Feb 9, 2022
Essar to build UK’s first refinery-based hydrogen furnace
Oil and Gas News
Feb 8, 2022
Valves
AUMA’s electric actuation technology is helping to boost green energy in Taiwan.
A total of 40 AUMA actuators have been installed at Qingshui - Taiwan’s first new-generation geothermal power plant.
Qingshui power plant is located in northern Taiwan in the geothermally very active Yilan area.
Water is extracted at a temperature of 180 °C from a depth from 1,200... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 8, 2022
Other
Oil giant bp has reported its highest profit for eight years.
bp posted a profit of $12.8bn (€11.2 billion) for 2021, as the oil and gas company reported an update on its strategic transformation.
BP chief executive Bernard Looney said: " “Over the past two years we have set a new purpose, direction and strategy for bp, and completed the largest re-organisation in... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 7, 2022
Pipelines
Petrobras has reached an average of 88% of total load factor of its refineries in the last three months of last year.
In early February, the Brazil oil and gas major reached close to 90%.
Operational decisions in refining take into account that, for each barrel of oil processed in the refinery, necessarily, several products are generated and subsequently distributed.
For... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 4, 2022
Other
A possible cyber-attack has resulted in IT systems being disrupted at oil transport and storage facilities across Europe.
The Oiltanking in Germany, SEA-Invest in Belgium and Evos in the Netherlands have all suffered disruptions in recent days.
According to the BBC, Belgian officials are probing the cyberattack that's affected SEA-Invest terminals including the company's... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 4, 2022
Other
Carbon Mapper scientists have identified oil and gas facilities emitting significant amounts of methane in sporadic bursts.
The new research found plumes covering vast areas, sometimes stretching to 200 miles.
Last year, about 100 countries promised to cut methane emissions by 2030.
Led by the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement with the analytics... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 3, 2022
Pipelines
The Net Zero North West and the North West Hydrogen Alliance has responded to the UK government’s Levelling Up White Paper.
They argue this will have implications for industrial decarbonisation, clean growth and building a hydrogen economy in the region.
The North West Hydrogen Alliance brings together some of the region’s largest and most innovative organisations,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 3, 2022
Pumps
Kent has been awarded engineering work for the V Net Zero (VNZ) Project by Harbour Energy - the UK’s largest independent oil and gas company.
The project will store CO2 from the Immingham SuperPlace, located in the Humber region, the UK’s most energy-intensive industrial area, and could help decarbonise more than 50% of the area’s industrial emissions.
John Kent,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 2, 2022
Pipelines
Russian gas operator Gazprom is set to start-up westbound gas flows from Poland to Germany from the Yamal pipeline.
This will restore the normal flows after the route was reversed in December and sent gas prices in Europe to all-time highs.
Gazprom booked transit capacity of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline for eight hours, Reuters reported.
The pipeline, which usually... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 1, 2022
Pumps
Elkem has secured 100% ownership of the Elkem Salten energy recovery plant, after acquiring the remaining 50% stake from Kvitebjørn Energi.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre opened the new energy recovery plant at Elkem Salten in the northern part of Norway last November.
The energy recovery plant is closely integrated with the silicon production process at Elkem Salten,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 1, 2022
Valves
Jacobs has been awarded a feasibility study contract from renewable energy company RWE to investigate the production and supply of green hydrogen in South Wales, UK.
The four-month study will look at the feasibility of initially installing a 100 MW electrolyser at RWE’s Pembroke Power Station to produce green hydrogen. “This feasibility study provides us with an... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jan 28, 2022
Pumps
Shell has started operations at a new power-to-hydrogen electrolyser in China.
The operation in Zhangjiakou is a joint venture between Shell China and Zhangjiakou City Transport Construction Investment Holding Group.
The plant, one of the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysers, has started production of green hydrogen.
The electrolyser will provide about half of the... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jan 27, 2022
Pipelines
Hunting Energy Services has successfully project managed and transported about 6,100 metres of casing to the Eden Geothermal site.
The company has provided engineering, manufacturing and logistics expertise to the Eden project in the UK. This is Hunting’s first endeavour into the UK geothermal market, with the intention of expanding further into the European geothermal... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jan 27, 2022
Other
Haldor Topsoe has become the latest member of Hydrogen Council to promote green hydrogen solutions.
The Hydrogen Council is a platform for enabling the energy transition through partnerships and is a CEO-led initiative of companies with a united vision and long-term ambition.
Topsoe membership of the council will accelerate Power-to-X solutions for the hard-to-abate... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jan 27, 2022
Pipelines
Aemetis has completed an additional seven-mile section of a biogas pipeline network in the US state of California.
The biogas unit of the renewable fuel and biochemicals company said that it finished work on a section that will transport biogas from five new dairy digesters, currently under construction, to a centralised renewable natural gas upgrading facility at the... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jan 26, 2022
Pumps
Yorkshire Water’s new £50 million (€60 million) Huddersfield Energy and Recycling Facility (E&RF) includes a digester mixing system from Landia.
This ensures that total gas production can reach its anticipated 22,192Nm3/d (normal cubic meter/day).
Designed, constructed and commissioned by J. Murphy & Sons Ltd (JMS), the Huddersfield E&RF is an integral... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Jan 26, 2022
Valmet will supply a DNA Automation System to Turun Seudun Energiantuotanto’s heating plant in Oriketo, Finland.
The new system will replace the existing automation system that has reached the end of its life cycle.
The system will also provide a remote-control connection to the central control room at the company’s Naantali power plant.
With a full heat production... [Read More]
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