E.ON and Samsung SDI sign a Memorandum of Understanding
on co-operation in energy storage business

Dec. 12, 2015  + + +  E.ON SE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., on co-operation in the energy storage business. The co-operation includes the development of profitable energy storage solutions and, to this end, to assess and develop a potential business model for targeting applications for Lithium-Ion batteries in selected regions and markets. The agreement focuses on solutions for grid stabilization, industrial customers and appropriate energy systems ... read more

Lukoil discovers potential giant gas field offshore Romania

Oct. 16, 2015   + + +  PJSC Lukoil says its Lira-1X exploratory well in the deepwater Romanian Black Sea has discovered a large, potentially extensive gas field. The semisubmersible Transocean Development Driller II drilled the well on the Trident block (EX-30), 170 km (105 mi) offshore in 700 m (2,296 ft) water depth ... read more

Oct. 09, 2015   + + +  At this year’s SPS IP Drives, Siemens is pointing the way towards the digital future of industry under the banner “On the way to Industrie 4.0 – Driving the Digital Enterprise”. Siemens provids a comprehensive overview of its achievements as a leading global expert in driving forward developments in the electrification, automation and digitalization of industrial processes. Visitors may look forward to an array of product innovations across the fields of industrial software, automation and drive technology as well as services ... more

Aug. 24, 2015   + + +  As mutually announced by both companies, the Stauff Group has successfully completed the acquisition of the Meinerzhagen, Germany based company Voswinkel from the Voswinkel shareholder family in April this year already. Traditional German companies from the Sauerland region pool their expertise and know-how to become international specialists for fluid power pipework components ... more

Aug. 17, 2015   + + +  On Monday, RWE officially launched its power-to-gas plant in the NRW location of Ibbenbüren. The state-of-the-art plant is part of new system that, for the first time ever, links together the supply of local electricity, natural gas and district heating. Any superfluous electricity from renewable sources is converted into hydrogen so it can be stored within the natural gas network. It can then be recalled from there at a later date for use in electricity production that boasts an extremely high utilisation rate. This power-to-gas process is seen as one of the key technologies for tomorrow’s energy supply  ... more

Aug. 12, 2015  + + +  Today marks the official start of construction of the modular large-scale battery storage system M5BAT on the premises of RWTH Aachen University. Storage systems like this represent an important building block for the expansion of renewable energies, as they make a significant contribution to system stability. They also open up a broad range of areas of application. The planned power class of five megawatts and the high level of modularity – whereby different battery technologies are combined with one another – make the so-called “M5BAT” (Modular Multimegawatt, Multitechnology Medium-Voltage Battery Storage System) a world-first ... more

New Wireless AP/Bridge/Client Features AeroLink Protection™
for Maximum Wireless Network Availability

Aug. 11, 2015   + + +  In industrial networking applications, such as communications between offshore oil platforms or train-to-ground communications, a reliable wireless bridge is essential to minimize system downtime and maximize availability. Moxa's new AWK-3131A wireless AP/bridge/client delivers exceptionally fast, ultra reliable wireless performance in industrial settings by supporting IEEE 802.11n technology with a maximum net data rate of 300 Mbps, plus AeroLink Protection™ redundancy to prevent a single point of failure from bringing down an entire network ... more

Siemens sets a standard
for smart metering powerline data communication

Aug. 08, 2015   + + +  In intelligent power supply networks – smart grids – the quality of data transmission from digital meters to the power supply company is playing an increasingly important role. To make sure data is smoothly transmitted via lines in the power grid, it must be ensured that this transmission is also possible with equipment and transmission systems from different manufacturers. Siemens has developed the CX1 data transport profile for this purpose, and it is well on its way to becoming the international standard for open, secure, and fault-tolerant data communication via powerline for smart metering in intelligent power supply grids ... more

MOL acquires Czech, Slovak retail assets 

July 31, 2015   + + +  MOL Group, Budapest, completed its acquisition from Eni SPA of retail outlets in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The group earlier this year acquired Eni’s retail assets in Romania, including 42 service stations, under a 2014 agreement covering the three countries. The latest acquisition includes 125 service stations in the Czech Republic and 41 in Slovakia. MOL will rebrand the Agip stations mostly to the MOL brand in the Czech Republic and to the Slovnaft brand in Slovakia. As a result of this deal and a late-2014 acquisition from Lukoil Ceska Republika, MOL now owns 316 service stations in the Czech Republic. In Slovakia it now operates 253 service stations ... more

ELA Container Offshore GmbH
Numerous offshore projects have been completed since the company was founded in August 2014

