Industrial Technology 1/2017

INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY - International four-monthly magazine - Free copy in postal distribution - Via Porpora, 20131 150 Milano (MI) Italy - www.industrialtechmag.com - R.O.C. number 26303

Oil and Gas. Petrochemical. Automation

NUMBER 1 - March 2017

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SEITRON SPA

ITALY - BASSANO DEL GRAPPA (VI) info@seitron.it - www.seitron.it

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Branch Via Leonardo Da Vinci, 6/D 26020 Ticengo (Cremona) - Italy Tel. +39 0374 71006 • Fax +39 0374 71277

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AQM SRL Via Edison 18 • 25050 Provaglio d’Iseo (BS) tel. +39 030.9291711 - fax +39 030.9291777 www.aqm.it • e-mail: segreteria@aqm.it

LABORATORI DI PROVA E TARATURA DEGLI STRUMENTI Prove meccaniche e meccanica della frattura

Prove non distruttive

Prove di fatica e prove speciali

Estensimetria

Analisi chimica

Prove di corrosione

Analisi e indagini ambientali

Verifica della conformità e delle prestazioni dei prodotti e dei materiali

Metallografia

Metrologia e controlli dimensionali

Diagnostica difetti e prevenzione

Tomografia industriale

Microscopia elettronica e microanalisi

Reverse engineering Taratura degli strumenti e delle apparecchiature di misura e controllo Termografia applicata e analisi delle vibrazioni

CENTRI DI COMPETENZA Formazione e Consulenza

PROCESSI PRODUTTIVI E PROGETTAZIONE

MATERIALI E CONTROLLO DEI PRODOTTI

QUALITÀ - SICUREZZA AMBIENTE

ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE

Saldatura e tecniche di giunzione

Acciai comuni, speciali, inossidabili e da utensile

Qualità

Lean manufacturing

Fonderia e pressofusione

Leghe d’alluminio

Sicurezza

Gestione manutenzione

Stampaggio a caldo e forgiatura

Rame e leghe

Ambiente e energia

Gestione della produzione

Lavorazioni meccaniche

Titanio e leghe

Integrazione dei sistemi di gestione con D.LGS 231/01

Logistica e supply chain

Verniciatura

Materiali compositi e tecnopolimeri

Marcatura CE dei prodotti

Gestione della commessa

Oleodinamica

Tecniche di controllo dei prodotti industriali

Corsi obbligatori per la sicurezza

Gestione sistemi informativi

Pneumatica

Diagnostica e fenomeni di danneggiamento

Stampaggio a freddo Trattamenti galvanici Trattamenti termici superficiali e rivestimenti Tecniche di calcolo e simulazione ad elementi finiti

Centro di formazione accreditato dalla Regione Lombardia

Disegno tecnico Design review

LAB N° 0095 QAS018 R

Laboratorio di prova accreditato

LAT N° 151 UNI EN ISO 9001

Laboratorio di taratura accreditato

www.accredia.it oppure www.aqm.it per consultare l’elenco delle prove e tarature accreditate.

ACCREDITAMENTI, RICONOSCIMENTI, CERTIFICAZIONI, AUTORIZZAZIONI e COLLABORAZIONI VENDITA E MONITORAGGIO DELLO STATO DI AGGIORNAMENTO DELLE NORME NAZIONALI E/O INTERNAZIONALI

NORME ED EDITORIA

CASA EDITRICE DELLE COLLANE

“SALDATURA: Questa sconosciuta”

DATABASE PER LA RICERCA DELLE PROPRIETÁ DEI MATERIALI DA COSTRUZIONE METALLICI, POLIMERICI, CERAMICI E COMPOSITI I componenti di Total Materia sono: Total Metals - Database sulle proprietà delle leghe metalliche ferrose e non ferrose SmartComp - Identificazione immediata di leghe sconosciute Extended Range - Una risorsa esclusiva per proprietà avanzate CAE-FEM PolyPLUS - Dati relativi alle proprietà di migliaia di materiali non-metallici

DataPLUS - dati relativi alla corrosione, misure e tolleranze e dati relativi ai rivestimenti Suppliers - Elenco di potenziali Fornitori per leghe metalliche con motore di ricerca proprietario eXporter - Colma il divario tra la sorgente di dati ed i software CAE Tracker - Aggiornamenti costanti sulle Normative e sulle proprietà dei materiali

Ed. del 02/2017 - Riproduzione vietata

“I CRITERI DI SCELTA E DI TRATTAMENTO DEGLI ACCIAI DA COSTRUZIONE E DA UTENSILI” “ATLANTE MICROGRAFICO DEGLI ACCIAI SPECIALI DA COSTRUZIONE E DA UTENSILI”

POLYURETHANE A WORLD WE KNOW VERY WELL -WE PROPOSE SOLUTIONS NOT SIMPLY PRODUCTSJOINT FLEX

We produce JOINT FLEX Manufactured from a single or double cast polyurethane molding with Excellent resistance to a wide range of media; Excellent physical sealing properties, Low compression set characteristics, High wear & abrasion resistance they are Suitable for use in a wide range of Petro-chemical / Natural & Industrial Gas production / Chemical & Service saltes water and industry applications. They are also Available in other specialized polyurethanes for non-standard applications such as long run & high temperature applications and/or solvent and special grease resistance.

POLYURETHANE SEALS VALVE

we produce polyurethane seals valve. They have excellent mechanic characteristics for carpentry using and for automotive industry. Can be used in many assembly sector with high temperature resistance better than other material, they are also used in appliance industry.

DEPTH BUOYS

Depth buoys are filled with foam polyurethane or syntactic epoxy with density from 400gr/lt to 700gr/lt rigid, with 100% close cells. We produce these buoys with two liquids component and they can reach 4000 meters deep without implosion.

VALVES COVER WITH POLYURETHANE

we cover valves with polyurethane to optimize performance, safety and reliability. Having excellent polyurethane mechanical proprieties; Arrangement about these different material offering better durability and corrosion resistance in acids terrain too.

POLYURETHANE SEALS

we produce polyurethane seals, excellent physical-chemical characteristics of polyurethane make it hydrocarbons and solvent resistant. Tolerate high and low temperature and can withstand a variety of physical and mechanical stress. It’s possible to produce customized seals to suite any request.

VALPOLYMER srl - Via Alfieri, 1 - 24060 Credaro (BG) Italy Tel. +39 035 4265011 - Fax +39 035 935203 - info@valpolymer.com - www.valpolymer.com

M.T.M. VALVES s.r.l.

MTM SPECIAL FORGED VALVES

M.T.M. VALVES srl is manufacturing Company of forged steel valves for petrochemical industry, chemical and refinering plants, energy power production stations, extraction plants, oil pipeline, off-shore and on-shore plants. The production range includes valves in execution BOLTED BONNET, WELDED BONNET and PRESSURE SEAL whit threaded ends NPT, SOCKET WELDING, BUTT WELDING, NIPPLES and INTEGRALLY FLANGED, in class 150 - 300 - 600 - 800 - 1500 - 2500 - 4500 Lbs, fully in accordance with design and construction standard as API 602, BS EN ISO 15761 , ASME B16.34, ASME B16.5, ASME B16.10, API 600, MSS SP84.

M.T.M. VALVES are manufactured in the following materials: carbon steel ASTM A105 and low carbon steel ASTM A350 Gr. LF2, alloy steel ASTM A182 F5, F11, F9, F22, inox stainless steel ASTM A182 F316, F316L, F304, F304L, F347, F321 duplex stainless steel ASTM A182 F51, F53, F55 and austenitic steel 6Mo ASTM A182 F44, and high nickel alloy steel as MONEL, HASTELLOY, INCOLOY, TITANIUM, INCONEL, strictly in accordance with NACE MR-01-75 standard, when required.

Since 1996

MTM VALVES SRL Strada Goretta, 86 10072 Mappano di Caselle (To) Italy Tel: (+39) 011 9969070 - Fax: (+39) 011 9910340 WEB SITE: www.mtmvalves.net Mail : info@mtmvalves.net

CERTIFIED: UNI EN ISO 9001 – TUV – PED 97/23 CE – ATEX

UNI EN ISO 9001:200

Finazzi Osvaldo S.r.l.

Mechanical machining

UNI EN ISO 9001:2008

Finazzi Osvaldo S.r.l. has been founded in 1981 and we carry out the activity to contract mechanical working of precision on valves and components for valves according to the customer’s drawing for OIL &GAS field for international and national markets

Range of production: from 1”to 56” (bodies, Double Block bodies, closures, bonnets, stems, supports, glands, seats and ball valves)

Material: We work different materials from common steels to the machining of materials most difficult as stainless

steels, duplex and super-duplex, inconel starting from raw material of bar, forging, ring or profiled; We are specialized in the machining of pieces with overlay and cladding in 316 and INCONEL 625 We manage orders considering only machining or in full supply offering the following services:

Purchase of raw materials: in according with EN10204:3.1 and as the specifications provided by the customer to

ensure the chemical and mechanical requirements

Welding: with the support of qualified suppliers have the largest range of procedures we manage the whole process of welding Test and checks We are qualified internaly to make dye penetrant test of II level; on request of the customer and in collaborations of skilled agencies we manage NDT test as 3.2 transfer marking, PMI, Ultrasonic test and hardness test Dimensional report in according to the customer specifications Thanks to the modern and diversified machinery CNC and to flexibility in business, we are able to supporting the customer in urgency and guarantee the contractual delivery time

Our philosophy is to meet customer expectations

Finazzi Osvaldo S.r.l.

Via dei Videtti,1/13 - 24064 Grumello del Monte (BG) – ITALY Tel. 0039/035/4420310 Fax. 0039/035/4421507 E-mail: info@finazziosvaldosrl.it www.finazziosvaldosrl.itwww.finazziosvaldosrl.itC.F. e P. IVA

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INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

The international magazine about machines, components, plants and automation for the Oil&Gas - Petrochemical Chemical - Energy sectors

Industrial Technology is an international magazine that deals with machines, components, instrumentation and automation for Oil & Gas industries , petrochemical, chemical and energy. It contains news, information and case histories of products, technologies, suppliers and manufacturers.

The insights are mainly related to complete installations, automation, control, instruments, valves, pumps, compressors, blowers, boilers, heat exchangers, process units, pipes, systems, software, seals, PTFE, bolts and fasteners, tanks , tanks, analysis and control, and in general to every product and service that can be used in the industrial process.

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THE TARGET OF READERS- WHO READS

Industrial Technology reaches more than 50,000 companies worldwide, with a particularly careful and effective distribution in the Middle East.

Readers belong mainly to the oil and gas industries, chemical, petrochemical, or are distributors, engineering companies, consultants, contractors, OEM and EPC.The magazine also reaches the main fairs and major trade associations of various countries, in order to have the widest possible dissemination among stakeholders.

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The magazine is produced by industry professionals to meet the technical and commercial needs of companies. In addition to publishing specialists, marketing and communications, they collaborate with the magazine engineers and active trading in the market. The team is international in order to cover the most of the major distribution areas - Europe, Arab countries, Iran and Africa - and takes advantage of a partnership with an import-export company in Tehran.

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Industrial Technology is distributed worldwide, and it covers especially the following markets

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Italy reaches over 10.000 companies

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Middle east

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Turboden Seitron Bonfanti IMT Intermato Bocchi Carlo Salvi Fise Meccanica Gervasoni DHL Cartubi Omni-Tuff Fridle Xaluxi

50-69 Valves

Effebi Ferrari Euroguarco Inox Mecc Bft Burzoni Sealcore MCM Produce

70-75 Automation

Implico

76-85 Process

Ultra Pompe

86-91 Fairs

IVS - Industrial Valve Summit

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Hazardous air pollutants and waste gases treatment technology: thermal oxidizer

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Egyptian’s energy strategy to boots its economy Dr.Eng. Mor Nguirane

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Oil and Gas – Composites Materials for Pumps Dr Benjamin Pollentes

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Waste Water treatment Dr. Eng. Davide Lavanga

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TURBODEN NEWS

Organic Rankine Cycle: an effective solution for heat recovery from open-cycle gas turbines When looking at the gas turbine worldwide market, it is clear that small-to-medium size open-cycle gas turbines are becoming the preferred solution in many realities. On the one hand, gas compressor stations maintain their typical configuration where several gas turbines with limited capacity (< 50 MW each) work in parallel to drive natural gas compressors. On the other hand, the power generation sector needs to adjust itself to the increasing flexibility requirements either due to the intermittent renewable sources or to the development of highly diversified decentralized power islands. In this scenario, smaller decentralized power plants, based on multiple gas turbines with individual outputs below 100 MW, appear to be the right choice in order to provide operational flexibility and to maintain a high efficiency and low emissions profile over a wide load range.

Both in gas compressor stations and in small power plants, such small-to-medium size gas turbines do not allow implementing traditional combined Rankine Cycle, because their exhaust gas temperatures may not be sufficiently high, especially under part load conditions, to generate steam at the conditions needed to achieve a high overall electrical efficiency while maintaining good flexibility. An alternative, viable and effective solution is the implementation of a combined cycle

based on the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC).

ORC technology, thanks to the use of specific organic working fluids, permits an efficient exploitation of high-to-low temperatures exhaust gas streams, as it could be the case for smaller gas turbines, especially when working on poor quality fuels. In addition, the specific features of the organic fluids used lead to some technical advantages, such as high turbine efficiency (up to 90%), low mechanical stress of the turbine (low rotational speed, low tip speed, moderate temperatures), no blades erosion, no oxidation, high efficiency at partial loads and with low temperature sources. These characteristics result in an overall heat recovery system that is completely automatic, with simple start-stop procedures and quiet running, and that has high availability and flexibility while maintaining long lifetime (> 20 years) and minimum O&M requirements and costs.

Depending on the characteristics of each specific project, i.e. number of gas turbines available for heat recovery, possible layout constrains, water availability on site etc., the ORC solution is designed to best fit with such characteristics. The indirect exchange solution, where an intermediate thermal oil circuit acts as heat carrier from the gas turbines to the ORC unit, is the most common solution, especially with several heat sources available (> 3).

