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Empowering Women in Industry will be hosting an awards gala to close the one-day conference on September 26th, 2019 at the Chicago Athletic Hotel.

The Gorgon gas project in the state of Western Australia was built by Chevron in 2016, and produces 25 million metric tons of natural gas and up to 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year.

Clarke Valve™, a company of Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, and OGCI Climate Investments, announced today that it has maintained the ISO 9001:2015 certification for its manufacturing operations and quality management systems.The ISO 9001:2015 certification outlines the criteria for a quality management system and is based on key quality metrics such as customer focus, manufacturing, testing, and inspection processes, and continuous improvement initiatives.The scope of Clarke Valve's registration is "Design, Development and Manufacture of Proprietary Clarke Valves and Associated Products for the Industrial Valve Market." Clarke Valve was audited by the highly rated accrediting certification body AVU Registrations, Inc."Having ingrained ISO 9001:2015 into our company culture, we are delighted to achieve our second certification.

Small refiners in the U.S. will not have much longer to wait to find out if they have been exempt from biofuel mandates.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will start deciding on 2018 waivers in the “next few weeks, month at the most,” said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said at a Monroe Energy LLC’s Trainer refinery event in Pennsylvania.The Renewable Fuel Standard has been a source of contention between agriculture and oil refiners and the fight over the small refinery exemptions has been particularly contentious.

BP’s Group Chief Executive, Bob Dudley, spoke on climate issues during London's Chatham House Corporate Leaders series. Dudley set out the necessary components in order to achieve a net-zero emissions world, including:    • Zero-carbon heat and power, provided largely by renewables and supported by decarbonized gas, including the use of carbon capture use and storage (CCUS).• Electric and hydrogen-powered cars on the roads and the skies and seas navigated by planes and ships powered by biofuels and hydrogen.• A circular economy over the throw-away culture.• Nature's power harnessed to reduce emissions through planting trees and nurturing peatlands.

The FLIR ONE Pro LT has been awarded the 2019 Product of the Year by Electrical Construction and Maintenance Magazine (EC&M) in the Portable Test & Measurement Equipment category.

KNF has released a series of double diaphragm, oil-free pumps that are designed for the safe transport and evacuation of costly, high purity, rare and dangerous gases.

BHP recently announced a five-year, $400 million USD Climate Investment Program that will develop technologies for emission reduction in its own operations and those generated from the use of its resources.“Over the next five years this program will scale up low carbon technologies critical to the decarbonization of our operations.

The Canadian federal government has announced it plans to increase the carbon tax on new natural-gas plants in an effort to discourage power companies from building them.This tax is part of the final set of regulations for the government’s carbon-tax system for big industrial greenhouse-gas emitters.

Project CO2MENT will demonstrate and evaluate Inventys’ CO2 Capture System and a selection of LafargeHolcim’s carbon utilization technologies at its Richmond, British Columbia, Canada cement plant over the next four years.