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Honeywell monitors Guangxi pipeline
GAS MEASUREMENT equipment and Workers on the Guangxi LNG pipeline. Image courtesy Honeywell Process Solutions.
software designed by Honeywell Process
Solutions will be used on the 2,000 “Measurements such as flow and pressure LNG a year when it is completed, transporting
kilometre Guangxi liquefied natural must be accurate and immediately accessible to gas from as far away as Kazakhstan to China.
gas (LNG) pipeline, the company has keep the pipeline operating most efficiently.”
announced. HPS technology is already being used on all
The pipeline is a project of Sinopec and the three of the 1,770 kilometre Central Asia to
Set to be completed later this year, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and China pipelines as well as the 9,000 kilometre
pipeline will stretch from Maoming to Beihai will have a capacity of 8 billion cubic metres of West to East II pipeline across China. l
in China’s southern Guangxi region, meeting
local demand for LNG.
Honeywell will provide software and sensors
that measure flow, temperature, pressure
and other indicators critical for pipeline
performance.
These will include ultrasonic flowmeters
to measure natural gas for custody transfer
applications, flow computers to perform
calculations of compressibility and SmartLine
temperature and pressure transmitters.
These transmitters reduce initial purchasing
costs, provide flexibility for post start-up
modifications, and reduce maintenance and
inventory costs while providing high accuracy
and stability, Honeywell said.
Honeywell Process Solutions Greater China
vice president Aldous Wong said the company
would draw on its experience in long-distance,
natural gas high-pressure pipelines in working
on the project.
“Pipelines have challenges that are very
different from processing plants since you have
to manage an operation that is hundreds or
sometimes thousands of miles long,” he said.
Oil & Gas industry unaffected by Tianjin explosion
REPORTS suggest explosions at the Beijing, with the city being close to major oil suppliers to its logistics company, Damco.
Chinese port city of Tianjin has had no and gas deposits in the Bohai Bay basin. The company said access restrictions and
impact on the nation’s upstream oil and
gas industry, although the movements Reuters reported the 270,000 barrels-per- ongoing salvage operations have prevented
of chemical and oil tankers have been day Tianjin refinery operated by Sinopec and it from fully assessing damage to cargo and
affected. a 2 million tonne-per-year floating liquefied Maersk Line containers, the AP reported.
natural gas (LNG) terminal run by China
Two explosions ripped through a warehouse National Offshore Oil Corporation were Port operator Tianjin Port Development
owned by Tianjin Dongjiang Port Ruihai operating normally. Holdings halted trading of its shares in Hong
International Logistics at around 11:20pm on Kong on Thursday, telling shareholders to
12 August “It’s a massive disaster that seemed to exercise caution in dealing with its shares when
concentrate in the container port part of the trading resumed the next day.
The warehouse owner was a government- much larger Tianjin port, but fortunately the
approved firm specialising in the handling larger oil and gas facilities are not close by,” the “Currently the port operations of the
of dangerous chemicals, including sodium newswire quoted a Beijing-based oil trader as Group are normal,” the company said in
cyanide, used in gold mining, industrial saying. an announcement to the Hong Kong Stock
solvent butanone and compressed natural gas. Exchange.
The Associated Press reported that ships
Reports suggested the death toll, estimated carrying oil and “hazardous products” “The Group is in the process of assessing
at 50 with over 700 people injured, was were barred from the port the day after the the loss on the Group caused by the accident.
reduced due to the time of the explosion and explosion, adding that no vessels were allowed Based on the preliminary assessment, the
the location of the warehouse at the Binhai to enter the central port zone, which is near the Group anticipated that the accident will not
New Development Area, rather than in a more blast site. cause any material loss to the Group.
heavily populated neighbourhood.
Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller- Shares in the group fell 3.68 per cent or 6
Petrochemicals is a major industry for Maersk said operations at its Tianjin port Hong Kong cents when trade resumed on
the city, located 140 kilometres southeast of terminals, which are 5 kilometres from the Friday, 14 August. l
blast site, resumed on the next day, despite
damage to warehouses owned and operated by
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OIL & GAS AUSTRALIA
Honeywell monitors Guangxi pipeline
GAS MEASUREMENT equipment and Workers on the Guangxi LNG pipeline. Image courtesy Honeywell Process Solutions.
software designed by Honeywell Process
Solutions will be used on the 2,000 “Measurements such as flow and pressure LNG a year when it is completed, transporting
kilometre Guangxi liquefied natural must be accurate and immediately accessible to gas from as far away as Kazakhstan to China.
gas (LNG) pipeline, the company has keep the pipeline operating most efficiently.”
announced. HPS technology is already being used on all
The pipeline is a project of Sinopec and the three of the 1,770 kilometre Central Asia to
Set to be completed later this year, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and China pipelines as well as the 9,000 kilometre
pipeline will stretch from Maoming to Beihai will have a capacity of 8 billion cubic metres of West to East II pipeline across China. l
in China’s southern Guangxi region, meeting
local demand for LNG.
Honeywell will provide software and sensors
that measure flow, temperature, pressure
and other indicators critical for pipeline
performance.
These will include ultrasonic flowmeters
to measure natural gas for custody transfer
applications, flow computers to perform
calculations of compressibility and SmartLine
temperature and pressure transmitters.
These transmitters reduce initial purchasing
costs, provide flexibility for post start-up
modifications, and reduce maintenance and
inventory costs while providing high accuracy
and stability, Honeywell said.
Honeywell Process Solutions Greater China
vice president Aldous Wong said the company
would draw on its experience in long-distance,
natural gas high-pressure pipelines in working
on the project.
“Pipelines have challenges that are very
different from processing plants since you have
to manage an operation that is hundreds or
sometimes thousands of miles long,” he said.
Oil & Gas industry unaffected by Tianjin explosion
REPORTS suggest explosions at the Beijing, with the city being close to major oil suppliers to its logistics company, Damco.
Chinese port city of Tianjin has had no and gas deposits in the Bohai Bay basin. The company said access restrictions and
impact on the nation’s upstream oil and
gas industry, although the movements Reuters reported the 270,000 barrels-per- ongoing salvage operations have prevented
of chemical and oil tankers have been day Tianjin refinery operated by Sinopec and it from fully assessing damage to cargo and
affected. a 2 million tonne-per-year floating liquefied Maersk Line containers, the AP reported.
natural gas (LNG) terminal run by China
Two explosions ripped through a warehouse National Offshore Oil Corporation were Port operator Tianjin Port Development
owned by Tianjin Dongjiang Port Ruihai operating normally. Holdings halted trading of its shares in Hong
International Logistics at around 11:20pm on Kong on Thursday, telling shareholders to
12 August “It’s a massive disaster that seemed to exercise caution in dealing with its shares when
concentrate in the container port part of the trading resumed the next day.
The warehouse owner was a government- much larger Tianjin port, but fortunately the
approved firm specialising in the handling larger oil and gas facilities are not close by,” the “Currently the port operations of the
of dangerous chemicals, including sodium newswire quoted a Beijing-based oil trader as Group are normal,” the company said in
cyanide, used in gold mining, industrial saying. an announcement to the Hong Kong Stock
solvent butanone and compressed natural gas. Exchange.
The Associated Press reported that ships
Reports suggested the death toll, estimated carrying oil and “hazardous products” “The Group is in the process of assessing
at 50 with over 700 people injured, was were barred from the port the day after the the loss on the Group caused by the accident.
reduced due to the time of the explosion and explosion, adding that no vessels were allowed Based on the preliminary assessment, the
the location of the warehouse at the Binhai to enter the central port zone, which is near the Group anticipated that the accident will not
New Development Area, rather than in a more blast site. cause any material loss to the Group.
heavily populated neighbourhood.
Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller- Shares in the group fell 3.68 per cent or 6
Petrochemicals is a major industry for Maersk said operations at its Tianjin port Hong Kong cents when trade resumed on
the city, located 140 kilometres southeast of terminals, which are 5 kilometres from the Friday, 14 August. l
blast site, resumed on the next day, despite
damage to warehouses owned and operated by
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