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Westinghouse Electric Co has officially opened its European Pump and Motor Maintenance and Repair Centre in Nivelles, Belgium, for nuclear energy customers in Europe.
The new €6 million Westinghouse state-of-the-art workshop has been designed to perform work on multiple pumps and motors in parallel. It has easy truck access, a large-capacity crane (63T), and is equipped with [...]
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| Tagged European Pump and Motor Maintenance and Repair Centre, Maintenance and Repair Centre, nuclear energy, Westinghouse Electric Co
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The conversion of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to pipeline-quality gas requires large quantities of low-grade thermal energy that may be available from industrial waste streams, steam power plants, or ocean water at the point of discharging LNG from the tanker. Alternatively, heat may be provided by the combustion of LNG or another fuel. In either [...]
Posted in Oil and Gas industry, Power generation
| Tagged industrial waste streams, liquefied natural gas, Power generation, steam power plants, thermal energy, Vaporization, vaporizing system
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Rolls-Royce said it will deliver a further eight RB211 industrial gas turbines for Nigeria’s offshore oil and gas fields this year as part of contracts worth US$150 million from TOTAL. The units, for a FPSO vessel in the Usan field and a fixed offshore platform in the Ofon field, bring the total number of RB211s [...]
Posted in Oil and Gas industry, gas turbines
| Tagged electrical generating sets, gas turbine, gas turbines, industrial gas turbines, oil and gas
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GE Oil & Gas has received a major contract to supply Italian energy company Eni S.p.A. with the largest refinery reactors of their type ever to be manufactured. The reactors will be a critical part of Eni Refining & Marketing Division’s project to boost production at its refinery in Sannazzaro, Italy. Financial terms of the [...]
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| Tagged largest reactors, largest refinery reactors, reactors, refinery reactors
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POWER published a summary of the flue gas desulfurization system scrubber cost survey conducted by the EUCG’s Fossil Productivity Committee in our July 2007 issue. Although the detailed results of the latest survey are proprietary to EUCG members that participated in it, we are privileged to present the newest summary data. The bottom line: Costs [...]
Posted in Oil and Gas industry, power plants
| Tagged coalfired utility plants, desulfurization system, FGD system, flue gas, flue gas desulfurization, plants
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Sulzer says that it experienced increases in order intake, sales, operating income and cash flow in 2008 but expects a slowdown in 2009.
In 2008, sales increased by an adjusted 13.2% to CHF 3.7 billion, and they continued to trail order intake, resulting in an order backlog of 2.1 billion (+6.2% compared to 2007).
For most of 2008, the [...]
Posted in News, Oil and Gas industry, Power generation
| Tagged hydrocarbon processing industry, oil and gas, Power generation, pumps, Sulzer Pumps, Sulzer Pumps division
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Flowserve has developed a range of high pressure deep water injection centrifugal pumps for an oil field project. The pumps have been designed to inject high pressure water into the sea bottom field to force out otherwise unrecoverable oil at Shell’s Ursa/Princess Waterflood site in the Gulf of Mexico.
The WIKO pumps can provide a 50% higher [...]
Posted in Oil and Gas industry, pumps
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Garlock (Great Britain) Limited, a unit of Garlock Sealing Technologies, has acquired gasket converter Northern Gaskets and Mouldings Limited (NGM).
NGM, a distributor of sealing products and a manufacturer of gaskets from materials including Garlock GYLON, was established 14 years ago and has a large and customer base in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical and oil and gas industries.
“NGM adds [...]
Posted in Oil and Gas industry, Technologies
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Fluor Corp. reports that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by the Sibur Group, a Russian petrochemical company, for a gas processing expansion project in Noyabrsk, Russia, which is located in the middle of West Siberian oil fields about 300 km north of Surgut.
Fluor’s project scope includes the EPCM services [...]
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A confluence of circumstances promised to make 2008 a transformative year for renewable energy in the U.S. States enacted additional, and more demanding, renewable portfolio standards, promoting accelerated and sustained development of “green” energy resources. Increasing concerns about global warming and climate change prompted some of this activity. However, the unprecedented escalation of oil prices [...]
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