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Pumps
Richfield Oil & Gas Co., an independent exploration and production company, has acquired two additional submersible pumps that will be installed in its Gorham Field facility located in Russell County, Kansas.
The additional pumps will provide for increased production with the benefit of increasing the current proven and probable reserves assigned to these wells. Upon successful scheduling, it…
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Pipelines
GE Oil and Gas (GE) has introduced flexible pipes to help customers overcome the challenging conditions found in Brazil's Santos Basin by developing new materials for the pipes required to bring hydrocarbons to the surface.
The company says it has been working on the technology for the past three years in order to meet the specific conditions of the basin and claims it is now…
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Flowmeters
Developing clean fuel and hydrogen-fuelled hybrid vehicles is becoming an increasing priority for western economies.
As hybrid vehicles become more mainstream the need to provide hydrogen fuelling stations has arisen. Hydrogen fuelling stations and the concept of the ‘hydrogen highway’ are relatively new ideas, with Germany currently having 16 such stations in operation across the…
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Pipelines
A new blast furnace at Wales-based Tata Steel’s Port Talbot steelworks has been equipped with some three miles of cooling pipework, installed by Fairwood Fabrications and supplied by Pipe Centre.
The £9 million (€10.5 million) installation was part of a complete rebuild of No. 4 Blast Furnace at the South Wales plant. The pipework forms a part of the furnace’s…
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Pumps
Colfax Fluid Handling has delivered three Allweiler propeller pumps to a German chemical company at end of 2014.
The pumps were delivered to Cordenka, based in Obernburg, which manufactures technical fabrics and cords.
Cordenka also produces sodium sulphate, which it sells to detergent and glass industries.
Since the end of 2014, Cordenka has used three additional new propeller pumps from…
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Valves
Rotork Instruments has acquired M&M International, an Italy-based subsidiary of Spirax-Sarco Engineering.
With the acquisition, Rotork adds M&M’s complete range of solenoid valve products to its portfolio.
Established for over 30 years, M&M is a manufacturer of general purpose solenoid valves, air actuated piston valves, automatic drain valves, connectors, coils, and customised…
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Pipelines
Saudi Arabia-based Arabian Pipes (AP) has scooped a $133 million (€96.7 million) three year contract to supply welded steel pipes to Petroleum Development of Oman.
The deal will see AP produce, coat and supply steel pipes designed for high pressure flow lines and critical applications. Production is expected to start in the first quarter of 2014 and the supply will be continuous until the…
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Other
Parker Hannifin has introduced a new range of stapleless and threadless couplers designed to address the limitations of staple couplers or threaded couplers in longwall applications.
The company states the use of staple couplers resulting in an alarming number of hydraulic hose failures prompted it to develop a new stapleless coupler that will revolutionise high pressure fluid control in longwall…
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Numerous plant operators experience problems incurred by temperature and pressure fluctuations in the pump.
In conjunction with the low vapour pressure margin of the medium (e.g. ethane, propane), this can cause phase transitions between liquid and gas at the seal faces, causing them to run dry.
Conventional mechanical seals consequently sustain damage, which results in seal failures.
With the…
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Pumps
BBA Pumps has launched the new BA100K, a diesel-driven 4” solids handling mobile pump set.
The unit delivers good pumping performance combined with a low cost of maintenance and minimal exhaust emissions.
The dry self-priming dewatering and sewage pump has a capacity of over 190m3/hour (836 US GPM), a maximum head of 22mwc, and features free passage of 82mm.
It is driven by a…
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Pumps
A German paper mill has replaced its existing diaphragm pumps with Qdos models from Watson-Marlow (WM) and reported process improvements including reliability, increased up-time, and ease of maintenance when pumping anti-foam agents used in starching operations.
The Schoellershammer plant, run by the family-owned Heinr. Aug. Schoeller Söhne (Schoeller) in Düren, Germany produces fine…
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Valves
Metso has won a large order for intelligent valve controllers from Sino-Venezuela Guangdong Petrochemical (SVGP) for use at its 20 million tonne per year, heavy crude processing project.
The preliminary estimated quantity is over 4,000 units including the ND7000 series standard, intrinsically safe, and explosion-proof models. Tang Yezhu, area sales manager of Metso Automation says: ‘The ND…
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Flowmeters
Rotork, the actuator manufacturer and flow control engineering group, has acquired the GTA Group, comprising of GT Attuatori, GT Attuatori Europe and Max Process.
GT Attuatori was established in 1963 and manufactures rack and pinion pneumatic valve actuators. The product range encompasses single and double acting actuators, solenoid valves, switchboxes and mounting accessories, providing packaged…
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Hoses
The OhmGuard hose continuity tester, manufactured by Newson Gale, is designed to ensure that a string of assembled hoses have good electrical continuity with a grounded truck ensuring electrostatic charges cannot accumulate on the metal components of the hoses being used in the transfer operation.
During hazardous area tank cleaning, spill recovery and product delivery operations vacuum trucks…
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Flowmeters
Badger Meter announces the introduction of the Vision Series turbine flow meters, which comply with lead-free provisions of the US Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and are bisphenol A (BPA) free.
The compact meters are designed for flow measurement of low-viscosity and non-aggressive liquids, including de-mineralised water, alkaline solutions, oils, fuel, beverages, water solutions and coolants.The…
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Based on the current challenging environment in the oil and gas market, Sulzer has decided to take measures to streamline the manufacturing capacities of its Pumps Equipment division.
Since the beginning of 2015, Sulzer’s pumps equipment division has been organised in three market-oriented business units: Oil and Gas, Power, and Water; a dedicated global Parts, Retrofit, and Nuclear…
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Pumps
Alfa Laval, a heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling business, has won an order to supply equipment to drinks manufacturer Diageo.
The order, booked in the Food Technology segment late September, has a value of approximately SEK 60 million (€6.9 million) and delivery is scheduled for 2014.
Alfa Laval's equipment will be installed in a complete process line for wort…
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Pumps
Rocket engine and vehicle producer XCOR Aerospace and space launch service provider United Launch Alliance have announced progress in their joint liquid hydrogen (LH2) engine development programme.
‘We have successfully operated our liquid hydrogen pump at full design flow rate and pressure conditions,’ says XCOR CEO Jeff Greason. ‘This milestone builds on our earlier…
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