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  • Cressall NERS power resistors pass Saudi test

    As part of a project to supply Neutral Earthing Resistors (NER) to be used by the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), Cressall has successfully conducted pre-qualification testing at an accredited laboratory CESI in Milan.
    12 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Gas Detector Market Driven by Strict Safety Regulations

    Compliance with increasingly tough safety regulations will remain a major factor driving investment in safety systems and toxic gas detectors among oil & gas, refining, petrochemical and mining customers.
    08 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • exida certifies Moore Industries SSX and SST for SIL 2

    exida certified SSX and SST Safety Series isolator and splitter for functional safety, ensuring that they meet the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508:2010.
    By: exida
    07 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ISA to conduct technical training camp in Houston

    ISA will conduct six of its most in-depth technical training courses over five consecutive weeks beginning Monday, 30 September 2013.
    07 August, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • exida certifies Det-Tronics gas leak detector

    The Det-Tronics FlexSonic Acoustic Gas Leak Detector meets functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capable per IEC 61508.
    By: exida
    04 August, 2013 | 1 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.
    By: Emerson
    02 August, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • General Monitors obtains IECEx approval for Toxic Gas Detector

    The TS4000H Intelligent Toxic Gas Detector from General Monitors is now IECEx approved.
    By: General Monitors
    30 July, 2013 | 1 minute
  • FCI obtains SIL 1 rating for ST100 Flow Meter

    ST100 Series Thermal Mass Air/Gas Flow Meter is now rated for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 1 compliant service.
    By: FCI - Fluid Components International
    30 July, 2013 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By FCI - Fluid Components International
  • 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
    By: Emerson
    29 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Methods of Protection in Hazardous Locations: Containment, Segregation and Prevention

    Methods of Protection in Hazardous Locations: Containment, Segregation and Prevention

    In order to reduce the risk of explosion, elimination of one or more of the components of the ignition triangle is necessary. There are three basic methods of protection—explosion containment, segregation and prevention.
    By: Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH, Pepperl + Fuchs
    29 July, 2013 | 17 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.
    By: Yokogawa Corporation of America
    25 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • PAS announces Customer Product Support Program

    PSP Plus provides an enhanced support solution for PAS’ PlantState Suite and Integrity software customers.
    By: PAS Inc.
    23 July, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Invensys Celebrates Triconex 30th Anniversary

    The Triconex brand was born in 1983 when Jon Wimer gathered a team of talented engineers, developers and professionals to build the world’s premier industrial safety system.
    By: Schneider Electric
    11 July, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Real Time Automation Gateways meet UUKL Smoke Certification

    The products covered by UUKL are intended to be installed in conjunction with heating-ventilating-air conditioning (HVAC) equipment to form a system for controlling the flow of smoke in a building during a fire condition.
    By: Real Time Automation, Inc.
    11 July, 2013 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By Real Time Automation, Inc.
  • 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).
    By: ABB
    09 July, 2013 | 1 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
  • Festo to Build Assembly/Distribution Center in Ohio

    The regional service center, scheduled to open in 2015, will assemble and distribute products, while serving as a showplace for Festo automation solutions.
    By: Festo Corporation
    26 June, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson to automate natural gas platform in South China Sea

    Emerson will provide process automation, safety, and asset management technology for a CNOOC gas production project in the South China Sea.
    By: Emerson
    25 June, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson acquires Groveley Detection

    Groveley Detection is a developer of ultrasonic gas leak detection solutions for both offshore and onshore oil and gas installations.
    By: Emerson
    24 June, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ABB to build and control LPG pumping station in Algeria

    ABB will supply switchgear, transformers, motors, variable speed drive systems, instrumentation, distributed control and safety systems, as well as a SCADA system for the new 400 km pipeline.
    By: ABB
    20 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
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