Oil/gas/petrochemical
Intelligent valve controllers chosen for FPSO project (19/04/2012)
Metso has won an order from Eni Norge and Statoil to supply its latest generation stainless steel valve controllers to the Norwegian Goliat Floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) plant in the Barents Sea.
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Automated flow control for tank terminal (28/02/2012)
The recently opened Botlek Tank Terminal (BTT) in Rotterdam relies on electric valve actuation technology, supplied by Rotork, for automated flow control and vital safety related duties associated with the import, export and storage of a varied range of liquid bulk products.
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DCS migration offers increased availability, reduced cycle times and less waste (21/02/2012)
Cost and operational efficiency benefits have been identified at Fuchs Lubricants, since the addition of Siemens’ PCS 7 distributed process control system and SIMATIC Batch to the control system mix.
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Nexen awards contract for Golden Eagle Area development project 21/02/2012
Yokogawa UK has been awarded a contract for the supply of an Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) for the Golden Eagle Area Development (GEAD) Project, operated by Nexen Petroleum UK. The area is home to one of the largest oil and gas discoveries in the UK North Sea in the past ten years.
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Remote control and safety monitoring for offshore platform 17/01/2012
Statoil has announced that it is to deploy Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) and Honeywell Distributed System Architecture (DSA) at its Valemon platform in the North Sea, where production is due to start in 2014.
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SIS replacement project at refinery 10/01/2012
An order for the end-of-life replacement of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) within two processing units at Petroplus’ Coryton Refinery in England has been received by Hima-Sella. The facility is a fluid catalytic cracking refinery with a throughput of 220,000 barrels every day.
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Wireless level gauging solution for refinery 03/01/2012
The state-owned Tüpras refinery in Izmir, Turkey, has placed an order with Emerson Process Management for a tank gauging system that includes 85 wireless TankRadar Rex radar level gauges.
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Coriolis benefits for oil and gas industry 06/12/2011
Andre Verdone, KROHNE business manager in Canada, discusses the advantages of Coriolis flowmeter technology in oil and gas measurement applications.
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Overcoming obsolescence issues with minimal disruption 29/11/2011
CEE reports on how TOTAL E&P UK has succeeded in safely upgrading a number of vital systems on two of its Alywyn Area fields platforms.
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Control and safety systems for RWE Dea’s new North Sea platforms 18/10/2011
Honeywell has been selected by RWE Dea to design and install the integrated control and safety systems (ICSS) at both of RWE Dea’s new North Sea platforms, Clipper South and Breagh A.
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Integrated motor and process control solution put to work on oil sands project 30/08/2011
Grizzly Oil Sands, a Canadian, independent oil sands company is to use the Rockwell Automation PlantPAx process automation system to help it produce more than 5,000 barrels of oil per day at the first phase of its Algar Lake Project.
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Large actuator control helps to safely regulate oil flow 26/07/2011
Surgutneftegas has announced that it is to use Actuator Control Systems (ACS) from ASCO Numatics to control large actuators at its Kirishi refinery near St Petersburg in Russia.
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2010 HART Plant of the Year 08/02/2011
The 2010 HART Plant of the Year 2010 is the MOL Danube Refinery near Budapest. The company is committed to the operation of a predictive maintenance system. In developing its long term strategy the application of devices based on HART technology have a major role to play.
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Houdini project employs intelligent valve technology 11/10/2010
The pneumatically operated on/off valves that are used in Shell’s Houdini petrochemical project in Singapore, employ the latest technology, intelligence and diagnostic potential. Metso was awarded the umbrella contract for all pneumatically operated on/off valves in the new parts of the plant.
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