Feb 8, 2018
Oil and gas industry not reporting enough on methane leaks
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Feb 8, 2018
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The shutdown is the second since December, when a piece of granite caused a hairline crack.
The company put a statement out 7 February saying that a feed control valve had closed at its Kineil terminal at 10:20 AM. INEOS restarted the pipeline overnight after fixing the valve. According to the company, automated safety systems functioned normally to close the pipeline... [Read More]
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Feb 7, 2018
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The company expects the acquisition to complement their current business in the systems, service and process sectors.
FPE Global, a company that manufactured processing technologies and industrial mixing systems for the chemicals and plastics industries (as well as for other consumer industries), went into administration at the end of November 2017.
The FTP product range... [Read More]
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Feb 7, 2018
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By using datasets that are made using a diverse range of sources, researchers say that the debate over water quality and shale drilling can become more constructive.
The Shale Network, a group of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation, is trying to facilitate the conversation between communities, watershed groups, local government and industry by encouraging... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2018
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The purchase is an effort to expand the company’s municipal water and wastewater optimisation offering.
EmNet’s core service is in ‘real time decision support systems’ (RT-DSS) that are designed to solve municipal watershed and collection system issues. The company’s approach is to use real time data analytics to improve water and wastewater... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2018
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The University of California Riverside’s Chan Seung Park has developed an algorithm and sensor to measure octane levels more effectively.
The product costs around $10 (€8.20) and is designed to optimise combustion by identifying the energy concentration of natural gas, which Park says can vary by more than ten percent. This is compared to industrial scale sensors... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2018
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The company announced the acquisition of Pumpen Karrer February 1 and will use it as a regional base for AxFlow Germany.
in a company press release AxFlow emphasised that the transaction was mutually beneficial, with Georg Niebch, Managing Director at AxFlow Germany saying: “Pumpen Karrer’s service business complements our pump business without overlapping,”... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2018
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By using gamma ray emitters, well operations can analyse conditions underground and more effectively get to the product.
Knowing how to measure the units of natural resources in a wellbore project is a must and technology has made this process a whole lot easier. This inexpensive technology provides confirmation that a wellbore is open to flow, identifies and quantifies... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2018
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a novel use for Lego bricks in the field of microfluidics, an area focused on the manipulation of fluids at a submillimetre scale.
Devices used here are usually small two-dimensional chips that handle fluid around a ‘micro lab’. The researchers instead used micromilled Lego blocks that each carry out... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2018
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The project is designed to increase the number of vessels using LNG as a marine fuel through increased awareness of infrastructure.
Developed by the industry group SEA/LNG, the tool displays major shipping routes, oil bunkering ports and major LNG infrastructure globally. Information about individual facilities and vessels is also indexed, along with ships and infrastructure... [Read More]
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Jan 22, 2018
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The Finnish company said that current CFO Eeva Sipilä will take over from out-going president and CEO, Nico Delvaux, 3 February.
It was previously thought that Delvaux might leave the company as late as June 2018. Metso said that the search for a permanent CEO is ongoing.
The appointee, Eeva Sipilä, has been CFO since 2016, after working at port machinery manufacturer... [Read More]
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Jan 22, 2018
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Committee assented to the project, concluding that the public benefits outweighed the environmental hazards. Environmental activists and commissioners have called for an upcoming review of the approval process to assign more weight to communities and landowners.
FERC’s 19 January order approving the highly contested LNG pipeline denied... [Read More]
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Jan 19, 2018
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The hairline pipeline leak was caused by the vibration of the pipeline next to a ‘sharp ridge’ of granite.
INEOS took over the facility from BP in October 2017 after purchasing it for £250 million. Less than a month later the crack was found and the entire pipeline was closed for over two weeks. INEOS is a global chemicals company that has a turnover... [Read More]
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Jan 19, 2018
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The company has secured enough 20 year order commitments to proceed to the next stage of the project. The orders represent a supply of 500,000 barrels per day. TransCanada, the owner of the pipeline, is continuing to look for further long-term supply contracts.
As well as private contracts, the Alberta Government has agreed to ship 50,000 barrels of regionally produced... [Read More]
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Jan 18, 2018
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The company hope the acquisition will complement another purchase it made in 2017 to improve its operator training services.
Emmerson announced 18 January that it has acquired ProSys, a supplier of software and services aimed at increasing productivity and safety across a range of refining industries. The goal for the company is to make operations and response to abnormalities... [Read More]
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Jan 17, 2018
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The company says that the purchase will complement their position in the food and beverage industry.
RDC focuses on servicing industrial equipment and maintenance for pumps, valves, heat exchangers and homogenisers, as well as testing of other fluid handling equipment and systems. The company employs 43 people and is based in west Paris.
Founder of the French company,... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2018
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Andreas Ostermann von Roth completes the executive board after his predecessor left mid-2017.
In the new role, which he began 1 January 2018, von Roth will be in charge of the Aventics plants across Europe as well as in the US and China, he will also cover procurement, logistics, and quality management.
Aventics specialises in pneumatic ‘components, systems and customer-specific... [Read More]
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