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  • ACM Facility Safety Offers Free Process Safety Workshop

    The free workshop teaches the essential elements of Safety Instrumented Systems including how to comply with myriad safety requirements. The workshop is available in a two-day classroom in Calgary, or as a three-day webinar.
    21 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Cabinets protect instrumentation on world’s largest LNG vessel

    Each of the 120 Intertec cabinets on Shell’s ‘Prelude’ floating liquefied natural gas project incorporates a unique form of semi-passive cooling technology.
    20 February, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • Emerson to provide training system for BP

    Emerson will provide a DeltaV Operator Training Solution (OTS) for BP’s Quad 204 North Sea FPSO replacement project.
    20 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson to monitor Satoil's Gina Krog platform

    The system will enable Statoil personnel onshore to continuously monitor the new fixed platform’s critical and essential pumps, compressors and other mechanical equipment to maximize efficiency and identify any potential problems before they affect production.
    18 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control LNG ship in Australia

    The ship will be the world’s largest Moss-type LNG carrier and will be used for transporting LNG from an onshore LNG processing plant that is being constructed as part of the Ichthys LNG project.
    17 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson upgrades controls at BP's Whiting refinery

    As main automation contractor for the massive upgrade, Emerson provided technologies and services that helped enable the Chicago-area refinery modernize its facility to process advantaged crude supplies.
    10 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • UOP To Supply 1,000th Hydrogen Purification System

    UOP's 1,000th system for purifying hydrogen is being installed at Ruwais Refinery, United Arab Emirates, and operated by the Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (TAKREER).
    10 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Bestobell to supply valves for South Korean LNG tanker

    Bestobell Marine will supply cryogenic globe, check and FLIV valves for the 173K LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) Carrier being constructed for Teekay LNG Partners LP of Canada.
    10 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Hima-Sella to Supply Fire & Gas Detection System for Oil Platform

    The HIMax Programmable Electronic System fire & gas detection system will be installed on the Kittiwake Oil Platform in UK North Sea.
    07 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Endress+Hauser sales reach $2.43 billion

    Endress+Hauser Group increased its net sales by approximately 7 percent to over 1.8 billion euros ($2.43 billion) in the 2013 financial year.
    04 February, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Endress+Hauser donates instrumentation to Polk State College

    Through the donations of Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation and TriNova, Polk State College will be the new home to a $1 million, state-of-the-art PTU (Process Training Unit).
    03 February, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Schneider Electric's Integration of Invensys

    By Bill Lydon, Editor With this acquisition, Schneider Electric significantly enhanced its position to serve the process industries and now has a complete portfolio of products to serve the entire industrial and process automation industry. This article highlights a few key aspects of the integration of the two companies.
    28 January, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • 2014 Manufacturing Outlook from Siemens CEO

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Helmuth Ludwig, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector USA, provided his views on the 2014 manufacturing outlook and other industry topics, including the first live display of an assembly line at the Auto Show in Detroit, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first assembly line.
    27 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Flow-Cal to provide gas measurement software to PVR Partners

    Having historically used measurement services providers, PVR wants to build a measurement department from the ground up.
    27 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Honeywell to supply MES to refinery in Suriname

    Suriname's state-owned oil company will deploy Honeywell’s manufacturing execution system (MES) as part of a major expansion and efficiency project at the Tout Lui Faut crude oil refinery complex.
    22 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Yamal LNG Project in Russia

    Yokogawa will supply CENTUM VP integrated production control systems, ProSafe-RS safety instrumented systems, Exaquantum plant information management systems, analytical systems, analyzer shelters, and operator training systems.
    10 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Video from Moore Industries shows Natural Gas and Oil Wellhead Applications

    The video shows a typical natural gas wellhead set-up with HART instruments, which includes tanks that store liquid and gas remnants.
    10 January, 2014 | 1 minutes
    Sponsored By Moore Industries-International, Inc.
  • Windows XP Cyber Time Bomb set for April 8, 2014

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The huge installed base of automation software running on Windows XP will be vulnerable to cyber-attacks with the end of Windows XP support April 8, 2014. More than 12 years old, Windows XP is the longest supported version of Windows ever and therefore is the most used in industrial automation systems.
    03 January, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Drives and Motors Market up in European Oil and Gas Industry

    Oil and gas plants in Europe are increasingly adopting energy-efficient electric drives and motors to cut down on energy consumption, optimize performance, improve productivity, and boost profits
    18 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Moxa to supply communications equipment to Terra Ferma

    Terra Ferma will use Moxa hardened communications equipment for a remote SCADA monitoring and IP surveillance system which Terra Ferma will market to the oil and gas industry.
    13 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
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