Canada’s Oil & Gas Industry: The Rise of the Oil Sands
Canada as a source of crude has many advantages for United States industry.
Materials Selection for Deepwater Gate Valves
With the discovery of oil and gas in water depths thousands of feet below the surface, selection of valves is more important, difficult and complicated.
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Nuclear Slowdown Result of Natural Gas Costs, Not Events in Japan
Natural gas prices will have more of an effect on the fate of the U.S. nuclear renaissance than the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, according to a recent article for Industrial Info Resources by John Egan.
The Rough-And-Tumble Oil And Gas Industry
Rugged, reliable and safe are essential characteristics to all equipment operating in this industry, and valves are certainly no exception.
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Making Progress On Improving Our Aging Water Infrastructure
The nation’s utilities are employing rate increases, technology and other tools to maintain and, in some cases, upgrade or replace, our water infrastructure.
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Wireless Networking in the Process Industry
In January VDC Research Group (Natick, MA) published a study entitled “2010 Industrial Networking Infrastructure Products Global Market Requirements and Opportunities Analysis,” which took a look at the key trends expected to shape the 2011 industrial networking solutions market and made predictions of the rate at which the market would expand.
What Goes into the SIP Process
Clean steam sterilization is the heart of the sanitization routine for most biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes, as well as most pharmaceutical processes that produce parenteral medications (those not administered through the digestive tract such as injections and others) or diagnostic agents.
Mining Faces Many Political Risks
Before the economic crash, the mining industry was seeing new investors – companies such as steel manufacturers that were not miners by trade were getting into the business, said Steve Ralbovsky, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
A Wall Street Perspective: Indicators ‘Paint a Mixed Picture'
Wall Street expert Michael Halloran, vice president for Robert W.
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