Greek oil company chooses HIMA safety systems local partner ....to upgrade emergency shutdown capabilities

Nov. 23, 2015  + + +  Hellenic Petroleum (HELPE), one of the largest oil companies in the Balkans, recently upgraded the emergency shutdown capabilities of its Aspropyrgos Industrial Complex with the installation of six HIMA safety systems by Solidus Assyst, a Greek automation specialist. The replacement of safety-related programmable electronic systems at the Aspropyrgos refinery in an Athens suburb included the installation of four HIMax® and 2 HIQuad systems from HIMA ... more

Rosneft implements process automation at Angarsk refinery

Nov. 20, 2015  + + +  OJSC Angarsk Petrochemical Co. (APC), a subsidiary of Russia’s OJSC Rosneft, has let a contract to Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), a division of Honeywell International Inc., to provide advanced automated control and safety systems at its 10-million tonne/year integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in eastern Siberia’s Irkutsk region ... read more 

GasSecure AS, a Dräger owned company, and Yokogawa Electric Corporation announce the delivery of the world’s first SIL2*¹ certified wireless gas detection system for use at an LNG facility in Northern Europe. The two companies will begin promoting the unique capabilities of this system solution to companies that have a strong interest in maintaining safe and secure operations ... read more

Aug. 26, 2015    + + +  Siemens has been awarded a contract for supplying the initial ten compressor trains for a major Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in the USA. Siemens' customer is Magnolia LNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (LNGL) which is developing an up to eight million tons per annum (mtpa) mid-scale LNG facility based on their OSMR® LNG technology in the Port of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. The project serves to liquefy Natural Gas for export from the USA as well as potential domestic use ... more

Aug. 17, 2015   + + +  On Monday, RWE officially launched its power-to-gas plant in the NRW location of Ibbenbüren. The state-of-the-art plant is part of new system that, for the first time ever, links together the supply of local electricity, natural gas and district heating. Any superfluous electricity from renewable sources is converted into hydrogen so it can be stored within the natural gas network. It can then be recalled from there at a later date for use in electricity production that boasts an extremely high utilisation rate. This power-to-gas process is seen as one of the key technologies for tomorrow’s energy supply  ... more

STAUFF: Dust-tight and water-tight RFID pressure transmitters for fluid engineering ... certified with IP69 protection rating

Aug. 12, 2015   + + +  An independent testing and certification body recently confirmed that the RFID pressure transmitters of the PT-RF series from Stauff comply with protection rating IP69 in line with EN 60529 (VDE 0470). This confirms that the pressure transmitters are dust-proof (index number 6) and that no water can enter into the housing (index number 9). Testing equipment – particularly in mobile hydraulics – is regularly subjected to high pressure and steam jet cleaning ... more

WIKA: New pressure transducer
TI-1 with signal processing for OEM customers

July 30, 2015   + + +  WIKA has added a new OEM pressure transducer to its portfolio: Model TI-1 with digital signal processing is a fast and precise measuring device, e.g. for data loggers, process transmitters and hand-helds. The TI-1 offers an adjusted sensor signal, for which no additional compensation is required. This enables a very customer-friendly integration of the pressure transducer into the respective application ... more

Gazprom lets contract for Russian gas processing plant

July 29, 2015   + + +   OOO Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk (GPB), a subsidiary of PJSC Gazprom, has partnered with NIPIgazpererabotka (Nipigaz), Moscow, on design and construction of a grassroots 49 billion-cu m/year natural gas processing plant to be built near the town of Svobodny in Russia’s Amur region. Acting as contractor for the joint project, NIPIgaz will deliver engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) management for the proposed Amur gas processing plant, which when commissioned, will become Russia’s largest, Gazprom and NIPIgaz said.

