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  • 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
  • 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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    20 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Process Automation I/O Market Driven by Safety

    The market for process I/O modules is mainly driven by two forces: an increasing need for intrinsically safe I/O modules and the increasing demand from the Middle East and the BRIC countries.
    11 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Metso to automate UK waste-to-energy plant

    Metso will supply a Metso DNA distributed control system, an integrated safety system and an information activity server to the 68MW plant in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK.
    04 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Premier Oil installs ProcessVue alarm management

    ProcessVue ensures that data from safety-critical plant is always logged, enabling engineers to identify the cause of a plant upset, including the sequence of events (SOEs) leading up to this.
    31 May, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • FCI FS10A Analyzer Flow Switch Achieves SIL-2 Compliance

    The Model FS10A Analyzer Flow Switch/Monitor meets the requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 compliant service.
    31 May, 2013 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By FCI - Fluid Components International
  • Mettler Toledo publishes Hazardous Area Catalog

    Catalog covers weighing solutions for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries with hazardous environments.
    10 May, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Counterfeit exida safety certifications discovered

    exida discovered a counterfeit certificate falsely claiming that a product meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508.
    09 May, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Rotork valves control pipeline compressor stations in Turkey

    Rotork supplied, installed and commissioned actuators for operational and safety-related duties on pipelines carrying products including natural gas from Asian countries through Turkey.
    07 May, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Phoenix Contact offers virtual training

    Virtual Technology Center (VTC) class topics include safety, Ethernet, routing/firewall, VPNs and several levels of training on Phoenix Contact’s PC Worx software.
    03 May, 2013 | 1 minute
  • GAMBICA forms industrial network security group

    GAMBICA, the Trade Association for Instrumentation, Control, Automation and Laboratory Technology in the UK, formed an industrial network security group to counter the threats of viruses, industrial sabotage and terrorism.
    02 May, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Honeywell to Automate Steam Production Plant in Finland

    Honeywell will supply building automation, process control and safety systems for a new bubble fluidized-bed (BFB) boiler site.
    02 May, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • MOHR to Supply Spent Fuel Pool Instrumentation to 10 nukes

    MOHR will supply its EFP-IL SFPI system as a solution for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Order EA-12-051 requiring installation of SFPI in all U.S. commercial nuclear power stations.
    29 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ISA announces introductory course on process safety

    Process Safety Fundamentals (EC50CT) provides a sound foundational understanding of leading process safety concepts, standards and procedures, and accentuates the need to regard process safety as a fundamental daily priority.
    25 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Honeywell goes to the Barges

    Custody transfer measurement on barges is shifting from traditional methods under open conditions—allowing vapor to escape from tanks—to closed solutions, eliminating vapor release to the atmosphere during tank gauging.
    24 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • IMS says market for Hazardous Area Equipment to drop

    Sales revenue this year of hazardous area equipment in the Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region will grow by less than half of what was estimated in 2012.
    19 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
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