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Brazilian company Petrobras is applying knowledge and experience from the aeronautic industry to boost safety standards in undersea oil and gas wells.
At the recent Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas, Petrobras presented the gains made in improving submarine safety through its collaboration with Brazilian Aerospace company Embraer.
Among the innovations that have been developed is…
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British manufacturer Landia has been awarded a major new contract at an Anaerobic Digestion plant in Scotland. The company will provide pumping, mixing, ensiling and pasteurisation equipment for fish morts that will be utilised as feedstock for the expanding Anaerobic Digestion facility.
The plant’s 8m3 pasteuriser, fitted with a side-entry propeller mixer and dry-installed chopper pump…
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Production has resumed at a £4.4 billion BP project in the North Sea, following four years of work to modernise the site.
BP operations in the Schiehallion area west of the Shetland Islands had been on hold since 2013, according to the Financial Times. BP and its partners, including Royal Dutch Shell, needed to carry out substantial modifications to the site in order to restore its previous…
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Valves
Those attending the Managing Aging Plants Conference and Expo in Dusseldorf, Germany, would have seen Metso going to great lengths to highlight ways to maximise valve performance.
Experts from the company presented a range of flow control performance solutions suited to the aging plants which constituted the focus of the conference.
"Valves are key elements in any plant's flow control and their…
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Valves
Emerson has published a new white paper on leveraging Industrial Internet of Things innovations to achieve operational efficiency in petrochemical plants.
The new white paper, available from Emerson’s website, is titled ‘4-Step Roadmap to Top Quartile Performance’. It claims that by moving from average to top quartile performance, petrochemical plants can recover significant…
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Hantemp Controls, a Westmont, Illinois based manufacturer of stainless steel controlled ball valves, float switches, solenoid valves, pressure regulators and flange unions for industrial refrigeration systems, has announced the appointment of a new engineering manager.
Mechanical engineer Jeff Mackowiack joins Hantemp with 25 years of experience in industrial refrigeration manufacturing. A…
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Pipelines
Spanish company Tubacex has signed a contract to supply Iran’s oil industry with corrosion resistant alloy pipes. The deal is worth over €550 million ($615 million), according to Reuters.
The agreement will ultimately result in the construction of 600km of pipe. Tubacex signed the contract with Iran’s Foolad Isfahan company which will take over production of the pipes in three…
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Level Monitors
Non-intrusive, ultrasonic level monitoring in tumultuous conditions.
There are many ultrasonic choices that are used for level monitoring in the universe of sewers, pipes and storm-water control.
Although many circumstances in this environment, such as turbulence and unwanted obstructions, pose a challenge for most ultrasonics used in the fluid handling industry, they present no problem for the…
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Flowmeters
Malema Sensors have introduced the ‘first’ single-use flowmeters for the bio-pharmaceutical industry: SumoFlo.
The new sensors are able to measure flow rates from 50gm/min up to 100kg/min with accuracies within 1% of reading. Created from polyether ether ketone (PEEK), flowmeters are certified to meet USP Class VI, USP 661, and USP 788 biocompatibility testing standards, as well as…
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Seal manufacturer C. Otto Gehrckens has unveiled a new product range for the premium segment, the COG VarioPur series.
Constructed from three ‘high-performance’ materials based on thermoplastic polyurethanes, the VarioPur series has abrasion and extrusion resistance at least five times higher than traditional material NBR, according to COG, and a Shore A value of…
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Pumps
Framo has signed a contract agreeing to supply Höegh LNG with a pumping system for its new Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU). The contract is for one unit, but includes the option for three more units which are currently being built at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea.
FSRU is a floating processing and terminal facility used when it is not profitable or practical to…
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Pipelines
The Zagorsk Pipe Plant has launched production of large diameter pipes for Russian natural gas company Gazprom.
A ceremony to celebrate the start of production took place recently at the Zagorsk plant in Russia’s Moscow region. The event was attended by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee; Andrey Vorobyov, Governor of the Moscow Region; and Denis…
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Valves
Valves Online has announced the appointment of Glynn Sanderson as the company’s new South West technical sales engineer.
Sanderson’s appointment is intended to strengthen Valves Online’s position as a national and local level supplier of valves, controls, tube and fittings. Specifically, he has been recruited with the goal of helping develop and support customers in the South…
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Rotork has received multiple orders for its fluid power valve actuators at a new ‘grassroots’ refinery under construction in the Middle East.
The new facility will boast a capacity of up to 400,000 barrels a day, processing crude oils to manufacture petrol, ultra-low-sulphur diesel and fuel oil for both export and to satisfy local demand.
One of the orders will see Rotork supply 70 of…
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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has published its monthly crude oil and natural gas production figures for March 2017.
Based on crude oil production data from state government agencies and the US Department of the Interior; Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement; the Domestic Crude Oil First Report; and first purchase data reported on the EIA-182 form, the figures for crude…
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Flowmeters
Fluenta has launched a new calibration facility, allowing the company’s flowmeters to be calibrated prior to shipment to their final destination.
Calibration reduces set-up times while also increasing the level of accuracy in flowmeters. According to Fluenta, the flow calibration facility provides a reference meter uncertainty of 0.28%.
Fluenta’s flowmeters use ultrasonic technology…
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Pumps
Caterpillar Oil & Gas has launched its new Pump Electronic Monitoring System (PEMS) technology at the 2017 Offshore Technology Conference. PEMS is designed to monitor pumps in well service operations, with Caterpillar claiming that the new system can help avoid catastrophic failures, minimise downtime and preserve fluid end and power end components.
Available to order now from the global Cat…
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Pipelines
Trans Mountain has announced a supply deal with Canadian steelmaker EVRAZ North America.
In November 2016 the Canadian government granted approval for the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, deciding the estimated $7.4 billion (€6.7 billion) project was in the interests of Canada and its population
The 1,150km pipeline was originally built in 1953. The expansion project will see the…
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