Siemens: Ethernet switches permit flexible communication

July 20, 2015 + + + Siemens is expanding its range of managed Industrial Ethernet switches with a new product line. The cost-effective Layer 2 Scalance XB-200 switches provide high data rates up to 100 Mbps and a multitude of functions. They support, for example, both the Profinet standard and the EtherNet/IP standard + + + Typical applications include machine networking in plants of the manufacturing industry and of the process industry such as oil and gas ... more 

MAN lands another big order from Oman

July 15, 2015   + + +   Under the heading of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), PDO has placed the current order with a volume approaching the three-digit million euro range with MAN. The compressor trains are to be used to increase natural gas extraction as part of the "Rabab Harweel Integrated Project". Together with six other compressor trains ordered from MAN by PDO back in mid-2014, MAN Diesel & Turbo's Swiss plant has thus landed the biggest order in its history ... more

Lukoil taps new blending technology for Russian refinery

July 09, 2015 + + + OAO Lukoil has selected Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), a division of Honeywell International Inc., to provide process control technology designed to boost efficiency and reliability for its gasoline-blending plant at the 17 million-tonne/year Nizhny Novgorod refinery in Kstovo, Russia. The refinery has implemented a system for real-time blending recipe optimization that uses HPS’ proprietary Profit Blend Optimizer (PBO) software to automatically control the blending process and produce gasoline that meets Lukoil’s preset quality specifications, HPS said ... more

Sensirion’s microthermal mass flow meters
for G4 and G6 smart gas meters

July 08, 2015   + + +  Sensirion, the world's leading manufacturer of sensors and sensor solutions, presents two new versions of the SGM70xx mass flow meter modules for G4 and G6 gas meters. These microthermal gas meter modules enable real-time gas flow monitoring and come with the additional advantages of high-level reliability and long-term stability. Onboard software in the mass flow meters guarantees precise gas quality compensation. As a result, the Swiss company Sensirion has further consolidated its expertise in the smart energy sector ... more

Croatia's INA Industrija Nafte DD refinery
lets contract for upgrading project

July 07, 2015    + + +   Croatia’s INA Industrija Nafte DD (INA) has let a contract to Findland’s Neste Jacobs Oy to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for a residue upgrade program to be implemented at its 4.5 million-tonne/year (tpy) refinery along the northern part of the Adriatic Sea at Urinj, Rijeka province, Croatia ... more

Fjords Processing wins Johan Sverdrup contracts

July 03, 2015   + + +  Fjords Processing,  (formerly Aker Process Systems) and headquartered in Norway (Fornebu), has won three contracts for the deliveries of process systems for the Johan Sverdrup development in the North Sea. The contracts were signed with Statoil on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup license. Scope of work within the contracts entails concept development studies, design, engineering, fabrication and services of processing technology and expertise ... more

Lukoil commissions unit at Volgograd refinery

June 25, 2015   + + +   OAO Lukoil has commissioned a primary crude distillation unit at its 11 million-tonne/year Volgograd refinery in southern Russia as part of a program to boost overall capacities of the company’s refining assets. The AVT-1 unit, which has a crude oil processing capacity of 6 million tpy, entered operation on June 25, Lukoil said. In addition to basic distillation, AVT-1, now the largest of Volgograd’s units  ...  more

MAN Diesel & Turbo: First AR-MAX1 compressor has been successfully commissioned by Air Products in China

June 19, 2015    + + +   For MAN Diesel & Turbo, the commissioning of the first AR-MAX1 compressor in one of the world's most modern air separation units (ASU) currently being built by Air Products in Yulin (Shaanxi) China in April 2015 is another highlight in a success story. Air Products’ ASU at the site is expected to be fully placed on-stream later this year. One of the most challenging compressor development projects in MAN's corporate history has thus not only been realized successfully, but has now gained an important reference point ... more

Rosneft, BP sign upstream, downstream agreements
Total sheds stake in German refinery

June 19, 2015   + + +  OAO Rosneft agreed to sell BP PLC a 20% share of Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha in eastern Siberia for $750 million. The joint venture will further develop the Srednebotuobinskoye oil and gas condensate field, which was commissioned in October 2013 and produces about 20,000 b/d  + + +  The companies also agreed to pursue a reorganization of their refining joint venture in Germany, Ruhr Oel GMBH. Rosneft acquired a 50% share in 2011 ... more  

MAN Diesel & Turbo: major contract from Sultanate of Oman
Shutdown engineering as a specialty of MDT Deggendorf

June 12, 2015   + + + MAN Diesel & Turbo has recently landed a major contract with Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) for a large shutdown engineering project at the ORPIC refinery in Sohar, about 200 km northwest of the Omans capital Muscat. A project with a tight schedule: While the refinery processes will be shut down for a major overhaul in spring 2016, around 100 specialist from MAN Diesel & Turbo in Deggendorf will assure overhaul of key components of the RFCC plant ... more