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Among its 280 ORC plants operating worldwide and the other 50 under construction, Turboden has field-proven experience in combined cycle projects with more than 12 projects in operation and further 3 under construction.

Turboden ORC unit On the counterpart, the direct exchange solution, where the exhaust gas of the gas turbine directly heats up and evaporates the ORC fluid, can be the right choice to optimize ORC power output and reduce the overall cost. The ORC unit can be

FLASH NEWS

Iran Sees Oil Output Reaching 4 mln bpd by April TEHRAN (NIOC) _ Iran expects its oil production to reach 4 million barrels per day by mid-April, and plans to drill 500 new wells over the next five years to raise output to 4.7 million bpd, a senior oil official said on Saturday.

Iran’s daily output in January was close to 3.9 million barrels.

“We were due to reach 4 million barrels ...by the end of the (Iranian) year (March 20). This will be realized with a one-month delay,” said Ali Kardor, head of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).

“Of course, Iran’s crude oil production reached 4.2 million barrels at a certain stage, but later fell,” he added, without giving further details.

Kardor said Iran’s next five-year plan which starts in March predicted the drilling of 500 new wells.

“This will be needed in order to reach a production of 4.7 million bpd”, Kardor as saying.

Under a deal agreed to cut production by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in December, Iran was allowed to boost output slightly from its October level. Tehran has long argued it needs to regain market share lost under Western sanctions.

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SEITRON A4IS NEWS

Seitron SpA, specialized in HVAC control products, gas detectors and portable instruments Seitron SpA, established in 1981 in Bassano, North Eastern part of Italy, is today an Electronics company specialized in developing , manufacturing and selling worldwide HVAC control products, gas detectors and portable instruments.

Seitron, an ISO 9001 certified company, is the leading Italian manufacturer of room programmable thermostats, both wired and wireless, of wiring boxes, fan coil thermostats, solar heating controllers, residential gas detectors, portable hydrocarbons sniffers.

Starting in 2004 Seitron developed its first range of hand held combustion analyzers with up to 3 electro chemical gas cells. Nowadays Seitron features the most complete range of combustion and emissions analyzers supplied worldwide by specialized distributors.

Chemist 600 is an hand held emissions and combustion analyzer, with the capability of measuring up to 6 different gases concentration.

The measurable gases are O2, CO, NO, NO2, SO2, CO2, H2S, CxHy.

This analyser features also a large colour LCD and an integrated thermal printer. In the memory of Chemist 600 there are 10 different languages and 12 different fuels, 16 more can be added.

Memory can store up to 300 complete analysis.

The instrument is operated by Li- Ion rechargeable batteries and features also a second dilution pump, to allow high CO measurements. Besides the USB connection , Chemist 600 has got Bluetooth connectivity Class 1.

It complies with EN50378-1 and EN 50379 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2.

The weight is only 1,1 kg.

Chemist 900 is an emissions and combustion industrial analyzer. The main feature is the ability to measure up to 12 different gases simultaneously,

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with 9 single gas cells and an NDIR bench for CO/ CO2/CH4.

Chemist 900 features a large colour LCD, a keypad with thermal printer.

The automatic condensate drainage with peristaltic pump makes it possible to perform measurements several days long . The flue gas sample can be dried up through a standard expansion water trap or with a Peltier quick cooler. The memory can store up to 16.000 complete analysis. Connections are

USB and Bluetootth Class 1. Power supply from from Li Ion batteries or mains 110…240 Vac. Chemist 900 is housed in a rugged metal case with trolley. Weight is 10 kg.

FLASH NEWS

Iran Finds 2 bln Barrels Shale Oil Reserves in Western Province TEHRAN (NIOC) _ Iran has discovered major reserves of shale oil in the western parts of the country with a top official saying that the reserves are the first that have a feasible potential for production.

«Based on studies, it is estimated that the shale oil reserves in Ghali Koh in Lorestan amount to 2 billion barrels of oil in place,” Bahman Soleimani, NIOC’s deputy director for exploration. «The oil is light», he added.

Soleimani said exploration was also being carried out for shale gas reserves in the area, and the studies were expected to be completed by October, 2017.

Iran›s proven oil reserves of about 160 billion barrels, almost 10 percent of the world›s total, rank it fourth among petroleum-rich countries.

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BONFANTI NEWS

Expertise and innovation in material handling and production logistics GENERAL BONFANTI owns a proven experience in development of specific solutions in the segment of material handling and production logistics.

Our company staff has the aim to plan the most effective strategies in order to facilitate material handling with the consequent optimization of process timing, allowing in this way to our clients to increase the profitability of their activities, guaranteeing maximum level quality and safety standards.

Expertise and innovation in every branch of activity are the key words of BONFANTI design and development.

Our range of products represents the optimized response to all requirements of the clients: from material handling to equipment feeding, from warehousing to process control and monitoring.

BONFANTI is involved in design, production and installation of: • lifting equipment, • material handling and storing equipment, • SW applications and systems.

BONFANTI also provides consultancy and turnkey projects in EPC organization (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) for the supply of complete factories and systems.

Our product range includes: • standard lifting equipment (man-operated), • other material handling machines and systems, • automatic warehouses, • process monitoring and control, • general engineering.

BONFANTI has a dedicated line of products for different industrial sectors, offering products that vary from relatively simple maintenance cranes and/or other lifting equipment up to

specific process or heavy duty equipment with capacities up to a 400t.

BONFANTI STANDARDS AND QUALITY BONFANTI equipment is designed using FEM and ISO standards in accordance with the MACHINERY DIRECTIVE for CE marking.

Their dimensioning, besides the standards, takes into account both the particularities of the service as well as the conditions present in the work area where they are going to be used.

Since long time already BONFANTI has been operating under the control and quality assurance regime certified ISO 9001 for the following activity fields: design, fabrication, installation, commissioning and after sales support.

Paying maximum attention to the standardization of spare parts and proposing Spare Part Kits carefully chosen, BONFANTI offers to the Clients the opportunity to contain the costs of their supply and to minimize the reparation times (and production loss times) that, consequently, generate costs much higher than those dedicated to spare parts.

Our mission is to offer expertise and products to the clients whose main objective is the increase of profitability of their company activities and of internal logistics efficiency.

BONFANTI FOR EQUIPMENT

STEEL

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HDC

In order to provide valid replies to Client requests for always bigger productivity, BONFANTI has developed the “HDC” range of products dedicated to steel industry, able to satisfy always more complex operational requirements with the INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

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NEWS BONFANTI increase of uptime and reduction of time losses.

The “HDC” equipment is studied to respond to the specific requirements of this extremely heavy duty sector such as: • safety, • reliability, • highest performance levels.

This range of products consents to cover all the production process handling starting from row material/mineral/scrap going all the way to the final phases dedicated to storage and dispatch areas.

Since every application inside the steelworks presents its own particularities, requiring specially designed solutions, BONFANTI has diversified its “HDC” range based on various stages of the production process.

Being orientated toward continuous improvement, the solutions applied on “HDC” equipment get constantly updated to make them always more suitable to solve specific issues related to this sector such as: • presence of heat sources and dusts, • management of limited maintenance periods, • operators safety.

The design basis of “HDC” equipment assumes maximum care to the aspect of standardization of mechanical and electrical parts in order to make less burdensome the supply of spare parts.

All this consents to provide to the end users the experience and products whose main objectives are the increase of productivity and logistic efficiency with particular regard to the increase of safety and to reduction of the maintenance costs.

BONFANTI FOR HEAT TREATMENT HT AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT The “HT” equipment are designed to manage AUTOMATIC handling and storing activities for the Forging/Heat treatment processes. The typical destinations are: forging, wireworks, fastener and bolts productions.

The modularity of the “HT” solutions permits to realize a complete engineering of the logistic processes. The main features are:

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-anti-sway mechanical system to avoid any oscillation during the execution of the handling/ storing process, -automatic identification of the material to be handles, -dimensional verification of the material, -automatic positioning of the material (to be treated and treated) in a complete process area including the loading of the furnaces, of the annealing water baths and of the cooling platforms.

-automatic storing in WIP Warehouses for the material to be treated and treated, -automatic evacuation of the treated material from the working area, -process data exchange with ERP and MES external applications.

BONFANTI FOR PICKLING - “PP” AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT The “PP” equipment permits a fully Automatic management of the material handling for the pickling plants. The typical destinations are: Wireworks, Fastener and bolts productions The main features of these systems are: -designed and produced to operate in corrosive and heavy environments typical of the pickling plants, -anti-sway mechanical system to avoid any oscillation during the execution of the handling process, -complete management of the working cycles, -automatic positioning and execution of the movements of the material between the pickling tanks, -complete control and certification of the dipping times, -different working cycles in base of different kind of material, -possibility to handle, at the same time, different kind of materials.

BONFANTI FOR STORING - “WS” AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT The “WS” equipment are designed to manage the AUTOMATC storing of material having big dimensions and/or heavy weight (like Steel and

BONFANTI NEWS Aluminium coils, steel billets, brass billets and profiles, Aluminium and steel plates, profiles, bars).

The main features are: -anti-sway mechanical system to avoid any oscillation during the execution of the storing process, -automatic handling (aerial with automatic stacker cranes and ground with combination of conveyors and shuttles according at the logistic and cycle constrains of the application) of the material during the receiving (input), storing and releasing (output) of the material, -automatic verification of the material dimensions before the storing, -automatic storing of the material in base of the availability of the space inside the warehouse and in base of the preconfigured storing logics, -complete management of export (pickup) lists in order to automatically provide the material in the output bays in base of the required retrieval list,

-automatic reordering of the warehouse in order to optimize the space use and to minimize the future storing/retrieval cycles, -data exchange with ERP and MES systems for the receiving of the material data, the picking list and for the transmission of the warehouse storing cells and the I/O missions.

BONFANTI FOR PLASTIC BONFANTI is market leader for Automatic handling, storing and packaging systems for the Plastic Film Production. A complete range of equipment and systems is available to satisfy any process requirement in this production process.

More information is available on the BONFANTI website (www.bonfanti.it)

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NEWS IMT INTERMATO

IMT INTERMATO, Tailor made modularity IMT Intermato S.p.A. was founded in 1983 and is located in a 15,000 square meter facility, with annual turnover of approx. € 50 million. The production range is composed by vertical lathes for all kind of components, starting from little pieces for automotive industry to components up to 6 meters of diameter.

The main fields are represented by automotive industry, Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Railway, bearings and so on.

We develop also tailor made solutions with different accessories and automatic lines in order to meet all possible customer needs.

Single and dual column vertical lathe series NTM and VBM The advanced machines technology has clear goals: to grant the best productivity and quality of machining of large workpieces. The structure is characterized with exceptional strength and rigidity. The base, the uprights, table and the movable traverses are specifically designed and reinforced for maximum rigidity to eliminate twisting, bending and vibration, at maximum power.

The series offer table diameters between 1.200mm and 6.000mm and turning diameters between 2.500mm and 6.700mm and 120 ton of table capacity.

These solutions, that integrate flexibility and design modularity, offer various configurations without precluding the possibility to have special solutions (one or two vertical carriages, multiple tool-holders, tool-magazines with automatic tool changer and palletized systems). The movements of RAM, X-axis and eventually table are hydrostatic.

The power can reach 150kw and over with a torque of 265.000 Nm The dimensional grown of IMT Intermato’s offer, perfectly matches the technical choices made.

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Machines in which the important size, also makes important the possibility to place the operator in the best position respect to the work-piece.

Hence the decision to offer the possibility to have the mobile operator platform, that increases the ergonomic in every step.

The mission of IMT Intermato is to allow its partners and customers to obtain safe results in short times, studying tailor-made solutions, both in terms of technology, layout of plant installation and of ergonomics, user-friendliness and easy maintenance of each equipment, with the shortest possible times for the interventions of this kind and the warranty of an efficient direct after sale service at customers’. IMT Intermato is also attentive to catch the technological innovations that the market offers, so our machines are predisposed and can be equipped with sw and hw devices that comply with the standard for Industry 4.0 and with possible benefits in investments.

IMT Intermato S.p.A. Via Caregò 14 21020 Crosio della Valle Varese – Italia Tel. +390332966110 Fax. +390332966033 Web www.imtintermato.com E-mail commerc@imtintermato.it

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NEWS BOCCHI

BOCCHI S.R.L manufacture hand measuring instruments in Italy Since 1986 our company manufacture here in Italy hand measuring instruments.

Starting from the raw material, all complete working operations are made with the best accuracy and technology to get a top quality level products.

In our Calibration laboratory , we issue the certificates to assure the operator about the real precision of each instrument.

Visiting our web-site: www.bocchicontrol.it is possible to download our catalogue and all the certificates about our company and our calibration laboratory.

The flexibility of our staff, enable the production of special devices even if in single quantity.

It is well appreciated our possibility to assist the customers with standard and special products and this is the main difference between our company and competitors.

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For many fields we are alone producing specific items: Automotive – Railways - Oil & Gas – Medical - Etc. We are at your disposal for all technical and commercial questions and ready to assure all our best support in case of your need.

Vision of our booth in our many international exhibitions:

BOCCHI S.R.L. – MEASURING AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTS 25037 PONTOGLIO (BS) ITALY , VIA PALAZZOLO, 41 TEL.+39-030-737252 FAX.+39-030-7376742

e-mail: export@bocchicontrol.it

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Liebherr Offshore Cranes Expands to New Markets Liebherr›s maritime manufacturing plant in Rostock, Germany has won a deal to supply a heavylift crane for the Orion, a wind farm installation and platform decommissioning vessel currently in development.

The crane was ordered by DEME from COSCO (QiDong) Offshore, a subsidiary of COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry.

The crane will have a lifting capacity of 3,000t at more than 50 metres, and a maximum lifting height in excess of 170m meters. It is to be designated HLC (Heavy-Lift Crane) 295000.

Delivery of the crane is scheduled for 2019.

Liebherr Offshore Cranes sales director Gordon Clarke said: «It is a great honour to work with both DEME and COSCO on such a revolutionary project, and fits well into our company strategy.

«We see a promising future in the heavy-lift sector, with growth in both the green energy sector and also offshore decommissioning.»