July 30, 2015   + + +  In the course of numerous “first year” projects, ELA Container Offshore GmbH has gained plenty of valuable experience in the fields of offshore wind, offshore oil and gas, equipment for supply ships and dredging. In addition to Germany, ELA Offshore Containers were delivered to Africa, Kazakhstan, Norway, Denmark, Mexico and the Netherlands ... more

E.ON and FRIATEC entered into a long-term energy partnership

July 30, 2015   + + +  E.ON’s energy solutions business E.ON Connecting Energies and FRIATEC, the specialist company for products made of non-corroding and wear-resistant materials, have entered into a long-term energy partnership, starting with a high-efficiency heat supply solution for FRIATEC’s production plant in Mannheim, Germany. E.ON will refurbish the existing heat infrastructure of the Mannheim site and plans to build, own and operate Europe’s first fuel cell power plant of megawatt (MW) size to supply the site with clean energy ... more

Siemens AG: Jürgen Brandes named CEO of Process Industries and Drives Division

July 30, 2015   + + +  Jürgen Brandes (54) has been appointed CEO of Siemens’ Process Industries and Drives Division, effective October 1, 2015. He will succeed Peter Herweck (48), who is leaving the company at the end of the fiscal year. Brandes has been at Siemens for 25 years and is currently CEO of the company’s Mobility Management Business Unit. He previously held a variety of positions in Siemens’ automation and drives technology business both in and outside Germany. "We'd like to thank Peter Herweck for his many years of dedication in a wide variety of positions at our company, including, prior to his appointment as Division CEO, several years in China and as head of Corporate Strategy. We wish him every success in his future career," said Klaus Helmrich, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG + + +  more (biography Dr. Jürgen Brandes)

Siemens-Telecontrol: Connecting industrial outstations inexpensively and securely

July 13, 2015    + + +   With the new CP 1243-8 IRC communication processor, Siemens enables telecontrol applications based on the Sinaut ST7 telecontrol protocol. The new communication processor makes it possible to connect Simatic S7-1200 controllers as outstations (remote terminal units/RTUs) to higher-level ST7 stations with minimum effort and low costs. The solution is suitable for use in new and existing systems ... water/wastewater, gas lines, district heating, and electrical energy projects  ...  more

Atlas Copco:
Winterized compressors heading to Shah Deniz platform

June 30, 2015   + + +  Atlas Copco Compressors has delivered a 50-metric ton (55-ton) air compressor package to Baku for installation on a platform on the Shah Deniz field, 90 km (56 mi) offshore Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The consignment, mounted on a single skid, comprised three ZR500 water-cooled screw compressors, a closed circuit water cooling system, three heatless dryers and a ZT110 black start screw compressor for emergencies ... more

Bender expands in South America

June 26, 2015 + + + Bender is reinforcing its presence in South America by opening an official branch in the Chilean capital of Santiago de Chile on 01 July 2015. The Managing Director of Bender Latin America is Sergio Julian, who reports directly to Dr Dirk Pieler (CEO of Bender GmbH & Co. in Grünberg). The branch currently has four employees. The sales area covers the whole of South American apart from Brazil + + +  Bender means active damage prevention in On- and Offshore applications of oil and gas production ... and for preventive monitoring of marine propulsion systems and on-board systems ... more

FKM seal material Vi 840
A breakthrough in the valves sector and gas industry

June 22, 2015   + + +  For some years now, one of the central demands from the valve sector and gas industry has been for a seal material that has suitable low temperature flexibility, and which conforms to the DIN EN 14141 standard. Up until now, there simply hasn’t been a suitable FKM seal material available. But now, the independent seal manufacturer C. Otto Gehrckens has developed the low temperature flexible ‘Vi 840’ FKM compound. This has been successfully tested according to DVGW DIN EN 682 (type GBL)  ... more

June 11, 2015 + + + On Wednesday May 27, the North Sea emergency salvage vessel “Nordic” – powered by MTU Series 8000 – the “Neuwerk” – with its MTU Series 595 engines – and the “Mellum” – with its MTU series 396 engines - approached the stricken fertilizer freighter “Purple Beach” to within 100 meters operating in gas-protected mode. All three ships are equipped with hazardous-atmosphere engines ... more

Siemens extends packaging agreement with Centrax
to deliver industrial turbines

June 09, 2015   + + +   Siemens has extended its packaging agreement for gas turbines with the engineering company Centrax Ltd. to now 31 European countries. Since June 2011, Centrax sells the SGT-300 and SGT-400 gas turbine series from Siemens as a complete package under the product name CX300 and CX400. In the extended European market Siemens has appointed Centrax to be the primary route to market for the sale of industrial power generation and distributed energy packages for these two gas turbine models ... more

