Tag: Oil & Gas
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Metito lands Bechtel SWRO desalination in Australia
Dubai-based Metito has landed two new seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants in Australia and is currently nearing completion of one in Qatar.
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GE and memsys in joint MD development accord
Singapore-based membrane distillation (MD) specialist memsys clearwater Pte Ltd has entered into an agreement with GE to jointly develop the technology for the fast-growing oil and gas market.
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Electro-precipitation tech tackles oil/gas wastewater
Florida-based Latitude Solutions Inc has contracted with Harley Dome LLC to deploy the its proprietary Electro-PrecipitationTM water remediation technology at the Harley Dome Waste Water Facility in Westwater, Utah.
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Two pressure-vessel contracts for Protec Arisawa
Desalination membrane pressure vessels made by Protec Arisawa have been chosen for contracts in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Brazil, the company announced on 14 June 2012.
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Modular evaporator released for oil sands market
Aquatech International unveiled its SmartMod™ modular evaporator technology for the oil sands market at the 2012 Global Petroleum Show in Calgary, Canada, on 12‑14 June 2012.
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Mitsui acquires minority stake in Water Standard
Houston-based Water Standard Management (US) Inc, which focuses on water treatment for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), announced on 30 May 2012 that Japan’s Mitsui & Co Ltd has acquired a minority interest in the company.
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Qatar’s GWSC to research MBRs for oil and gas water
The ConocoPhillips Global Water Sustainability Center (GWSC) in Qatar has been awarded a US$ 700,000 grant to research biological treatment of produced water from oil and gas using membrane bioreactors (MBRs).
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VWS buys inge UF modules for oil rig
VWS Westgarth has awarded a contract to BASF subsidiary inge GmbH for 600 dizzer® ultrafiltration (UF) modules for an oil rig.
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NRDC report urges control and reuse of fracking wastewater
The US Environmental Protection Agency and individual states should ban or more strictly regulate the discharge of shale gas wastewater (SGW) from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to publicly owned treatment works (POTWs). They should also update pollution control standards for centralised waste treatment facilities (CWTs) that accept SGW.
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TFC membrane for FO in commercial production
A new highly durable, dimensionally stable, thin film composite (TFC) membrane is now in full-scale production by Hydration Technology Innovations LLC (HTI), the world’s only manufacturer of commercially viable forward-osmosis (FO) membranes.