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SNC-Lavalin’s subsidiary Kentz Overseas Co. has been awarded a five-year commissioning support services framework agreement by Petroleum Development Oman (PDO).
Under the agreement, extending from 2017 to 2022, the company will provide a variety of systems completions, commissioning, and start-up service activities on a portfolio of oil and gas “megaprojects” within Oman, such…
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US fuel injections systems company Fluid Mechanics has become part of L’Orange, the German specialist in electronically-controlled, high-pressure injection technology for diesel and heavy fuel oil engines.
Fluid Mechanics celebrates its 60th anniversary this year and will continue in North America to use the same name and personnel, only now as a fully functioning operation of…
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German companies have the potential to play a large role in Iran’s upcoming water and wastewater projects, according to the managing director of a major Iranian engineering company.
Hamidreza Janbas, MD of Iran’s National Water and Wastewater Engineering Co. (NWWEC), spoke to the country’s national news agency ISNA on the sidelines of a joint economic commission between Iran and…
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Indian Oil Corp. has repaired and restored the Mathura-Delhi section of its Mathura-Jalandhar pipeline, where an instance of illegal tapping was detected on 17 February.
The pipeline was put it back into service the same night to ensure uninterrupted transport of petroleum products.
Early on 17 February, Indian Oil's security guards patrolling the RK Puram area of Mathura district found illegal…
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The Parflex division of motion and control technologies developer Parker Hannifin Corp.has released its Polyflex 2340N-24 subsea hydraulic hose, an alternative to 1½” welded pipe in offshore drilling operations.
The first 1½” hydraulic hose specifically designed and certified for subsea applications up to 5000psi, Polyflex 2340N-24 replaces welded pipe and eliminates the…
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Idec Corp. has introduced its EC2B Series, a new line of enclosures, control stations, and accessories for hazardous location (HazLoc) applications.
The products deliver value and time savings to panel builders and end users with global approvals for hazardous environments, popular standard control station configurations, and customised control station configurations built and delivered to…
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Alicat Scientific has been selected by analytical instrumentation manufacturer Valco Instruments Company (VICI) as one of its preferred suppliers for gas flow controls in its Dynacalibrator Calibration Gas Generators.
Alicat’s range of Basis OEM mass flow controllers provide the control required by VICI to create gas mixes down to fractions of a nanogram per minute, in a compact footprint…
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The leak detection market for oil and gas is expected to be valued at $3.38 billion (€3.2bn) by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 6.9%, a new market report states.
According to research firm MarketsandMarkets, the growth can be attributed to the increasing incidents of leakages in the oil and gas pipelines and storage tanks at production facilities, development and expansion of existing pipelines…
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A ruptured wastewater pipe in Michigan, US, has released nearly 2 million gallons of sewage into Grand River, which runs into Lake Michigan.
According to the MLive news site, the 45-year-old heavy duty ductile iron pipe was repaired with a stainless steel clamp/sleeve with a rubber gasket on 28 February, but not before the massive amount of sewage has already escaped.
The Ottawa Country…
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Denmark-based pump manufacturer Desmi has set up its first production facility in India at Adibatla near Hyderabad.
The 3,000m2 unit located at Nadergul village will start with production of booms for oil spill response, besides equipment.
With the facility in place, Desmi will focus on producing oil spill response equipment, assemble pumps, and pumping solutions locally.
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Scottish pump and valve manufacturer Weir expects its sales to pick up in 2017, despite reporting lower revenues from last year due to the low crude oil prices.
Weir’s annual revenue fell 11% to £1.58 billion (€1.86bn), with profits clocking in at £170 million, nearly a third lower than last year.
The company’s oil and gas operations bore the brunt of the losses,…
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Endress+Hauser has released SupplyCare 3.0, an update to its industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) application for tank inventory management that monitors levels and product inventory in tanks and silos.
Enhancements in SupplyCare 3.0 include hardware and software options allowing level, flow, and pressure data to be displayed at a desk or handheld device regardless of location, and advanced…
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AutomationDirect’s has expanded its ProSense line of sensing products with the EPS series of digital pressure sensors for both gas and liquid applications.
The EPS series sensors are available with measuring ranges from vacuum up to 5800 psig, and selectable engineering units such as bar, mbar, kPa, MPa, inches of water column, and inches of mercury can be shown on the digital display.
The…
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Divelbiss Corp., serving the electronics and industrial control industry, has introduced the HEC-P6000 family of controllers, offering powerful control and communications capability for the harshest environments.
Programmed using the no-cost Divelbiss EZ ladder toolkit in ladder diagram, function block, and structured text, and based on P-Series PLC on a ChipTM technology, the HEC-P6000 family…
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Flowserve Corp., a provider of flow control products and services, has appointed R. Scott Rowe as president and CEO, effective 1 April, 2017.
Rowe, who will also join the board of directors, succeeds Mark Blinn, who previously announced his intention to retire.
Rowe brings nearly 20 years of senior leadership and operational experience in the industry to Flowserve.
He most…
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Global water and environmental service company Veolia has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of a drinking water production and treatment plant in Senegal.
The contact for the facility, to be located in the country’s capital Dakar, was signed between Veolia and the national water company Société Nationale des Eaux du Sénégal (SONES).
"We want…
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Australian valve and pipe fitting manufacturer Philmac has seen its expansion plans hindered by electricity costs that have more than doubled in two years.
A series of blackouts has plagued South Australia’s wind-dependent power grid since June 2016, which seriously affected Adelaide-based Philmac’s production in September.
The blackouts have been exacerbated by the closure of the…
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Hifi Engineering, a developer of fibre optic sensing technologies, has released the results of its high-fidelity dynamic sensing HDS leak detection technology as part of a testing programme.
The programme was funded by LOOKNorth, a national Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research hosted by C-CORE, a Canadian R&D corporation.
The C-CORE results proved the Hifi HDS system…
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