Siemens extends packaging agreement with Centrax
to deliver industrial turbines

June 09, 2015   + + +   Siemens has extended its packaging agreement for gas turbines with the engineering company Centrax Ltd. to now 31 European countries. Since June 2011, Centrax sells the SGT-300 and SGT-400 gas turbine series from Siemens as a complete package under the product name CX300 and CX400. In the extended European market Siemens has appointed Centrax to be the primary route to market for the sale of industrial power generation and distributed energy packages for these two gas turbine models ... more

Siemens: Compact Ethernet Switch
delivers high bandwidth in harsh environments

May 29, 2015   + + +  Siemens has expanded its portfolio of rugged network components with the Ruggedcom RSG920P – a high port density Ethernet switch designed to operate in harsh environments with widely varying climatic and environmental conditions. Withstanding extreme temperature, vibration and shock the device offers high reliability for industrial applications such as transportation systems and oil and gas applications  ... more 

Oldham: The CTX 300 gas detector now receives a new long life Oxygen sensor

May 18, 2015  + + +  The CTX 300 is a 4-20 mA analog gas transmitter designed for industrial applications. The new design is lead free and has an operational life of five years. The range is from 0 to 30% vol. O2 and the sensor operates from -40° to 50°C continuously allowing new opportunities in low temperature applications ... more

HIMA: Safe communication in digitally networked plant of the future

May 11, 2015   + + +  To help the process industry migrate to tomorrow’s digitally networked plants, HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH will introduce at ACHEMA 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany, a new protocol that enables Ethernet-based, safety-related communication (SIL 3). Now safe communication is enabled between the company’s three controller families: HIMatrix, HIMax and HIQuad ... more

Linde successfully launches compact hydrogen generator line
called HYDROPRIME^®

May 8, 2015   + + +  Technology company The Linde Group has successfully launched its new HYDROPRIME^® plant line of innovative, cost effective hydrogen generators which are based on proven steam methane reforming technology. Hydro-Chem, a division of Linde Engineering North America, announced today that it has tested and proven the reliability and suitability of these units in various applications. The company is now launching the mass production release of HYDROPRIME^® as a competitive and reliable local production alternative to trucked-in bulk gases.

April 20, 2015  + + +  With "Ultramat 7" and "Calomat 7", Siemens is offering two new analyzer modules for its Siprocess GA700 gas analysis system. Together with the "Oxymat 7" module which is already available, users can thus configure flexible analytical solutions, for example for measuring oxygen, hydrogen, noble gases or infrared-active components such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Main field of application is process monitoring in chemical, petrochemical and incineration plants ... more

JDN offers a range of air hoists and trolleys tailored to your specific needs for handling high-pressure injection heads in truck tank cleaning installations. All hoists are suitable for use in potentially explosive areas. Thanks to their sensitive push button controls with emergency stop function, they enable the injection heads to be lowered inside the tanks in a controlled manner. Because the hoists are suitable for oil-free operation, there is no need for additional lubrication ... more

April 20, 2015  + + +  State-owned TurkmenGaz, through a subcontractor, has let a contract to Metso Corp., Helsinki, to supply valve technology for a $3-billion petrochemical complex under construction in the Turkmenbashi district of Balkan province in western Turkmenistan. Under the contract, Metso will deliver standard and severe-service globe and butterfly valves from the company’s Neles and Jamesbury product portfolios that range in size from ½ in. to 20 in., Metso said ... more.

April 7, 2015 + + + SOCAR Polymer LLC, a subsidiary of state-owned State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), has let an engineering, construction, and procurement (EPC) contract to Maire Tecnimont SPA, Milan, to build the country’s first polypropylene (PP) plant, in the Sumgait Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP), about 30 km north of Baku
March 18, 2015 + + + State-owned State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) has let a contract to Fluor Corp. to provide project management contractor services for its long-planned oil and gas processing and petrochemical complex (OGPC) to be built 60 km southwest of Baku ... more

March 27, 2015   + + +  Siemens has expanded its Simocode pro motor management system to include Modbus communication. Users and switchboard manufacturers can now integrate the motor management system from Siemens into Modbus-based automation and control system solutions in process industries such as chemicals, oil and gas, water and cement, and mining ... more

