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More than 270 Rotork process control actuators have been ordered for a project in Australia.
The customers, which have not been revealed, purchased the quarter-turn CVQ electric actuators which will operate ball and v-ball valves on separator skids to control the water extraction process at an onshore natural gas production site in the Surat Basin.
The ball valves will be used to shut off the…
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Pipelines
More than 300 Rotork actuators have been specified for use along a 700 km Indian pipeline.
The pipeline, which is currently under construction, will stretch across southern India and transport supplies from a key refinery.
Due to the large scale of the project, a large number of actuators are required and Rotork’s CMA, IQ and SI ranges have all been specified.
The CML-1500 and CML-3000…
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Valves
Schroeder Valves is offering a new type of valve for pressures from 140 to 250 bar - the Schroeder Intermediate Pressure Valve (SIP).
This series is ideal in systems with frequent operation in the minimum flow range.
It will especially be in use with boiler feed water circuits in gas and steam combined cycle power plants (CCPP) for the protection of centrifugal pumps. In fact, initial…
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Pipelines
Tracerco has been awarded a deep-water subsea inspection project to assess the integrity of a new pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.
The operator will deploy Discovery, Tracerco’s Subsea CT Scanner, to obtain critical baseline integrity data on the new pipeline system.
Multiple inspection locations will be identified by the operator along the pipe via the use of corrosion modelling.
The…
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Valves
Warren Controls, a leading manufacturer of control valves and speciality fluid handling products, has launched its two and three-way electrically actuated HVAC/BAC control valves.
The valve is designed to assist in the transport of low-pressure steam or hot or cold water within a building for temperature regulation and for domestic use.
The three-way valves are available in both mixing and…
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Pipelines
W&W Energy Services is helping its customers simplify operations and reduce costs with its knuckle boom crane truck.
The Petrofac-owned company specialises in pipeline, production and infrastructure services to energy producers in the Permian Basin.
The vehicle is a 2019 Kenworth K900 Tractor with an integrated Palfinger 110002 high performance hydraulic knuckle boom crane, capable of hauling,…
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Valves
KROHNE, a world-leading manufacturer and supplier of solutions in industrial process instrumentation, has announced it continues to ship full product lines from its Beverly facility despite current global restrictions that have impacted numerous industrial operations as a result of Covid-19.
Bob Senk, Vice President of Operations for KROHNE, said: “Magmeters, level radar and TDR and even…
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Valves
Twenty years on since purchasing their first equipment from Landia, the same Mexican customer has placed a new order for 20 submersible mixers and chopper pumps.
The mixers will be working in the process tanks of two WWTP’s in Atequiza – whilst the chopper pumps will be recirculating digester sludge every four hours.
Located close to Mexico’s largest freshwater lake, Lago de Chapala,…
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Pipelines
Liberty Steel Hartlepool has secured contracts to build more than 470 kilometres of pipe for use in offshore and onshore energy infrastructure projects in the US and Caspian Sea regions.
The orders, of significant value, will be fulfilled at Liberty’s Longitudinally Submerged Arc Welded Linepipe (LSAW) mill.
Production has commenced and will continue for the next 10 to 12 months, providing…
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Valves
Emerson and Quantum Reservoir Impact have announced a team-up to develop and market the next-generation applications for AI-based analytics and decision-making tools for oil and gas exploration and production.
The collaboration combines the power of Emerson’s global reach and the world’s largest independent exploration and production software portfolio with Quantum’s leading industry…
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Flowmeters
Scientific gas flow specialist Vögtlin Instruments GmbH has introduced a firmware update with several improvements for the red-y compact 2 series mass flowmeters.
The red-y compact 2 is a gas flow meter with an optional valve that can operate on a single AA battery, on USB power or on 24 Vdc supply.
With the touch-screen display, users can conveniently adjust lots of variables without the need…
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Pumps
With the re-opening of its Shanghai office after the Coronavirus pandemic appears to be easing in the country, Landia has sold a new batch of chopper pumps to China.
As business begins to get back to normal after a lengthy lockdown, the new order will see the chopper pumps used for a liquid manure application at a dairy farm in the northern part of China. The 18.5 kW pumps are for an expanding…
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Valves
The plunge in oil prices have hit the upstream sector hard.
Cuts are being made across the industry that will have a dramatic impact on the industry’s project pipeline.
Global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie believes almost all pre-final investment decisions (FID) on projects will be deferred. And of the 50 or so projects identified with potential to go ahead this year, only 10…
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Pipelines
An American energy firm has confirmed it will proceed with the construction of a crucial pipeline that will boost the economy by $8bn (€7.3bn).
TC Energy Corporation is behind the 1,210 mile long Keystone XL Pipeline Project that will be capable of delivering 830,000 barrels per day of crude oil from Alberta to Steele City, Nebraska.
“We appreciate the ongoing backing of landowners,…
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Pipelines
Garlock's Jim Drago explains how the raised surface profile of PTFE sheet gasket helped a midstream oil and gas processor address leaky pipes
Bolted flange-gasket connections in process piping systems are common and given little thought – unless they start to leak.
Chronic leakage proved to be an issue for one of our clients, a midstream oil and gas processor and services provider. The site…
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Valves
New York City fireboats have been equipped with Rotork’s electric actuators.
The boats, Firefighter 2 and Firefighter 343, from the Marine Division of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) are using its IQ range of part-turn devices which will help keep the city safe.
The actuators have the important duty of controlling the flow of water to the fire nozzles on deck, meaning that they…
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Pumps
A new and low-cost approach to multiphase metering – the process of determining the make-up of crude oil as it’s pumped from the reservoir – has been demonstrated by engineers from Brunel University London.
Crude oil is extracted as a mixture of oil, gas, water and sand, which is separated and processed before making its way downstream to be turned into usable products.
Now, a new…
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Other
A top company has won support from another firm by investing into its water and industrials business.
Oxford Flow, the flow capital equipment specialist for oil, gas, water and industrial process industries, has revealed that GF Piping Systems, a division of Georg Fischer (GF), has come on board in support of GF’s innovation strategy.
Oxford Flow will use the investment to speed up the…
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