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CB&I to buy Shaw GroupCB&I has agreed to acquire Shaw Group, a US-based engineering company primarily focused on serving clients in the power generation and government services sector. The acquisition..
Iracore to supply lined pipe, fittings to Shell Canada for Alberta oil sands use
The agreement covers three years and provides Shell access to a number of Iracore’s proprietary products and services for use at the Muskeg River and Jackpine oil sands mining projects. Iracore has provided lined pipe solutions to major oil sands mine developers in northern Alberta for over a decade.
Utility piping: Why over-engineering is inefficient
Grooved mechanical piping can offer improved constructability, speedy expansion, retrofit and turnaround, and also reduce safety risks. It is a quality pipe-joining method.
Consider new developments for variable-speed electric motors
New challenges, recent developments, the latest mechanical issues and main reliability factors for large variable-speed electric motor drivers in HPI plants are presented here.
Improve performance monitoring of your turbomachinery
This case study documents the performance variables to consider and apply when monitoring and tracking the efficiency deterioration for a steam turbine using DSs in a PI process book.
Case history: Improve refrigeration compressor performance
This case examines the mechanical distress and performance deterioration of a critical refrigeration compressor that was installed at a world-scale petrochemicals complex.
HP Reliability: Consider best-of-class lubrication practices
Last month’s column explained that all hydrocarbon processing (HP) facilities use machinery, and these machines require lubrication. Periodically auditing one’s lubrication practices is part..
HP Integration Strategies: Reliability solutions offer unique value propositions
Globally, the process industries lose the equivalent of 5% of production annually because of unscheduled downtime and poor product quality. ARC Advisory Group estimates that almost 80% of these losses..
HP Construction Profile: Rotterdam LNG facility wins top project award
The Gate megaproject is one of Europe's largest LNG terminals. With two jetties, it can unload simultaneously two vessels of the Q-Max type, the world's biggest LNG carriers.
- Pumps & Valves Innovation Conference Brings Program for Operators, Engineers to the Gulf Coast 4/22
- Australia's Queensland invests in biodiesel to cut reliance on fuel imports 4/22
- Indonesia biodiesel consumption eclipses 3.9 MM kiloliters so far this year 4/22
- Malaysia's palm oil-based biodiesel push to add 300,000 tpy in demand 4/22
- India's L&T Energy GreenTech, Japan's ITOCHU ink 300,000 tpy green ammonia supply deal 4/22
- Energy services group Saipem ‘well positioned’ to win Iran war repair contracts 4/22