The Liebherr offshore crane division made the strategic decision in 2016 to extend its range of heavy lift cranes, in order to better position the company in the expanding decommissioning and offshore wind markets.

Both of these are expected to produce high volumes of work in the offshore sector in the coming years.

Liebherr Maritime Cranes managing director Leopold Berthold added: «The extension to our heavy crane range allows us to compete in a sector with only a few players that have had little competition of late, and we look forward to winning some of that market share.

«The Liebherr Board and the Liebherr Family were supporting this development last year, so winning this order is proof we are heading in the right direction. It will be another important string to further promote diversification and provide access to new growth potential.»

The Group›s maritime hub in Rostock is perfectly suited for the manufacturing of such huge offshore machines. Steel construction, assembly, installation / loadout and testing will be fully processed in the facility on the Baltic Sea. A DEME spokesperson is quoted as saying: «We have a long and successful relationship with Liebherr, and this new HLC crane is the best tool for our new development plans for heavy lift offshore applications such as installation of wind power generation plants.

«For this purpose, cranes with very long outreaches, high lifting heights, and huge lifting capacities are needed.»

Apart from the main crane, the order also includes two of Liebherr›s RL-K 4200 knuckle boom cranes and an offshore crane simulator.

A COSCO spokesperson said: «We have completed many offshore and ship projects with Liebherr in the past, so it will be great to work with them on this new venture.»

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CARLO SALVI NEWS

Carlo Salvi headers: Technical solutions, high-quality materials, and attention to detail Carlo Salvi SpA is a world-renowned designer and producer of heading machines for the production of screws, semi-tubular and fully tubular rivets, bolts, special fasteners and parts with very complex shapes starting from drawn wire in coils.

Machines can be divided in three main families, namely: - single die double blow headers; - 2-die 4-blow headers; - progressive precision transfer headers.

The machines of the 2-die 4-blow series are able to handle wire diameters from 1,2 to 12 mm.

They are particularly suitable for components whose heads have a very large volume or components where two dies are sufficient but at least three blows are needed, such as for instance allen screws, trimmed components etc.

A great advantage of these machines is due to the fact that the third blow can very often be used as an introduction punch if parts with large heads and a very short shank have to be transferred.

Carlo Salvi has developed a new motorized model which is called 248 E, which is an enhanced version of the model 248 machine. The machine is complete with an electro-pneumatic clutch which allows maximum heading tonnage to be applied even when jogging.

The machine has been specially developed in order to minimize changeover times. Its technology and speed is such that it enables to run profitably not only large volumes but also small batches.

An example of set up and changeover times follows: - k.o. length adjustment first die 30 seconds - k.o. length adjustment second die 30 seconds - cutoff length adjustment 30 seconds - adjustment of opening and closing cams 5 minutes - assembly of dies 5 minutes - assembly of punch block unit 5 minutes - assembly of cutter unit

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NEWS CARLO SALVI Technical data of the header model 248 E: min and max wire diameter mm mm (steel) 4-10 mm (titanium) max shank length mm max head diameter mm max cutting tonnage daN max heading tonnage daN stroke of P.K.O.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mm

4-12,5 82 20 6500 55000 20

Between the main standard features of this machine, we can list: -linear wire feed, without rolls without wire-stop -K.O. die side and punch side -motorized lifting/lowering of transfer unit -conveyor -bad part divert -transfer fingers

The header model 248 E can be enriched further with some optional items as, for examples, the quick change kit, which includes: punch block unit, transfer unit, cutter holder unit, cutter centring jig, punch centring jig, transfer centring jig.

To handle of material like titanium and super alloys, which cannot be formed with the cold heading system, the header can be equipped with a pre-heating system.

The customer can decide to install on the header model 248 E the heating system with coil housed on the die holder, or the resin-bonded inductor positioned into the bedframe. In the event of special production needs, it is possible to evaluate also to install both kind of inductors.

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He said a heads of agreement (HoA) has been signed between the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and a consortium comprising Total, the CNPC and Petropars companies for developing phase 11 of the supergiant South Pars Gas Field.

He said another HoA has been signed with Persian Oil and Gas Company for developing Yaran, Maroon and Koupal fields.

The official also said that a tender will be held presently for development of Azadegan Oilfield.

Zangeneh denied Iran having stored crude oil in floating tankers, saying only gas condensate has been stored on water which will be sold by the calendar yearend. Source: OITC

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THE ENGINE FOR A REAL AND EFFECTIVE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

The role of waste management in Europe and in Italy is changing, becoming more and more a pivotal sector for the access to resources, social welfare, economic growth and environmental protection.

As a matter of fact, this sector does not represent only an essential public service - because of its immediate impact on the environment and health in the urban context- but also an important part of the production industry, providing materials and energy (from recycling and recovery activities) to the manufacturing sector. The fast-growing waste management industry enables the use of waste as a resource as well as the ability to recover raw materials from waste. Thus an updated model of development and governance of the waste sector represents also an essential step towards a model of circular economy, understood as a new approach in challenging the crisis and providing a new example for the market and the consumption.

Nowadays, waste evokes usually negative visions, emergencies, pollution: elements that have marked some of our territories in very critical contexts and that shape, in a negative way, our way to near any innovative and technological idea coming from this sector.

It is absolutely necessary a new approach, more pragmatic, allowing companies to deal more and better with environmental sustainability and

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industrial development. The shift of paradigm started in recent years has meant that waste has begun to be perceived not anymore as an environmental problem but as a resource to be exploited. This change of approach must be accompanied by a structural transformation of the management systems, which by mere organization of services must become industrial systems which can handle a complex of integrated activities aimed at the recovery of materials and energy.

Besides, with regard to employment, the European Commission has estimated that every percentage point of the reduction in the consumption of raw materials, fielding policies and resource efficiency measures, could create 100 to 200 thousand new employment.

The Italian companies involved in waste recovery have registered in recent years a significant growth, also in terms of employment (see Report “Italia del riciclo”, 2014 – FISE UNIRE), compared to the negative economical trend reported in the manufacturing industry, and this can be considered as a concrete indicator of the ongoing process towards a circular economy. But this system is still vulnerable on a number of fronts, despite all the hard work spent by the waste and resource management sector to improve the quantity and quality of recycling (eg. price volatility and intense competition from lower-priced virgin material).

This exposes the fragility of our transition to a circular economy which should provide appropriate market mechanisms, measures and incentives to encourage the spread and use of products that use post-consumer recycled materials.

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FISE ASSoAMbIENTE For WASTE MANAgEMENT ANd cIrculAr EcoNoMy

FISE Assoambiente is the Association representing - at National and European level - the companies working in Italy and involved in Municipal and industrial waste management, soil remediation and Municipal hygiene services.

The Association has always been concerned either with regulations and technical aspects, in order to develop the necessary conditions that enable a fair competition in the market and the investments for the industrialization of the waste sector, intended as the transition from a traditional, small-scale dimension of the waste management to a more comprehensive and structured dimension.

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NEWS MECCANICA GERVASONI

Meccanica Gervasoni. Our history, our success

From a small machine shop to a reliable partner for ball valves industry Meccanica Gervasoni is a typical Italian familyrun business that started in 1988. The Company was a 300m2 machine shop based in the Northern Italy. In few years, the small factory expanded to a new area of 1000m2 and then added other 3000m2.. Meccanica Gervasoni is a trusted supplier of precision CNC milling services to a lot of customer base that touches many industries. Our engineers have a deep understanding of the latest manufacturing technologies and design concepts, which they use to develop optimal processes for cost effectively milling tight tolerance components.

We operate an ISO certified process, which allows us to deliver premium quality parts.

Multiple machining operations, both simple and complex, can be achieved from a single setup to reduce cycle times and speed production. We are capable of working all types of standard and

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high-performance metals, sourced from reliable suppliers and accompanied by third party materials certifications.

Supported by 30 years of manufacturing experience, Meccanica Gervasoni’s precision CNC turning services have a reputation for supplying superior quality parts. We cross over many industries, and our team of manufacturing engineers, quality professionals, and skilled technicians are committed to delivering parts that meet customer expectations.

Since 2004 Meccanica Gervasoni has concentrated exclusively on development of application of Inconel 625 and spray coating on ball valves components, with the intention of manufacturing superior quality products. HVOF coating has all the attributes needed for high corrosion and erosion and high temperature situations with extremely high bond strength, density and low porosity.

The proven reliability of our work has won us wide recognition as suppliers to the oil and gas industry, as well as to various other markets. Some of the world’s leading names have become part of the ever growing customer base.

All facilities and equipment are adequate and constantly updated considering the development of systems aimed at improving safety and quality of the industrial product. We can thus say that Meccanica Gervasoni is an European reality that can provide a ball valve worked locally: machining before and after welding, welding overlay, grinding up to 76inches. We have earned the reputation of being able to handle some impossible jobs.

In 2012 the machining department’s facilities have been enlarged with the addition of new CNC work centres for large pieces. Our factories and facilities are built for the express purpose of manufacturing balls, bodies, closures, seals and large size pieces.

Our facilities are constantly benefiting from regular capital investments. This ensures that Meccanica Gervasoni is able to manufacture

Want to know how to save time and money with maximum quality?

Meccanica Gervasoni. From 1988 manufacturer of kits ball and seats, bodies, closures from 1’’ to 76’’.

Welding overlay with Inconel 625, Aisi316, Duplex, Superduplex. HVOF coating with TCC and CCC, and in-house laboratory. Grinding after welding and after spray coating. www.meccanicagervasoni.it .

WHOLE PROCESS, ONE SUPPLIER

Our latest projects: Upper Zacum 750 , Gorgon Upstream, Wasit Inlet & Gas Processing Project, Rabab Harwell (RHIP), BAB Gas Compression Project, Culzean Fiel Development, Zohr Field Development Project Accelerated Start Up Phase Visit us at IVS 2017 Industrial valve summit hall A, booth 47 Bergamo, May 24-25

NEWS MECCANICA GERVASONI customer’s products using up-to-date methods in the production processes and quality assurance programme. Having several machine shops, large project work can be easily undertaken on behalf of our major clients.

Latest projects: Upper Zacum 750 , Gorgon Upstream, Wasit Inlet & Gas Processing Project, Rabab Harwell (RHIP), BAB Gas Compression Project,

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Culzean Fiel Development, Zohr Field Development Project Accelerated Start Up Phase Meccanica Gervasoni. From 1988 manufacturer of kits ball and seats, bodies and closures from 1’’ to 76’’. Welding overlay with Inconel 625, Aisi316, Duplex, Superduplex. HVOF coating with TCC and CCC, and in-house laboratory. Grinding after welding and after spray coating.

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NEWS VALLOUREC

Super duplex tubes successfully assembled in the North Sea 27/07/2016 - United Kingdom, SURF, Oil & gas

Glenlivet Project: first real world trial for Vallourecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tubes for umbilicals.

2016 marks a new milestone for Vallourec Umbilicals as Technip Umbilicals successfully assembles Vallourec Umbilicals welded super duplex tubes for the Glenlivet project. The Glenlivet gas field is located in UK Production License P1195 on Block 214/30, along the Atlantic Margin West of the Shetland Islands, in northern Scotland.

The Glenlivet project is the first real world trial for Vallourecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s welded tubes for umbilicals. The good news came from Newcastle: the welded super duplex tubes provided by Vallourec proved 100% faultless in the fabrication of the umbilical application: Technip Umbilicals confirmed the tubes were delivered on time, meeting all expected quality standards and specifications throughout the fabrication of the umbilicals.

Today, Vallourec Umbilicals marks a breakthrough in the SURF industry with a premium product that performs off the chart in all qualification tests: the tubes are lighter, with high performance

mechanical characteristics that are particularly adapted to deep and ultradeep waters, with a high level of fatigue resistance. Vallourec Umbilical tubes are specifically designed to withstand the toughest environments and operating conditions. Vallourec endeavors to continue providing innovative and cost-efficient solutions for all SURF markets.

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Twenty years experience in precision mechanical processing

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Registered Office: Via Corsica, 143 – 25125 Brescia – ITALY Service: info@rettificameccanica.it Sales Department: b.consonni@rettificameccanica.it Pec: rettificameccanicasrl@pec.it Phone: 0039 035 4254493

NEWS DHL

Welcome to Freight Forwarding in the XXI Century DHL Global Forwarding is part of DPDHL Group and it is the world leader in Air and Ocean Freight services with a 2015 turnover of almost 60 billion euros.

DHL Global Forwarding has a global presence that ensures the transport of all kinds of shipments all over the world. Here below, you will find some details about our structure: -30,000 qualified employees; -More than 850 locations all over the world; -Presence in more than 150 countries.

Thanks to its expertise in handling Oil & Gas and Energy oversized cargo and heavy lift Industrial Project plays a very crucial role in the Group.

With more than 700 Industrial Project experts, 60 Industrial Project offices in 45 countries we are able to offer a wide range of Products & Solutions, ranging from pickup through consolidation and delivery to fabrication facilities and final project jobsites. It also includes consulting activity about

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feasibility studies, route surveys, load supervision and end-to-end logistics visibility.

We are certified ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007.

Our Network, Our Passionate Team and a wide combination of Products and Solutions are the keys to our success.

DHL INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

ANY PROJECT, OF ANY SIZE AND AT ANY PLACE Deutsche Post DHL Group is the world‘s largest transportation and logistics company, with operations in more than 220 countries and territories. This means that we can facilitate your move into almost any market you need to be because we are already there.

DHL Industrial Projects has decades of Project Forwarding experience. We can handle any project, of any size and at any place. Choose us for our unsurpassed global network as well as our local knowledge of ports, infrastructure, equipment, roads and regulations. With over 600 Project Forwarding specialists, you can rely on DHL Industrial Projects to keep your and your customer‘s promises.

To find out how we can support you, please contact us at projects@dhl.com

DHL Global Forwarding – Excellence. Simply delivered. dhl.com/industrialprojects

NEWS CARTUBI

Adriatic sea shipyard a long history of making history Cartubi Shipyard is a private owned Company operating in shipbuilding sector since 1972, located in Trieste (Italy) at the highest point of the Adriatic Sea. The company is leader in the market for the construction of new building, repair, conversion, maintenance and refitting services for the maritime, offshore and yachting industries. Indeed, Cartubi is certified according to the UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 specifications from 2006, and has obtained a SOA certification, OS 18 and OG 7 certifications, OHSAS 18001 in accordance with ISO 14000.

