Sealings

Panametrics, a Baker Hughes business, has made its flare control and digital verification platform, flare.IQ, available to upstream operators for the first time.

Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) today announced a final investment decision to build an 820,000-tonnes-a-year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery.

The Cameron AOP Series D2 trunnion-mounted ball valve offers a quality, proven design at an economical price.Designed to

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) has begun the Qilu-Shengli Oilfield CCUS project, set to become China's largest whole industrial chain CCUS demonstration.The Project, expected to be put into production by the end of 2021, marks a key milestone in the construction progress of China's CCUS projects and is a huge demonstration of the industry's development.

A new study from a leading Canadian researcher suggests the largest sources of methane emissions from oil and gas sites are not the pieces of equipment commonly assumed as main culprits.

Experts say a joint strategy by Canada's largest oilsands producers to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will help speed up innovation and drive further investment into the industry.The companies involved include Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Cenovus Energy Inc., Imperial Oil Ltd, MEG Energy Corp., and Suncor Energy Inc.A large part of their strategy includes building a carbon sequestration facility in Cold Lake, Alta.

Chesterton, a leader in equipment sealing and reliability, has released its next IoT innovation​ – an easy-to-install sensor and app that helps industrial teams increase uptime of rotating equipment.Chesterton Connect™ is a 24/7 equipment monitoring sensor that enables users to safely and conveniently monitor changes in:- Equipment vibration- Equipment surface temperature- Process pressure- Process temperatureThe sensor communicates with a mobile application via Bluetooth.

The new FK-TrieX full port triple offset valve from Crane exceeds conventional TOV Cv values by a factor of 4x to 8x+. This new valve utilizes all of the geometrical advantages of a triple offset sealing element to achieve bi-directional zero leakage, and is certified to API 6D and API 598 specifications.

Norway’s Pipeotech extends its industry-first 10-year gas-tight warranty for its ground-breaking DeltaV-Seal™ gasket all the way down to applications running at -196°C, based on stellar results of cryogenic leakage tests at a pre-eminent European research lab.Pipeotech launched its metal-to-metal DeltaV-Seal in 2015.

Dynamic seals for high-speed centrifugal compressors have been evolving/migrating from oil-based seals to aerodynamic gas bearing type seals over the last 50 years.