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Feb 9, 2021
New flexible pipes help tackle corrosion issues
Product News
Feb 9, 2021
Warren Controls has updated its ValveWorks programme to improve the sizing and selection process for globe and rotary control valves based on international standards.
The leading manufacturer of control valves and speciality fluid handling products, said the updates improved its ability to handle projects of greater complexity.
The programme now includes a CLONE feature... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 8, 2021
Pipelines
Total oil and gas industry mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the fourth quarter of last year worth $10.01billion (€8.3 billion) were announced in Canada.
The value marked an increase of 468.3% over the previous quarter and a rise of 504.2% when compared with the last four-quarter average of $1.66 billion (€1.38 billion), according to GlobalData’s deals database.
Canada... [Read More]
Pipelines
Feb 8, 2021
The Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) has awarded EPCOR USA a $250,000 (€207,000) grant to help build a new reclaimed water pipeline for the benefit of San Tan customers, agricultural water users and the San Tan Valley region.
This supports water management goals in the Phoenix Active Management Area by reducing demand for groundwater pumping.
Under the... [Read More]
Pipelines
Feb 8, 2021
The construction of a 23.8 kilometres main transmission pipeline for sourcing drinking water from the Neyyar dam site to the capital city is expected to start soon.
The Kerala Water Authority (KWA) has awarded the work to Erode-based Annai Infra Developers.
The work involves the supply, laying, testing, and commissioning of a 1422-mm, mild steel, clear water gravity... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 5, 2021
Pipelines
Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) has committed nearly $2 million (€1.3 million) in funding to accelerate the adoption of new technologies—electrification, artificial intelligence, machine learning—that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the pipeline transportation of natural gas.
Funds will be provided to Gazoduq Inc. through ERA's Partnership Intake... [Read More]
Pumps
Feb 5, 2021
A new £26 million (€29 million) pumping station in East Anglia, UK, will protect businesses and homes from flooding.
The King's Lynn Internal Drainage board is constructing the new station at Islington, near Lynn, that will help safeguard 1,500 homes and 500 businesses.
The Environment Agency is funding the project that will serve 25 square miles of the fens to the... [Read More]
Pumps
Feb 4, 2021
Thorite moved to their new UK headquarters at the start of the new year.
One of the UK’s leading independent specialist of pneumatics, air compressors and fluid handling equipment has vacated their old Laisterdyke, Bradford address, to their new premises close to the centre of the city.
The decision to move was because the company has grown to the point where space... [Read More]
Pipelines
Feb 4, 2021
A new water desalination plant has opened in Singapore.
The city-state with a population of nearly six million people has no natural resources and imports all its water from Johor, in neighbouring Malaysia.
The fourth desalination plant, built by Keppel Infrastructure Holdings and PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, will reduce the country’s overreliance on... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 4, 2021
Oil giant Shell suffered a loss of $21.7 billion (£17.5 billion) last year after the COVID-19 pandemic hit prices and demand.
The trend follows that of BP and Exxon, which posted similar huge losses in the past 12 months.
“2020 was an extraordinary year. We have taken tough, but decisive actions and demonstrated highly resilient operational delivery while caring for... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 3, 2021
Pipelines
Turboden has been selected as the supplier of a 29 MWe geothermal power plant to be installed in the Philippines.
The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) group company will build the facility at the Energy Development Corporation’s (EDC) Palayan Bayan expansion project. The plant is to be built at the Bacon-Manito geothermal facility located in Luzon Island, Philippines.
EDC,... [Read More]
Features
Feb 3, 2021
A new report released by Liquid Gas UK (LGUK) has outlined the route to decarbonising non-domestic off-grid businesses using LPG and bioLPG.
The report, by the trade association for the LPG industry in the UK, found that LPG and bioLPG have the potential to replace one third of all the coal and oil currently used to heat non-domestic buildings as well as for industrial... [Read More]
Pipelines
Feb 3, 2021
New intelligent sewer technology is being pioneered by Thames Water in Henley-on-Thames to prevent pollution from blockages caused by cooking fat and wet wipes.
The UK’s biggest water company is trialling the next generation of sewer level monitors, which send data to help pinpoint emerging problems before they grow into blockages that can cause flooding and pollution.
More... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Feb 2, 2021
Pumps
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG) has passed a notable business milestone by selling the 150,000th Bredel peristaltic hose pump to an industry customer in Mexico.
The past decade has seen a huge increase in the uptake of Bredel hose pumps in sectors such as construction, where they meet strict environmental regulations in very tough working conditions.
It... [Read More]
Features
Feb 2, 2021
Before a series of upgrades, totaling $27 million (€22 million) over five years, at the City of Washington’s wastewater treatment plant in Indiana, even the smallest amount of rainfall would cause an overflow.
The money was a significant sum, but as any municipal works superintendent would tell you, funding is a long and complicated process.
Prior to the installation... [Read More]
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