Thanks to its high engineering profile and to the outstanding efficiency of the production department, Cartubi has developed a specific expertise in the Oil & Gas industry with consolidated experience in development and realization of on-

shore and off-shore plants.

Cartubi is able to guarantee skills, experience and support in the whole world with swift and efficient solutions in the Oil & Gas industry, specifically for: Plant planning & design Process & Flow Assurance Project management Planning Contract Procurement HSE and Safety Conceptual-detailed Design Well and Sub-Surface Engineering General Installations Piping and Structures Construction (welding department certified by RINA, Lloyd Register ABS, Bureau Veritas, Germanischer Lloyd)

Maintenance Operations and Support services Cartubi has consolidated the collaboration with prominent Clients like Saipem, ENI, Shell Exxon, Allseas and SUBSEA 7.

Cartubi opened the first ParkerStore Product Center in Italy and the staff started to use PTS codes for replacement. contact: dept@cartubi.it g.miscioscia@cartubi.it www.cartubi.it

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skills, experience and support in the whole world with swift and efficient solutions.

Our industrial skills allowed us to collaborate with prominent companies in the Oil & Gas sector

CARTUBI S.r.l.

Head Office: I-34144 TRIESTE, via K. L. Von Bruck 32 Tel. +39.040.3220301 - Fax: +39.040.3224407 Cod. Fisc. e P. Iva (IT) / Vat number: 00757190327

NEWS OMNI-TUFF

A BIT OF SCIENCE BEHIND YOUR BIGGEST PAIN POINT The thing that our global economy invests $2.2 trillion per annum into. The issue that can be avoided. The issue that when avoided, prevents unnecessary wastage of resources. Corrosion.

Despite the current economic situation that faces many companies today, there is a way to overcome these challenges; Corrosion Control. Instead of achieving project construction in the cheapest, quickest way, consider the following: if you need to delay project completion at a later date due to parts, equipment or spares that are corroding, what is the gain in getting the ‘cheapest deal’ in the first instance?

Projects around the world are now specifying a new coating, Omni-tuff Seal’n’Peel. Seal’n’Peel is a peelable coating that prevents corrosion on metal components during storage or transportation. The coating works on a preventative technology, which saves monetary resources and time compared to traditional technologies.

Recent results received from one of our clients in Trinidad & Tobago are on right. This shows two flanges that were exposed to a corrosive environment. One was bare metal, one was encapsulated in Seal’n’Peel.

Request your sample today by emailing sales@omnituff.com. Seal’n’Peel is stocked in multiple regions, including Europe, North America and Australia. Training and more technical information is also available on www.omnituff.com/sealnpeel.

Seal’n’Peel has been specified or applied at projects in varying climates with successful outcomes.

Senior field engineer comments are also positive: “…I saw firsthand the benefits of Seal’n’Peel during the past couple of years whilst at the fabrication yard in Malaysia.” - Global Oil Producer “We have had success working with that product.”

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“By the way, we are using Seal’n’Peel with good effect! The test spools look good as well.” –Global EPC “We’re using Omni-tuff Seal’n’Peel and the performance is perfect. Seal’n’Peel is protecting the flange face very well and it’s very easy to use.”

–Global EPC Countries where Omni-tuff Seal’n’Peel products have been specified and trialled in mod yards and facilities include Australia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and the United States of America.

Seal’n’Peel is distributed globally by an Omnituff Group (SMS Omni-feed Pty Ltd), which is an Australian company. Contact us today by calling +61 7 4121 0044, or send us an email at sales@ omnituff.com.

NEWS FRIDLE GROUP

Choose the winning team

to overcome the most demanding oil & gas sealing challenges

Fridle Group, a leading distributor of sealing solutions in Italy, has joined with Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE) to deliver a strategic partnership for anyone in need of high performance sealing for critical applications in harsh operating environments.

Oil and gas engineers are under pressure to design components which perform in increasingly demanding environments. One major obstacle is sour gas (hydrogen sulphide or H2S), and its corrosive effect on components such as elastomer

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seals. Sour gas can result in non-resistant elastomers becoming hard and brittle, reducing their elastic properties and ability to seal effectively.

The company commission independent testing for various oil and gas seal material grades. The NORSOK M710 standard is used to predict the lifespan of seal materials in sour gas environments, with minimum test parameters of 2% H2S in a minimum of three test temperatures â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the higher the temperature, the more aggressive the chemical attack on the elastomer.

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Tests conducted by PPE involve higher temperatures and higher sour gas concentrations (25%), delivering extraordinary results.

All materials tested by PPE passed these stricter requirements, giving a more valid representation of real-life service conditions. Our materials afford engineers the peace of mind which comes with industry-leading reliability and sealing performance in oil and gas applications.

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NEWS XALUXI

Leds and beyond

The innovative way for a smart energy saving Our lamps, in this moment, are the key of Xaluxi systems. Their major strength is the fact they are “smart” themselves. Every lamp includes a CPU (electronic brain) with a pre-installed control software whose main purpose is to take account of customer’s needs. Light emitted by every lamp is autonomously adjusted thanks to integrated light sensors.

Xaluxi develops smart lighting systems designing and manufacturing innovative solutions to improve energy efficiency of production facilities, offices, hospitality and similar public and private environments.

The technology, patented by Xaluxi, is the platform Xaluxi Ecolumiere, totally made in Italy, which represents a compendium of company’s philosophy: it allows energy saving compensating, in an easy and automatic way, eco-unfriendly behaviors of users and owners.

Besides, our lamps get rid of issues concerning installation of an outer control unit as well as the consequent rewiring of the electricity network. No modification is required.

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Moreover, the CPU manages optical communication which exists between our lamps creating a proper network, by which light sources cooperate exchanging information in order to allow their lighting adaptation with respect to external conditions.

Xaluxi’s network is provided with a distributed intelligence, remotely programmable and manageable.

That’s why our lamp is just ready to be used with your electrical system!

Besides the energy-saving advantages, granted by the automatic adjustment (~50% saving, compared to traditional LEDs, ~75% saving compared to fluorescent tubes), there are several different benefits linked to our technology: -No changes to the customer’s habits or to existing electrical plant

NEWS XALUXI temperature detection, and to create an ecosystem of AI-like devices. A common language makes possible the communication among different devices (eg. lamps, HVACs, Thermostatic valves).

Currently there are no fully integrated and automated systems like the one created by Xaluxi, allowing both coordination of the light emissions and communication among devices, aimed to react according to specified requirements.

-Low management and maintenance costs -Light emission homogeneity -Continuous modulation of the light emitted intensity -System security and reliability And with slight changes to the software and the installed sensors, it is possible to develop some more features, such as humidity, smoke and

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Hazardous air pollutants and waste gases treatment technology: thermal oxidizer Thermal oxidizer is a device used to convert waste gases or liquids into less harmful compounds.

The thermal oxidizer is based on the process of combustion of pollutants at a temperature above its auto-ignition temperature and for a sufficient time to complete the reaction. Through the combustion reaction, pollutants are converted to carbon dioxide and water vapor, plus a release of heat.

The chemical reaction behind the process is: CnH2m + (n+m/2) O2 --> nCO2 + mH2O + Î&#x201D;H During the process the mixture of air and pollutants is heated, breaking apart the chemical bond within the pollutants compounds. The amount of heat to be supplied to the reaction is related to the activation energy of the mixture of oxygen and pollutants.

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Thermal oxidizer, also known as thermal incinerator or simply incinerator, is commonly used in industrial plant where during most processes, toxic gas can be released. So we can found incinerator technology in the petroleum, chemicals, coal, mining industries up to the solid waste processing plant or electronic industry.

Applicable pollutants to this technology is mainly the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), Particulate Matter (PM) resulting from incomplete hydrocarbon combustion and light hydrocarbons. Because of its harmful effect to human, animal and plants, the release of VOC and PM are under regulations and cannot be done in a certain amount. VOC is defined as organic compound which vaporize at normal condition (atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature).

VOCs play a key role in formation of ozone in the lowest portion of the atmosphere (troposphere) where ozone itself is dangerous. Ozone has benefit effect in the stratosphere where it absorbs part of sunlight radiation allowing the life on earth.

Thermal oxidizer destruction efficiency depends upon the design criteria.

Design criteria are temperature, residence time and turbulence. The concentration and composition of the waste stream are important too. For safety considerations, the concentration of the organics in the waste gas must be below the Lower Explosive Limits (LELs) of the specific compound being controlled. The waste gas must be mixed with ambient air, if necessary, to lower the concentration at 25% of LEL. Typical thermal oxidizer design efficiencies range from 98 to 99.99% and above, depending on the system requirements and the characteristics of the pollutants. Destruction efficiency is regulated by local or international law.

• The process temperature is determined by the VOCs in the waste stream. Each compound has a different temperature at which the molecules are broken and oxidized. Most of thermal oxidizer operate at higher temperature than the ignition temperature which is the minimum operating temperature. Thermal oxidation of most organic compound occurs between 590°C and 650°C, even though it can reach 1200°C. • The residence time defines how long the mixture of waste gas needs to be at a certain temperature to oxidize. For halogenated VOC streams, a residence time of 1s at 1000°C is required in order to have the suitable oxidation efficiency. By the way, thermal oxidizer is not

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generally recommended for controlling gases containing halogen or sulfur compound because of the formation of hydrogen chloride, fluoride, sulfur dioxide and other corrosives gases.

• The turbulence is a fixed condition built into the equipment design. Turbulence guarantee a proper mixing of waste gas and air for the combustion.

There are several kind of thermal oxidizer, all based on the same principal and with diverse peculiarities.

The most common thermal oxidizers are: Direct Fired Thermal Oxidizer or afterburner (DFTO), Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) and Thermal Recuperative Oxidizer (TRO).

• DFTO is the simplest technology of thermal oxidation that uses natural draft or forced draft burner. A process stream is introduced into a firing box through or near the gas burner and enough residence time and temperature are provided to get the required destruction efficiency of the hazardous pollutants. The DFTOs are best applied where the concentration of VOC’s is high and can be a fuel source instead of natural gas or oil for complete combustion. Most DFTOs operate at temperature levels between 980 °C and 1200 °C with air flow rates of 0.24 to 24 standard cubic meters per second. (EPA) • RTOs use a high-density media such as a ceramic-packed bed still hot from a previous cycle to preheat an incoming waste gas stream. The preheated, partially oxidized gases then enter in a combustion chamber where they are heated by auxiliary fuel combustion to a final oxidation temperature typically between 760°C to 820°C and maintained at this temperature to achieve maximum VOC destruction, however, temperatures of up to 1100°C may be achieved, if required, for very high control efficiencies of certain toxic VOC. The purified, hot gases exit this chamber and are directed to one or more different ceramic-packed beds cooled by an earlier cycle. Heat from the purified gases is absorbed by these beds before the gases are exhausted to the atmosphere.

(EPA) • TRO is comprised of the combustion chamber, the waste gas preheater, and, if appropriate, a secondary energy recovery heat exchanger.

TRO is designed based on volume of airflow, VOC concentrations and desired destruction efficiency. During operation, waste gas laden air is drawn into the system fan and discharged into the inlet where it is preheated in the tube side of a heat exchanger.

The two types of heat exchangers most commonly used are plate-to-plate and shell-and-tube.

Plate-to-plate exchangers offer high efficiency energy recovery at lower cost than shell-and-tube designs. However, when gas temperatures exceed 540°C, shell-and-tube exchangers usually have lower purchase costs than plate-to-plate designs.

Contaminated air then passes by the burner where it is raised to the thermal oxidation temperature (650°C to 1000°C) for the specified residence time (0.5 s to 2.0 s) and an exothermic reaction takes place. The pollutants are converted to carbon dioxide, water vapor and heat with within the reactor chamber.

The hot, purified air then passes again through the shell side of the heat exchanger where the energy released by the reaction is used to preheat the incoming air. The heat exchanger minimizes the system›s fuel consumption with the system being self-sustaining at moderate LELs. Finally, the contaminant-free air is exhausted into the atmosphere.

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Egyptian’s energy strategy to boots its economy After 2011 crisis, Egyptians key priority to rise its economy is the development and reform of its energy sector. This is highlighted in the new energy strategy including security by boosting, diversifying, and improving energy efficiency, sustainability and governance by improving and modernizing the oil&gas sector’s governance and encouraging private sector investment. The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral resources, has recently reviewed his plan and the roadmap includes boosting of oil and natural gas production through increased exploration work and drilling of exploratory and development well. The minister pointed out the continuous expansion in natural gas production, as 2017 will witness the first production of Zohr and Atoll fields with total investment reaching $31,00 billion. Further on the Egyptian government plan to develop refineries and improve the petrochemical industries. The several exploration and development projects undergoing in Egypt, mostly in collaboration with the Italian company Eni, fit into this new energy strategy. After the discovery of Zohr, the biggest gas field in the Mediterranean, Eni recently has completed the development of an additional well to the set plant. The well will be linked to production in the project’s second phase. Eni has already finished digging all wells agreed upon in 2016 and is currently implementing the production facilities to process the produced gas in port Said. Always in Zohr field, other players are coming in. The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) schedule to sell 10% of its stake. The Italian company Eni, by his side, had approved selling 30% of its stake in Shorouk concession to the Russian company Rosneft in exchange for $1,125 billion and $450,00 million for the investment it previously carried out. On November 2016, British Petroleum (BP) has announced that it has agreed to buy from Eni a 10% interest in the Shorouk concession offshore Egypt, which contains the super-giant Zohr gas field for $375,00 million. BP will also reimburse Eni for BP’s share of past expenditure. The two companies agreed an option before the end of the 2017, allowing BP to buy a further 5% interest in the concession under the same terms. The Egyptian government by his Minister of Petroleum and Mineral resources have signed an agreement with Cyprus to transfer from Aphrodite field Cypriot natural gas to Egypt via pipeline.

