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By Adam Chapman, Fluenta The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to change the capability of businesses to monitor and measure an almost unlimited number of different objects. Deploying this capability will be crucial for the Oil & Gas Industry over the coming decades, particularly as it relates to flaring and cold flaring (venting).

Since 2014, Adamczyk has served as President and CEO of Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT).

Jeff Pope, Manager of Facility Decommissioning & Demolition Services at Burns & McDonnell recently spoke with marcus evans about topics to be discussed at the upcoming 2nd Power Plant Decommissioning Process Optimization Conference

SignalFire, a telemetry equipment manufacturer for the oil and gas market, has shipped their 20,000th unit while maintaining a low rate of field-failure

TAQA’s UK operations include five platforms that produce from 13 fields spread across the Northern North Sea and the Central North Sea.

Recent analysis indicates that oil prices may in fact be on the rebound

Implico is integrating OpenTAS software with SAP and field equipment at six tank farms and a refinery.

The software will help to secure the integrity and improve management of the process control software used to operate Total E&P UK’s offshore developments in the North Sea.

Ecopetrol uses Rotork Schischek compact explosionproof valve for a critical petrochemical analysis process.

ABB will supply electrical and telecommunication systems to the Al Nasr Full field Development Project in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.

Emerson will supply Fisher valves and regulators, Rosemount and Daniel measurement instruments, DeltaV distributed control systems, flow computers, and systems for emergency shutdown and fire and gas detection.

Emerson will automate Cameron’s new liquefaction project, adding three LNG trains to facilitate export of domestic natural gas to international markets.

Hint automated a metering and allocation system for ENGIE that collects all data for the allocation of proceeds from oil and gas sales.

Since the end of 2014, sinking oil prices have had a negative impact on capital equipment vendors, especially pump and compressor manufacturers. Spending on this equipment is expected to decline even further in 2016 and 2017.

The lubricant oil-blending plant of Total Oil Asia Pacific in Singapore uses Egemin AGVs to transfer pallets from the four filling lines in the production area to the distribution zone.

D8009 standard helps shippers, laboratories, regulators and others who need to safely take samples of volatile crude oils in transit.

BP will use SimSci Spiral Suite software across its global refinery portfolio.

PDVSA selected HIMA as the safety systems provider to implement turbomachinery control at the Planta de Compression Tiajuana 3 on Lake Maracaibo.

The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) appointed Gordon Ballard to be its new Executive Director.

The standard covers gas oil, diesel fuel, fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricating oil, and bitumen, as well as crude oil that uses microfluidics and spectrographic techniques.