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Anglian Water is investing £1.7 million (€1.9 million) in an essential project to future-proof the wastewater network in Hullbridge, UK.
Work on an essential sewer upgrade scheme in Hullbridge, in Essex, will begin on Monday 16 August.
The investment will see 2 km of new sewer pipes installed from the west of its pumping station on Ferry Road, under Kendall Park and towards the western…
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Non-revenue water (NRW) is the difference between the amount of water put into a distribution system and the amount of water billed to consumers. It is a global problem.
The estimated yearly global cost of NRW to utility companies is around $39 billion (€31 billion).
Olivier Narbey believes that the introduction of pressure management into existing water networks will solve a significant…
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Gardner Denver High Pressure Solutions (GD) has proven in field trials that its new V3 valve significantly increases performance hours in high pressure hydraulic fracturing operations.
GD Redline valves and seats are industry leaders, designed for maximum performance and reliability, with the full-open, bonded design providing optimal flow efficiency and maximum sealing.
In line with GD’s…
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Thames Water in the UK has completely refurbished two slow sand filter beds at Hampton water treatment works – one of the biggest in Europe.
The water firm has fully rebuilt the porous floor and outer walls to help protect supplies for future generations, with the site the size of 100 football pitches producing a third of London’s water.
Hampton, built in the 1850s, has a maximum output of…
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Titan Enterprises said there was a growing demand for precision flow measurement devices from manufacturers of domestic and industrial water-consumption appliances to integrate as part of a smart water meter system.
With year-on-year increases in water usage for domestic and industrial purposes, smart water flow metering solutions - with integrated Titan liquid flow sensors, help to manage end…
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Decom Engineering is expanding its operations with a new base near Aberdeen in Scotland which will improve access to key oil and gas companies.
The £200,000 (€235,000) investment will establish a test centre and office facility on the doorstep of Europe’s oil capital.
Established in 2011, the Northern Ireland-based engineering company has developed technologies which provide greener,…
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KBR has been awarded a technology licensing contract by Hyundai Engineering and Técnicas Reunidas for PKN ORLEN’s petrochemical project.
The Petrochemical Development Programme in Plock, Poland, will see KBR provide technology license, basic engineering design, and proprietary equipment for PKN ORLEN’s Olefins Complex III Project.
This is Europe’s largest petrochemical scheme in 20…
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Morrison Water Services has been awarded two long-term framework contracts by Northumbrian Water for capital works on water and wastewater network infrastructure projects.
The framework was tendered in three separate Lots and is intended to support the capital delivery programme in both the Northumbrian Water and Essex and Suffolk Water operating areas in the UK.
Morrison Water Services, a…
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Inter Pipeline will receive $408 million (€347 million) under the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Programme (APIP).
The grant has been awarded in support of Inter Pipeline’s Heartland petrochemical complex - an integrated propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene production facility, which will be operational early next year.
“The APIP grant recognises the significant contribution…
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Italy and Autogas, the name given to liquid petroleum gas (LPG) that is used as a motor fuel, have a relationship that dates back to the 1950s when the country became one of the first in Europe to introduce the fuel.
Since then, the two have been good for each other, with Autogas growing into the world’s most commonly used alternative fuel, and Italy ranking as the second-largest Autogas…
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KROHNE has introduced its AF-E 400 ultra-compact electromagnetic flowmeter for utilities and industrial automation applications.
The new flowmeter is designed to fit in applications with little installation space available, for example in cooling lines of welding equipment, bending machines and robots, or on chemical dosing skids.
The AF-E 400 matches the requirements of application areas in…
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Fulcrum has been awarded a new £4.9 million (€5.8 million) multi-utility infrastructure contract by a large investor developer.
A part of the contract, the group will design and install new water and gas infrastructure to energise and power the new development in the West Midlands.
The multi-utility infrastructure will be delivered by Fulcrum over 14 months and will serve the first phase of…
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A giant Victorian sewer in East London is being upgraded as Thames Water continues its investment in infrastructure across the capital.
The work is being carried out at the Northern Outfall Sewer and a temporary 7.5-ton weight restriction is being placed to keep the engineers safe as they work below ground.
The sewer comprises eight huge pipes, each around 1.6 metres high and 2.4 metres wide.…
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Two ABEL pumps have been commissioned for work specialising in recycling and soil reclamation in France.
The HMD-G-80-1000 pumps were selected by the customer in Normandy. The pump serves as a filter press feed and operates at a maximum flow rate of 80 m3/h – 12 bar.
The devices are equipped with ABEL’s Smart Pump Assistant monitoring system.
Due to remote access, it delivers complete…
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Bedford Pumps has provided two of their fish friendly pumps to a plant in Runcorn to aid their chemical processes.
INOVYN ChlorVinyls, part of INEOS, is Europe’s leading producer of vinyls and manufactures in eight countries across Europe.
Their Runcorn site which focuses on the production of chlorine, caustic soda and chlorinated derivatives, produces chemicals for a wide variety of…
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The Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco announced a 288% increase in net income from the same quarter of last year to $25.5 billion (€21 billion) and declaring a dividend of $18.8 billion (€16 billion).
The company’s net income for the first half of the year was $47.2 billion (€40 billion), representing a 103% increase over the same period in 2020.
The results were primarily driven by…
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BASF and SINOPEC are to expand their Verbund site which will include several new downstream chemical plants.
The partners will expand the production capacities of propionic acid, propionic aldehyde, ethyleneamines, ethanolamines and purified ethylene oxide, and build a new tert-butyl acrylate plant.
The tert-butyl acrylate plant will be an extension to the downstream using acrylic acid and…
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Northumbrian Water Group – which includes Essex & Suffolk Water – has joined the world’s largest alliance on climate change after being approved by the United Nations to become part of its Race To Zero campaign.
The news comes as the company launches its Emission Possible plan for achieving Net Zero carbon by 2027 – 23 years ahead of the campaign target and that of the UK…
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