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AWE’s robotic technology minimises human risk and maximises productivity
Asia Waterjet Equipment’s (AWE’s) mission is to champion a safer and more efficient environment for customers and their workforce. It understands the problems customers can face in industrial cleaning applications and seeks to address these with technology and expertise. Obtaining permits to work, mobilisation and…
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Opgal’s Ram Hashmonay looks at the benefits of long-range technology
Optical gas imaging (OGI) technology has proved to be a very effective tool for locating small leaks and fugitive emissions in petroleum refineries and other oil and gas facilities. Traditionally, OGI technology is primarily portable, mid-wave infrared (MWIR), cryogenically cooled detector
cameras, for imaging volatile organic…
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Atmos International’s innovative, non-intrusive solutions for pipeline leak detection can be deployed anywhere they are needed
with 3.5 million km of pipeline throughout the world and with this to increase by a further 12% by 2022, pipelines are still the safest form of transport for the supply of energy, as they are less exposed to environmental and socioeconomic risks. However, with the…
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Ilya Tillekens from Hudson Cybertec looks at how to protect operational technology infrastructure from cyber threats
Current threats require tank terminal organisations to be aware of security at all times. Do you know how secure your operational technology (OT) infrastructure is at this moment? Specifically of your OT network? Is your infrastructure adequately protected against cyber threats…
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Learn about the importance of operational technology security and how Procentec’s four new solutions can help
The importance of IT security has been acknowledged by experts for years, whereas securing industrial control systems seems to have been overlooked. Whilst attacks on operational technology (OT) environments are becoming more frequent, companies are looking for ways to eliminate network…
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Vortexa analysts examine the consequences of the Ever Given’s grounding
The blockade of the Suez Canal by the grounded mega-containership Ever Given for close to a week in late March 2021 made it onto news channels worldwide. The reason is that sizeable chunks of global seaborne trade pass through the bottleneck daily, including various relevant clean and dirty oil flows. This article will…
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Alex Booth from Kpler looks at how global crude storage levels are adjusting to a post COVID-19 environment
the rapid build-up of crude oil-on-water and the subsequent transition to onshore inventories through the second quarter of 2020 has been well covered, including in a previous article for this publication (see p42 in August/September 2020) Since peaking in early July at
3.77 billion bbl,…
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Goodrich’s chemical storage facility in Jebel Ali, UAE, goes beyond storage
Goodrich MARITIME was established in 1997 and is headquartered in India. It is active in all areas of shipping and logistics, including chartering, ship agency, non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC) services, chemical logistics, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) logistics, global freight forwarding,…
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Exolum CEO Jorge Lanza explains the company’s transition from CLH
Exolum is the brand name we have selected for the performance of our activities and with which we will face our ambitious objectives for the future, focussed on adapting our business to decarbonisation and the energy transition, digitalisation and the fight against climate change.
This brand change stems from the…
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Highlight’s from this year’s online Terminal of Tomorrow conference, hosted by StocExpo and Tank Storage Magazine
COVID-19 has without doubt accelerated the energy transition and there was a significant amount of interest in StocExpo and Tank Storage Magazine’s first online event – with over 720 registrations from 75 different countries.
Day one featured speakers from three of the leading…
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Jen Penner tells Tank Storage Magazine about her love of a challenge and finding her feet as an engineer
Jen Penner is a project manager at Canadian Tank & Vessel, a Saskatoon, Canada-headquartered company which builds, repairs, and maintains storage tanks and spheres.
Like so many of us, her career path was not exactly planned.
‘I graduated from university with dual degrees in…
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Anneli Teelahk from the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) looks at how energy storage can support the energy transition
Nowadays, climate and energy issues are so strictly related that they can almost be regarded as two sides of the same coin. Energy production and consumption have a key influence on the ongoing global warminacg process. At the same time, climate change affects…
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COVID-19 and its knock-on effects gave much for discussion at the 14th S&P Global Platts European Oil Storage Conference
The 14th S&P Global Platts European Oil Storage Conference, with the theme ‘Navigating uncertainty for energy storage markets’, was held online in 2021, a further example of the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world.
And things are certainly…
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Read what Yuan-Sheng Yu and Tom Smeenk had to say at the most recent Tank Talk webinar
Two of the hottest topics in the last year have been the COVID-19 epidemic and the energy transition. With the pandemic causing a drop in demand for oil, the collapse of the oil price, a super contango and market difficulties everywhere, Tank Storage Magazine invited two experts to discuss whether these…
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Total’s Dirk Roosendans, Pol Hoorelbeke and Christian Kapp explain the company’s new technology
the oil industry operates installations and processes with important quantities of flammable substances within a wide range of pressures and temperatures. A particular hazard for this type of installations is an accidental release of a large quantity of flammable material resulting in the…
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Tim Jones from RPS Group looks at the available guidance on the quantity and siting of flame and gas detectors
FLAME and gas detection plays an important role within a structured process safety management system, in order to assure the protection of people, the environment, assets and corporate reputation. Detection is a function of both the hardware’s ability to function on demand and…
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Mascoat introduces two new primers for use under thermal insulating coatings
Protecting substrates on storage tanks from corrosion is of utmost importance to facilities of all kinds, as the consequences of not doing so can be detrimental. That protection has been a driving factor in Mascoat’s approach to the market since its inception in 1995.
The company manufactures and sells products that…
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Paul Cook, of Painters USA, examines best practices for facility and terminal managers
Surveys and testing are vital for delivering safety, savings and long-lasting surface coatings, regardless of where a tank is located. Here’s an example: A facility manager invited a certified NACE Institute inspector and instructor into his facility to quote a project for sandblasting and coating a tank. As…
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Ekaterina Tuzovskaya and Eugene Starokaznikov from SIA Saber Evnat discuss why you need a mixer, even if you do not think you really need one!
Surprisingly, many representatives of the liquid bulk storage professional community believe the following two myths:
Industrial in-tank mixers are required only when the blending of liquid products is the ultimate goal; and
Industrial in-tank mixers…
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Sanjeev Verma explains how Biz4intellia’s smart tank level monitoring system can be used to gain actionable insights
Traditional or manual ways of monitoring storage tanks can to lead to certain errors during the monitoring process, creating a challenging situation for the plant managers to measure the fluid quantities accurately. Above and below-ground installations require proper management…
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