March 19, 2015   + + +  Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, will build the world's largest Air Separation Unit (ASU) in Secunda, South Africa. With a production capacity of 5,000 tonnes of oxygen per day, the ultramodern facility pushes the technical boundaries that have existed up to now, also with regard to efficiency, reliability and safety. An essential component in the new ASU will be the AIRMAX compressor solution from MAN Diesel & Turbo, which will also set new records in the largest dimension constructed to date  ... more

March 18, 2015   + + +   BASF and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) have concluded an agreement on EMRE’s FLEXSORBTM technology. The agreement provides BASF with the right to sublicense the technology and supply the related solvent to third parties  + + +  more
-  Highly selective and effective FLEXSORB technology
-  BASF is further extending its portfolio in selective gas 
-  treatment OASE technology
-  EMRE benefits from BASF’s global market reach

March 18, 2015  + + +  Fluor selected as SOCAR's project management contractor.  State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) continues the scheduled activities aimed at implementation of the Oil Gas Processing and Petrochemical Complex (OGPC) ... more

March 11, 2015   + + +   A popular feature of the Gastech Exhibition, the Centres of Technical Excellence (CoTEs) Seminars will return when the event runs from 27 to 30 October this year in Singapore. The CoTEs feature comprises over 75 free-to-attend presentations where leading companies highlight the latest developments in gas technology to the industry ... more

Feb. 20, 2015   + + +   ZapSibNeftekhim LLC, a subsidiary of Russian petrochemical manufacturer OAO SIBUR Holding, Moscow, has started construction on its long-planned integrated ethylene, polyethylene and polypropylene production complex at Tobolsk in Western Siberia’s Tyumen region ... more

Biogas from renewable sources can be used as a fuel and is a popular source of energy for producing heat and electricity. Before feeding biogas to the gas grid, however, it needs to be cleaned. Raw biogas consists of only about 50 percent of methane – the actual energy carrier. In addition, it contains carbon dioxide, oxygen and sulfur compounds. These associated gases can cause severe corrosion in gas burners ... more

Feb. 13, 2015 + + + Russia’s OAO Lukoil has let a contract to a consortium headed by South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd., Seoul, for the construction of its long-planned Kandym gas processing plant to be built in southern Uzbekistan, about 520 km southwest of Tashkent. The proposed plant, which will have a capacity of 8.1 billion cu m/year, will process sour natural gas from the Kandym group of fields in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan to produce treated natural gas, stable gas condensate, as well as solid and granulated sulfur ... more

Omsk refinery hits target for Euro 5 diesel output

Feb. 12, 2015 + + + JSC Gazprom Neft has switched to the exclusive production of Euro 5-standard diesel fuels at its 21.4 million-tonne/year Omsk refinery in Western Siberia, Russia. In addition to improving product quality specifications, the switchover, which took place during 2014, enabled the refinery to boost its diesel output to 6.3 million tonnes/year, a twofold increase compared with Omsk’s diesel production in 2013, Gazprom Neft said ... more

ABB wins contract worth more than $50 million for one of
the world’s first floating LNG facilities
Supplying safe and reliable electrical systems to PETRONAS’
second floating liquefied natural gas facility

2015-02-05   + + +   ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a contract worth more than $50 million to supply the electrical system for one of the world’s first commercial floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities, and the second to be owned by Malaysian oil and gas company PETRONAS. It will be called “PFLNG2” ... more

Siemens: Rugged cellular router offers Broadband wireless connectivity

2015-Jan-26   + + +  Siemens Ruggedcom RX1400 is a multiprotocol intelligent node which combines Ethernet switching, routing and firewall functionality with various WAN connectivity options. The device is IP40 rated, does not use fans for cooling, operates continuously within a -40° C to +85° C temperature range and comes with a rugged metal housing that supports DIN rail, panel, or rack mounting. ... more

Four new LNG carriers to feature Wärtsilä’s LNG
reliquefaction and gas handling systems

2015-Jan-21   + + +   A series of four LNG carriers being built by the Hudong-Zhongua Shipbuilding yard in China will feature Wärtsilä LNG reliquefaction plants and gas handling systems. The ships are owned by Bermuda based Teekay Corporation, China LNG Shipping (CLNG), CNOOC Energy Technology Co of China, and BW Gas of Norway ... more

Gazprom’s Baltic LNG project to be built in Ust-Luga
(By OGJ editors)

