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Siekmann Econosto is supplying industrial valves worth more than €44 million for one of the largest gas processing plants under construction in the world in Russia.
The plant in Amur has a planned target capacity for processing of more than 42 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year.
The construction project, near the city of Swobodny, was launched in October 2015.
The gas processing…
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Filtration is critical in the optimisation of gas processing systems, a new report from Celeros Flow Technology concluded.
The importance of filtration in the optimisation of gas processing systems was emphasised in a new white paper, authored by in-house experts from the company.
When correctly specified and maintained, the report said, a filtration system could reduce downtime and increase…
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Pipelines
Oil and gas extraction and transportation increasingly involves the use of unmanned platforms as the industry looks to move to more automated operations.
However, routine maintenance of pipelines continues to be time-consuming and expensive through conventional manual pig launching.
The patented Pig Stop and Bypass (PSB) mechanism from Celeros Flow Technology allows automated pigging on oil…
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Pipelines
Rotork’s GP heavy-duty scotch yoke actuators have been installed at a South Korean LNG terminal.
Rotork has been providing actuators at the terminal since it was first constructed, with over 100 electric and pneumatic actuators installed during the initial front end engineering (FEED) phase of development.
Additional GP actuators have now been installed as part of the site’s second phase…
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Valves
Valve specialist GEMÜ has redesigned its butterfly valves and now offers the GEMÜ R480 Victoria in a wafer version.
A specialised team has refined a multitude of technical specifications, while further expanding GEMÜ's manufacturing capabilities.
The valve bodies are milled in one clamping position at GEMÜ Valves China’s automated valve production facilities.
This allows precise shape…
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Pipelines
The outlook for South America’s offshore oil and gas production is on track to surpass volumes from North America by 2024 despite the effects of COVID-19 on global demand and supply.
While several projects in Brazil and Guyana are less likely to be postponed or suspended, offshore projects in US and Mexico tell a different story.
Key projects in offshore US have already been delayed as a…
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Flowmeters
Endress+Hauser has launched a new line of flowmeters.
The Proline t-mass F/I 300/500 devices are used for measuring pure gases and gas mixtures and each has numerous alarm functions including bidirectional measurement capability and reverse flow detection.
In numerous industries, thermal flow measuring technology has long been used for measuring pure gases and gas mixtures.
The t-mass…
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Pipelines
Dresser Natural Gas Solutions (NGS) has acquired Flow Safe, a manufacturer of spring-operated and pilot-operated high performance pressure relief devices.
Dresser NGS, a provider of measurement, instrumentation and piping solutions to the natural gas distribution market, has acquired the entire business, including 38 employees and two locations in New York and Houston.
The acquisition will…
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Pipelines
Sulzer Chemtech is expanding its Tower Field Services (TFS) capabilities by moving into a new facility on Tees Advanced Manufacturing Park (TeesAMP).
This will enable the company to strengthen its repair, maintenance and corrosion protection services for processing equipment, columns, vessels and power plant boilers to meet growing market demand throughout Europe, Russia and Africa.
Sulzer…
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Flowmeters
Adaptive Sensing Technology (AST) from Fluid Components International (FCI) can help those responsible for the extraction, processing or sub metering of natural gas achieve higher efficiencies at lower costs.
The accurate, reliable measurement of natural gas is critical in a wide range of industrial processes and manufacturing applications.
During oil extraction, refining, transport and…
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Pipelines
bp announced the start of gas production from its latest development offshore Egypt – the Qattameya gas field.
Through bp’s joint venture, Pharaonic Petroleum Company, the field in the North Damietta offshore concession, which is expected to produce up to 50 million cubic feet of gas per day, has been developed through a one-well subsea development and tie-back to existing…
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Pipelines
A new 90km aviation fuel pipeline has been given the green light.
The UK’s Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has approved the application by Esso to replace the pipeline that runs from Fawley Refinery, near Southampton, to its west London terminal storage facility in Hounslow.
The replacement pipeline, costing £150 million (€166 million) will be buried…
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Pipelines
The Europe-Asia Pipeline Company and MED-RED Land Bridge have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the storage and transfer of oil products through the former’s pipeline network and storage tanks.
The Israeli state-owned company will carry out the work from the UAE and other Eastern and Western markets, and from the Mediterranean to the Far East.
MED-RED Land Bridge is a joint…
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Pipelines
bp, in partnership with OQ, PETRONAS and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Oman, has revealed that production has begun from the Ghazeer gas field - 33 months after the development was approved.
Its Block 61 Phase 2 facility was initially expected to come into production in 2021. The first phase of development of Block 61 – Khazzan – was brought online in September 2017.
Dr Mohammed Al…
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Pipelines
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the oil and gas sector leading to a sharp fall in fuel prices coupled with an over-abundant supply of oil and gas.
Pipeline operators in Canada have been forced to reduce their capital expenditure during the year.
Despite capital expenditure prioritisation to conserve cash, Canadian pipeline operators might still look to analyse the current market conditions…
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Pipelines
ExxonMobil has made its final investment decision to proceed with the Payara field offshore development in Guyana after receiving government approvals.
Payara is the third project in the Stabroek Block and is expected to produce up to 220,000 barrels of oil per day after startup in 2024.
The $9 billion (€7.6 billion) development will target an estimated resource base of about 600 million…
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Pipelines
TD Williamson crews isolated a ruptured 14-inch natural gas liquids pipeline while it continued to flare off, enabling repairs while the system remained in service and creating the conditions for the fire to extinguish itself.
The west Texas pipeline exploded after it was hit by a third-party contractor excavating the right-of-way nearby.
The explosion and massive fire that followed, which shot…
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Valve engineering specialist Severn Glocon Group has made strategic changes to its executive leadership team following investment from Blue Water Energy at the start of the year.
CEO Colin Findlay has selected six key individuals to join him in steering the business through the challenging times resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. These include three external appointments and three internal…
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