April 23, 2015   + + +   Meridian LNG Holdings Corp. and E.ON Global Commodities SE (EGC), the trading unit of E.ON SE, have entered into a 20-year gas sales agreement under which EGC has agreed to purchase up to two million tons of regasified LNG per year (2.0 mtpa) from Meridian LNG at market-reflective conditions to be delivered at UK’s National Balancing Point. Meridian LNG intends to deliver such LNG through its planned Port Meridian import and regasification terminal ... more

April 10, 2015   + + +    Technology company The Linde Group, via its Swedish Engineering subsidiary Cryo AB, has been awarded a contract by Meyer Turku Shipyard of Finland to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel gas system for the next-generation high-speed ferry being built for AS Tallink Grupp. The ferry will operate in the Baltic Sea between Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia and has been designed to comply with the European Emission Control Area (ECA) limits thanks to the use of LNG as fuel ... more

April 09, 2015  + + +  Siemens has expanded its high-performance Comfort Panel class in the Simatic HMI (Human Machine Interface) series to include particularly rugged devices for use in extreme ambient conditions. The Simatic HMI TP700 and Simatic HMI TP1500 Comfort Outdoor Panels are equipped with a UV-protected device front with degree of protection IP65 and are ideally suited for use in refrigerated buildings, ships, or the oil and gas industry ... more

A vision of a Gas Union in Central and South East Europe
(Article by Peter Poptchev in EnergyPost, March 30, 2015)

April 2, 2015   + + +  We will never have a unified European energy policy as long as Central and East European gas markets remain fragmented and divided, writes Peter Poptchev. Now, however, under the impetus of the Energy Union, the EU has a unique opportunity to put its Eastern gas house in order. Poptchev sets out the main steps that need to be taken to achieve this goal ... more

NordLink project ... ABB wins $900 million order to connect Norwegian and German power grids

March 19, 2015   + + +  ABB has won orders worth around $900 million from a consortium comprising leading utilities Statnett and TenneT as well as promotional bank KfW to supply on-shore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations and the cable system in the German sector that will facilitate the first ever interconnection between the Norwegian and German power grids. The link will be 623 kilometers (km) long, making it the longest HVDC connection in Europe ... more

When the diesel engine of a deck crane failed, it caused major handling problems for an offshore platform operating in the Dutch sector of the southern North Sea, problems that were solved with the use of J D Neuhaus air operated hoists. The crane was operating at 40 metres above sea level and provided a lift capacity of 20 tonnes ... more

Feb 19, 2015   + + +   Siemens has commissioned its Clean Energy Center, a new burner test center for gas turbines in Ludwigsfelde near Berlin. Combustion processes in gas turbines will be examined and validated at the Clean Energy Center, with the aim of enhancing the efficiency of the Siemens gas turbines and improving their flexibility regarding the use of different liquid and gaseous fuels ... more

Feb. 11, 2015    + + +   Rolls-Royce has set up MTU Middle East as a new regional sales and service subsidiary with head office in Dubai. MTU Middle East is to support distributors and business partners of MTU, MTU Onsite Energy and Bergen Engines in 21 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The goal is to achieve an even more tightly knit sales and service network. In this region, high-speed and medium-speed large diesel and gas engines, drive systems and on-site power generation systems are mainly deployed in electrical power generation, the oil and gas industry ... more

February 9, 2015     + + +    SR Technics and Kuehne + Nagel announced that their successful partnership to provide Middle East customers of SR Technics with warehousing, spare parts logistics and distribution services would continue to develop + + +  The aerospace industry in the Middle East is rapidly expanding. According to SR Technics, its Regional Distribution Centre (RDC) in Dubai is already handling 65,000 annual transactions and it plans to almost double the transactions to 120,000 over the next five years ... more

Linde achieves growth in a difficult market environment and increases its dividend ... more

2015, Jan. 28   + + +  WITTENSTEIN motion control (WMC) has led the field of mechatronic drive technology for extreme environmental conditions since 1992. At the Subsea Expo in Aberdeen, WMC will present intelligent components and integrated severe-service systems that are used successfully on numerous projects ... more

January 2015   + + +   For their new corporate video, WIKA has made an unusual choice for its main character - a small boy discovering the WIKA world + + + The WIKA group of companies is a leading global player in the field of measurement technology for pressure, temperature, level and flow, and also for calibration solutions ... more

Jan. 19, 2015   + + +    PSI AG obtained by the end of 2014 a number of orders in the energy sector for the renewal of network control systems. Extensive upgrade orders for the modernisation of the existing PSI systems were received from ELE Verteilnetz GmbH (EVNG), LEW Verteilnetz GmbH (LVN) ... more

