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Augmented reality technology is allowing field engineers to connect directly to off-site experts for more efficient maintenance, data collection, training and safety, as Kim Fenrich, global AR/VR and digital services product manager, ABB Process Automation, explains....
After years of heavy reliance on fossil fuels, societal and environmental pressures are leading governments worldwide to look for new ways of meeting their energy demands. One of these alternative fuel sources is biogas, a side product of anaerobic digestion in wastewater treatment processes....
ABB to apply its Adaptive Execution™ methodology to help optimise the first unmanned processing platform for the Krafla field in the North Sea. Adaptive Execution™ integrates expert teams, new technologies, agile processes, shared learnings and proven methodologies into a more evolved end-to-end solution, tied together with the digital ABB Ability™ platform....
Process safety management (PSM) can be defined as the prevention of unplanned and uncontrolled loss of containment that can result in harm to people and the environment, and business losses....
ABB has launched ABB Ability SafetyInsight, a suite of digital software applications that support companies across the energy and process sectors throughout the entire lifecycle of process safety management (PSM)....
A gas storage facility in Cheshire, UK, designed to hold over 400 million cubic metres of gas, will be controlled by ABB System 800xA along with ABB Instrumentation. The Stublach facility is being built for Storengy (a GDF Suez company) in Cheshire and will store gas in salt caverns deep underground....
ABB will collaborate with Dresser Masoneilan, a global leader in process control valves, on an integrated process to monitor, test and manage emergency shutdown valves (ESDV) during all operational conditions, from normal plant operations to abnormal situations. These valves are crucial process elements for the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, as well as many other industrial processes....
Whatever industry they are in, responsible companies see the safety of their products and solutions as of vital importance. ABB is certainly in this camp....
ABB has won a contract worth $155 million from the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) for a turnkey project to design a new crude-oil transit line and build and associated ancillary systems.
The project includes the expansion of an existing manifold (a pipeline consolidation installation) at Point A, a location in the north of the country, and the installation of the new transit line....
Quite apart from any moral considerations, skimping on safety within the oil and gas industries can be an expensive mistake. The right safety instrumentation can deliver long-term security and a lower life-time cost....