As Zohr and Aphrodite field are relatively close, this will allow the development of joint field, which could be the basis to create a regional natural gas infrastructure network. According to governance in the new energy strategy, the Egyptian government proposed a draft law to the parliament (January 2017) which would open up the country’s natural gas sector to private investor. According to this, the private sector would be able to participate in all activities in the natural gas sector including shipping, distribution, sale and marketing. The new regulatory body would be responsible for the granting of any required investment licenser as well as preventing any monopolies. The new law will lead to flexible foreign currency exchange rate, cutting fuel subsidies and the privatization of the public sector. Liberalization is the first step towards transforming the sectors efficiency and competitiveness.

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CAPABLE OF HANDLING UP TO 70 TONNES

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Duemme facility Linatron M3A-M6A-M9A ACCELERATOR

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With its passion, technology, quality and efficiency, Duemme has been helping people and businesses improve the way they work for over 30 years. We have always seen ourselves as a reliable partner for major firms both at home and overseas looking to outsource their Non-Destructive Testing needs.

With all the experience we have gained, our continuous investments in technology and human resources and our prompt 24/7 service to any site in Italy, we can market ourselves as a leading player when factors such as innovation and quality are key, catering to the many and varied demands of individual customers. We are based near Milan, in Madignano, where we have a 7000 m² site with a floor area of 3550 m², including 9 type-approved bunkers, capable of handling up to 70 Tonnes.

We currently have 15 operators with ASNT-TC-1A / ISO 9712 qualifications in various types of testing along with vehicles for 24-hour field service at construction sites and/or customer premises. We also have a permit from the Ministry for carrying radioactive material.

In addition, with our two latest-generation VARIAN Linatron 9, 6 and 3 MeV linear accelerators, we are the first company in Italy offering outsourced services capable of testing steel more than 400 mm thick. We have developed an efficient company Quality System and have been ISO 9001 certified since 2000; certification was reconfirmed in July 2010 in accordance with the new standard.

The laboratory is accredited UNI CEI EN ISO IEC 17025:2005 to carry out tests according to ASTM, ASME, UNI etc as indicated at www.duemme.net

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www.duemme.net Duemme SpA - Via E. Fermi, 10/12 - 26020 Madignano (CR) - Italy - T. +39 0373 65 555 - info@duemme.net

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EFFEBI VALVES, PIPES, TANKS

EFFEBI: HIGH QUALITY BALL VALVES FROM ITALY Effebi is an Italian manufacturer of ball valves in steel, stainless steel and brass. With 20 years’ experience, the company offers a vast range of innovative yet proven ball valves.

Thanks to an integrated production process which begins with the careful selection of raw materials, Effebi has become a leader in the Italian and international markets and a reference for valve quality, reliability, competence and customer care.

Since June 2002 Effebi has manufactured all its valves according to the requirements of the European Directive 2014/68/CE and, where necessary the valve bodies are CE marked.

Effebi offers customers all the most important certificates and declarations relating to ball valves, including DVGW (for gases and drinking water), TUV, TA-LUFT, Fire Safe, Atex, declarations of conformity, FDA approvals for seats and other approvals (f.i. DNV or Lloyd’s approved foundries).

More than 50 certifications and approvals demonstrate the quality and reliability of the Effebi products.

One of the biggest strengths of Effebi is the possibility to produce and customize the valves according to the customer’s demand, along with highly trained staff, able to give to customers the right technical support and one-day answers.

Effebi ball valves are suitable for all the most important industrial applications.

The Effebi range includes manual and pneumatically or electrically actuated 2- and 3- way ball valves with threaded, flanged and welded connections.

Materials of construction are carbon steel A105 or LF2. Stainless steel includes AISI316, AISI316L and AISI304. Also a very wide range of technical ball valves in brass is available, manual or with actuator, as well as cast iron butterfly valves.

The choice of pressure ratings is very wide, according to the execution from PN10 to PN100 for the wafer, split-wafer and flanged types and up to PN420 for the threaded and welded types.

Temperature range goes from -40° to +260°.

Among the new products, the new range of ball valves in the pressure classes PN100 and ANSI600 in the wafer and split-wafer execution. The sizes go from DN15 to DN100. The materials available are A105, LF2, AISI304 and AISI316. Under development are also the ANSI600 flanged ball valves. A new range of threaded or flanged three way valves with 4 seats in Aisi316L, manual or with Iso top is also available.

Special executions include: standard painting treatment, special painting treatment according to customer’s specifications, zinc plating treatment, degreased valves for oxygen, integral seats for the food or paint industry, special valves’ marking, tag numbers or packing according to customer’s specifications.

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The possibilities of special products also include valves with heating jacket, flange’s surface finishing according to customer’s specifications, spindle extensions, locking devices, gear boxes, mounting kits according to customer’s actuator connection, raw materials from DNV or LLoyd’s approved foundries.

The Effebi range also includes a very wide range of electrically or pneumatically actuated ball valves, in

brass, steel and stainless steel, including accessories like solenoid valves (standard or ATEX), limit switches (standard or ATEX), electro pneumatic positioners, pressure reducers, emergency gear boxes and emergency batteries. Also compact electric actuators for special executions can be offered.

FLASH NEWS

GAZPROM AND UNIPER REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO DELIVER NORD STREAM 2 ON TIME A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Klaus Schaefer, Chief Executive Officer of Uniper, took place at the Gazprom headquarters today.

The parties discussed bilateral cooperation in the energy sector, focusing, inter alia, on the joint efforts of Gazprom and Uniper in the field of natural gas production and transmission.

Alexey Miller and Klaus Schaefer also addressed the situation in the European energy market. It was noted that demand for Russian gas in Germany was consistently growing. In February 2017, Russian gas exports to Germany added 24.3 per cent compared to the same period of 2016.

In connection with the above, the meeting participants expressed their appreciation for the Nord Stream project. The parties agreed that the gas pipeline had proven its relevance, serving as an example of mutually beneficial partnership between Russia and Europe.

Alexey Miller and Klaus Schaefer confirmed their intention to bring a new offshore pipeline, Nord Stream 2, into operation on time and underscored that the project was running on schedule.

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VALVES, PIPES, TANKS FERRARI

FERRARI FLANGE QUALITY AND COMPETENCE AT THE INDUSTRIES’ SERVICE

In the 1845, in Ravenna, it was born a commercial company of agricultural articles, metalware and tools named Federico di E. Ferrari e Figlio (Federico of E. Ferrari and son) and in 1990 transformed in the current corporate structure, Ferrari srl, specialized in Flange Division. (steel flanges, fittings and valves).

Serving the needs of the national and international Gas and Oil industry for over 60 years, Ferrari S.r.l. is the supplier of a wide range of steel flanges for industrial gas pipelines.

Awarder among the historical enterprises of the province in the 2012, to honor the 150th Anniversary of the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce of Ravenna, in the 2015 Ferrari company celebrates 170 years of activity and it continues to spread to new generations an important heritage of experience and entrepreneurial values.

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Ferrari is registered to RIS (Register of Historical Enterprises) such endeavor represents longevity as being an element of guarantee, of outlooks for development ad success.

Professional competence, flexibility, availability and readiness, quality: that is what Ferrari offers to its customers.

Ferrari operates in compliance with national and international standards through the company mission of meeting its clients’.

FERRARI S.r.l. manufactures and distributes flanges for industrial piping systems in carbon steel, alloy steel, low temperatures steel, stainless steel and special steels with sizes from 1/2” to over 60” according to international and national UNI, DIN, EN, ASME, ANSI, API, MSS.SP, BS, AWWA regulations.

Plus, FERRARI S.r.l. is in a position and capable

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of supplying flanges and special parts based on specifications and drawings specifically required by the clients and time by time it has achieved an important range of the national and international market. The peculiarity consists in always offering to each customer availability, flexibility, quickness in the realization and in the delivery of the finish product.

Our experience in the sector of flanges has allowed Ferrari S.r.l. of maintaining an important selection of unfinished and finished flanges available in stock.

This allows Ferrari S.r.l. of managing the requests from our clients with promptness and great flexibility.

Our test office staffed with highly qualified personnel can perform any type of test and analysis, even through third party Agencies (Lloydâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Register, DNV, Bureau Veritas, RINA, etc.)..

In order to improve our level of professionalism, the Company invests constantly on machines and training of the staff in order to be always competitive and in order to satisfy in the best way the needs of our clients, all based on the highest standards of quality.

Since 1998 the Ferrari Quality Assurance system is certified UNI EN ISO 9001:2008.

All this and much more is Ferrari srlâ&#x20AC;Ś Contact us for information or to request a quote, the Ferrari staff is at your disposal: Ferrari s.r.l.

Via A. Grandi, 29 48123 Ravenna Tel. +39 0544 608311 Fax +39 0544 451801 E-mail info@ferrari-ra.it You are invited to look at our website: www.ferrari-ra.it You can also find Ferrari srl on Linkedin and FaceBook

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An experienced Italian manufacturer and supplier of valves, gaskets and piping products since 1958

We wish to introduce EUROGUARCO SpA, as an experienced Italian manufacturer and sup-plier of valves, gaskets and piping products.

The product range includes the following main items: a) VALVE DIVISION – MANUFACTURER with API 6D monogram, PED, Atex, API 6FA and GOST certifications.

•Ball valves API 6D, Double Block and Bleed •Gate, Globe & Check, Butterfly, Plug valves •The range of valves for downstream: -Ball valves: up to 36” x 1500#, 42” x 900# -Gate, globe, check valves: up to 36” x 1500#, 42” x 900# -Plug valves: up to 12” x 2500#, 24” x 900# -Butterfly valves: up to 24” x 900, up to 48” x 600#

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b) PIPING DIVISION– MANUFACTURER •Fittings: BW and Forged fittings •Flanges: WN, Blind, SW and Anchor •Boltings: Fully threaded bars, studbolts & nuts c) GASKET DIVISION – MANUFACTURER / even under FLEXITALLIC® license •Metallic and semi-metallic gaskets Flexitallic® or Euroguarco® : Spiral Wound, Ring T Joints, Metal-Jacketed, Cam-profile, Metallic Flat, Lens, Delta Ring, Norsok Ring, Weld-Ring gaskets in any material and working conditions •Flange insulating kit, cut soft gaskets •Gasket materials (manufacturer and large stockist): fiber sheets (Fasit®, Tesnit®), modified and filled PTFE (Guaflon®, Sigma®), flexible graphite (Graflex®, RGS®), Thermiculite®

EUROGUARCO VALVES, PIPES, TANKS

We are approved in several oil & gas, engineering and construction companies worldwide: Iran: NIOC, Mapna, Kala Naft, PERSIA, SPEC, NIGC Iraq: ENI, BP, SOC, LUKOIL, Basra Gas, Petrochina, Petronas, Kuwait Energy, MOC, Petrojet, Qaiwan, KAR, NOC, NGC, REPSOL, DNO, Saipem, SCOP, MRC, MDOC Libya: AGOCO , Mellitah , Waha Oil Co. , Sirte Oil Egypt: EGPC, Melrose, Petrojet ENPPI, Amreya Petroleum Refining Co. , Suez Oil , GUPCO, Agiba UAE: ADGAS, ADOC Japan, DUTCO McConnellDowell Bahrain: ASRY, BATCO, Taweed Oman: PDO Kazakhstan: AGIP KCO, MAERSK OIL, AGIP KPO Uzbekistan: SHURTAN GAS Pakistan: OGDCL, National Refinery, SSGC, SNGPL, PPL, Attok Refinery Bangladesh: Gas Transmission Co. Ltd., Bapex, BFCL, Easter Refinery Ltd, Titas Gas, SGDCL China: CNPC, DEC, Inner Mongolia Urea Columbia: ECOPetrol Japan: Mitsubishi, TOYO Engineering Mexico: Pemex Kuwait: Kuwait Energy Yemen: Aden Refinery Venezuela: PDVSA Europe: SKANSKA, SCORE, LOTOS GROUP, ENI , BP , Oil & Gas UK , Oryx Addax , Maersk Oil , GE Oil & Gas , ABB , Ansaldo Energia , Agip KCO , etc.

Jordan: Jordan Refinery, Jordan Petroleum Syria: Banias Refinery , Homs Refinery, Syria, Petroleum Co. USA: GE Oil & Gas Canada: Petro Canada Africa: ORYX Gas Tanzania, METEC

EUROGUARCO Headquarters: Via Terralba 1, Località Pietralba, 19021 Arcola, La Spezia (SP), Italy -Industrial Valve Division: Via Leonardo da Vinci, 6A, 26020 Ticengo (CR), Italy -Industrial Gasket Division: Via Leonardo da Vinci, 6B, 26020 Ticengo (CR), Italy -Piping Division: Via Terralba 2, Località Pietralba, 19021 Arcola (SP), Italy -Insulation & Interiors Division: Via Terralba 3, Località Pietralba, 19021 Arcola (SP), Italy Tel. +39 0187 562611 (nr 10 lines) Fax +39 0187 562644 email: info@euroguarco.com http: www.euroguarco.com

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INOX MECC: valve components in the Oil & Gas industry INOX MECC is a national leader for the manufacturing of valve components in the Oil & Gas industry. Since 50 years produces stems from 1/2 “ to 70 “ and up to 8 mt. length and any other valve components according to the customer specifications and customer drawings such us bodies, closures, bonnets, discs, seats, glands, extensions flanges up to maximum Ø of 900 mm built.

Thanks to the background, the consolidated knowhow and the technical staff, IM is also able to manufacture the complete range of valve fittings & wellhead components and instrumentation valves for different application as well.

Our technical department can support you and provide the best solution required, designing a fully tailor made products according to the project specification both in terms of design and material requirements.

Based on the available materials in our warehouse IM can manufacture the entire range of production in any material such as AISI 410, 316 and 304 steels, duplex, superduplex, titanium, nickel alloys (Inconel 625, Inconel718) and hastelloy as a fast track items.

Each material is duly certified and we have a complete traceability during our production line according to ISO and API certification.

In addition to the above we can provide you the complete item with special coatings and surface treatments, from a quality point of view we can carry on standard NDT or supplementary laboratory tests such as MICRO, Impact Test, Corrosion Test and more.

