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  • Process Control for Energy Production Enters Deeper Waters

    OLDI Special Applications Module extends reach of Allen-Bradley ControlLogix controllers in subsea oil drilling by providing higher data volumes and faster data exchange rates.
    08 October, 2015 | 4 minutes

  • Endress+Hauser Announces Fall and Winter 2015 Training Courses

    Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training on either the Endress+Hauser PTU (Process Training Unit), a full-scale, working process skid with on-line instrumentation and controls, or live instruments in training stands, both designed to simulate operating conditions.
    07 October, 2015 | 4 minutes

  • Field Automation and Low Oil Prices

    By Daniel Atzori, PhD Implementing a cost-effective automation strategy is a top priority in the current oil price environment – and critical to eradicating production downtime.
    22 September, 2015 | 12 minutes

  • Emerson cuts greenhouse gases for Qatargas

    Emerson provided automation and engineering services for a Qatargas project that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1.6 million tonnes annually.
    22 September, 2015 | 1 minutes

  • Endress+Hauser signs Forberg Scientific as rep

    Forberg Scientific is now the E+H exclusive sales rep forWisconsin and Northern Michigan.
    22 September, 2015 | 1 minutes

  • Elipse software controls Petrobras Research Center

    Elipse Software controls cooling and power distribution systems at Petrobras’s Cenpes, one of the largest oil research centers in the world.
    17 September, 2015 | 3 minutes

  • Barco builds dome simulator for drilling operations in South Korea

    Twelve Barco F12 WUXGA projectors provide operators with a lifelike, high-resolution environment in which to practice intricate drilling set-ups.
    10 September, 2015 | 2 minutes

  • Honeywell to control Lundin Norway

    Honeywell’s Assurance 360 program will help Lundin achieve continual and optimal performance of its automation system at the Edvard Grieg field in the Utsira High area of the central North Sea.
    08 September, 2015 | 2 minutes

  • Rotork purchases Bifold

    Bifold is a manufacturer of hydraulic and pneumatic stainless steel directional control valves and accessories for hazardous, corrosive and subsea environments.
    08 September, 2015 | 1 minutes

  • ABB to upgrade control systems at Kårstø gas plant

    Once installed, the updated DCS will manage the processing plant’s production of 90 million cubic meters of rich gas a day. It also includes two test systems and three process simulators.
    03 September, 2015 | 2 minutes

  • Air Compressor Controller Market

    The market for air compressor controllers globally is forecast to reach US$ 5.44 Bn by 2022.The global air compressor controller market was valued at US$ 3.45 Bn in 2014 and the market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 5.8% from 2015 to 2022
    01 September, 2015 | 2 minutes

  • Endress+Hauser signs Eastern Controls as rep

    Eastern Controls is now the E+H rep for the Mid-Atlantic area – Metropolitan New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
    31 August, 2015 | 2 minutes

  • Oil & Gas and Power Sector to Drive the SCADA Market

    The global demand of supervisory control and data acquisition systems market is believed to account US$32.70 billion in 2020 with a considerable 5.0% CAGR in the forecast period.
    19 August, 2015 | 3 minutes

  • Emerson to supply BP with automation equipment and services

    Emerson signs 10-year agreement with BP for enhanced oil and gas project execution and operational reliability.
    17 August, 2015 | 2 minutes

  • Gas Detection Equipment Market Led by Wireless Detectors

    The global gas detection equipment market is forecast to reach $ 3,372.0 Mn by 2022. The increase in demand from oil & gas industry is another factor driving the market for gas detection equipment.
    12 August, 2015 | 3 minutes

  • Oil Industry Issues & Automation Innovations

    By Bill Lydon, Editor A major theme of the recent Siemens Oil & Gas Innovations Summit was the need to apply automation to lower operations and production cost. More automation will enable producers to deal more easily with the cost pressures of the oil and gas industry.
    10 August, 2015 | 3 minutes

  • ISA publishes book on Fire and Gas Systems

    The Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook is a guide to designing and implementing performance-based Fire and Gas Systems (FGS) for process industries.
    06 August, 2015 | 1 minutes
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  • Honeywell to supply flowmeters to gas pipeline in China

    Honeywell will supply ultrasonic flowmeters, flow computers and temperature and pressure transmitters for China’s long-distance Guangxi liquefied natural gas (LNG) high-pressure pipeline.
    16 July, 2015 | 2 minutes

  • ABB to provide power and automation for oilfields off UAE coast

    ABB will provide a power management system based on System 800xA, plus transformers, shunt reactors and associated equipment.
    15 July, 2015 | 2 minutes

  • Flow-Cal to supply SemGas with gas measurement software

    SemGas owns and operates more than 1,300 miles of gathering pipelines in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, as well as four processing plants that have a combined capacity of approximately 388 million cubic feet per day
    13 July, 2015 | 2 minutes
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