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UK-based industrial fuel services company Eurotank Service Group has bought Specialist Lining Services (SLS), a firm offering protective coatings and linings in various industries. Eurotank says that SLS’s specialist tank linings and coatings for the chemical, petrochemical, construction and leisure industries will enable it to provide customers with all their site services and containment…
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For tank farm operators, inventory data is critical to run efficiently. All the way from accepting orders, receiving shipments and filling and emptying tanks to closing books at the end of each month. Inventory status is what underpins operations and business decisions. Modern inventory management software enables more people to access information they need by providing live data at any time, and…
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After one of the strangest years in living memory, eight storage operators from across the world reflect on 2020 and look at what 2021 might have in store   RUTGER VAN THIEL CEO, Alkion Terminals 2020 was a very eventful year but also a successful year. 2019 for the Alkion Group was an excellent year and we continued that into 2020, but of course the big difference was the unexpected…
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US paints and coatings company PPG has launched its PPG HI-TEMP 1027 HD corrosion-under-insulation (CUI) coating in North American markets. The ambient-cure coating is suitable for corrosion protection on pipes, vessels and construction parts in operation, as well as protecting coated pipes, parts and assemblies in changing ambient temperature conditions, for example during shipping, with…
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The Energia Costa Azul (ECA) LNG export terminal project in Ensenada, Mexico, will use Air Products’ proprietary LNG heat exchanger technology. Air Products has signed an agreement with ECA LNG, a joint venture between Sempra LNG, IEnova and Total, to supply its AP-DMR LNG Process liquefaction technology for a single LNG train at Ensenada. Under the terms of the deal, Air Products will also…
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Three subsidiaries of French infrastructure firm Vinci have won a €200 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to build a 190,000 m3 LNG tank at the Grain LNG terminal in the UK. Grain LNG, which is owned by the UK National Grid, is the largest LNG terminal in Europe. The new tank, to be built by Entrepose Contracting, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Taylor…
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US industrial wireless products manufacturer SignalFire Wireless Telemetry has joined the Eclipse Foundation, a community for open innovation and collaboration on solutions for in industrial internet of things (IIoT), as a contributing member. SignalFire has also joined the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group as a participant member. Sparkplug is an open-source protocol that uses MQ Telemetry…
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German oil and gas software consultancy firm Implico Group has teamed up with Mexican solutions integrator Apollocom to bring digital solutions to Mexico’s downstream sector. The partners will introduce Implico’s OpenTAS terminal management system, which was designed to optimise and automate all the logistic and administrative processes in terminals and refineries. The partners believe the…
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The disruptive nature of today’s downstream industry presents oil and gas companies with big challenges: market volatility, oil price fluctuation, value chain fragmentation and energy transition. To stay ahead of the curve in this hard-to-predict environment, oil and gas companies must constantly turn the knobs, e.g. by adapting business models in a highly flexible manner, automating work…
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Swiss inspection specialist firm Rosen Group has joined the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, set up to explore the potential of clean hydrogen to decarbonise the EU economy. The company says that by joining the Alliance, it underlines its commitment to supporting asset operators in their transition to a carbon-neutral future. In September 2020 the Rosen Group said that it was developing a new…
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Dutch engineering technology company TWTG has received IECEx/ATEX Zone 1 approvals for its newest NEON vibration sensor and its NEON temperature transmitter. The company’s valve and temperature sensors received FM approval for use in the US and Canada in July. The sensors can provide regular information to operators about the vibration of rotating equipment, allowing them to detect potential…
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US engineering technology firm Emerson has launched MyAssets, a new digital toolset, to help users carry out maintenance plans more easily and efficiently. MyAssets forms part of the MyEmerson digital tools portfolio launched in 2019, designed to improve productivity and collaboration. The toolset offers instant access to device documentation, replacements, spares, and walkdown reports for plant…
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A unique oceanfront greenfield site is up for sale in the State of Sonora on the west coast of Mexico. The development site consists of 1,297 hectares (3205 acres) of undeveloped land which has direct access to the Sea of Cortez   THE SITE benefits from a substantial amount of existing infrastructure, including large quantities of economical electrical power and natural gas already in…
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With an emphasis on enhanced security and safety, the recovering infrastructure in Libya presents a unique opportunity for innovative equipment suppliers DURING the Arab Spring uprisings much of Libya was devastated. Oil and gas infrastructure including tanks and pipelines became easy targets and many were destroyed. Fast forward 10 years and the region is slowly being re-built. Oil production…
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The Engineering Equipment & Materials Users Association (EEMUA) has announced that the focus of its 2021 annual conference, to be held on 4 February, will be resilience and asset integrity. It will explore current and future aspects of managing industrial infrastructure, looking at practical issues in engineering work, both technical and business-related. The conference programme will cover…
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Environmental technology firm Tecam has been awarded the contract for a gas emissions treatment project for a hydrocarbon tank storage company in Chile. Tecam will provide engineering, procurement, installation and maintenance services for a regenerative thermal oxidiser (RTO) to eliminate 99.9% of the tank farm’s gas venting emissions. The company has analysed the customer’s technical…
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Researchers at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, and photonics innovation hub ACTPHAST 4R have developed an optical air sensor to detect volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in industrial settings in real time. VOCs can be extremely dangerous to health, with some causing long-term respiratory ailments and even death, and are highly explosive. Current detectors use metal oxide electronic…
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Swiss inspection specialist firm ROSEN Group has launched a new online store for the US market for pipeline cleaning pigs and equipment. The new digital sales platform, which is available 24/7, is designed to provide a simple and fast purchasing service for customers. The company says that the current challenges have shown how important availability and flexibility are. The ROSEN Pipeline…
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What it takes to implement corrosion prediction of tank bottoms. IN PART 1, we established a foundation for determining what a corrosion rate is, how care is required in defining a corrosion rate, and how it is used to establish tank internal inspection intervals. In Part 2, we provided the methodology for using survival analysis to properly quantify the useful tank bottom life. Part 3 will look…
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Standing ankle deep in spilled Sauvignon Blanc inspired structural engineer Will Lomax to develop the Onguard system to protect all liquid storage tanks from earthquakes BETWEEN 2011 and 2016, New Zealand was struck by a series of devasting earthquakes. Will Lomax is a structural engineer who witnessed and experienced the three most severe events first-hand, and who was directly involved in…
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