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Feb 8, 2022
Programme costing €13 billion to replace lead pipelines over five years
Oil and Gas News
Feb 8, 2022
Other
Oil giant bp has reported its highest profit for eight years.
bp posted a profit of $12.8bn (€11.2 billion) for 2021, as the oil and gas company reported an update on its strategic transformation.
BP chief executive Bernard Looney said: " “Over the past two years we have set a new purpose, direction and strategy for bp, and completed the largest re-organisation in... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 8, 2022
Valves
AUMA’s electric actuation technology is helping to boost green energy in Taiwan.
A total of 40 AUMA actuators have been installed at Qingshui - Taiwan’s first new-generation geothermal power plant.
Qingshui power plant is located in northern Taiwan in the geothermally very active Yilan area.
Water is extracted at a temperature of 180 °C from a depth from 1,200... [Read More]
Features
Feb 7, 2022
Most centrifugal pumps operate with a constant speed along a fixed curve. The pumps are integrated into plants with variable discharge flows. The variable flows lead to working areas where process related flowrates are below the required pump-specific minimum flow.
The pump minimum continuous flow (MCF) is the lowest permitted flowrate that the centrifugal pump can handle... [Read More]
Pumps
Feb 7, 2022
A river water source heat pump has been installed at York Guildhall - as part of the refurbishment and redevelopment work.
This will significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the historic building at the heart of the city.
The location of the Guildhall, on the banks of the River Ouse, provides the opportunity to take advantage of this low-carbon energy source.
The... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 7, 2022
Pipelines
Petrobras has reached an average of 88% of total load factor of its refineries in the last three months of last year.
In early February, the Brazil oil and gas major reached close to 90%.
Operational decisions in refining take into account that, for each barrel of oil processed in the refinery, necessarily, several products are generated and subsequently distributed.
For... [Read More]
Valves
Feb 4, 2022
Rotork IQT part-turn electric actuators have been specified for use at a water resource recovery facility (WRRF) in the US.
This activated sludge/tertiary filtration plant in East Lansing, Michigan, has the capacity to process approximately 18.75 million gallons of water every single day and provides wastewater treatment for the city, Michigan State University and the... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 4, 2022
Other
Carbon Mapper scientists have identified oil and gas facilities emitting significant amounts of methane in sporadic bursts.
The new research found plumes covering vast areas, sometimes stretching to 200 miles.
Last year, about 100 countries promised to cut methane emissions by 2030.
Led by the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement with the analytics... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 4, 2022
Other
A possible cyber-attack has resulted in IT systems being disrupted at oil transport and storage facilities across Europe.
The Oiltanking in Germany, SEA-Invest in Belgium and Evos in the Netherlands have all suffered disruptions in recent days.
According to the BBC, Belgian officials are probing the cyberattack that's affected SEA-Invest terminals including the company's... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 3, 2022
Pipelines
Hy2gen plans to produce green ammonia as a fuel for the maritime sector.
The company specialising in designing, building and operating facilities to produce green hydrogen and green hydrogen-based derivatives, will carry out the work in Sauda, Norway.
The green ammonia production facility, named Iverson eFuels AS, will be owned by Hy2gen, Trafigura and Copenhagen Infrastructure... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 3, 2022
Pumps
Kent has been awarded engineering work for the V Net Zero (VNZ) Project by Harbour Energy - the UK’s largest independent oil and gas company.
The project will store CO2 from the Immingham SuperPlace, located in the Humber region, the UK’s most energy-intensive industrial area, and could help decarbonise more than 50% of the area’s industrial emissions.
John Kent,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 3, 2022
Pipelines
The Net Zero North West and the North West Hydrogen Alliance has responded to the UK government’s Levelling Up White Paper.
They argue this will have implications for industrial decarbonisation, clean growth and building a hydrogen economy in the region.
The North West Hydrogen Alliance brings together some of the region’s largest and most innovative organisations,... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 2, 2022
SLD Pumps & Power (SLD) has switched exclusively to cleaner fuel to power its nationwide equipment fleet.
The UK supplier of industrial pumps will begin using biodiesel which will displace consumption of about 1 million litres of highly polluting mineral diesel each year.
A pilot initiative with the new cleaner-burning fuel was introduced at the company's Glasgow... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 2, 2022
Pipelines
Russian gas operator Gazprom is set to start-up westbound gas flows from Poland to Germany from the Yamal pipeline.
This will restore the normal flows after the route was reversed in December and sent gas prices in Europe to all-time highs.
Gazprom booked transit capacity of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline for eight hours, Reuters reported.
The pipeline, which usually... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 2, 2022
Pumps
Wanner International has announced that it can reduce the total energy usage by up to a half for some industries that rely heavily on pumps for their processes with its Hydra-Cell® device.
Wanner provides pumps for a range of industries across the globe, from oil and gas, through to food production and chemical production.
The Hydra-Cell® pump’s true positive displacement... [Read More]
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