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Technip has been awarded by GDF SUEZ E&P UK Limited an engineering, procurement, installation and construction contract for the Juliet project, located 40 kilometers East of the Humberside estuary, at a water depth of approximately 20 to 60 meters.

This contract, which is a tie-back to the Pickerill A platform, will cover the installation of a:

• 12” 22-kilometer rigid flowline(1),
• 22 kilometer static controls umbilical(2),
• 12” riser(3),
• 16” J-Tube assembly,
• 100-ton manifold(4).

Technip’s operating centers in Aberdeen, Scotland and in Oslo, Norway will work in conjunction to deliver this project. The offshore campaign is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013 and will use vessels from the Technip fleet, including the Apache II and Normand Pioneer.

Knut Boe, Senior Vice President, Technip’s North Sea Canada Region, declared: “We are delighted to be working with GDF SUEZ to deliver the Juliet development. This project is a great example of the ongoing level of investment in the UK Continental Shelf and the subsea opportunities that are arising as result. Furthermore, this project will see our Aberdeen and Oslo-based teams work very closely. It demonstrates Technip's strength as an international company sharing expertise and resources across national boundaries and it also confirms our position as a leading contractor in the North Sea area.”

Micro Motion 2-Wire Coriolis meters, with MVD technology, are the first Coriolis meters for highly accurate mass flow and density measurement in loop-powered applications. Your process will benefit from these low-energy devices that measure so accurately you can reduce waste and rework while improving the quality – and without the need for additional power wiring.

Advantages of Coriolis Measurement

• Direct inline measurement of mass flow, density, concentration, and volume flow and temperature from a single device
• Immune to fluid, process, or environmental effects for superb measurement confidence
• Highly robust, suitable for installation anywhere with no flow conditioning or straight pipe run required
• No moving internal parts results in no maintenance or repair

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The Rotork SVM (Smart Valve Monitoring) system has been selected to provide a networked solution for digital valve monitoring and partial stroke testing on a large scale oilfield installation in the Middle East. The system is designed to deliver predictive maintenance information from widely distributed areas for use by the operators to reduce shutdowns and improve overall plant efficiency.

This is made possible by the ability of the SVM to be integrated into an existing Ethernet and fibre optic infrastructure, enabling over one hundred monitored valve actuators on wellheads at numerous locations to be networked over distances of ten kilometres or more.

The SVM field control units on this project are attached to the ESD circuits for shut off valves installed in sets of two and four on more than fifty wellheads. Analysis is performed on the SVM server computer in the centralised control room. Communication between the wellhead sites and the computer is fully integrated within the operator’s existing network infrastructure. The SVM field units are incorporated into the Ethernet network that links other equipment and instrumentation at each wellhead site. A fibre optic link is then used to transmit the data to intermediate engineering and control stations at two manifold sites. From these sites, fibre optic links are again used to transmit data from all the wellheads to the centralised control room.

Partial stroke testing (PST) is a function used in a safety instrumented system (SIS) to enable the operator to identify possible failure modes on a shutdown or emergency shutdown (ESD) valve without the need to completely close the valve and hence disrupt the process. Partial stroke testing is an accepted hydrocarbon industry standard technique that is quantified in detail by regulatory bodies such as the IEC and ISA.

The EDS-405A/408A-PN are 5 and 8-port managed Ethernet switches with PROFINET enabled. With embedded PROFINET, the PN switches can be easily integrated into the Simatic Step 7 engineering tool. It is more convenient for automation engineers to configure through Step 7 and monitor with automation HMIs. The EDS-405A/408A-PN switches with fast booting, Turbo Ring and Turbo Chain fast-recovery technology, can optimize PROFINET network performance. Moxa’s PROFINET switches also support a variety of useful management functions, such as IGMP snooping, IEEE 802.1Q VLAN, QoS, port mirroring, SNMP, bandwidth management, and warning by email or relay.

