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A specialist engineering company has invested more than £700,000 (€815,000) to develop tools which provide greener, faster and safer solutions for decommissioning in the energy sector.
Decom Engineering’s latest R&D investment has updated their Pipe Coating Removal (PCR) equipment, which cleans decommissioned or surplus pipelines of multiple coatings, so they can be repurposed for use on…
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Construction company Denys is to design and lay the Porthos onshore pipeline.
Denys was awarded the contract following an intensive European tendering process lasting more than a year.
Porthos will transport CO2 from the Rotterdam port area and store it in empty gas fields under the North Sea. Denys will take care of the detailed design and construction of what will be approximately 30 km of…
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Vinyl Pipes has announced its intention to expand operations to the Sub-Sahara Region.
This is the region that the company believes will benefit the most from the n lightweight and durable solution that Vinyl uPVC Pipes have to offer.
The ability to deliver consignments under 21 days, adjust specifications, order timelines in line with the customer requirement and schedule make Vinyl Pipes a…
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Construction work on the Baltic Pipe, which will bring Norwegian gas to Poland, has started with a vessel laying the first stretch of pipeline.
The Polish-Danish strategic gas infrastructure project that will also supply gas to Denmark will help Poland to diversify its natural gas supplies. It is planned to start operations next October.
"On June 27, Castorone, one of the vessels responsible…
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The Ministry of Petroleum (MoP) of the Republic of South Sudan announced the launch of the country’s first Oil Licensing Round.
The MoP has identified new exploration blocks with potential hydrocarbons and has compiled crucial data to provide to interested investors, operators and counterparties.
According to the new analysis commissioned by the Ministry, approximately 90% of South…
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc is reviewing its holdings in the largest oil field in the US - a possible sale that could raise as much as $10 billion (€8.37 billion).
The potential sale could include all of Shell’s 260,000 acres in the Permian Basin, according to a Reuters report.
The oil and gas behemoth is under pressure to accelerate carbon emissions cuts after a Dutch court ruled last month…
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Construction work on Baltic Pipe, a pipeline connecting Poland with Norwegian gas fields via the Baltic Sea and Denmark, will resume after a temporary halt in operations.
Danish grid operator Energinet said two areas of the pipeline's construction still await further regulatory approval and completion of the project could be delayed by three months.
The suspension had followed the rescinding…
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A key permit for Enbridge’s Line 3 oil pipeline was upheld by the Minnesota Court of Appeals removing a potential delay for the controversial project.
The court on Monday affirmed a Certificate of Need and Routing Permit granted by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.
The pipeline, which will carry Canadian oil-sands crude from Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, has faced fierce…
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Siltbuster has worked with the Porr Skanska A Hak joint venture on a significant National Grid project to build a new gas pipeline under the River Humber.
The water treatment specialists were called in to provide a temporary, high-flow dissolved metals removal system ensuring clean water was available for a key part of the construction.
The location of the new 5km pipeline under the Humber…
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The Prince of Wales opened J V Energen’s new CO2 capture facility near the Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development in Dorset where green CO₂ is supplied to their new joint venture business BioCarbonics.
The gas is captured from a full-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane-to-grid plant, to produce a clean, sustainably sourced product for use by local businesses.
The CO2…
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Italy's Snam SRG.MI has ordered its first supply of steel pipes fully certified to take up to 100% of hydrogen for its natural gas transport network in Italy.
Europe's biggest gas pipeline operator said it had signed a contract with Cenergy Holding’s Corinth Pipeworks for 440 kilometres of pipes.
The new high-pressure pipes will be used to replace old ones that Snam is retiring along its…
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The US has successfully retrieved the majority of the $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom paid to a cyber-criminal gang responsible for taking the Colonial Pipeline offline last month.
DarkSide - which US authorities said operates from eastern Europe and possibly Russia - infiltrated the pipeline bringing chaos to supplies across the country.
The pipeline carries 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel,…
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TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory (NEL) has launched a joint industry project (JIP) that will support regulatory authorities and industry to establish new standards and practices for the use of online oil-in-water analysers at remote locations.
The outcome from the JIP will provide the confidence needed by the industry and regulatory authorities in using online oil-in-water analysers…
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Air Liquide Engineering and Construction will build a methanol production plant for Sarawak Petchem.
The state-owned oil and gas firm’s Malaysian facility is planned to come into operation in 2023.
The methanol plant, which will be located in Bintulu, will produce 5,000 tons of the gas per day based on Air Liquide Engineering and Construction proprietary process technology, Lurgi…
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Trafigura and Yara International have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the development of ammonia production as a clean fuel.
This collaboration will be in shipping while the two will explore opportunities to work together on clean ammonia fuel infrastructure and market opportunities.
Both Yara and Trafigura have taken steps towards making the transition to a greener…
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Air Liquide Engineering and Construction has signed a contract with Zeeland Refinery, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Lukoil, to provide a carbon capture and liquefaction solution in the Netherlands.
Cryocap Flue Gas (FG) is a solution that can capture more than 90% of the emissions from hydrogen production and will contribute to the decarbonisation of the Vlissingen site by capturing…
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Iran has started moving crude oil via the Goreh-Jask pipeline that passes by the Strait of Hormuz to Jask in the Gulf of Oman.
Here the oil will be loaded at the port on tankers for export. The first shipment has reached its final destination, Iran’s state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
The 620-mile pipeline will be officially opened later this year by President Hassan…
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The technology group Wärtsilä will supply a biogas liquefaction plant to Norway-based Biokraft.
The company is a subsidiary of the Scandinavian Biogas Group and a major player in the global biogas market.
The 25 tons per day capacity plant will extend an existing bioLNG production plant at Skogn in Norway, also supplied by Wärtsilä, to a combined total of 50 tons per day making it by far…
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