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Total has today (May 16, 2012) announced that its well intervention operation, started yesterday, has stopped the G4 well leak on the Elgin complex, 240km from Aberdeen in the North Sea.
The operation, which involved pumping heavy mud into the leaking well, stopped the gas escape after 12 hours.
The G4 well had been leaking following an incident on 25 March, which led to 238 people being evacuated from Elgin and an adjacent drilling rig, the Rowan Viking.
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High efficiency water filter in demand for IPS
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NSK’s long life EP steel saves €38,400 on Sendzimir steel mill
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EEMUA certifies design engineers for hazardous areas
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Drives play major part with Royal Shakespeare Company
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| Building Britain’s industrial future |
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Building Britain's industrial
With Chancellor George Osborne's Budget now out in the open – offering some useful business tax incentives – and the CBI's latest Industrial Trends Survey indicating output growth expectations at their strongest for a year, engineering looks slightly healthier.
According to the CBI, factory order books in March remained well above the recent average – albeit, on balance, weaker than 'normal' – suggesting slow, but progressive recovery. And the picture was much the ... More
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| Pumping iron |
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The vast majority of pumps and fans could be running more efficiently and saving their plant operators serious money. ... More
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Is your boiler house safe? |
| As de-manning on steam and hot water boiler plant continues to gain momentum, operators need to consider best practice and their legal duties in respect of operational safety, warns S Moore Holmes
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Managing maintenance |
| Anything that can help maintenance managers to realise cost and time-savings, while simultaneously improving plant uptime and product quality outcomes, has to be worth considering. Brian Wall looks at modern CMMs in action
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Falling foul of the law |
| Slips, trips and falls remain a problem are across a wide range of facilities and industry types. Leigh Carter spells out the regulatory position and examines issues and solutions
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Laser focus |
| Energy from waste plants are shining a light on the power of laser-based, real-time gas analyser instrumentation. Brian Tinham talks to Bob Lane of Siemens
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What’s your poison? |
| For plant engineers keen to avoid disaster caused by flammable or toxic gas leaks, Steed Webzell provides an update on some of the latest sensing equipment and methodologies
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Testing times |
| The power of sensing systems today is to be found less in the range of techniques, technologies and hardware designs, and more in their on-board software. Brian Tinham reports
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Total Organics tighten effluent for Greencore |
| Greencore Foods' plant in Selby,Yorkshire, has dramatically improved its wastewater treatment process, managed by Veolia Water Industrial Outsourcing, since installing a continuous TOC (total organic carbon) monitor.
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Operator-driven reliability programme does it for Stora Enso |
| Global paper, packaging and wood products firm Stora Enso is reporting significant benefits since introducing SKF's operator-driven reliability (ODR) programme.
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Ocean energy test rig testing get programmable power |
| A laboratory scale rig at the Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre (HMRC), University College Cork, is now capable of emulating the variable power testing required at sea, thanks to control equipment from Emerson Industrial.
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Fuchs Lubricants sees operational improvements from Siemens PCS 7 |
| Fuchs Lubricants UK says it has seen cost and operational efficiency improvements at its Stoke-on-Trent lubricants plant since migrating to Siemens' PCS 7 distributed control system (DCS) and Simatic Batch.
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Moving experience |
| Although aimed primarily at commercial vehicle operators, engineers and technicians, the CV Show offers useful opportunities for those whose careers span the fixed and moving plant divide. Brian Tinham reports
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