Features and Benefits

• Command Line Interface (CLI) for quickly configuring major managed functions
• IPv6 Ready logo awarded (IPv6 Logo Committee certified)
• DHCP Option 82 for IP address assignment with different policies
• Support EtherNet/IP and Modbus/TCP protocols for device management and monitoring
• PROFINET v2 conformance class B, GSD (General Station Description) v2, and SIMATIC STEP 7 device icons are available
• Turbo Ring and Turbo Chain (recovery time < 20 ms @ 250 switches), and RSTP/STP for network redundancy
• IGMP snooping and GMRP for filtering multicast traffic
• Port-based VLAN, IEEE 802.1Q VLAN, and GVRP to ease network planning
• QoS (IEEE 802.1p and TOS/DiffServ) to increase determinism
• RMON for efficient network monitoring and proactive capability
• SNMPv1/v2c/v3 for different levels of network management security
• Bandwidth management to prevent unpredictable network status
• Port mirroring for online debugging

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Technip has been awarded by The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract, as well as preparation of the corresponding engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) proposal, for a new ammonia plant under consideration by the global crop nutrient company. Mosaic’s preference is to locate the proposed plant adjacent to the company’s existing Faustina fertilizer manufacturing operations in St. James Parish, Louisiana. It would have a capacity of 2,200 metric tons per day.

Mosaic is the world’s largest producer of finished phosphate products, with annual production capacity greater than the next two largest producers combined. The company’s plan is to backward integrate more fully into ammonia production by expanding its present capacity at Faustina. Ammonia is an essential ingredient in the manufacture of phosphate-based crop nutrients.

The proposed design of the plant would feature Haldor Topsøe’ proprietary ammonia process technology that Technip has successfully engineered and constructed in projects for more than 40 years. Technip will also perform the preliminary design work for the plant offsites, utilities, interconnections, and other supporting units for the facility.

Technip’s operating center in Houston, Texas will execute the FEED contract in collaboration with its engineering center in Rome, Italy. The development of the FEED and corresponding EPC proposal began in November 2012; both are targeted for completion by mid-2013.

IFPAC®2013, the 27th International Forum on Process Analytical Chemistry, the prestigious three-day exhibit hall being held in Baltimore, MD will be open from January 23-25, 2013.

IFPAC® has emerged as the industry's premier event relating to the techniques of Industrial Process Analysis, Process Knowledge and Quality Control. IFPAC attendees come to learn more about how they can boost productivity, streamline implementation processes, enhance operational efficiency, and maximize their resources.

Having previously been held in Chicago, Atlanta, Galveston, Houston, Seattle, Orlando, San Antonio, Lake Las Vegas, Jacksonville, San Diego, Scottsdale, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, the IFPAC forum has gained a reputation for creating a pleasant, yet productive environment for the discussion of topics relating to the techniques in process analysis, quality & control.

The IFPAC -2013 forum and exhibition will be held at the "Baltimore Marriott Waterfront", a convenient location on the Inner Harbor. It offers a portal of prestige including Inner Harbor shopping and dining, Maryland Science Center, The Peabody Conservatory, and Fell's Point dining & entertainment. The Baltimore Marriott Waterfront has everything necessary for productivity and success, recreation and attentive service.

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Emerson Process Management, through its Instrument & Valve Services operation, now offers a cash-back valve and instrument recycling program. The new recycling program gives plant sites with a control valve boneyard greater residual value for used or inoperable control equipment.

Using bins provided by Emerson, the recycling effort provides free pick up and shipment from the plant site to the Instruments & Valve Services recycle center, rapid evaluation of valve and instrument cores, and prompt payment with an itemized transaction report.

The recycling program provides greater return on original investment than traditional scrapping practices. It also helps prevent unnecessary waste of potentially useful materials.  While the program focuses on Fisher control valves and Rosemount instruments, to keep recycling efforts seamless and simple, Emerson is accepting non-Fisher valves as well.

The Instrument & Valve Services recycling program is accessible through the network of North American Emerson local business partners.

Honeywell Process Solutions in India recently unveiled PlantCruise by Experion at a grand launch event in Mumbai to celebrate India as the second country to gain access to this product.

The launch reinforced Honeywell’s commitment to India as a high growth region and illustrated the company’s continuous innovation to deliver locally relevant solutions that leverage proven technology and meet global quality standards.

PlantCruise by Experion is a distributed control system, purpose-built to efficiently meet the plant automation needs of mid-sized industrial applications. It is an extension of Honeywell’s award-winning Experion process knowledge system (PKS), which has successfully helped thousands of industrial customers worldwide improve their business performance. PlantCruise by Experion enables users to maximize uptime, improve plant reliability and efficiency while lowering cost of ownership.

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