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The global market for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), valued at US$38.1 billion in 2012, is projected to reach US$516.7 billion by the end of 2023.

In 2014, Endress+Hauser increased net sales by approximately 11 percent, exceeding the 2 billion euro mark.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Cyber-attacks are on the rise. Do manufacturing companies need to experience major disasters before they take cyber security seriously? We have talked and written much about cyber security, but little action has been taken. The good news is there is an ever expanding range of cyber security protection solutions for those motivated to protect themselves.

Jonah Energy, a startup exploration and production company, is using Flow-Cal’s FLOWCLOUD hosting solution to obtain data in a cloud environment.

HyperionRSI Simulation, jointly owned by Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd and RSI, will offer simulation solutions based on the IndissPlus simulation technology.

Biodiesel garners the largest market share; however, the latest and the most commercially viable Cellulosic ethanol would surpass Biodiesel and eventually lead the market by 2020.

PD pumps will prove indispensable in various applications such as hydraulic fracturing, the mixing and injecting of chemicals, and the mixing of solid proppants with water.

This 2-day course gives students the ability to read and understand P&IDs for the analysis of emergency situations; and for safety, environmental and regulatory compliance issues such as Process Hazards Analysis and HAZOP studies.

FLOWCAL Enterprise Liquids software automates Lyondell Chemical 's measurement data collection by replacing their manual spreadsheets and manage all data electronically through one centralized system.

ETT operates approximately 69,000 miles of pipelines. It installed a new control system based on the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture platform, CompactLogix controllers and medium voltage Allen-Bradley SMC Flex soft starters, running on a ControlNet network.

The asset visualisation and information management software will be used for Total’s Martin Linge fixed-platform asset on the Norwegian continental shelf.

OAO VNIPIneft, the Research and Design Institute for the Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry, has designed over 40 oil refineries and industrial facilities in Russia, the CIS countries, Bulgaria, Hungary, Egypt, India, Cuba, Poland, Turkey and Ethiopia.

Rotork EH electro-hydraulic actuators will be used for failsafe valve control on the Colombian Bicentennial Pipeline, which will have a capacity of up to 600,000 bbl/d of crude oil when completed in early 2016.

The software suite enables local and remote configuration and real-time HART device monitoring in remote oil and gas applications such as wellhead automation, flow measurement, and tank overflow protection.

Catalog covers telemetry products that support long-distance wireless communications in large scale environments such as those found in oil and gas, agriculture, water systems, forestry and public infrastructures.

A CVL-5000 electric control valve actuator replaced an existing actuator on a blending flow control valve in a trial at the Fluxys booster station in Belgium.

The market for Coriolis flowmeters totaled $1.3 billion in 2013, and is projected to grow to almost $2.0 billion by 2018.

These events cover a range of topics including Production, Drilling, Completions, Water Management, Facilities Engineering, Oil Sands, Crude By Rail Safety, Pipeline Asset Integrity, NGL Markets, Wellsite Automation, Gas Capture And Flaring, Offshore Flow Assurance and Crude Takeaway.

Process Plant Computing Limited will streamline control room alarms across four LNG trains at Atlantic's Point Fortin plant, on the southwest coast of Trinidad.

Daqing Petrochemical Company will use the HIMA FlexSILon TMC solution for safely controlling turbomachines at its gasoline desulfurization plant being built in Daqing City, in China’s Heilongjiang province.