2015, Jan. 26   + + +  OAO Gazprom has determined that its 10-million-ton Baltic LNG plant will be built near the seaport of Ust-Luga, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The project is now preparing for the investment stage ... more

Ecom Mobile: Enhancing RFID to improve safety and productivity in potentially hazardous areas

2015, Jan. 26   + + +   How the recent introduction of the innovative UNI900 UHF RFID reader/writer for ecom’s i.roc® Ci70 -Ex handheld computer (PDA) enables new levels of safety and productivity in potentially hazardous locations ... more

Jan 12, 2015   + + +   SAACKE Marine Systems received an initial order from Japan-based JGC Corporation in June 2014 to deliver a complete high temperature water boiler system – consisting of a fired hot water boiler with a dual fuel burner and two heat recovery units – for PETRONAS’ second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility ... more

2014, Dec 22   + + +  The two compression modules on board of FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba MV24 have been successfully commissioned for MODEC, the EPC contractor specialized in engineering, procurement, construction and installation of FPSOs. After a design, engineering and manufacturing period of only 18 months, the high pressure modules by MAN Diesel &Turbo in Switzerland will be deployed on the FPSO operated by MODEC for Brazilian oil multi Petrobras, maintaining the field pressure thus maximizing oil product ... moreion.

Dec. 10, 2014 + + + Sulzer has been contracted as the pumps provider for the critical liquids removal system of the INPEX-operated Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in September 2014. The pumps will be installed on the offshore Central Processing Facility (CPF). Sulzer will deliver six large API 610 (ISO 13709) Barrel Casing Pump sets in 2015 ... more

Dec 2, 2014   + + +  BASF’s Refining Catalysts business today launched a new fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts testing and research laboratory at the hte GmbH (hte) site in Heidelberg, Germany. hte is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE and a leading provider of high throughput technology and services for enhancing research and development productivity.
The new laboratory will provide physical and chemical analyses and characterizations of hydrocarbons and FCC catalysts, fine particles and slurries ...

Pipe Cold Bending Machines from Schwarze-Robitec
Bending the Costs Downward

Dec 02, 2014    + + +  There are many kilometres of pipe on oil platforms, complex chemical plants, refineries and large power stations. All feature similarly large stretches of pipeline. In view of these quantities, pipe fitting plays a special role in plant and pipeline construction; the conduit system must be installed quickly and efficiently. Moreover, these constructions are essential for the function and efficiency of the plants ...

Nov 27, 2014   + + +   The enhanced electrohydraulic valve actuator TriVAX as well as the TriVAX flex made by HOERBIGER are once again setting trends in the process industry. These fundamentally reconceptualized valve actuators will take center stage at the 2014 Valve World in Düsseldorf. TriVAX is the alternative concept to the complexity of conventional actuators and facilitates everything from installation, to commissioning, to maintenance. It allows users to operate their systems easily, cost-effectively, reliably and safely in demanding applications ...

2014 Nov 14   + + +   A Power-to-Liquids (PtL) demonstration rig which is the first of its kind in the world was today officially inaugurated by Dresden-based sunfire GmbH. The rig uses sunfire’s PtL technology to transform water and CO2 to high-purity synthetic fuels (petrol, diesel, kerosene) with the aid of renewable electricity. So-called PtL fuels – also known as “e-fuels” – can be used in pure form or as an admixture in combination with conventional fuels ...

2014 Nov. 12   + + +   How the recent introduction of the innovative EX25 2D Multi Range Barcode Imager for ecom’s i.roc® Ci70 -Ex handheld computer (PDA) enables new levels of efficiency and safety for companies and onsite personnel in potentially hazardous locations  + + +  The increasing use of 1D/2D barcodes in the workplace to identify items, pallets, containers, storage locations and even yard locations brings the opportunity to improve safety by reducing the time the people are in a hazardous area, and improving efficiency due to the speed and accuracy of item/location identification and data capture ...

Technip awarded a significant contract
for new refinery units in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Siemens: Data-driven service enhances productivity, efficiency and quality in the process industry

Linde to build new air separation unit in eastern Germany

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions awarded planning contract
for propane dehydrogenation plant in the USA

Linde awarded engineering contract for LNG plant in Canada

ExxonMobil announces refinery project Slagen, Norway