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Case Study by Yokogawa: Hazira LNG Private Limited (HLPL), a joint venture between Shell Gas B.V. and Total Gaz Electricite Holdings, operates an LNG receiving terminal in Hazira, which is a major port and industrial hub in India’s Gujarat state. Commissioned in 2005, the terminal has two 160,000 m3 storage tanks along with re-gasification and auxiliary facilities that are capable of handling 3.6 million tons of LNG per year. This is the first LNG terminal in India to be built by global energy companies.

A 22 km pipeline connects the Hazira terminal to the national gas grid at Mora Station. The pipeline has sectionalizing valve (SV) and LNG custody transfer metering (CTM) stations that are located 4 km and 14 km from the terminal, respectively.

The control systems for the Hazira terminal are installed in its main control room (MCR), which handles all re-gasification processes and utilities, and at the jetty facility, where arriving LNG carriers are unloaded.

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Siemens has won major orders for three air separation plants in India and Inner Mongolia. The customer for all three orders is Linde Engineering. A total of ten compressor trains for one plant as well as three compressors for air and two for nitrogen for a second plant are to be installed in India. Linde Engineering Hangzhou has also ordered three identical compressor trains from Siemens for an air separation plant in Inner Mongolia. The total volume for all three orders comes about EUR 180 million.

The ten compressor trains for the air separation plant in India each comprise an integrally geared compressor for main air, a high-pressure

integrally geared compressor serving as booster air compressor and a common steamturbine drive. The scope of supply also includes mechanical and performance testing. These tests will be performed at the Mega Testcenter in Duisburg, Germany. The additional three air compressors and the two nitrogen compressor are also integrally geared type compressors but driven by electric motors.

The air separation plant in Inner Mongolia will supply oxygen to a coal liquefaction plant of the Yitai Group. Serving as air compressor in each train is an STC-SR series axial-radial compressor that features an intake volume of over 720,000 cubic meters of air per hour.

Each train is equipped with a six-stage integrally geared turbocompressor as high-pressure compressor, and a Model SST-600 steam turbine as drive unit. The compressor trains will be handed over to the customer starting in summer 2014.

"These major orders demonstrate that we rank among the leading vendors worldwide in the compressor business," notes Lennart Nilsson, CEO of the Compression Business Unit at Siemens' Energy Sector. "Siemens has succeeded in expanding its leading position, particularly in the field of large scale air separation units. The order from India for ten compressor trains counts among the largest individual orders of its kind in this market. Once the machines in Inner Mongolia have been commissioned, these units will rank amongst the largest air compressors in operation in the world."

AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been appointed by TAQA's UK business, to undertake the engineering, procurement and construction of modifications to the Tern oil production platform to accommodate a new subsea tie-back to the Cladhan field in the northern North Sea. AMEC will also provide commissioning support.

The contract award follows AMEC's completion of the front end engineering design (FEED) for the project. Work begins immediately and will run through to December 2014. It is part of a long-term engineering framework agreement with TAQA, which began in 2012.

"I'm delighted that we have won the opportunity to demonstrate to TAQA our brownfield engineering capability and we look forward to building a successful relationship with them" said Alan Johnstone, Managing Director of AMEC's Europe brownfield and asset management business.

AMEC has recently opened two new offices in Aberdeen to support this award and growth across existing contracts. The new offices will accommodate around 300 people. The Cladhan development is the third field that TAQA has developed and the largest project to date. Cladhan is expected to produce over 17,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) initially with first oil expected early 2015.

Advantech’s Industrial Automation Group, have released a new model to their family of ADAM products. The ADAM-6200 is an Ethernet module with daisy chain networking, remote monitoring and group configuration capabilities. These features enable the ADAM-6200 to connect to multiple devices and deliver information from a large number of sources. To enhance field maintenance, in the event of errors occurring on any of the ADAM-6200s they can be remotely diagnosed and fixed from a smart phone, pad over Ethernet. With the ability to have their functions and web interface modified these devices add an extra level of benefit.

To implement daisy chain networking and save wiring costs the ADAM-6200 has two 10/100 Ethernet ports. In the eventof power failure on a device, the, patent applied, auto-bypass protection feature will ensure that the network connection continues in around 2.5 seconds. With its two ports, a network of ADAM-6200s can be joined together by simply connecting them together, making it easy to expand the network quickly and easily.

With support for independently programmable HTML5, the ADAM-6200 can be customized, monitored and controlled from any compatible Web browser on devices such as a smartphone or tablet whilst in the field and when the engineer is connected to their network. To further aid configuration and save time, engineers can connect to one device, either directly or through a switch, and configure and upgrade the firmware of multiple ADAM-6200s simultaneously.

