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Electrical equipment in hazardous area inspection campaigns often begin with a clean slate, with little or no historical design, equipment certification and inspection information available to the inspection personnel. Inspectors head out into the field with little more than an equipment list and inspect the installation ‘as they see it.’
Unsurprisingly, this approach generates large numbers…
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German oil and engineering firm Oest Group has successfully digitised and automated its southern German fuel service business using Implico’s SAP RFNO (Retail Fuel Network Operations) solution.
Oest can now control, supply and bill its 85 AVIA service stations digitally, resulting in optimised processes and better decision-making in the hard-to-predict service station business. The group has…
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A global survey of the oil terminal sector, commissioned by Re-Gen Robotics and carried out by Tank Storage Magazine at the end of 2020, found ‘overwhelming’ support for no-man-entry robotic tank cleaning, with 86% of respondents saying they would like to see it at their terminal.
The survey asked engineers, managers and senior executives with responsibility for hazardous area operations…
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UK firm Michael Smith Engineers has introduced two new models to its leak-free, mag-drive, Finish Thompson ULTRAChem (UC) centrifugal pumps series.
The UC436L model features smaller impeller trims to allow for lower flows and heads, while the UC3210 model has been up-rated for 2-pole motors. The 2-pole motor option operates at a higher rotation speed than the existing model and enables the pump…
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Environmental technology firm Tecam has been awarded a contract for an emissions treatment project in New Zealand.
Tecan will provide engineering, procurement, installation and maintenance service of a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) system for the elimination of polluting emissions generated during production processes to a New Zealand steel production company. The turnkey project, with its…
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Calor Gas Ireland has joined the Engineering Equipment & Materials Users Association (EEMUA) as a corporate member.
The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dutch company SHV Energy, is one of Ireland’s leading suppliers of LPG, with services including LPG procurement and commissioning, bulk gas storage, cylinder filling and storage, and LPG transport and delivery, installation and…
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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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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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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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