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  • 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
  • ABB to upgrade oil transportation infrastructure in Italy

    ABB will provide new electrical systems as well as the necessary mechanical equipment and automation systems to extend the export terminal of the eni refinery in Taranto, located in the “Mar Grande” bay on the Ionian Sea in southern Italy.
    04 February, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • GasSecure installs wireless IR gas detectors on offshore platform

    20 detectors were installed on the Gullfaks C platform in the North Sea by a team from Statoil, ABB and GasSecure.
    29 January, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Yokogawa to Supply Control and Safety Systems for Offshore platforms

    Yokogawa will supply process control, process shutdown, emergency shutdown, fire & gas detection, process data historian, and field device asset management to the Cygnus Development Project.
    28 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • IFS to supply ERP to Atlas Pipeline

    Atlas Pipeline gathers and processes natural gas for ultimate transportation to end user commercial, industrial, and residential markets.
    24 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Det-Tronics Flame Detector Certified for SIL 2

    The X3302 Multispectrum Infrared Hydrogen Flame Detector was certified as Safety Integrity Level 2 (SIL 2) capable by exida.
    21 January, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Siemens Serves Users by Adding EtherNet/IP

    Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor The addition of an EtherNet/IP stack to the Siemens Sinamics drives offers another option and makes life easier for users and machine builders. The Sinamics S120 drive products now support Profibus DP, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and Ethernet TCP/IP.
    19 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Tofino Security Appliance Thwarts Cyber Attacks

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The Tofino Security Appliance and its management software withstood a variety of sophisticated reverse engineering attacks conducted by Digital Bond, the world's most respected sources for control system security research.
    19 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Oil and Gas companies have security worries

    Frost & Sullivan says physical and cyber threats have led to growth in the oil and gas infrastructure security market.
    15 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • OMS measures 19,000 pipe ends for Congo River Pipeline

    OMS staff measured 19,402 pipe ends (20” and 22” OD) using its automatic Pipe Checker laser-based measurement tool. The pipes are destined for use on Chevron’s Congo River Crossing (CRX) Pipeline project.
    15 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Operator Training Simulators market to grow

    Trends such as the aging workforce, the new digital generation worker, emerging market workers, safety and risk avoidance factors are all pointing toward OTS market growth.
    20 December, 2012 | 3 minutes
  • Rotork supplies valve actuators to European gas pipeline

    The actuators are being installed during an upgrade programme on the pipeline network connecting Russia and Central Asia with Western Europe.
    18 December, 2012 | 1 minute
  • Emerson upgrades pipeline in Austria with Coriolis flowmeters

    Adria-Wien Pipeline upgraded custody-transfer measurement by replacing existing turbine flowmeters with Micro Motion ELITE High Capacity Coriolis flowmeters.
    13 December, 2012 | 2 minutes
  • McCrometer publishes Subsea Flow Meter Brochure

    Brochure explains the advantages of the V-Cone Subsea Flow Meter, which operates at pressures of up to 15,000 psi and depths down to 5,000 m.
    13 December, 2012 | 1 minutes
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