphere.
Mosaic’s metal-organic framework technology is a proprietary adsorbent material that acts like a high-capacity molecular sponge to selectively capture CO2.
Baker Hughes will draw... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 22, 2022
Valves
Energy Steel and Hayward Tyler have been awarded contracts to support the ITER project in France.
Energy Steel’s contract will supply 62 solenoid valve and cubicle packages and Hayward Tyler’s will supply variable drive booster pumps.
These awards follow previous awards that ITER has made to the engineered pumps and motors division of Avingtrans.
The ITER project... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 21, 2022
Other
Shell has published its Energy Transition Progress Report 2021 detailing the company’s progress over the past year.
This report is sset to be put to shareholders for an advisory vote at the Annual General Meeting on 24 May.
“In a time of great uncertainty, it is vital that our long-term energy transition strategy remains on track,” said Ben van Beurden, Shell’s... [Read More]
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