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Venezuela's state oil and gas company PDVSA has restarted gasoline production at the country's second largest refinery after repairing a breakdown, five sources with knowledge of the operation said on Monday, according to Reuters.
The Cardon refinery's naphtha reformer, with a capacity of 45,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), produces high-octane components for gasoline and is key to the…
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Updates on city infrastructure services to the Fufeng/Highway 81 area in North Dakota, US, including projects related to wastewater treatment and raw water supply, were presented to members of the Grand Forks City Council during Monday’s Committee of the Whole meeting, reported Grand Forks Herald.
In June, the council approved annexing a portion of land north of the city for the likely…
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In addition to the transformation towards a climate-neutral chemical industry and the perennial topic of digitalisation, the current global political situation also poses massive challenges for the process industry.
Which technologies can be used to achieve defossilisation? How to secure and enhance regional and global supply chain networks?
What hurdles must be overcome in the digitalisation…
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Lincolnshire County Council ruled a future planning application for a new site at Glentworth would not need an environmental impact assessment (EIA), even though it met some of the criteria, reported Drill or Drop.
The Glentworth oil field, between Market Rasen and Gainsborough, in the UK, was discovered in 1961. Records by the industry regulator show that oil has been produced at Glentworth,…
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Mining giant Rio Tinto has been fined $57,000 after a chemical spill near a central Queensland alumina refinery, ABC reported.
The company's subsidiary RTA Yarwun pleaded guilty to two charges of contravening a condition of its environmental authority in the Gladstone Magistrates Court on Friday afternoon.
The court heard about 20 litres of sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda,…
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Shell said it plans to shut for two weeks in September a key crude oil pipeline in Gulf of Mexico that supplies oil to Louisiana refineries, according to Reuters.
The Odyssey and Delta crude pipelines will be shut for planned maintenance early-to-middle of the month, Shell said in a statement.
The pipelines transport Heavy Louisiana Sweet crude from offshore oilfields and switching to other…
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Missouri American Water announced the completion of the company’s acquisition of the City of Eureka water and wastewater systems.
The facility serves approximately 4,000 water customers and 4,000 wastewater customers.
This winter the company will begin construction of a new water pipeline to supply Eureka with water from its St. Louis County system.
“We are honored to provide clean, safe,…
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Russia has revealed that there is little it can do to help with urgent repairs required to malfunctioning Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline equipment.
Russia cut gas supplies via Nord Stream 1, its main gas pipeline to Europe, to just 20% of capacity recently, saying that a turbine sent to Canada for maintenance had not been returned and other equipment also needed repair.
This signalled a deepening…
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Antonio Castilhos, vice president of national sales, NETZSCH Pumps North America, outlines the growth in this pump sector
The adoption of multi-screw pumps has increased exponentially over the past five years or so, with the consumption volume rising from 146,000 units in 2015 to 202,000 units this year.
This rapid rise has been fuelled by a number of factors, including major growth in the…
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BG International, an affiliate of Shell, has taken the final investment decision (FID) to develop the Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea.
Jackdaw will comprise a wellhead platform that is not permanently attended, along with subsea infrastructure which will tie back to Shell’s existing Shearwater gas hub.
The project is expected to come online in the mid-2020s, and at peak production…
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BP has reported its biggest quarterly profit for 14 years after oil and gas prices soared.
The energy giant saw underlying profits hit £6.9 billion (€8.2 billion) between April and June - more than triple the amount it made in the same period last year.
It comes as typical household energy bills have been forecast to hit more than £3,600 a year this winter.
The bumper profits have prompted…
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In order for new drinks to taste good, a high standard of hygiene must be guaranteed during the production process, according to NETZSCH.
It said if fruit juices, milkshakes with or without fruit pieces and carbonated drinks, reliable pumps in hygienic design are necessary - and that "hygienic positive displacement pumps from NETZSCH are particularly gentle on the media".
This is because…
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Canada could add over a million barrels per day (bpd) of oil export capacity to the US over the next two years.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney made the announcement to a US Senate committee while also calling for a new cross-border oil pipeline.
However, federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said there was little discussion in Ottawa or Washington about a new oil pipeline, and…
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Snam, an energy infrastructure company based in Milan, Italy, and Enagas, Spain's energy provider, have teamed up to assess the viability of constructing an offshore gas pipeline.
The announcement came in the wake of Russian president Vladimir Putin's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine and the attendant shock waves rippling through the global energy industry. Up to now, Russia has been a major…
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Morrison Water Services, a part of M Group Services’ Water Division, is working in partnership with Yorkshire Water to deliver a drinking water spray lining programme, believed to be the first of its kind across the water sector in AMP7.
Targeting structural and water quality issues with the existing pipework, spray lining is part of a £2m (€2.3) programme targeting 14km of pipework over…
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BASF has given the final approval for the construction of the planned Verbund site in Zhanjiang in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.
The project is said to be on schedule.
The focus will now be on building the core of the Verbund, which includes a steam cracker and several downstream plants, for the production of petrochemicals and intermediates among others.
BASF will invest up to…
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A global supplier of technology for pipeline integrity management has won three packages for five years in Malaysia.
ROSEN Group secured the Pan Malaysia for Pipeline In-Line Inspection Services contract for PETRONAS.
The contract covers 200 pipelines for inspection in the five years with diameters ranging from 4 inches to 48 inches.
The contract covers nationwide and cross-country pipelines…
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AUMA Actuators has successfully extended its service level agreement (SLA) with Anglian Water until 2028.
AUMA UK and Anglian Water worked in partnership to develop and deploy a new and unique process to service, maintain and replace a range of actuators throughout the Anglian Water region.
This extended SLA continues to provide Anglian Water with access to AUMA’s unique ‘rapid response’…
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