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Aemetis has completed an additional seven-mile section of a biogas pipeline network in the US state of California.
The biogas unit of the renewable fuel and biochemicals company said that it finished work on a section that will transport biogas from five new dairy digesters, currently under construction, to a centralised renewable natural gas upgrading facility at the Aemetis Keyes biofuels…
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Hunting Energy Services has successfully project managed and transported about 6,100 metres of casing to the Eden Geothermal site.
The company has provided engineering, manufacturing and logistics expertise to the Eden project in the UK. This is Hunting’s first endeavour into the UK geothermal market, with the intention of expanding further into the European geothermal marketplace.
A total…
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Aggreko has completed commissioning of the largest flare gas to power project in the Middle East to date at 165 MW capacity.
The plant is situated nearby the Saqala Field, Garmain block, South East Kurdistan.
The 165 MW modular power plant ran at full capacity for 72 hours in the project’s final site acceptance test, marking successful on-time, on-budget delivery.
The plant is run on…
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EUROPIPE's L485 (X70) pipes with epoxy-coated interior have been proven an excellent option for transportation of 100% hydrogen.
The pipes are suitable for future ASME B31.12 standard build hydrogen pipelines.
Based on a preliminary test, steel was more than the properties assumed in a 100-bar pure hydrogen atmosphere standard.
The epoxy's internal flow coating offers well-known benefits…
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Turkey has begun delivering pipes that will be used for the pipeline beneath the Black Sea to bring onshore natural gas.
The first batch delivered to the onshore natural gas processing facility at Filyos port in the northern Black Sea province of Zonguldak constituted 20% of the seabed pipeline that will stretch around 170 kilometres.
Scheduled to be constructed this year, the pipeline will…
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Pipeline firms in the US successfully signed-off 14 petroleum liquids pipelines projects, according to the Energy Information Association (EIA).
This included seven crude oil pipeline projects and seven hydrocarbon gas liquids pipeline projects, but no petroleum product pipeline projects were completed last year.
Of the 14 completed projects, six projects were new pipelines while five projects…
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Equinor has submitted plans for its Hydrogen to Humber (H2H) Saltend hydrogen production facility.
This is part of phase two of the Government’s Cluster Sequencing Process.
H2H Saltend is Equinor’s flagship 600 megawatts low carbon hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, located in Saltend, to the east of Hull. The Humber region is the most carbon intensive industrial cluster in…
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PETRONAS has signed a Joint Study and Collaboration Agreement (JSCA) with Sarawak Shell to explore opportunities and project collaborations in carbon capture and storage (CCS) to help provide carbon dioxide (CO2) storage solutions in Malaysia and the region.
Under the JSCA, PETRONAS and Shell will perform an integrated CCS Area Development Plan study to support the decarbonisation ambitions of…
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Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by LUKOIL for a new integrated methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and alkylation plant.
This will be built at the oil and gas company’s refinery in Perm, Russia.
The MTBE unit will use Lummus' CDEtherol technology and the alkylation unit will use the CDAlky® technology.
Lummus' scope includes technology licensing, basic engineering, technical…
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Aramco is expanding its global downstream presence with investments in Poland’s refining, wholesale and jet fuel marketing segments.
The Saudi Arabian oil company, the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals firm, has agreed to acquire equity stakes of 30% in a 210,000 bpd refinery in Gdansk; 100% in an associated wholesale business; and 50% in a jet fuel marketing joint venture with…
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bp and Oman have signed an agreement to develop renewable energy and green hydrogen development in the Middle East county.
The Ministry of Energy and Minerals backed the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and a Renewables Data Collection Agreement which will support the potential development in Oman by 2030.
As part of the agreement, bp will capture data from 8,000km2 of land – an area more…
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Equinor and SSE Thermal have awarded two key contracts for work on a proposed hydrogen storage facility at Aldbrough, UK.
The Aldbrough Hydrogen Storage project is a collaboration between Equinor and SSE Thermal which plans to store low carbon hydrogen either within the existing natural gas storage facility or at a new hydrogen storage site adjacent to the Aldbrough Gas Storage facility in East…
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A total of 34.8 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas was transported to Turkey and Europe in two years via the TurkStream pipeline.
The pipeline was opened in 2020, by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Around 18 bcm of gas flowed to Turkey and 16.8 bcm to Europe via the TurkStream Natural Gas Pipeline, between New Year’s Day 2020 to December 31,…
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Lanaz will use UOP modular naphtha hydrotreating and fixed-bed platforming process units to upgrade its refinery in Iraq.
By adopting Honeywell technology, this will help it produce more cleaner-burning transportation fuels.
The project marks the first use of UOP modular technology in the country and will help Lanaz comply with increasingly strict specifications for fuel products.
UOP has…
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ExxonMobil has announced a discovery at its Pinktail site in the Stabroek Block, located in offshore Guyana.
The Pinktail well encountered 220 feet (67 meters) of high quality hydrocarbon bearing sandstone reservoirs.
Additionally, the Turbot-2 well has also encountered 43 feet (13 meters) of high quality hydrocarbon bearing sandstone reservoirs.
“These discoveries are part of an extensive…
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Saudi Aramco has signed a $15.5 billion (€13.7 billion) lease and leaseback deal involving its natural gas pipeline network.
This is alongside a consortium led by US investment firm BlackRock Real Assets and Hassana Investment Company, the investment management arm of the General Organisation for Social Insurance (Gosi) in Saudi Arabia.
As part of the transaction, a newly formed subsidiary,…
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State-owned oil refiner Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is planning to invest $1.19 billion (€1 billion) for the construction of a new crude oil pipeline project.
With a capacity of 17.5 million tonne per annum (MMTPA) capacity, the pipeline will run from the port city of Mundra in Gujarat to IOC’s Panipat refinery in Haryana.
The project will also include installation of nine crude oil…
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The US state of West Virginia has granted a key permit for the construction of a controversial pipeline stretching for over 300 miles.
The state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has granted a water protection permit for the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), certifying the natural gas pipeline has met state standards for water quality.
The news follows Virginia's…
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The SOTE oil pipeline, as part of Ecuador's state-owned operations, has restarted pumping following essential repairs to address erosion.
The work in the country's Amazon region has been completed, the energy ministry said, adding that operations in oil fields has restarted.
The erosion, a naturally occurring phenomenon along the Coca River, forced a halt to pumping in the SOTE pipeline and its…
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