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  • Rotork wins subsea certificate from FMC Technologies

    The three-year Global Qualification Certificate is for the Rotork BGS1 subsea gearbox, a specialised product designed for torque inputs of up to 3500 Nm at operating depths of 3000 metres.
    20 August, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Honeywell to Supply Control Systems to Russian Refinery

    Honeywell will supply an Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) to control plant processes and general refinery facilities as part of the third stage of construction of the Antipinsky Refinery in Tyumen, Russia.
    20 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ABB automates gas pipeline from North Africa to Europe

    ABB’s integrated automation, fire and gas, and emergency shutdown system enables the station and the terminal to be monitored and controlled by remote from one control room.
    19 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • EMEA Oil and Gas Industry Dominates Market for Hazardous Equipment

    Three-quarters of revenue in the Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region from sales of products suitable for use in hazardous areas were from the oil and gas industry in 2012.
    13 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Infrastructure Investments drive High Power AC Drives Business

    Investments in infrastructure in many part of the world caused continued demand for high power AC drives.
    09 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • PAS opens additional Houston office

    The new office is in west Houston.
    06 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson support helps reduce energy at MOL gas processing plant

    Control loop audits, advanced process control project management, and model predictive control project support have together helped MOL achieve savings of over $9 million since 2006.
    05 August, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • AMETEK to supply sulfur analyzers at Al Hosn Gas project

    The UV process gas analyzers will be used on Sulfur Recovery Units (SRU) and Tail Gas Treating Units (TGTU) at the Abu Dhabi Gas Development Company’s (Al Hosn Gas) Shah Gas Field project in the United Arab Emirates.
    05 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson controls INA Rijeka refinery

    Emerson supplied a DeltaV automation system and SIS safety instrumented systems on a new hydro cracking/hydrodesulphurization unit, hydrogen generation unit, sulphur recovery unit in Croatia.
    02 August, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Honeywell Process Solutions Shares Service Risk

    By Bill Lydon, Editor At the recent Honeywell User Group (HUG) 2013 conference, Honeywell announced new services under the Assurance 360 program for owners of Honeywell systems. The overall goal of these programs is a reduction of unplanned events, faster problem resolution, and better plant performance.
    02 August, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Emerson named MAC for Louisiana gas-to-liquids complex

    Emerson will be the main automation contractor for Sasol's integrated gas-to-liquids (GTL) and world-scale ethane cracker complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Emerson will supply control and safety systems, control valves, and measurement and analytical instruments
    29 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control UK Onshore Gas Storage Facilities

    Yokogawa will supply an integrated control and safety system, together with a metering solution, to SSE Hornsea for the upgrade of the underground gas storage facilities located at Atwick, East Yorkshire.
    25 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Endress+Hauser Announces October Training Schools

    Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training on either the Endress+Hauser Process Training Unit (PTU) or live instruments in training stands, both designed to simulate operating conditions.
    22 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Schneider Electric buying Invensys?

    By Bill Lydon, Editor There has been speculation for a long time that the Invensys automaton business would be sold. Now Schneider Electric has made a 3.3 billion pound ($5 billion) takeover proposal for Invensys.
    12 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ABB to upgrade Heimdal offshore platform in North Sea

    ABB will supply a new HMI for the control system, control room modifications, simulator, fire and gas detectors, integration of telecommunication in the control room and information management systems (IMS).
    09 July, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Rotork to supply valve actuators for terminal upgrade

    The Caltex Kurnell upgrade project is converting the existing refinery site into an import terminal for the storage and distribution of petrol, diesel, jet fuel and fuel oil.
    08 July, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Emerson controls Gladstone LNG project in Australia

    Emerson supplied DeltaV digital automation system, Electronic Marshalling, Rosemount measurement and analytical instruments, Fisher valves, Bettis actuators, Roxar multiphase meters, ROC remote operations controllers, and AMS Suite maintenance software.
    08 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Hyperion supplies Operator Training Simulator to LMG in Poland

    The Dynamic Simulator is for the new LMG Crude Oil and Natural Gas Extraction plant of the Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG).
    02 July, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • ABB to control North Sea floating production unit

    ABB will provide 800xA safety and automation, condition monitoring, and operator training systems for a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) operated by Dana Petroleum.
    02 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Oil & Gas industry safety improves over past ten years

    The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers say the number of fatalities per 100 million hours worked has fallen by 52% compared with the 2003 rate.
    27 June, 2013 | 3 minutes
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