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Yokogawa Wins Major Contract for Largest UK Onshore Gas Storage Facility


Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Netherlands) have announced that its subsidiary, Yokogawa United Kingdom Ltd., has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by SSE Hornsea Ltd for the upgrade of one of the UK's largest onshore underground gas storage facilities, located at Atwick, East Yorkshire.


Yokogawa United Kingdom will supply an integrated control and safety system, together with a metering solution. The order includes the supply and installation of Yokogawa's flagship CENTUM(R) VP integrated production control system to control the gas compressors. Also included in the project is the ProSafe(R)-RS integrated safety instrumented system, which will contribute to ensuring process safety at the facility.


The Atwick gas storage facility comprises nine man-made salt cavities that have been leached into a salt layer 1.8 km underground, creating around 325 million cubic metres of gas storage space. Gas is imported to the site and injected into the cavities for storage. When needed, the gas is then withdrawn from the cavities, dried, and exported to the national transmission system. According to the British Geological Survey: "When compared to above ground storage tank facilities, underground gas storage provides significantly greater and cheaper storage volumes required and, when carefully constructed and monitored, added levels of safety."


This contract is part of an SSE project to extend the life of the site and allow its use for both peak shaving and longer term storage by improving control, compression, and metering. It is the project's aim to ensure the viability of the asset's control systems and the commercial availability of the facility for the future by replacing the obsolete control systems with modern, maintainable, and supportable control and safety systems.


"This is a significant order win for Yokogawa", says David Clough, Sales Director at Yokogawa United Kingdom. "It was the quality of our products and their technical superiority, together with the experience and dedication of our engineers, that were recognised by the customer. We are committed to achieving the project's aim of enhancement of the operational life, while maintaining safety."


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Herman van den Berg, President, Yokogawa Europe B.V, added: "In Europe and North America, gas is often stored in underground facilities, and many projects for the construction and upgrade of such facilities are in the planning stage, spurred by such developments as the surge in shale gas production. Yokogawa is targeting the natural gas industry, and we believe that this project will allow us to gain further expertise in gas storage control and safety applications that we intend to share with the entire Group."


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SilcoTek (USA) have moved to a new 38,000 square foot, state of the art facility located at 225 PennTech Drive, Bellefonte, PA 16823, USA. The new coating facility incorporates innovative new processes, and improves plant efficiency. To learn more about SilcoTek and their new facility please visit their website.


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Tank Storage Asia 2013 Set to be Bigger and Better


Tank Storage Asia, taking place on 10–11 December 2013 at Singapore Expo, will be 30% bigger than the previous edition in 2012, with major names signed up to exhibit, new areas of focus and a top flight conference programme already taking shape.


The show floor has been expanded by almost a third to accommodate the growing number of manufacturers and suppliers who want to exhibit at the event. Emerson, Endress + Hauser, Kanon and Vacono are among the industry leading exhibitors already onboard, furthermore, Horizon Terminals is supporting the show.


Many of these big name companies, such as Veolia, Akzo Nobel and Shiva Engineering, have not exhibited at the show before. They recognise that Tank Storage Asia is the prime way of meeting the leading terminal operators, oil majors and petrochemical companies operating in the fast developing Asian market - a sector which is expected to grow by 45% by 2015.


Matthew Mear, Business Manager – Jet Mixing Solutions, Veolia Environmental Services (UK) Plc says: “We have committed to exhibit at Tank Storage Asia for the first time. Asia is a critical market for us, and we are confident that Tank Storage Asia will be a key part of a targeted campaign to drive our growth in this region.”


The mix of established and new exhibitors will span tank maintenance, through to innovations in metering & measuring, pumps & valves, automation & loading equipment and inspection & certification services. The organisers are also developing certain aspects of the show, including tank design and construction, biofuels, lightning prevention, liquefied natural gas, unconventional gas and underground storage, with more exhibitors than ever before covering these supply areas.


Running alongside the exhibition will be a paid for, two-day conference covering the whole Asia region - from the Middle East to China and New Zealand. The world-renowned line-up of 20 speakers will be unveiled in August. However the programme is already taking shape under the themes of: ‘understanding the local market,’ ‘preparing for market changes,’ ‘why the interest in China’ and ‘improving terminal profits, efficiency and safety.’ The talks will explore issues such as the outlook for the bulk liquid storage market in Asia, developments on Jurong Island, growth of chemical storage in Asia, recent changes to regulation and where the demand will be for LPG through to financing greenfield developments, opportunities in China and how to make your terminal appealing to a possible investor.


Commenting on the show, Matt Benyon, Managing Director of Tank Storage Asia says: “With almost 80% of exhibitors at the last Tank Storage Asia re-booking on the spot, I always thought the 2013 show would be bigger, but to be able to state almost six months ahead of time that it has expanded by 30% is tremendous. All the industry decision makers from across the region are set to attend the show, and when they do they will find a bigger and even more content rich show than ever before.”


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Industrial Scientific Corporation


Announces Sale of Oldham Fixed Systems Business to Industrial Safety Technologies


Industrial Scientific Corporation (USA) have announced that they have reached an agreement with Industrial Safety Technologies (IST) for the sale of its Oldham fixed-point gas detection business.


Oldham provides a comprehensive portfolio of fixed system gas detection monitors and controllers. The sale encompasses Oldham headquarters’ operations in Arras, France along with fixed systems support operations in China, Germany, India and the United States.


“Industrial Scientific people are dedicating their careers to ending death on the job,” said Justin McElhattan, President and CEO of Industrial Scientific. “The sale of Oldham is part of our strategy to accelerate promising technologies that further preserve human life in the workplace. Our growing global presence in portable gas detection technology and services will enable our customers to benefit from these innovations. I firmly believe that Oldham and its people will thrive under Industrial Safety Technologies. IST has strong synergies in fixed gas detection and supports the vision of the company.”


Adam Markin, President of Industrial Safety Technologies, said “Oldham offers IST a great European presence and market share including production capabilities in France and China that complement IST’s existing locations and other group companies. We are excited about Oldham and are very interested in working with Oldham management to grow the business and meet their long term objectives.”


The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2013. Raptor Partners LLC acted as financial advisors to Industrial Scientific in the transaction.


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