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Siemens has taken the next step in its ongoing expansion of activities in Saudi Arabia, breaking ground on a new manufacturing facility in Dammam for gas turbines and compressors. The manufacturing facility is the first of its kind for Siemens in the Middle East.
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Maintaining optimum performance is crucial for sustained profitability
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The Veracruz ethylene and polyethylene (PE) complex in Mexico, a joint venture between Brazil’s Braskem and Mexico’s Grupo Idesa, will use hyper compressor and booster compressor technologies from GE. The GE technologies will be key elements of the low-density polyethylene (LPDE) plant.
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Underground storage facilities are crucial to the security of energy supply, and a key to balancing the supply and demand in natural gas consumption between the summer and winter months. Additionally, natural gas in storage also functions as insurance against unforeseen accidents or natural disasters.
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Williams Partners is assessing damage at its Lathrop natural gas compressor station in Susquehanna County, Pa., following a Thursday morning fire at the facility. All employees and contractors at the facility were accounted for and there were no injuries. The cause of the fire is unknown.
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Siemens Energy will supply together with its Chinese joint venture SITHCO (Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Huludao Co. two pre-engineered integrally geared compressors for an air separation plant to China. The plant will go online in early 2013. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Turning a challenge into an opportunity
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New blower meets low-pressure applications cost-effectively
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Chemical processing executives descended upon New York City and showed off their latest technologies for the 2011 ChemShow, taking place from Nov. 1-3 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
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Wireless technology is superior to most wired alternatives for modern plant asset monitoring, a senior applications consultant with Emerson Process Management said.
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Siemens Energy has received an order to supply a new compressor train as part of an expansion project at the Ibn Rushd PTA (purified terephthalic acid) plant in Saudi Arabia. The purchaser is Taiwan's CTCI Corp., the largest engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company in Taiwan.
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MAN Diesel & Turbo has secured an order for 24 compressor units for an integrated chemical complex in Chongqing, China, the company said on Wednesday. The order size is about €50 million.
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Foster Wheeler has received a contract from Apache Khalda Corp. to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services to oversee the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the Qasr compression project in Egypt.
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The RusTurboMash joint venture of Siemens Energy and Iskra-Avigaz has opened a new compressor manufacturing plant in the Russian city of Perm. Siemens holds a 51% stake in the joint venture and Iskra-Avigaz the rest. The combined investment of the two companies is €60 million.
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GE Oil & Gas has entered into an agreement with Technip to supply two steam turbine-driven compressors for the Shell Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project. The facility, which is to be based offshore Australia, will be the largest floating offshore facility in the world.
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Siemens Energy has received an order for the supply of two gas-turbine-driven axial-flow compressors trains for the first propane dehydrogenation (PDH) project in China.
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Case study identifies problems in new compression unit
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Advanced modeling methods provide useful information on operating main compressor system and feeds
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Machine health monitors can provide critical information to avoid unit and plant-wide shutdowns
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