January 12, 2015 + + + dmg :: events (global energy) and NGV Global announce partnership (for dmg :: events’ flagship show Gastech Singapore, 27 – 30 October 2015) to deliver the ideal forum to discuss the commercial opportunities within the expanding Asian NGV market ... more

Dec 16, 2014  + + +  ThyssenKrupp AG today have signed a contract with Telekom subsidiary T-Systems for the set-up and operation of central data centers. Before the end of the year, T-Systems will start transferring IT systems and services previously accommodated in around 700 data rooms and eleven data centers to five global data centers. In addition, over 80,000 computer workstations and 10,000 server systems of ThyssenKrupp worldwide are to be moved to the cloud ... more

Nov. 21, 2014   + + +   Panalpina was acknowledged this week in London as Air Freight Solutions Provider of the Year, as well as Project/Heavylift Forwarder of the Year, by one of the freight forwarding industry’s most prestigious awarding bodies. The recognition by Lloyd’s Global Freight Awards indicates Panalpina’s proficiency and know-how in freight and logistics.

“We’re proud to win these prestigious awards in two categories where we undoubtedly have a proven and long-standing track record,” says Chris Cooper, Panalpina’s managing director for the UK and Ireland. “Air freight and projects –  particularly in the oil and gas industry – are deeply ingrained in our company DNA.” ...

2014 Nov. 12   + + +   How the recent introduction of the innovative EX25 2D Multi Range Barcode Imager for ecom’s i.roc® Ci70 -Ex handheld computer (PDA) enables new levels of efficiency and safety for companies and onsite personnel in potentially hazardous locations  + + +  The increasing use of 1D/2D barcodes in the workplace to identify items, pallets, containers, storage locations and even yard locations brings the opportunity to improve safety by reducing the time the people are in a hazardous area, and improving efficiency due to the speed and accuracy of item/location identification and data capture ...

Nov. 13, 2014  + + +  This year, TOTAL Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland GmbH successfully completed the turnaround and inspection (T&I) 2014 project at its Leuna refinery in which Bilfinger specialists played a decisive role. The services provided by Bilfinger were valued at over EUR 10 million. Further T&I projects with an aggregate value of some EUR 35 million are planned for the autumn and the beginning of next year in Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States for energy and chemicals companies as well as in the paper and consumer goods industry. Customers include Borealis, BP, Essar, ExxonMobil, Huntsman, Ineos, Neste Oil and Syngenta ....

Nov. 06, 2014   + + +  Originally from the Netherlands, Paul van Son will be based at RWE in Dubai. His focus there will be on extending the contact network with governments and private sector companies in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, as well as driving the development of energy projects in the areas of renewables and smart technologies in particular ...

Oct 28, 2014   + + +  The new CEO of MAN Diesel & Turbo SE comes from within the company. With effect from 1 January 2015 Dr. Uwe Lauber will assume the function as CEO of the globally operating technology company located in Augsburg. The 47-year-old Lauber had been Head of the Business Unit Oil & Gas before and took over the Executive Board position Global Sales and After Sales on 1 October 2014. He joined the company in 2000 ....

Oct. 02, 2014  + + +  Cameron has selected AUMA as a technology partner in developing the LEDEEN line of electric actuation offerings for the worldwide oil and gas industry. Cameron says this partnership helps complete its valve automation actuation product portfolio, providing package solutions, including LEDEEN electric, electrohydraulic, pneumatic, hydraulic, direct gas, gas-over-oil, subsea, and compact actuators ....

Sept. 30, 2014   + + +  As increasing amounts of wind and solar power enter transmission networks, it is not just demand for energy that is fluctuating, but also supply. Siemens has created a neural network-based forecasting software that predicts fluctuations, thus helping to increase the efficiency of electricity markets. Depending on the weather, wind farms and solar parks produce varying amounts of electricity, and conventional power plants must make up for fluctuations. The greater the share of fluctuating renewable energy sources, the more difficult it becomes to manage power supply — an issue that affects power suppliers and grid operators alike ...

Wintershall to acquire interests off Norway

Sevan Marine ASA: Floating Gas Power Plant

E.ON power-to-gas pilot unit in Falkenhagen

Siemens presents first gas-insulated 320-kV switchgear
for direct current transmission

MTU Onsite Energy gas generator sets
compliant with medium-voltage directive

ABB to provide UK grid connection
for Europe’s largest tidal energy project

Volga-Dnepr's IL-76TD-90VD fleet
sees Oil and Gas Deliveries double in first half of 2014

DNV GL releases its new Maritime Impact magazine

DAMEN, MTU and Svitzer
will launch the world's first RSD CNG tug in 2016