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April 27, TechnipFMC announced the launch of Subsea 2.0, a product platform intended to make subsea projects simpler, leaner and smarter. When combined with iEPCI (the company’s integrated approach to field architecture and project execution), Subsea 2.0 is meant to improve project economics and unlock first oil and gas more quickly.
Subsea 2.0 is a product platform made up of six core…
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Blackburn Chemicals, a provider of foam control and antifoaming solutions, has installed a range of Babcock process heating systems into its Lancashire factory as part of a major expansion programme.The company supplies a wide range of industries, including paper, food, paint and textiles, in over fifty countries. It has been expanding production on site and has invested over £8…
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Vogelsang will be exhibiting its shredding technology at the IFAT trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials in Munich this May. At booth 347/446 in hall B1, the focus will be on the new generation of the twin-shaft grinder XRipper.
“Wet wipes, disruptive matter and in some countries, mounds of fat, block pumps and entire channels. This poses major challenges to those in charge…
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The company says that the facility increases pump manufacturing capacity to meet growing demand worldwide.
EBARA Pumps Europe (a group company of EBARA Corporation) has moved pump production to a new plant in Vicenza, Italy, which opened 12 April. The new site is twice as large as the previous facility and has an integrated warehouse for production and distribution.
The company expects production…
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The drones each use a different sensor to paint a more complete picture of operations. The devices’ makers hope to significantly reduce the time and costs related to the inspection of offshore oil and gas facilities.
Air Control Entech (ACE) has developed three drones to assess offshore sites more efficiently. The drones use live video streaming, ultrasonic testing and 3D laser scanning…
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BiFab faced a ‘critical cash position’ before the purchase, which was facilitated by the Scottish government to save the company’s fabrication yards.
In a deal brokered by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the Scotland-based BiFab has been bought by JV Driver through its subsidiary DF Barnes.
BiFab supplies fabrication for offshore oil and gas facilities and renewable…
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The DoE is looking to accelerate the deployment of privately-owned cybersecurity technologies into the energy industry after a cyberattack downed a pipeline communications system.
16 April the US Department of Energy (DoE) made $25 million (€20.2 million) available in funding to research, develop, and demonstrate new approaches for cybersecurity for energy infrastructure.
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AESSEAL will be delivering a webinar on the cost and energy benefits of mechanical seals on 18 April, at 2:30pm -3:30pm BST.
Hosted by Fluid Handling International, the webinar will be presented by Chris Dean, Technical Training Manager at AESSEAL. He will discuss the pros and cons around the use of gland packing, and why you might want to switch to mechanical seals.
An expert…
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The agreement will see TechnipFMC work on BP production in Africa. Financial details were not disclosed.
TechnipFMC announced 16 April that it has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by BP for the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Tortue/Ahmeyim field development. The LNG project is located offshore on the maritime border of Mauritania and…
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Scientists have discovered a ‘co-catalyst’ that can improve the performance of water purifying chemicals.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have discovered a method to improve the way pollutants are removed from wastewater using Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs).
AOPs are a group of chemical treatment processes that use oxidation to remove organic materials from…
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The mixer has a variable output to only use energy when it’s needed, reducing power consumption and unnecessary wear.
The compact submersible wastewater Flygt 4220 mixer aims to increase efficiency by only delivering the output required.
“Plant operators can easily modify the mixer output, via a tank-side control panel, a programmable controller or plant-wide control system, to match…
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The initiative is aiming to increase awareness of water reuse as Colorado looks to extend its water supply.
The PureWater Colorado Demonstration Project, a scheme aiming to demonstrate direct potable reuse (DPR) as a ‘safe, reliable and sustainable’ source of drinking water, has chosen Xylem as its water technology solutions provider.
DPR takes wastewater, treats it, and then…
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Motiva, owner of the largest refinery in America and a Saudi Aramco subsidiary, has signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with TechnipFMC and Honeywell UOP to explore petrochemical production in the US. The agreements are worth $8 billion (€6.4 billion) to $10 billion (€8 billion) in investment.
The MoUs allow Motiva to evaluate TechnipFMC’s world scale mixed-feed ethylene…
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Fracking has seen American crude production reach levels not seen since the 1970s, with Texas leading the way.
November 2017 set a new peak for US crude production in a single month at over 10 million barrels per day (b/d). The US’ Energy Information Agency expects industry will continue performing over the next two years, projecting that 2018 and 2019 will average 10.7 million and 11.3…
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Out of the eighteen contracts to supply drilling services on Statoil offshore rigs on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS), Archer, a Norwegian ‘oil services company’, has won twelve. The firm value of the contracts is NOK 6 billion (€622 million) with the maximum value is estimated by Archer to be up to NOK 15 billion (€1.5 billion).
The contracts are effective from 1…
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Increases in the use of natural gas for power generation and spot-purchases from China drove the growth.
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) is reporting that exports from the states reached 1.94 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) last year, up from 0.5 Bcf/d in 2016. All of these exports originated from Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana, more than half of them…
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The new N.Mac Twin Shaft Grinder is designed to fragment materials to protect pumps and the process. The company says that it is suited to areas like wastewater treatment and biogas and biomass plants.
The new N.Mac is available in channel and inline housing constructions and can be installed into effluent channels or upstream from a pump. The ‘cartridge cutting knives’ within the…
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Satellite imagery and oil-well production data shows an association between decades of oil activity and the ‘alarming rates’ of land movement. The study’s findings match those of research conducted in the years following the 4.8 magnitude earthquake that shook East Texas in 2012.
Researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) looked at a 4,000 square-mile (over 10,359km)…
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