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Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), a South Korean shipbuilder established in 1973 in South Korea, has awarded a $6.7 million+ order to Rockwell Automation. Rockwell Automation will deliver fully integrated safety solutions for Transocean, a leading international provider of offshore contract drilling services for energy companies, and an important DSME customer. Rockwell Automation will employ its large-project delivery management expertise to provide its PlantPAx Integrated Control Power and Safety Solution with the AADvance process safety system.

The contract covers deliveries to four new Transocean drill ships, with options for six more ships. It follows a $6 million+ order from DSME to Rockwell Automation for four new offshore drill ships in 2011.

According to DSME, Rockwell Automation offers a complete portfolio of offshore solutions and a proven, robust system for DSME to improve its system availability and enhance the safety systems for offshore applications, including drill ships and rigs.

“We’re confident that Rockwell Automation will deliver and commission integrated information, control, power and safety systems needed to complete this important project for Transocean, based on their expertise to design, develop and deliver automation systems for the offshore industry,” said a DSME spokesperson.

“This win is significant because it demonstrates our outstanding ability to deliver control and safety solutions for offshore vessels and drilling rigs,” said Terry Gebert, vice president and general manager Rockwell Automation Global Solutions. “Our experience and domain expertise in the oil and gas industry, as well as our global engineering resources, will help DSME and Transocean develop and maintain productive, safe and sustainable operations.”

Deliveries are scheduled for early 2014. All key solutions are scheduled for completion by June 2014 for the first vessel and by October 2015 for an additional three vessels.

Iraq has shortlisted 12 international companies and consortiums to build the country's first oil export pipeline in decades, and will ask them to submit their bids by the end of this year for an $18 billion project that will make the country less dependent on Persian Gulf export terminals, two oil industry sources said Wednesday.

Iraq's oil ministry has chosen these companies out of more than 80 international companies which submitted their credentials to build a section of the 1, 680-kilometer pipeline stretching from the oil hub of Basra in southern Iraq to Jordanian port of Aqaba in the Red Sea, sources said.

The short-listed companies and consortiums are: Lukoil OAO Holdings, China National Petroleum Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Toyota Tsusho, Punj Lloyd (India) and Mass Global International (Iraq), Saipem, Daewoo International Corporation, Consolidated Contractors Company, or CCC (Greece), Go Gas, L&T and Fuis Capital Ltd., Petrofac and Stroygazconsulting, or SGC, and Orascom and Petrojet (Egypt).

SCOP will invite the short-listed companies to receive the tender package, the second person said. SCOP will also propose that companies need to submit their offers by November or December, sources added.

Iraq and Jordan signed a preliminary agreement in April to build the section of the pipeline that would stretch from an Iraqi oil pumping station in Haditha, west of Iraq, to Aqaba. The rest of the pipeline, which is 680 kilometers long, linking a Basra pumping station with the one in Haditha would be built and financed by the Iraqi oil ministry.

Iraq hopes the pipeline will make it less dependent on Persian Gulf export terminals, providing the country with an alternative route if Iran closes the Strait of Hormus. Tehran has threatened on several occasions to close the strategic waterway through which 35% of the world's shipborne oil is exported, most recently in response to international sanctions over its suspect nuclear program.

Last year Iraq started design and feasibility studies on the pipeline that's expected to carry 2.25 million barrels a day. The country is now preparing to start work on the section from Haditha to Aqaba, with a capacity of 1 million barrels a day. A third section of the pipeline, running to Syria's Banias port in the Mediterranean, has been postponed because of the conflict in the neighboring country. It would have a capacity of 1.25 million barrels a day.

Under the agreement signed in April, Iraq would supply energy-poor Jordan with 150,000 barrels a day to feed its Zarqa refinery near Amman. Iraq will also supply Jordan with 100 million cubic feet a day of gas via another pipeline that will be built parallel to the oil line.

Saudi Hydrogen Peroxide Co., a new company created by Brussels-based chemicals company Solvay SA (SOLB.BT) and Sadara Chemical, said Monday they have started constructing one of the world's largest hydrogen peroxide plants in Jubail on the Gulf coast.

The plant, the first of its kind in the kingdom and the third joint venture for Solvay, will have a capacity of more than 300,000 metric tons per year when it starts production in 2015.

Sadara, the $19.3 billion petrochemical joint venture between state oil giant Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical Co. (DOW), will use output from the plant as a raw material for the hydrogen peroxide-to-propylene oxide manufacturing plant in its mega complex in Jubail Industrial City II.

The unit will also support Sadara's propylene oxide derivative units that produce polyols and propylene glycol. The Sadara complex, one of the world's largest chemicals plants, is expected to produce more than 3 million tons of petrochemicals a year once it is completed in 2016.

Saudi Arabia is pouring billions of dollars into developing its petrochemical industry to add value to its vast hydrocarbon resources and create jobs for its young and growing population.

The Sadara project represents Aramco's second major investment in a large-scale petrochemical complex in the kingdom. It is already involved in a joint venture with Sumitomo Chemical Co. (4005.TO) in Rabigh on the Red Sea.