Atlas Copco’s new TwinAir range of containerised air compressors offer the highest volume of air flow at up to 1058l/s (2232cfm). AMEC plc, the international engineering and project management company, has had a major project managementconsultancy services contract renewed by Kuwait Oil Company Butting has recently won an order for producing and delivering metallurgically bonded pipes and semi-finished products for the Pine Bend Refinery of the US company Flint Hills Resources.

Volvo Pena’s has introduced the D12 Electronic Engine for Zone 2 Operation.
This engine series 300 to 500HP is now ATEX Certified to satisfy the demands of the European Market

O f all the applications a centraliser has to handle, the underreamed hole is the toughest. A fundamental problem with underreamed wells is getting effective casing centralisation in the underreamed section. The gas import floating terminal (GIFT) concept is an offshore floating LNG storage terminal moored to the seabed by means of a turret system that allows the terminal to weather-vane freely with the prevailing weather conditions After many years in services well structures may become unstable due to corrosion of the conductor, surface and production casings. Many of these areas are unseen and corrosion can go unnoticed. To prevent potential structural failures, which in many cases can lead to disastrous consequences, casings need to be strengthened and protected from further corrosion. Densit provides complete solutions for reinstatement of the well integrity using UHPC (Ultra High Performance Cementitious) material. Now with Bluetooth wireless communications, the Elcometer 4563 Standard & Top versions have full menu-driven operation and graphics display, in 25 languages, with the capability to measure on ferrous or non-ferrous metal substrates using a wide range of probe options. The dual FNF probe option allows dual operation with automatic substrate determination and display. Technical requirements for petrochemical reactor steels have proliferated in the past decade. The need to increase economic benefits together with higher operating temperatures and pressures are leading to the construction of higher capacity reactors with thicker walls. Also, more severe requirements in these steel specifications leave the steelmaker little scope to find a good balance between all the influencing parameters, in order to achieve the best possible steel design.

According the European design codes vesselheads must be heat treated after cold forming due to the properties of the carbon steel. The ASME design code does not have this requirement (in most cases).

Desalting is a crucial step for crude oil downstream refining processes, since both the free water and emulsified water contain salt, which can cause corrosion and catalyst fouling in the crude unit

Both magnetic flux leakage (MFL) and ultrasonic testing (UT) are well-established in-line inspection technologies. Whereas MFL provides a versatile and reliable method for determining the geometry of metal loss in pipelines, UT allows direct and highly accurate measurements of pipeline wall thickness.

After introducing inline equipment such as the Degasser, which separates gas from a liquid stream, and the Deliquidiser, which separates liquid from a gas stream, CDS has developed three new inline units.

Seals are key components of designs all around us. It is basically a matter of hermetically sealing two units with uneven surfaces or surfaces in motion, and a seal can have the form of a ring, a profile or a bearing.

Continuing improvements in the price/performance of high performance computing makes Discrete Element Method (DEM) a realistic tool for use in a broad range of industrial product and process design and optimisation. The breadth of application of DEM presents a number of challenges including benchmarking, model parameter estimation and coupling with other CAE methods Refinery has had its 140km-long crude transport line cleaned using a technique that is hardly ever seen in Europe