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Today's Oil and Gas Engineering News

Pumping solutions for extreme conditions

The oil and gas industry needs pumping solutions that can handle hazardous and extreme conditions, without causing process upsets or...

Plasma systems save time and money in pipeline construction

Paula Flanders looks at how plasma technology is being used on the Ruby Pipeline project in the US

High voltage dynamic subsea power cables for reliability

Increasing deployment of floating production systems has led to a rise in the performance demands on these power cables. Darren...
 

Production/Processing

Refineries in Europe face further turmoil

Roughly 40 per cent require refurbishment in order to continue refining profitably

Coating advances corrosion protection

An enhanced two layer corrosion protection process has been developed by AUMA actuators

Explosion proof actuation

Stefan Kolbe looks at the latest in actuation solutions

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Safety

Lock can 'speak for itself’

First ATEX certified high security door lock

Enhanced electrical safety at port

Watertight and dust-tight with IP66/67 sealing as standard

Light and fog warning systems for Saleh platforms

Platforms are marked by four Tideland Syncrolan LED light stations, fog signal, fog detector

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Exploration / Drilling

First project with new subsea pile guiding frame

Successfully completed in Waimea field offshore Brazil

VIDEO: Petrobras P-57 super platform comes on stream

WEG supplied P-57 included medium voltage panels, low voltage panels, motor control centres) and medium and low voltage dry-type transformers

High voltage dynamic subsea power cables for reliability

Increasing deployment of floating production systems has led to a rise in the performance demands on these power cables. Darren Patel reports

 

Instrumentation

Complete sub-assembly and control panel manufacture

Multi-technology integration; reduced costs and time to market

Multi-channel controller has a larger display and more I/O options

Can simultaneously record all channel data at a maximum speed of 10Hz (ten samples per second)

Improving liquid levels monitoring

Siemens introduces two enhancements to its radar level measurement the SITRANS LR250

Communications

Digital and wireless solutions dominate market

Digital and wireless monitoring solutions are dominating today's oil and gas industry, driven by rapid advances in speed and durability. Sean Ottewell reports

2012: the emergence of micro networks to support the core network?

Phil Sorsky, CommScope’s VP Wireless Sales, Europe, gives an insight into what he expects will be three of the biggest wireless infrastructure trends in 2012

Analysis platform for FlexRay devices and systems

Allows sending of FlexRay messages for stimulation or configuration of bus nodes using pre-defined transmission lists

Environment

Decommissioning in the Gulf of Mexico shifts into overdrive

DecomWorld's 4th Annual Gulf of Mexico Decommissioning and Abandonment Summit set for Houston, March 22-23

Offshore platforms could be hot spot of fish abundance

Potential for man-made structures - offshore platforms and installations for renewable energy - to be used as reef habitat

Scientists suggest independent monitoring of deep sea hydrocarbon industry

Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico underscores need for independent monitoring of the ecological effects

 
 
 

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