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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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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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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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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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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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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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A look at the points raised by Ollie Folayan in Tank Storage Magazine’s October webinar
DIVERSITY and inclusion are buzzwords that seem to be everywhere at the moment. But in a world where differences, at least by many people, are now being celebrated, is the tank storage sector doing enough to encourage people of colour, or women, or people with disabilities, or members of the LGBTQ+…
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Tank Storage Magazine talked to Implico CEO Tim Hoffmeister about ongoing structural reorganisations within the oil and gas industry, the need for a standardised supply chain and the upcoming online check-in for trucks at tank farms.
DIGITALISATION is still on everyone’s lips. What is your understanding of the term ‘digitalisation of the tank storage industry’?
Terminal…
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AP Sensing’s novel solution addresses the need for monitoring storage tanksand pipelines
THE susceptibility of modern-day assets in the oil and gas industry canpose significant challenges. For example, storage tanks are filled with chemicals that are flammable and often explosive, but these tanks can be ten or more years old and geographically located in regions with substantial lightning…
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Hytrans looks at how to choose the right hose, couplings and recovery unit for your needs
INDUSTRIAL firefighting asks for more water and more pressure, and this needs larger hoses and larger pumps. The mobile water supply systems need to be more flexible and more powerful to provide this flow and pressure. However, while flow and pressure are important, they are not the only things that make…
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Lightning strikes are always a risk on a storage tank, but effective bonding between the floating roof and the shell can reduce the risk of sparks
SINCE 2013, at the Iranian Oil Terminal facility located in Kharg Island, more than 12 fire incidents have occurred due to lightning strikes. In 2015, one strike resulted in simultaneous fires in five tanks, and staff noticed that all damaged tanks…
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Protecting your tanks from lightning strikes using a retractable grounding reel
THE roof of an external floating roof tank rests directly on the surface of the stored liquid, leaving little vapour space and consequently leading to a much lower risk of rim space fire. Proper lightning protection is critical for fire prevention –the floating roof tank roof and the outer shell must be bonded…
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