The facility area (on 10.000 spm) is equipped with the

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best high technologies machinery for lathing, lapping, drilling, threading, milling, cutting, broaching and welding. Inox Mecc policy is the following: being able to offer the higher standards, from the single item to full batches, from small to big dimensions, through an internal manufacturing production and qualified sub-suppliers with the most upgrade level of equipment and knowledge and relying on highly qualified, flexible and skilled staff.

Modern equipment, consolidated skills and ‘just in time’ process management ensure both prompt responses and the highest technical and quality performance as well as competitive prices for the petrochemical market.

INOX MECC quality system is certified according to UNI- EN-ISO 9001 and API Q1 and also qualified with Monogram APi 6A license for Ring Joint Gaskets; In 2016 we have obtained the certification of Quality, Environmental and Safety Integrated System according to UNI EN ISO 9001; OHSAS 8001; UNI EN ISO 14001.

The next target will be the certification with the EU Export Compliance License.

Headquarters Inox Mecc Srl Via Cortenuova snc 24050 Cividate al Piano (BG) Italy Tel-0363/97003 info@inoxmecc.com

Company with quality environment and safety system-certification N. IT262042 - N. IT268343 - N. IT270304/UK

REG. NO. Q1-0995

6A - 1186 Licensed for Ring Joint Gaskets

VALVES, PIPES, TANKS BFT BURZONI SRL

BFT Burzoni, constant innovation!

BFT Burzoni is a constantly evolving company and every day brings new products to offer to their clients.

The company has achieved great results from two innovative carbide grades CCD40 and CCT35, designed for the machining of challenging materials such as stainless steels, titanium, titanium alloys, Duplex and Superduplex (HRSA). They ensure high toughness in conditions of extreme temperatures, allowing high cutting speeds and higher tool life, as well as absolute reliability during the machining process in both milling and turning that.

The commercial strategy is to improve the net of the Italian market, where the BFT is achieving very good results, and to develop the other foreign markets such as Germany, Spain, Brazil, Croatia and Poland: for example in Germany the BFT is starting a new commercial net with two direct technical agents on the field.

Another really import point for the BFT is the service to the customer: in fact the company has one of the most equipped warehouse of Europe, with 45.000 items and more than 10.000.000 pcs ready to delivery.

Part of the service is also the technical support that our sales force give: the company does not sell just a product but follow the customer helping him to get to the best results.

The product strategy is always to improve the quality, due to offer new technical solutions for all the mechanical machining. Last news arrived home BFT is

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a new line of carbide cutters designed specifically for the moulds construction market. This line of tools is the first step of the company towards the realization of a more comprehensive project dedicated to this important sector. In fact, the company also presents a new line of shrink fitting spindles that guarantee a better tool securing and therefore a greater precision in mechanical machining.

To complete the offer dedicated to the moulds sector will soon be presented a new line of milling insert including both torus and round inserts able to cover various processes (generic applications, machining of pockets, machining of light alloys, etc). This line also will be flanked by a series of hard metal extensions that guarantee best stability and that are often used precisely for machining of molds.

Another important new feature is the solid carbide end mill Runner: this cutter allows BFT to offer a high performance and innovative product. It allows not only to mill at high feed parameters (both roughing and finishing), but also to carry out drilling from solid (at 90 째) and in interpolation and milling operations in the ramp to 15 째, 30 째 and 45 째.

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VALVES, PIPES, TANKS SEALCORE

The SEALCORE Network active for many years in the production of customized articles The SEALCORE Network is the result of the union of some entrepreneurial Companies from the Bergamo area in Italy, active for many years in the production of customized articles to drawing and technical components for various industrial sectors: Pulp&Paper -Wind Mills - Mining and earth moving equipment - Primary Metals - Naval & Marine - Aerospace - Food Automotive - Automation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Chemicals - Petrochemical - Pharmaceutical Hydraulic, Heating & Sanitary Systems - Dynamic Sealing, Heavy Duty and General Industry.

-ORINGONE: Large size and Endless O-Rings in various compounds, produced with an innovative step-molding method. (www.oringone.com);

All the companies in the SEALCORE Network are independent, family owned and run with a familiar approach, but characterized by a strong entrepreneurial spirit voted to the growth and continuation of their presence in the market in the long term, thanks to the new generations.

The synergy and the know-how of the Companies in the SEALCORE Network provide a complete service to meet the needs of the global market and a wide range of Technical Products.

Aiming to greater results in the Valves and the Oil & Gas Industry, 3 Companies among the SEALCORE Network decided to team up for joint business actions worldwide, proposing a wide variety of products : seals, gaskets, bushings and thrust washers, rubber and techno-polymer customized finished parts, and whatsoever required for valves, compressors, pumps, electric gearboxes and the general industry with applications related to pistons, cylinders, machine tools, motors, connectors, actuators, and many more.

The lean management and a particular focus on service to the customer, in addition to a high quality made in Italy guaranteed, are the strength of the SEALCORE Network, and the 3 Companies dedicated to this O&G project:

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-FLUORTEN: PTFE and High Performance Technopolymers. Stock shapes and customized engineered components. (www.fluorten.com); -SLIB ITALY: Self-lubricating bearings and washers for valves and other applications in the hydraulic, energy and metal industry. (www.slibitaly.com)

Discover us on www.sealcore.net or on the main social networks.

SEALCORE S.r.l. via Marconi 142/144 | 24060 | CASTELLI CALEPIO (BG) | ITALY tel +39 035 4425782 | fax .39 035 4425944 info@sealcore.net | P. I. / VAT : IT04104060167 www.sealcore.net

VALVES, PIPES, TANKS MCM

MCM S.p.a. : Sealing competence for the most demanding Oil and Gas applications MCM S.P.A. is an Italian company specializing in the production of rubber gaskets customized for specific fields. Since 1979, the company has been dedicated to meeting customers’ needs through progressive engineering, custom manufacturing and global sourcing.

We are certified according to ISO 9001:2008, ISO/ TS 16949:2009, UNI EN ISO 14001:2004 and we have Statement of approval Aircraft.

(644°F), resistance to rapid gas decompression, outstanding chemical resistance, no degradation of properties over time, good wear resistance and low permeability.

Our strength is the manufacturing of high-quality rubber gaskets O-rings, Delta Rings, Flat Gaskets, Lip Seals in dimension up to an inner diameter of 2.300 mm made of rubber compounds based on FKM, AFLAS®, HNBR, Viton®ETP and FFKM Evolast® (our registered trademark) available in a variety of NORSOK, NACE, API compliant standards to meet the ever-increasing requirements for seals in Oil & Gas applications, among which: NORSOK M710 (rapid gas decompression) NACE TM0297 NACE TM0187 (sour gas environment) EN 14141:2003 (fluid resistance) BS EN ISO 23936-2 TOTALFINA SHELL We have a long time experience in solving all kinds of difficult sealing problems inside the Oil & Gas sector. We have with success made sealing solutions to all kind of valves and specific equipment: Ball valves - Gate valves - Butterfly valves - Regulating valves - Plug valves - Seat valves - Check valves Metering valves - Control valves - Valve actuators – BOP - Couplings for flexible pipes - Xmas trees Drill drives - Marine cranes.

Our product range offers following advantages: Operating temperatures from -60°C (-76°F) to 340°C

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FFKM evolast® parts, the ultimate generation of perfluoroelastomers, are designed to combine the needs for chemical and thermal resistance provided

by PTFE with the sealing properties typical of elastomers, offering the highest chemical and heat resistance. Some FFKM types can be exposed to temperatures over 300°C and the resistance to chemicals is nearly universal.

Evolast® items are recommended for extremely severe applications where difficult and costly maintenance strongly requires reduced process downtimes. Evolast® components have outstanding properties well above any other elastomers and resist to wide temperature ranges from -25° C up to 270° C for standard grades, up to and 340° C for premium grades. Special grades from -40° C up to 260° C are also available.

Some evolast® grades have been specially developed for Oil & gas to offer outstanding explosive

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Safety and reliability are of paramount importance in the chemical and O&G industry. MCM has been working in this field since 1979 with a high quality management system.

Our strength is the manufacturing of sealing solutions made of elastomer at high technical content, such as FKM, FFKM (evolastÂŽ), HNBR, AFLAS and thermoplastics such as PTFE, PEEK and other high performance materials available in a variety of NORSOK, NACE, API compliant standards.

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Since 2016 MCM spa is part of a group together with O.L. Seals A/S (Denmark - PTFE Seal and PTFE Gasket Manufacturer) and Mcm-ol Seals (Belgium – sales and warehouse in central Europe).

Our offices in Italy and Belgium stand for extensive technical assistance and manufacturing know-how; together with an extended stock we are offering an ideal platform for successful business. Thanks to our Danish subsidiary we are key technical advisor and manufacturer of sealing

solutions in high-performance plastic compounds such as PTFE virgin, modified PTFE, PEEK, PCTFE, DEVLON® and other special materials with springs made of ELGILOY®, HASTELLOY®, INCONEL. We have more than 20.000 standard seals in our range and have developed more than 10.000 tailor made sealing solutions in dimensions from Ø1 up to Ø3,000 mm.

Product development is one of the factors which has contributed to our strong position in today’s market, we can offer tailor made solution for any kind of sealing problem.

For further information about our company, customer services and updates visit our web site: www.mcm-spa.it.

FLASH NEWS

TOTAL TO ACQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL 21.57% INTEREST FROM TULLOW IN THE UGANDA LAKE ALBERT PROJECT 9 January 2017, Total and Tullow have entered into a package agreement under which Total will acquire an additional 21.57% interest from Tullow in the Uganda Lake Albert oil project.

Following this transaction, Total will hold a 54.9% interest, strengthening its position in this competitive project and paving the way for a project sanction in the near future.

The overall consideration paid by Total to Tullow will be $900M, representing a reimbursement of a portion of past costs, payable in installments along the development of the project, with an initial payment of $100M at closing. Source: Total

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Goodwin Launches Flow Control Division

Figure 1 – Goodwin International axial isolation and axial control valves Goodwin International has built up an enviable reputation for the design, manufacture and supply of high quality dual plate and axial check valves. Building upon this solid foundation, a completely new range of axial isolation and axial control valves has been designed and developed (see Figure 1) in order to introduce some much needed competition to this monopolised area of the market.

Axial isolation and axial control valves represent a high performance choice, with some features which make them attractive over other valve types: Streamlined flow path o Axial style valves benefit from a very smooth and streamlined flow path through the valve body. o Axial isolation valves therefore induce minimal downstream turbulence. o Axial control valves have a very low fixed pressure drop, allowing a wider range of pressure / flow control.

Low maintenance o The actuation mechanism and seals are both highly reliable and robust, allowing long maintenance intervals to be employed without being detrimental to performance.

Goodwin axial isolation and axial control valves have been engineered with further benefits over and above legacy products: Split three piece body design o Goodwin axial isolation and axial control valves have a novel split body design which is well accepted on other valve types. International patent pending. o In the case of the axial style valve, this permits 100% access for non-destructive examination, which is not possible on existing single piece body styles. Verification of

material integrity is of the highest concern Rack-pinion-rack gear train o Goodwin has developed a novel gear train in order to open and close the valve. International patent pending. o The Goodwin Rack-Pinion-Rack mechanism (see Figure 2) ensures that actuation forces are distributed along the centre line of the valve both horizontally and vertically. o As the Rack-Pinion-Rack mechanism makes use of a rolling gear arrangement rather than a sliding gear, the frictional forces are much lower, therefore the mechanism requires less force to operate. o Lower forces coupled with a rolling mechanism make the Rack-Pinion-Rack mechanism effectively immune to seizure, which is the failure mode typically associated with sliding gear trains.

Figure 2. Goodwin Rack-Pinion-Rack mechanism

The launch of these two new products coincides with the formation of Goodwin Flow Control, a new division within the Goodwin PLC group of companies, dedicated to the development and manufacture of this exciting new range.

With CAPEX and OPEX budgets being considerably squeezed in this period of low oil and gas commodity prices, Goodwin Flow Control are pleased to be able to offer a highly effective and efficient alternative to both new and existing customers.

Contact us: Davide Branda | Business Development – Italy Via Tiziano, 17 | Muggiò, MB 20835 Phone: +39039796272 | Mobile: +393482637550 Email: d.branda@produceitaly.com

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Oil and Gas – Composites Materials for Pumps The demand for pump reliability and performance is everyday increasing. Today, pump users demand higher reliability, lower vibration levels, better efficiency and lower maintenance cost. If the traditional metallic materials (stainless steel, high alloyed steel and bronze) offer the same performance level, new composite materials could do most better ! Actually, their introduction in the API 610 9 th edition (2003) recognizes and lists them as a perfect option for replacing metal wear parts to improve pump performance in appropriate applications.

API pumps and most heavy industrial pumps are designed and fitted with sets of replaceable wear components (i.e., bushings, bearings, interstage sleeves and impeller wear rings). All these components could be proposed in composite materials.

Most of the worlwide leaders of pump industry propose it now as an original equipment or during the manutention as an upgrade in order to increase the pump performances in such critical applications: Boiler Feed Water Pumps, Cooling Water Pumps, Condensate Pumps, Process Water Pumps, Sump Pumps, Fire Water Pumps, Sour Water Pumps, Deep Well Pumps, Naphtha Pumps, Gasoline, Diesel, Cetane, mixe, Propane, Isobutane, mixed HC blending Pumps, etc.

The advantages compared to metallic parts are numerous : •Improved realibity: reduction of the vibration, anti-galling properties, extended dry running •Prevention of catastrophical failure: sacrifical material, protection of metal hardware •Improved efficiency: less energy consumption, increased pump efficiency •Lower manutention cost: extensive lifetime, better corrosion resistance In this historical moment for the Islamic Republic of Iran and in high demanding world for better performances, composite materials should be the right answer for the necessary manutention in process.

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Temperatures change values: Why quantity conversion is such a critical factor in the petroleum supply chain

When petroleum products are traded, volumes have to be converted into weight, and vice versa.

