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A 90-tonne bung of congealed fat is to be dug out by hand from a Liverpool sewer, according to UK water provider United Utilities, who’s sewer engineers will be digging out the fatberg with pickaxes and shovels.
80 metres long, the blockage of congealed fats, oils and other substances was found underneath Birchall Street and couldn’t be moved with conventional high-powered jets,…
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A large leak in Wigan that has left several homes and business without water for weeks is going to receive repairs, according to Wigan Today.
The report outlines that among the households and businesses affected is the Wigan Investment Centre where half of the building has experienced issues related to the leak, including the disability of several toilets.
Commuters have also been affected by the…
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Liquid software company JFrog has announced that it has completed the acquisition of DevOps automation platform company, Shippable.
JFrog has said that it will be incorporating Shippable’s portfolio of cloud-native and Kubernetes-ready CI/CD solutions into its own platform. The company states that this will create a complete and integrated DevOps pipeline solution.
"We're immensely excited…
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According to Arab News, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has sealed a $4 billion (€3.5 billion) midstream pipeline infrastructure deal with US investment firms KKR and BlackRock.
The Arab News reports that new entity ADNOC Oil Pipelines will lease the oil firm’s interest in 18 pipelines, transporting crude oil and condensates across its offshore and onshore upstream concessions…
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According to Reuters, a fuel pipeline explosion in central Mexico has led to the death of a recorded 91 people.
Reuters reports that the explosion is one of the deadliest incidents to hit state-run oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in years. The blast came after sever shortages of gasoline in central Mexico after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched a large crackdown on…
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Expensive water leaks could be tackled using sensors and new artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the University of Waterloo in Canada revealed.
The AI has been developed by the university’s researchers in collaboration with undisclosed industry partners. It combines sophisticated signal processing techniques and AI software to identify signs of leakage carried via sound in water…
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In a press release, Shell UK and its partners, Esso Exploration and Production UK and Acro British have announced a final investment deal for a Shearwater gas infrastructure hub located in the central North Sea. This investment will be Shell’s seventh for the UK North Sea in 2018.
The new investment will see the Shearwater platform modified and a 23 mile pipeline installed.
The pipeline…
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UK water utility firm Thames Water announced that it has deployed hundreds of night-time leak detectors in order to pinpoint leakages throughout the company’s 20,000 mile network of water pipes.
Thousands of loggers have been installed as well as an extra 600 members of staff after severe weather conditions prevented leak detection operations earlier in the year.
“We have hundreds of…
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According to The Times of India, a major leak in the main supply left two dozen localities under Shahganj and Lohamandi in Agra, India, without water on New Year’s Day.
The pipeline is located under the Guru Ka Taal rail over bridge (ROB) and is connected to Lohamandi water pumping station. The Times of India report that a leakage had developed at the end of last week on the main…
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According to S&P Global, Australia’s Northern Gas Pipeline has begun commercial operations. The pipeline is located in Sydney and links the Northern Territory region with eastern Australia.
For the first time, the newly active pipe will connect the gas producing Northern Territory to the gas consuming eastern seaboard states.
S&P Global state that construction on the pipeline…
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According to the Romford Recorder, Essex and Suffolk Water has added a springer spaniel to its water leakage detection team.
The three year old dog, Denzel has been trained to ‘sniff out’ and locate leaks on the water company’s pipe network. Denzel is trained to recognise even the tiniest traces of the chlorine used to disinfect water supplies.
The Romford Recorder…
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According to Daily News, an explosion on a natural gas pipeline led to a fire in the Marmara province of Sakarya yesterday.
Daily News reports that the explosion took place on the main distribution line of the Bozüyük-Adapazarı pipeline in the early morning. The explosion then caused a fire in the Değirmendere neighbourhood.
The Sakarya Governor’s office said that the gas flow…
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Reuters reports that following a rupture on its 1,100km oil pipeline in Peru, Frontera Energy has stopped production.
Located 200 kilometres from the pipeline rupture, Frontera Energy has said that production at its oilfield will stop until authorities work to resolve the disputes made by indigenous protestors.
Due to the suspended production, Reuters says that operators of the pipeline,…
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UK water company Severn Trent announced that it has started to utilise ‘machine learning’ to further develop the firm’s approach to leak detection.
According to a press release, the company has created an advanced leak detection model that uses data from its network to help identify, locate and manage leaks in its system.
“We’re really excited by this project, and…
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According to Kallanish Energy, Houston-based energy company Phillips 66 has announced an open season for three separate pipeline projects.
Alongside pipeline developer-owner Bridger Pipeline, Phillips 66 has proposed The Liberty Pipeline. It is set to provide shippers crude transportation from the Rockies and Bakken production areas to Corpus Christi in Texas. It will also have an initial…
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Tennessee Gas Pipeline plan to build a meter station at Longmeadow Country Club, Tennessee.
The building of the facility will let Columbia Gas of Massachusetts buy more natural gas from Tennessee’s interstate 200 Line. A natural gas pipeline is also to be built and will go from Longmeadow to Springfield.
Tennessee has been planning the construction of a meter station in…
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Applied Flow Technology (AFT) has announced the release of a new version of its waterhammer and surge analysis software, AFT Impulse.
Trey Walters, president of AFT, announced the launch at the Pressure Surge Conference in Bordeaux, France.
“Our new version 7 of AFT Impulse clearly demonstrates AFT’s commitment to the global waterhammer engineering community and improving safety in…
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PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) has started to distribute gas through its Duri-Dumai gas pipeline. The state-owned gas company built the pipeline as a joint project with state energy holding company Pertamina with a total investment of $76 million (€67).
In a press statement to The Jakarta Post, PGN corporate secretary Rachmat Hutama said that the initial gas distribution was to test the…
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