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Valves
The valve and actuator specialist said that the new facility comes as part of an effort to consolidate growth in the UK by expanding its actuated valve workshop and warehouse facilities.
The 360m2 building, called the Bonomi Actuation Centre, doubles the company’s pallet racking space. Bonomi hopes the added capacity will enable greater efficiencies in its central warehouse…
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Federal regulators have posted a corrective action order following cracks in two of the five storage tanks of Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG Terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Such orders are only issued when there is a danger of ‘serious harm to life, property, and the environment’.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) order comes…
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United Utilities, a water company in North West England, is using a cocker spaniel to detect leaks by smelling the small amounts of chlorine in mains water. The dog is still in its trial phase.
The utility is hoping that the dog, called Snipe, will be able to identify leaking pipes in areas where leak detection is more difficult due to the generally wet conditions.
To develop the dog’s…
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The bill aims to reform a process that has become stuck due to complex approval routes and polarised interests.
The Canadian oil and gas industry has been stunted recently by a lack of infrastructure to get fuel to market. Disputes between stakeholders, local governments (notably Alberta and British Columbia) and public opposition have delayed new projects.
The bill, called the Impact…
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Pumps
The CIRCOR subsidiary says that the pumps optimise unloading and transfer of product in refinery and tank terminal operations. The series is API 676-3rd compliant and suited for application in the oil and gas industry.
The pumps are designed for delivery of different fluids at an operator-specified rate, even during processes with changing or unpredictable conditions. The TT pumps prioritise…
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A report from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has found that the oil and gas industry has seen some improvement after pressure from investors, but are not doing enough to keep up with demands for transparency.
The EDF report studied the voluntary methane leak reporting practices of sixty four major upstream and midstream companies, finding that only four report quantitative methane targets…
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The shutdown is the second since December, when a piece of granite caused a hairline crack.
The company put a statement out 7 February saying that a feed control valve had closed at its Kineil terminal at 10:20 AM. INEOS restarted the pipeline overnight after fixing the valve. According to the company, automated safety systems functioned normally to close the pipeline system.
Shell told Platts…
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The company expects the acquisition to complement their current business in the systems, service and process sectors.
FPE Global, a company that manufactured processing technologies and industrial mixing systems for the chemicals and plastics industries (as well as for other consumer industries), went into administration at the end of November 2017.
The FTP product range will be incorporated into…
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By using datasets that are made using a diverse range of sources, researchers say that the debate over water quality and shale drilling can become more constructive.
The Shale Network, a group of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation, is trying to facilitate the conversation between communities, watershed groups, local government and industry by encouraging the joint collection,…
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The purchase is an effort to expand the company’s municipal water and wastewater optimisation offering.
EmNet’s core service is in ‘real time decision support systems’ (RT-DSS) that are designed to solve municipal watershed and collection system issues. The company’s approach is to use real time data analytics to improve water and wastewater management.
The…
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The University of California Riverside’s Chan Seung Park has developed an algorithm and sensor to measure octane levels more effectively.
The product costs around $10 (€8.20) and is designed to optimise combustion by identifying the energy concentration of natural gas, which Park says can vary by more than ten percent. This is compared to industrial scale sensors that use larger…
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The company announced the acquisition of Pumpen Karrer February 1 and will use it as a regional base for AxFlow Germany.
in a company press release AxFlow emphasised that the transaction was mutually beneficial, with Georg Niebch, Managing Director at AxFlow Germany saying: “Pumpen Karrer’s service business complements our pump business without overlapping,” adding that…
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Valves
After the deal, the company hopes to get around £7 million in revenue from its valve business in 2018.
Denholm Valvecare is a division of the Scottish company Denholm Oilfield Services, an operator in areas including asset maintenance, energy logistics and precision engineering. Out of the 4,000 Denholm staff, 25 (some of them senior) will be moving with the valves division.
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By using gamma ray emitters, well operations can analyse conditions underground and more effectively get to the product.
Knowing how to measure the units of natural resources in a wellbore project is a must and technology has made this process a whole lot easier. This inexpensive technology provides confirmation that a wellbore is open to flow, identifies and quantifies stage flow…
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The public policy think tank CD Howe Institute has released a report saying that difficulty getting product to market, not carbon taxes, is hindering the competitiveness of Canadian oil producers.
Although the report cites a number of problems for the industry, by far the largest is the lack of transport infrastructure and its effect on the price of Canadian oil compared to American produce.…
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Pipelines
Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have developed a method to work out friction and energy loss in a liquid when it is neither laminar nor turbulent. The finding could help fluid handling facilities improve their operations.
Analysing liquids in a transitional state has typically been impossible, as the friction varies with no observable patterns. This made it…
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The project is designed to increase the number of vessels using LNG as a marine fuel through increased awareness of infrastructure.
Developed by the industry group SEA/LNG, the tool displays major shipping routes, oil bunkering ports and major LNG infrastructure globally. Information about individual facilities and vessels is also indexed, along with ships and infrastructure that is under…
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a novel use for Lego bricks in the field of microfluidics, an area focused on the manipulation of fluids at a submillimetre scale.
Devices used here are usually small two-dimensional chips that handle fluid around a ‘micro lab’. The researchers instead used micromilled Lego blocks that each carry out a specific function,…
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