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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rotork actuators will be installed on a remote header application at one of the world’s largest exporter of crude oil and condensates.
This is one of several new build sites in the Middle East and the actuators will be used to control the flow of crude oil from remote header manifolds to nearby refineries for further processing.
Rotork’s IQ3 multi-turn actuator allows for unparalleled data…
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The South American oil and gas pipeline sector has been impacted by weak demand and low oil and gas prices as a result of COVID-19.
The worsening financial situation is leading to delays in the upcoming pipeline projects while measures to curb the spread of pandemic has impacted the operations of existing pipelines, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.Haseeb Ahmed, oil and…
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Flowmeters
Emerson has introduced a new Micro Motion™ Coriolis flowmeter designed for high-pressure hydrogen dispensing and chemical injection applications where measurement accuracy and safety are essential.
The Micro Motion Coriolis HPC015 flowmeter is capable of a flow accuracy margin of 0.5% for gas and 0.1% for liquid mass flow measurement, a significant improvement over existing meters.
The meter…
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Oxford Flow, the flow control equipment specialist for oil, gas, water and industrial process industries, has announced the opening of its new manufacturing facility in Oxford to fuel its ambitious growth plans.
The state-of-the-art facility is based at Cowley, closely located to Oxford Flow’s headquarters.
At 6,000 sq. ft, the space is about six times larger than the previous workshop…
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Other
Wales and West Utilities has been named as the winner in the oil and gas industry sector at the RoSPA Health and Safety Awards.
The regulated gas distribution business, with around 35,000 km of gas pipes covering Wales and the south-west of England, has been named the top organisation in its sector this year.
The RoSPA Health and Safety Awards are open to organisations of all sizes from…
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Pumps
A natural gas plant in the Middle East had been using a multi-stage, heavy duty vertical turbine pump, type 60-WUJ-2M, in organic lean amine production that was continuously failing.
Lean amine is an organic compound that can absorb hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from sour natural gas.
The temperature of the pump service ranges from 6°C to 59°C. European antimony-impregnated hard…
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McDermott International, a fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions for the energy industry, has been awarded a contract by Delta Offshore Energy to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a subsea gas pipeline.
The pipeline will connect a regasification platform, located around 22 miles offshore, to the planned 3,200 MW power plant in Bac Lieu…
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Flowmeters
Titan Enterprises offers special options for its Oval Gear flowmeters to ensure safe operation in potentially dangerous atmospheres like in the petrochemical industry.
Based upon a proprietary oval gear design, Titan OG Series flowmeters are designed to give reliable, high performance across a wide range of applications.
Unlike other types of flowmeter, the measurement accuracy of these oval…
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Valves
When Spanish drilling expert Cimentaciones Abando needed to replace its compressor units, a field test trial revealed Atlas Copco’s DrillAir mobile high-pressure devices saved the company more than 20% of its annual fuel costs.
When the time came for a new set of drilling compressors, the Biobao-based company’s fleet manager, Julen Abando, sought technically advanced machines that could…
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A new order from Future Biogas is set to bring the total number of Borger pumps and separators at its plants to over 20.
The AD developer and operator invested in its first Borger pump in 2015 for its UK site near Swaffham – seeking an alternative solution to its existing pumps that were proving time-consuming and costly to maintain.
Since then, the full-service company, who additionally…
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The successful rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand made headline news around the world two years ago.
But it was the role played by Xylem and its dewatering expertise in challenging environments that helped secure their freedom.
Four of Xylem’s experts were on site and recommended a reconfiguration of the pumps that increased the flow by 40%, which…
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