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Oil giant Saudi Aramco is in talks with partners in China about further investments in the country, according to CEO Amin Nasser.
The company aims to allocate more capital for investments, including to boost maximum sustained capacity and gas supply.
"China is an important part of Aramco's base," Nasser said.
"We are currently in discussions with a number of our partners in China for more…
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Pumps
Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire Pumpenfabrik Wangen, a German manufacturer of progressive cavity pumps used for transferring fluids mainly in the biogas and wastewater sectors.
The company also manufactures twin-screw pumps used in sectors like food and beverage and cosmetics.
Pumpenfabrik Wangen is based in Wangen, Germany and has manufacturing facilities in the country, and a global sales…
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Pipelines
Nord Stream 2 halted as Ukraine crisis deepens and war looms
The controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline project has been halted after Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.
The undersea pipeline, which was to transport natural gas directly from Russia to northern Germany, is owned by a subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned Gazprom.
In a statement the German government said: “The situation today is…
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Valves
BCCK Holding Company (BCCK) has partnered with Kaizen Clean Energy (KCE), a leading developer of hydrogen and “energy as a service” solutions, to develop pre-engineered solutions for hydrogen fuelling and power generation.
Under this agreement, BCCK, an engineering, procurement, fabrication, and field construction service firm, will design and manufacture methanol to hydrogen reformers…
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The global trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) increased 6% to 380 million tonnes during 2021 as many countries rebounded from the economic impact of the Covid pandemic, according to Shell’s latest annual LNG Outlook published.
Rising LNG demand, combined with supply constraints, caused gas and LNG prices to remain volatile throughout the year.
Prices reached record levels in October 2021…
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EnerMech has secured over $100 million (€88 million) of pre-commissioning and new pipeline contract awards.
This follows a $30 million (€26 million) equipment investment programme across the Scotland-based firm’s global locations to support its continued growth in these sectors.
This targeted investment represents a significant expansion to its specialist equipment fleet of compressors,…
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Pumps
Yorkshire Water’s new £50 million (€59 million) recycling facility has installed a digester mixing system by Landia.
By using this mixing system, the Huddersfield Energy and Recycling Facility ensures that total gas production can reach its anticipated 22,192 normal cubic metres (Nm3) per day. Two CHP engines produce peak electrical output of 2,390 kWh and a thermal output of 2,404…
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Linde has signed an agreement to supply high-purity industrial gases to a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Singapore.
Linde will build, own and operate a state-of-the-art SPECTRA generator to produce ultra-high-purity nitrogen and oxygen for the customer's new multi-billion-dollar semiconductor fabrication plant.
The new SPECTRA plant is expected to start up in late 2022.
This agreement…
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Valves
Honeywell has revealed a portfolio of solutions and services to help end users harness hydrogen as an alternative fuel in industrial and commercial thermal processes.
Honeywell’s end-to-end offering comes at a time when many firms are seeking to enact or tighten programmes that decrease their greenhouse gas emissions.
Honeywell has developed and tested a large portfolio of hydrogen fired…
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Pipelines
Phillips 66 and H2 Energy Europe have announced their commitment to develop up to 250 retail hydrogen refuelling stations across Germany, Austria and Denmark by 2026.
Phillips 66 has a strong retail presence with more than 1,000 JET®-branded stations in Europe and a growing hydrogen refuelling network in Switzerland through its participation in the Coop Mineraloel AG joint…
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Pumps
Essar Oil UK, a leading UK-focused downstream energy company, has announced plans to install a new £45 million (€53 million) furnace at Stanlow that’s capable of using hydrogen as its fuel source - a UK first.
This marks another significant milestone in Essar’s continued commitment to becoming the UK’s first low carbon refinery. It follows the launch of Vertex Hydrogen last month, a…
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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 our history. With this…
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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 to 2,100 metres.
The…
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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 example, when…
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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 firm Kayrros, Duke…
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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 largest in Antwerp,…
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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, chief energy transition…
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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, each bringing a unique…
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