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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 opportunity to work…
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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, utilising the excess…
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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 total green hydrogen…
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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 Aemetis Keyes biofuels…
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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 sectors.
Topsoe is the…
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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 marketplace.
A total…
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Pipelines
Aggreko has completed commissioning of the largest flare gas to power project in the Middle East to date at 165 MW capacity.
The plant is situated nearby the Saqala Field, Garmain block, South East Kurdistan.
The 165 MW modular power plant ran at full capacity for 72 hours in the project’s final site acceptance test, marking successful on-time, on-budget delivery.
The plant is run on…
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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 capacity of 40…
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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 part of Yorkshire…
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Pipelines
EUROPIPE's L485 (X70) pipes with epoxy-coated interior have been proven an excellent option for transportation of 100% hydrogen.
The pipes are suitable for future ASME B31.12 standard build hydrogen pipelines.
Based on a preliminary test, steel was more than the properties assumed in a 100-bar pure hydrogen atmosphere standard.
The epoxy's internal flow coating offers well-known benefits…
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Pipelines
Turkey has begun delivering pipes that will be used for the pipeline beneath the Black Sea to bring onshore natural gas.
The first batch delivered to the onshore natural gas processing facility at Filyos port in the northern Black Sea province of Zonguldak constituted 20% of the seabed pipeline that will stretch around 170 kilometres.
Scheduled to be constructed this year, the pipeline will…
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Pipelines
Pipeline firms in the US successfully signed-off 14 petroleum liquids pipelines projects, according to the Energy Information Association (EIA).
This included seven crude oil pipeline projects and seven hydrocarbon gas liquids pipeline projects, but no petroleum product pipeline projects were completed last year.
Of the 14 completed projects, six projects were new pipelines while five projects…
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Pipelines
Equinor has submitted plans for its Hydrogen to Humber (H2H) Saltend hydrogen production facility.
This is part of phase two of the Government’s Cluster Sequencing Process.
H2H Saltend is Equinor’s flagship 600 megawatts low carbon hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, located in Saltend, to the east of Hull. The Humber region is the most carbon intensive industrial cluster in…
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Pipelines
PETRONAS has signed a Joint Study and Collaboration Agreement (JSCA) with Sarawak Shell to explore opportunities and project collaborations in carbon capture and storage (CCS) to help provide carbon dioxide (CO2) storage solutions in Malaysia and the region.
Under the JSCA, PETRONAS and Shell will perform an integrated CCS Area Development Plan study to support the decarbonisation ambitions of…
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Pumps
Wärtsilä will supply a natural gas fuelled 110 MW flexible power plant to Cassano d’Adda in Italy.
The technology group’s fast-starting internal combustion engine technology will be used to balance the power system and ensure its stability when the share of renewables is increased.
The order was placed by A2A Gencogas, and it will be delivered on a full engineering, procurement, and…
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Other
Valmet will deliver automation to the Baltics’ first biogas plant fired with household and commercial biowaste.
Built by BioWOIMA Finland Oy in Tallinn, Estonia, it will produce biomethane for the natural gas network and fuel for compressed natural gas-powered vehicles.
The order is included in Valmet’s orders received of the fourth quarter 2021. The delivery will take place in May and the…
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Pipelines
Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by LUKOIL for a new integrated methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and alkylation plant.
This will be built at the oil and gas company’s refinery in Perm, Russia.
The MTBE unit will use Lummus' CDEtherol technology and the alkylation unit will use the CDAlky® technology.
Lummus' scope includes technology licensing, basic engineering, technical…
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Pipelines
Aramco is expanding its global downstream presence with investments in Poland’s refining, wholesale and jet fuel marketing segments.
The Saudi Arabian oil company, the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals firm, has agreed to acquire equity stakes of 30% in a 210,000 bpd refinery in Gdansk; 100% in an associated wholesale business; and 50% in a jet fuel marketing joint venture with…
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