It is vital for this calculation to be performed correctly because even the smallest inaccuracy will affect key processes in the supply chain of oil and gas companies – from the safety of the loading and warehousing operations through to the computation of tax liability. In an interview with Stephan Buhre, Managing Partner at downstream software specialist Implico, Industrial Technology Magazine learned about the pitfalls that await the unwary and about the role that software solutions can play in the conversion process.

Mr. Buhre, how much does the conversion of quantities matter in petroleum logistics?

A wide range of products is produced from crude oil – from gasoline to liquid gases to aromatics. The volume and density of all these materials changes

– and at different rates – at different temperatures.

Whenever oil products are transported, different units of volume have to be converted into units of weight and vice versa. This makes the issue both complex and relevant for the logistics processes.

Industry uses huge quantities of oil products, and even the smallest temperature fluctuation can result in substantial differences in quantities, leading to marked fluctuations in value.

Can you explain the physical context?

As already mentioned, the volume and density of petroleum products are temperature dependent.

For example, if you load a tanker truck with 30,000 liters of fuel at an outside temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and later unload the same tanker at 10 degrees Celsius, the measured volume will be significantly less. The recipient thus receives a smaller amount through no fault of the seller.

The only way to be sure of knowing the correct quantities at different temperatures is to take into account what is known as the volume correction factor (VCF). Using this, you can convert the volume at the current temperature to the volume at a reference temperature. You can also use the volume correction factor to calculate the density of the substance at that temperature. And this is important when you want to convert volume into weight and vice versa.

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AUTOMATION IMPLICO So, with the aid of the volume correction factor, the contracting party has a reference point that allows everyone to refer to the same quantities when, for example, liters are being converted into kilograms and vice versa.

Exactly. And the reference point of petroleum products depends on where you are. It is 15 degrees Celsius in Europe, 20 degrees Celsius in warmer southern countries and 60 degrees Fahrenheit in the US. This equates to about 15.5 degrees Celsius. For specialty products like bitumen, the reference point is 25 degrees Celsius. The density of the 30,000 liters of fuel in our example would be calculated at 15 degrees Celsius and this value is then used throughout the supply chain. This ensures that same amount is always referenced throughout the transportation process: from the refinery, to the tank terminals, to the consumer.

There must be some basis for this calculation because specific density varies from one substance to the next.

That is why the specific gravity is determined at the refinery where the crude oil is processed and the product is assigned to a particular class. These are: A for crude oils, B for refined products, C for special substances, D for lubricating oils and E for LPG. These classifications were developed by the American Petroleum Institute and form part of the recognized industry standards of organizations such as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) and the British Energy Institute (EI). These standards contain the specific densities and the temperature versus density curves for all substances based on oil, together with the relevant conversion formulas. Everyone in the oil and gas supply chain needs these, as they provide a universal reference for doing business with petroleum products.

Can you give us some examples of when these conversions play a particularly important role in the oil and gas supply chain?

Let’s stay with our example of the tanker truck.

Bulk liquid cargo is normally measured in units of volume – usually liters. But as soon as the tanker travels on a public road, national road traffic regulations often insist that the weight of the

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load has to be determined and documented – to ensure, for example, that the vehicle’s maximum permissible axle weight is not exceeded. Then the regulations on the transport of dangerous substances require that sufficient space is left in the tank to allow for expansion caused by a rise in temperature. The carrier must therefore not only ascertain the weight of the cargo but must also know how its volume expands at different temperatures.

If the tanker truck discharges its load at a higher temperature, more liters will be discharged than were originally loaded – even though the weight has remained the same. ... which the customer will not wish to pay for.

It does not matter from which side you look at it: both parties have an interest in ensuring that there are no discrepancies and that the agreed quantity is actually delivered. Moreover, companies trading in petroleum products are not the only ones with a stake in this – the tax authorities also want to know that the figures add up.

Tax – that’s an important word. Petroleum products generally attract different levels of tax.

That’s certainly one of the distinctive features about petroleum products: since they are subject to different and often very high taxation rates, traders are keen to transport and store as much untaxed product as they can. This allows them to minimize the capital they have tied up prior to the point of consumption. Traders are often not required to pay tax until they sell their products. Take Germany, for example. There is a basic requirement to pay energy tax on all movements of petroleum – even if you are just moving your own product from one tank terminal to another without any change of ownership taking place. You can suspend this tax liability under certain conditions, by operating what is known as a “tax warehouse”. The German customs must receive prior notice of any movement of goods out of the tax warehouse. And here again it is very important to be able to precisely and consistently determine how much product is being shipped.

You have been dealing with this issue for over 25 years. What is different now compared

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A lot! Refineries and tank terminals used to work out the quantities of petroleum products on a calculator. And then manually transfer the figures from one delivery note, invoice and tax form to the next. It was all very time consuming and prone to errors. Everyone involved not only had to determine the correct data but also to accurately convert and update the quantities involved each time the product was moved. Today, with the right software, this happens completely automatically, eliminating potential errors and improving the efficiency of the petroleum logistics processes.

So, compared with 25 years ago, when shippers, schedulers and quantity bookkeepers were busy copying figures from tables, these processes now run fully automatically. Could you give us an overview of how this happens?

At Implico, we developed OpenTAS QCM to take care of quantity conversion. The name stands for Quantity Conversion Module and it is integrated into our OpenTAS tank terminal administration system, among others. OpenTAS QCM contains all the data from the tables and standards mentioned earlier and calculates the required values automatically. We make sure that the data is always up-to-date and that it includes all international conventions. All that the shipper has to do is enter the type of product and the initial values for each

bulk movement. This avoids the kind of errors that can become very costly in the downstream process.

What is special about our solution is that OpenTAS QCM can be integrated into the entire end-to-end petroleum logistics process chain – from the refinery to the end customer. The module communicates with other systems and automatically outputs the correct data – right up to quantity bookkeeping and invoicing in ERP systems such as SAP. Are you saying that OpenTAS QCM is a solution for the entire supply chain?

That is indeed what is unique about our OpenTAS QCM. Companies can use the system as a standalone solution to convert individual volumes.

We supply a free web-based calculator or an Excel add-in at www.implico.com. The module can also be integrated into SAP ERP systems. To do this, we use a remote function server, which carries out the necessary calculations. It is a particularly attractive option for oil and gas companies working with SAP IS Oil, SAP Secondary Distribution Management for Oil & Gas or SAP Retail Fuel Network Operations. When it comes down to it, however, we can integrate OpenTAS QCM into any other environment, such as other TAS systems or logistics software.

Mr. Buhre, many thanks for your time.

Software solutions for automated quantity conversion in the oil and gas industry The Implico Group has specialized in petroleum logistics automation for over 25 years. The company supplies oil and gas companies with a range of solutions for carrying out quantity conversion of their products. These are all based on the OpenTAS QCM module: •OpenTAS: When integrated into Implico’s tank terminal administration system, OpenTAS QCM automates the relevant quantitative data and shares the results with other systems.

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Scan the code to download your free OpenTAS Excel Addin and start converting your quantities now:

•Free service: For the occasional one-off conversion, Implico offers a free online calculator.

You can find it at: vcf.implico.com/qcm/ •Excel add-in: For the calculation of multiple transactions, users can download an add-in for Microsoft Excel, which was also developed by Implico: http://quantity-conversion.implico.com

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Gas and oil supply routes A key part of ensuring secure and affordable supplies of energy to Europeans involves diversifying supply routes. This includes identifying and building new routes that decrease the dependence of EU countries on a single supplier of natural gas and other energy resources.

Opening up the Southern Gas Corridor Many countries in Central and South East Europe are dependent on a single supplier for most or all of their natural gas. To help these countries diversify their supplies, the Southern Gas Corridor aims to expand infrastructure that can bring gas to the EU from the Caspian Basin, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Eastern Mediterranean Basin.

Initially, approximately 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas will flow along this route when it opens in 2019/2020. Given the potential supplies from the Caspian Region, the Middle East, and the East Mediterranean however, the EU aims to increase this to 80 to 100 bcm

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of gas per year in the future.

EU actions for expanding the Southern Gas Corridor include: • keeping the infrastructure projects needed for the Corridor on the EU’s list of projects of common interest. These are projects which can benefit from streamlined permitting process, receive preferential regulatory treatment, and may apply for EU funding from the Connecting Europe Facility • cooperating closely with gas suppliers in the region including Azerbaijan, Iraq and Turkmenistan • cooperating closely with transit countries including Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey • negotiating with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on a Trans-Caspian pipeline to transport gas across the Caspian Sea. Developing the Mediterranean hub The EU wants to create a Mediterranean gas hub in the South of Europe to help diversify its energy suppliers and routes. To this end, the EU is engaged in an active energy dialogue at political level with Northern African and Eastern Mediterranean partners.

Taking into account the huge potential of Algeria, both for conventional and unconventional gas resources, as well as the new gas resources in the East Mediterranean and the associated infrastructure development plans, the Mediterranean area can act as a key source and route for supplying gas to the EU. LNG terminals Liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported to Europe through LNG terminals is a source of diversification that contributes to competition in the gas market and security of supply.

New LNG supplies from North America, Australia, Qatar, and East Africa are likely to increase the size of the global LNG market and some of these volumes should reach the European market.

Considering that most of the existing capacity is located in Western Europe and the existence of internal bottlenecks from the Atlantic coast to the East, the development of a few new regasification units in Eastern Europe would be justified. This is the case in the Baltics and in South-East Europe where LNG regasification units have been identified as Projects of Common Interest under the Regulation on the guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure.

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ULTRA POMPE: OUR HISTORY OUR STRENGTH ULTRA POMPE S.r.l., founded in 1957, was one of the first Italian firms that completely design, produce and test external gear pumps in its own workshops. ULTRA’s success is based on satisfying customer requirement through efficient manufacturing and by providing quality products and competitive pricing. ULTRA POMPE know how and experience has been handed down from one generation to the next. Due to this reason they have accumulated a lot of direct experience in the last sixty years. ULTRA POMPE maintains a large inventory of standard spare parts and unassembled pumps in its own stock, allowing us to quickly provide complete pumps or replacement spare

parts for customer emergency. Compact enough to quickly provide innovative custom designs, but large enough to manufacture high volumes in a short time, Ultra Pompe invests every year in new technology for the automatization of its production lines. At today, each machinery in our factory has at least one automatic backup in addition to one controlled manually. This allows us to avoid any production delays caused by machinery crashes and to meet promised delivery. ULTRA POMPE carries on in its own premises the whole of mechanical processing, gear cutting included, thus achieving an unparalleled quality standard of the finished products. Continually updating out technology and products designs allows ULTRA POMPE to provide the right gear pump or system for a variety of processes and liquid, semi-fluid or emulsions.

Using of UNI/ISO /ANSI/DIN/MEC dimension significantly increase the possibility to meet all customer requests.

GEAR PUMPS – EASY VIEW These gear pumps are used from 1 up to viscosity 1’000’000 cSt. In the operating scheme is shown how the rotations of the gears displace the product from the inlet side to the outlet side. The entire operation can be resumed in three main phases: Suction, Delivery and Discharge. Into a gear pumps the two rotors, that are respectively called driving and driven rotor, are seated in a body that round them from all side. On the both sides of the mesh zone of the teeth there is a hole in the body of the pump. These holes are respectively called suction and discharge. Spinning the rotors the fluid is

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PROCESS ULTRA POMPE moved, through the chambers between the teeth of the rotors and the body, from the suction side to the discharge side. Fluid does not pass through the meshing zone of the gears due to small tolerances. A back-flow of the fluid is blocked by the contact of the teeth of the two rotors in the meshing zone.

ADVANDAGE Gear pumps need a lesser NPSH and have better properties of delivery repeatability. Gear pumps,

being rotary volumetric pumps, are the best metering pumps, since their delivery depends directly on the revolutions rate. Also gear pumps will not generate flow pulsations, as standard metering pumps do, making the media flow constant.

For more information: sales@ultrapompe.it

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Pentair Releases Version 2.9 of its Raychem Tracecalc Pro Design Software Pentair has added the latest Raychem product updates in the latest upgrade, as well as modifying the temperature algorithm and other minor changes.

Main new features of version 2.9 include: • A new lighted end seal for self-regulating and power-limiting heating cables has been introduced for the European and Asian (IEC) markets, type Raychem E-100-L-E. The new product is fully compatible with applications using previous versions.

• A new electronic line sensing thermostat, the Raychem ETS-05, has been introduced for the North American (NEC, CEC) market.

• The nominal sheath temperature algorithm was changed to include the maximum operating temperature as the reference for the sheath temperature calculation, if this is above the maximum controlled temperature, in cases where the circuit is not line-sensed.

• The contact temperature algorithm to validate heaters on plastic pipes was changed to include the maximum operating temperature as the reference for the contact temperature calculation if this is above the maximum controlled temperature, if the circuit is not line-sensed • The option to force the trace ratio of a serial connection of single conductor cable sets is now available to users having the option to design with series heating cables • The option to override the forced trace ratio on child segments is now available to all users • For Raychem mineral insulated (MI) heating units for the North American (NEC, CEC) market, the reverse gland option has been removed.

• TraceCalc Pro has been updated to require control systems using control limited design in Class I Division 1 and Zone 1 to have a high temperature limiter • Multiple circuits created» is now an informational message rather than a warning

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Waste Water treatment Waste water is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by human influence. We can divide the waste waters in two macro-categories: Domestic waste water (also called sewage) and industrial waste water.

Domestic sewage is wastewater discharged from sanitary conveniences in residential, office, commercial, factories. It is a complex mixture containing primarily water (approximately 99%) together with organic and inorganic constituents. These constituents or contaminants comprised suspended, colloidal and dissolved materials. Domestic sewage, since it contains human wastes, also contains large numbers of micro-organisms and some of these can be pathogenic.

Industries figure among the greatest water consumers. Combining a set of unique physical and chemical properties, water is used in many manufacturing processes. The use of water in industrial processes may result in a deterioration of its quality with the appearance of undesirable chemical substances, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases which contaminate the water.

