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  • Emerson to supply control valves to Algiers Refinery

    Emerson will supply 600 Fisher control valves and regulators, including rotary, globe and butterfly type devices. The valves will be deployed throughout the refinery, including within the residual fluid catalytic cracking unit, naphtha processing units and new LPG storage unit.
    11 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • MDIS Selects OPC UA for MCS-DCS Protocol Standard

    MDIS selected OPC UA as the Master Control System (MCS) and Distributed Control System (DCS) protocol standard for offshore oil and gas production.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • PAC to supply Lab Instruments to Jurong Aromatics

    PAC will supply laboratory analytical instruments for Petroleum Testing application to JAC, including instruments for gas chromatography, sulfur, nitrogen, halides, and elemental and physical properties.
    04 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Rotork wireless actuators control tank farm

    16 Rotork IQ40 actuators, one Pakscan P3 wireless master station and three network repeaters are used to control six 100,000 barrel tanks and four booster pumps at Martin Midstream Partners tank farm in Corpus Christi, Texas.
    04 April, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Cheniere Energy LNG Plant

    Yokogawa will supply the integrated automation and safety system for the new liquefaction trains at Cheniere’s LNG facility in Sabine Pass, LA.
    03 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Epicor to supply ERP to Pradeep Metals

    Pradeep Metals manufactures closed-die forgings for the oil & gas, valve, instrumentation, petrochemical, and general engineering industries around the world.
    02 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Have you checked your wrinkles lately?

    By Hugh Davies, Optical Metrology Services How high precision laser profile measurement tools and video inspection equipment are helping companies verify the quality of CRA-lined pipes by detecting the presence of wrinkles or buckling.
    27 March, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Emerson's wireless technology helps RWE maximize gas storage capacity

    Installation of five Smart Wireless networks and more than 100 wireless measurement devices has increased visibility into the process, enabling the plant to improve control and run closer to its capacity.
    27 March, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Valve Shipments to Grow 3% in 2013

    Shipments for the U.S. industrial valve industry will grow to nearly $4.3 billion, according to figures released by the Valve Manufacturers Association (VMA). This exceeds the industry’s previous 10-year peak in 2008.
    25 March, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Oil & Gas Innovations Conference 2013

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Siemens hosted a thought leadership event on February 22, 2013 in Houston, TX. More than 300 oil and gas industry executives, technology leaders, and industry experts attended featured presentations, a trade fair and a networking event at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
    16 March, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Integrated Process Plant Management Software

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Siemens COMOS 10 is an enterprise platform for the process industry that integrates functions including automation design, plant engineering, operations, and enterprise interfaces.
    08 March, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • ABB to provide process analyzers for LNG project

    ABB will help to measure and control the quality of the LNG at all points in the process, for Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG (liquefied natural gas) export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
    07 March, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Automation expenditures expected to rise in Oil & Gas

    Automation expenditures by the upstream oil and gas sector, which includes exploration, production, and pipelines, are expected to grow at an rate of nearly 8 percent over the next five years, according to ARC.
    01 March, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson to upgrade automation on Statoil platform in North Sea

    Emerson will provide integrated safety and automation systems to help boost oil recovery and extend the life of the field while also reducing operating costs and minimizing safety and environmental risks.
    27 February, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Software helps SABIC conform to European emission limits

    Industrial Thinking’s Chronicle software connects to flowmeters using redundant Modbus and OPC protocols to report on Hydrocarbon and Co2 emissions from all facilities, including steam boilers, superheaters, furnaces and purge to flares.
    26 February, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Invensys controls New Russian Refinery

    Invensys, as the main automation provider, supplied complete control and safety solutions, including field instrumentation, process analytics and valves to the new Yaysky oil refinery in Kemerovo, a city in Russia.
    26 February, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Intertec to supply outdoor cabinets to protect Sadara process analyzers

    Intertec will supply environmental protection cabinets and shelters that will protect the field-based process analyzers at the new Sadara petrochemical complex in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
    25 February, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Executive Interview - Blake Moret, Senior Vice President at Rockwell Automation

    By Bill Lydon, Editor I recently had the opportunity to talk with Blake Moret, Senior Vice President at Rockwell Automation. Other than their process control initiatives, we discussed networks, energy monitoring, embedded controllers, regenerative energy and their services business.
    25 February, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Mettler-Toledo publishes weigh module integration handbook

    Handbook provides expert advice on the design and application of load cells and weigh modules for tanks, silos, vessels, hoppers and conveyors.
    06 February, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Michael Squyres selected as the 2013 ASGMT General Chairman

    American School of Gas Measurement Technology is the largest gas measurement school in the United States devoted to natural gas and natural gas liquid measurement, regulation and control.
    05 February, 2013 | 2 minutes
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