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Optical Metrology Services provides pipe measurement services and precision measurement systems to the oil and gas industry.

Metso will supply standard, intrinsically safe, and explosion-proof valve controllers to Sino-Venezuela Guangdong Petrochemical Company for its heavy crude processing project in Guangdong, China.

Honeywell will develop a recommendation, called a "bankable feasibility study," for the modernization of Pertamina's five largest refineries.

Enardo offers safety and environmental control equipment for the oil and gas, petrochemical, wastewater, refining and other industries.

The three projects – Queensland Curtis LNG, Santos GLNG and Australia Pacific LNG - are developing coal seam gas in Queensland’s Surat and Bowen Basins.

ABB has been awarded a $2.765 million Department of Energy (DOE) Grant to develop technology to help the energy sector enhance its cybersecurity.

The worldwide market for oilfield multiphase flow metering solutions (MPFM) will grow robustly this year, says ARC, but provides no numbers.

Rotork will supply two WGS Series subsea gearboxes fitted to a double block and bleed valve for a natural gas pipeline in the Bohai Sea.

AVEVA Laser Modeller enabled the rapid conversion of nearly 1,000 laser scans into intelligent, as-built 3D plant models at an unnamed North Sea oil & gas facility.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The ability to improve manufacturing operations is growing with the application of software that can leverage lower cost computing. More than 30 years ago, ULTRAMAX Corporation commercialized an interesting software product to optimize the operating performance of industrial processes. I recently caught up with the Founder and CEO to learn more about the product and their philosophy and perspective of industrial process optimization.

Yokogawa will execute the front end engineering design (FEED) for a project to consolidate the control rooms and systems at its Mizushima-A oil refinery.

Endress+Hauser invests 40 million dollars in new plants in expanding its plants for flow, level and pressure measurement engineering in Greenwood, Indiana.

Emerson supplied a DeltaV system to manage more than 2900 inputs and outputs, including Rosemount instruments, Micro Motion Coriolis meters, Fisher control valves and regulators, and wireless HART, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus communications.

Flowserve will supply a multiphase pump package to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, for its HZ platform (Mumbai High) located off the coast of Mumbai, India.

President and CEO, Tony Paine, will speak as an expert on systems communication and industrial automation during two acclaimed energy telecommunications and manufacturing intelligence events this fall.

The two companies will develop solutions for transmission, distribution and power conversion systems to power and control subsea pumps and gas compressors at depths of 3,000 meters.

Rockwell will supply fully integrated safety solutions to Transocean, a provider of offshore contract drilling services for energy companies.

Emerson will provide PlantWeb, DeltaV digital automation system, DeltaV SIS process safety system, CSI 6500 Machinery Health Monitor, AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, and pressure, temperature, radar level, and vortex flow transmitters.

LLC GSE-Giprokauchuk is a Russian company that does design and research for the chemical, petrochemical and synthetic rubber industries.

The actuators have been supplied to valvemakers in India for installation on Phase 2 of the Kochi-Koottanad Bangalore-Mangalore Pipeline project.