Industrial wastewaters are effluents that result from human activities which are associated with raw-material processing and manufacturing. Examples of industrial wastewaters include those arising from chemical, pharmaceutical, electrochemical, electronics, petrochemical, and food processing industries, other than agro-industrial wastewaters include those arising from industrialscale animal husbandry, slaughterhouses, fisheries, and seed oil processing. Water pollution occurs when potential pollutants in these streams reach certain amounts causing undesired alterations to a receiving waterbody. Industrial wastewaters have very varied compositions depending on the type of industry and materials processed. Some of these wastewaters can be organically very strong, easily biodegradable, largely inorganic, or potentially inhibitory.

All major terrestrial ecosystems, animals and humans depend on freshwater (i.e. water with less than 100mg/L salts) for their survival. The earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water is primarily saline in nature (about 97%).

Of the remaining (3%) water, 87% of it is locked in the polar caps and glaciers. This would mean only 0.4% of all water on earth is accessible freshwater. The latter is a continually renewable resource although natural supplies are limited by the amounts that move through the natural water cycle, that is not sufficient to cover natural biota and human demand. Freshwater shortages is also due

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to the declining water quality in freshwater sources already in use. This declining in water quality is primarily due to pollution. Freshwater shortages increase the risk of conflict, public health problems, reduction in food production, inhibition of industrial production expansion, and these problems threaten the environment.

With the aim to preserve this irreplaceable resource, have been developed the Waste Water Treatments plants, which convert wastewater into an effluent that can be either returned to the water cycle with minimal environmental issues or reused. Waste water must be treated in order to remove undesirable chemical substances, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from contaminated water.

Any wastewater treatment plant, with no exception of the sewage treatment plant, is a combination of separate unit processes arranged in a sequence such that each would support the performance of the downstream processes as wastewater with a particular range of characteristics progresses through the plant. This sequence of unit processes forms the treatment train. At the end of this treatment train, the resulting effluent is expected to meet a specified quality. The amount of treatment, and hence the complexity of the plant, is dependent on the treated effluent quality objectives and the nature of the raw wastewater. Notwithstanding the size and engineering complexity of some of these treatment plants, the unit processes in these plants can be classified into five groups: (i) Preliminary treatment; (ii) Primary treatment; (iii) Secondary treatment; (iv) Tertiary treatment and; (v) Sludge treatment.

Preliminary and Primary treatment: Preliminary treatment removes all materials that can be easily collected from the raw wastewater before they damage or clog the pumps and pipe lines of primary treatment.

The effluent passes through a bar screen to remove all large objects like cans, rags, sticks, plastic packets etc. This is done with manually cleaned screen or with automated mechanically raked bar screen (in modern plants). The solids are collected and later disposed in a landfill, or incinerated.

Bar screens or mesh screens of varying sizes may be used to optimize solids removal. If these solids are not removed, they become entrained in pipes and moving parts of the treatment plant, and can cause substantial damage and inefficiency in the process. For the same reasons, preliminary treatment may include a sand or grit removal stage (most commonly in the sewage waste treatment plants).

Waste water treatment plants are more efficient under uniform flow conditions. Equalization basins may be used to produce flows, or compositions, or both which are closer to the average values used in the water treatment plant designs.

Oil and grease are removed by passing the waste water through a small tank where skimmers collect the fat floating on the surface. Air blowers in the base of these units may also be used to help recover the fat as a froth.

Another important step in the treatment train (especially for industrial wastewater treatment plant) is the pH adjustment. If the water is acidic (lower than 7), lime, soda ash, or sodium hydroxide can be added to raise the pH during water purification processes. Making the water alkaline helps coagulation and flocculation processes work effectively. Acid (carbonic acid, hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid) may be added to alkaline waters in some circumstances to lower the pH.

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Many plants include also the use of coagulants in order to reduce the particles rate. The coagulants most commonly used are aluminum and iron salts, which reacts with the alkalinity in the wastewater and forms the metal hydroxide as in Al(OH)3 or Fe(OH)3. These precipitates combine into larger particles under natural processes named flocculation. The term most often used for the amorphous metal hydroxides is «floc». These flocs adsorb and enmesh particles in suspension and facilitate their removal by subsequent processes of sedimentation (in sedimentation basin).

The sedimentation basin is best located close to the flocculation basin so the transit between the two processes does not permit settlement or floc break up. In this basin, the flocs settle to the bottom and are separated from the treated water.

Secondary treatment: The role of the secondary treatment is to remove the colloidal and dissolved material remaining after the preliminary and primary treatment stages. Colloidal and soluble pollutants are organic in nature and biodegradable. Hence primary treated wastewaters would need further treatment and such secondary treatment is often biological in nature.

This process exploit the aerobic biological activity of micro-organisms (like bacteria and protozoa) to digest the dissolved and suspended organic material as well as the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. In industrial wastewater treatment, these bioprocesses can be preceded by anaerobic processes used to provide partial and subsequently almost complete stabilization of the biodegradable substances. The reason for staged-treatment is the relatively high organic strength of many industrial wastewaters.

The bacteria and protozoa consume biodegradable soluble organic contaminants and bind much of the less soluble fractions into floc. Secondary treatment systems are classified as fixed-film or suspended-growth systems.

• Fixed-film or attached growth systems include trickling filters, bio-towers, and rotating biological contactors, where the biomass grows on media and the sewage passes over its surface. The fixed-film principle has further developed into Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (MBBR) and Integrated Fixed-Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) processes. An MBBR system typically requires a smaller footprint than suspended-growth systems.

• Suspended-growth systems include “activated sludge”, where the biomass is mixed with the sewage and can be operated in a smaller space than trickling filters that treat the same amount of water. However, fixed-film systems are more able to cope with drastic changes in the amount of biological material and can provide higher removal rates for organic material and suspended solids than suspended growth systems At the end of these process, the generated biological flocs are removed by sedimentation or filtration from the treated water.

Tertiary treatment: The purpose of tertiary treatment is to provide a final treatment stage to further improve the effluent quality before it is discharged to the receiving environment (sea, river, lake, wet lands, ground, etc.) or to achieve the quality required by specific purposes, like medical, pharmacological, chemical and industrial applications.

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Wastewater may contain high levels of the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. Excessive levels of the substances can encourage the overgrowth of weeds and algae. Different treatment processes are required to remove nitrogen and phosphorus. â&#x20AC;˘ Nitrogen is removed through the biological oxidation of nitrogen from ammonia to nitrate (nitrification), followed by denitrification, the reduction of nitrate to nitrogen gas. Nitrogen gas is released to the atmosphere and thus removed from the water. â&#x20AC;˘ Phosphorus can be removed biologically in a process called enhanced biological phosphorus removal or by chemical precipitation, usually with salts of iron (e.g. ferric chloride), aluminum (e.g. alum), or lime. Once removed, phosphorus, in the form of a phosphate-rich sewage sludge, may be dumped in a landfill or used as fertilizer.

Another important tertiary treatment is the disinfection. The purpose of disinfection in the treatment of waste water is to substantially reduce the number of microorganisms in the water to be discharged back into the environment for the later use of drinking, bathing, irrigation, etc.

The effectiveness of disinfection depends on the quality of the water being treated, the type of disinfection being used, the disinfectant dosage (concentration and time), and other environmental variables. Common methods of disinfection include ozone, chlorine, ultraviolet light, or sodium hypochlorite.

Sludge treatment: The sludges accumulated in a wastewater treatment process must be treated and disposed of in a safe and effective manner. The waste sludge can be thickened and then aerobically or anaerobically digested to reduce solids content and to render the sludge safer in terms of pathogenic organisms (especially if the waste activated sludge had been mixed with primary sludge from the primary treatments).

Sludge treatment depends on the amount of solids generated and other site-specific conditions.

Typically, anaerobic digestion is used in sewage treatment plan, aside from reducing the quantity of solids requiring final disposal, also offer the opportunity for recovering energy from the organic solids.

Aerobic sludge digesters conversely are typically used in in industrial wastewater treatment plants, where the quantities of excess sludge produced typically does not justify the inclusion of an anaerobic digestion unit in the treatment train.

The digested sludge is dewatered to reduce moisture and hence volume. Methods used include drying beds, filter presses, and centrifuges.

Dewatered sludge may be incinerated or transported offsite for disposal in a landfill or use as an agricultural soil amendment.

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ADNOC Signs 10-Year Vitol Deal for the Sale of 528,000 Tonnes Per Year of LPG Abu Dhabi, UAE – February 22, 2017: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has signed an agreement with Vitol, the world’s largest independent energy trader, for the sale of up to 528,000 tonnes per year of LPG, to Vitol, over the next 10 years.

The long-term agreement, backdated to January 1, 2017 and which will expire on the 31st of December 2026, was signed on the side-lines of International Petroleum Week (IP WEEK), taking place in London, by Abdulla Salem Al Dhaheri, ADNOC Sales and Marketing Director and Russell Hardy, a member of Vitol’s Executive Committee.

Al Dhaheri said: “ADNOC has implemented a new strategy toward its LPG sales by negotiating longer term contracts to cope with the oversupply market especially after the Shale Gas Revolution.

“This agreement, which strengthens the long-standing relationship between ADNOC and Vitol, is a prime example of the innovative and different thinking we are bringing to our business deals.

It will create reliable, long-term value and maximise our gas resources to ensure the company is resilient to future fluctuations in the global energy markets.”

Vitol is a private company founded in Rotterdam in 1966. It has over 40 offices worldwide and its largest operations are in Geneva, Houston, London and Singapore. Its primary business is the trading and distribution of energy products globally including over 6 million bpd of crude oil and products and 10 million tonnes of LPG annually. Revenues in 2015 were $168 billion.

Hardy said: «We are delighted to be working with ADNOC on this long-term supply agreement.

LPG is an important clean fuel and this will support our growing downstream LPG business.”

Vitol’s energy assets globally include over 15.5 million cubic metres of storage across six continents; 390,000 bpd of refining capacity and Shell-branded downstream businesses in 16 African countries, as well as Australia. Vitol also has the only independent, long-standing refinery in Fujairah. Vitol’s customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial and chemical companies and the world’s largest airlines.

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The Advisory Board of IVS 2017 selected 50 papers for the Conference In parallel my Secretary, Manuela Tonolini, has contacted all authors of the selected papers asking them to confirm their presence and attendance at IVS 2017 The manuscript is due by March 17th for its final examination by the designated sessions’ chairmen for the final comments and eventual amendments.

The final documents (i.e. manuscript and Power Point presentation) are required – at the latest – by April 7th.

1.The call for papers for IVS 2017 closed on 24th November: are you satisfied with the outcome?

Yes. The “Call-for-papers” generated 105 abstracts which came from a large geographic scenario, covering all types of “stake-holders” involved in the industrial valve markets, more specifically for the O&G and Power Generation sectors.

Out of these 105 proposed abstracts the Advisory Board selected 50 papers which have been split in 13 sessions which will run in parallel on Wednesday May 24th and Thursday May 25th.

2.During the recent meeting held in Bergamo, the Advisory Board of IVS 2017 completed the abstract review process to select the most valuable ones. Did you follow any specific criteria?

The Advisory Board met, last time, here in Bergamo on January 26th and 27th. The participation was intense and the few Members not able to attend physically were connected in video-conference, allowing a very efficient and profitable meeting.

The Advisory Board completed its task in selecting the final papers and drafting the Conference Program.

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3.Can you summarize the most interesting ideas?

The IVS 2017 conference will cover a variety of topics, from design and manufacturing, standardisation, controls, users’ experiences and total cost of ownership. which have all been properly picked-up by the selected authors.

Among the most interesting and significant ideas and highlights, I like to mention: •new and innovative materials in valves, sealing elements, components and coatings •new concepts in actuators’ design and relevant remote control systems •changes in existing international standards and general international standardisation overview •new design and manufacturing opportunities to valve manufacturers offered by the metal 3D printing 4.When will the official Conference Programme be released?

The preliminary Conference Program is already available on our website (www.industrialvakvesummit.com).

Its final version will be released and printed, by end of April.

FAIRS FLASH NEWS

FLASH NEWS BP TO SELL PART OF INTERESTS IN MAGNUS FIELD AND SULLOM VOE TERMINAL IN UK NORTH SEA TO ENQUEST 24 January 2017, BP announced it has agreed to sell part of its interests in the Magnus oil field and some associated pipeline infrastructure in the UK northern North Sea and in the Sullom Voe Terminal (SVT) on Shetland to EnQuest.

Included in the agreement are: 25% of BP’s 100% stake in Magnus, 25% of BP’s interests in a number of associated pipelines and a 3% interest in the Sullom Voe Terminal from BP Exploration Operating Company Limited’s (BPEOC) current total 12% stake. The sale price of $85 million is expected to be met by EnQuest from the sharing of future cash flows from the assets and the agreement will not include any upfront payment to BP. Subject to partner, regulatory and other third party approvals, operatorship of both Magnus and SVT will transfer from BP to EnQuest on completion. The sale will not affect BP’s rights to capacity in SVT. Under the terms of the agreement, EnQuest has an option, exercisable between 1 July 2018 and 15 January 2019, to purchase BP’s remaining 75% interest in Magnus, a further 9% interest in SVT and the remainder of BP’s interests in the associated pipelines for a consideration of $300 million. Under this option, after the recovery of consideration and adjustments, BP would also retain 50% of net cash flows from these assets, up to a limit of $1 billion. The consideration for this further acquisition would be met by EnQuest through a mixture of cash and future asset cash flows. Source: BP

VERSALIS: AGREEMENT WITH SONATRACH FOR FEASIBILITY STUDIES FOR CHEMICAL COMPLEX IN ALGERIA 26 January 2017, Versalis (Eni) and SONATRACH signed in Algiers a Memorandum of Understanding to carry out joint feasibility studies for an integrated petrochemical complex to be built in Algeria. The agreement follows the cooperation agreement signed by Eni and SONATRACH last November and provides for the terms of a study aiming at enhancing hydrocarbons with value added petrochemical products through the development, in Algeria, of one or a few worldscale industrial petrochemical facilities.

This agreement represents an opportunity for Versalis to collaborate with an integrated oil corporation, to which the Italian chemical producer will offer its industrial experience in managing large petrochemical plants, and the access to its proprietary technologies, within the framework of strategic joint projects. Source: Eni

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