This Brazilian state-owned giant is the fastest growing oil company in the world. By owning some shares of Petrobras PBR, you can hedge your bets against rising prices at the pump.
The case study describes about dairy products. In an effort to reduce energy costs, S&S Dairy evaluated their vacuum pumping system to determine if efficiency gains and energy savings were possible. The evaluation led S&S Dairy to implement an optimization project that decreased the energy consumption of the vacuum system...
The City of Milford, located just south of New Haven, Connecticut, operates 37 sewage stations that serve more than 48,000 people. To determine whether or not energy savings could be realized at the lift station, team engineers developed a test plan based upon the systems approach. The new system includes...
This paper gives details about heating and cooling system that places a heat pump in each building zone. A re-circulating piping system connects the heat pump. The piping system adds or removes heat to the circulating water. This system provides space heating and space cooling for a large number of...
The Veterans Health Administration's (VHA's) National Center for Patient Safety retained the services of American Institutes for Research AIR to conduct a comparative usability test of intravenous infusion pumps. AIR conducted the testing in November 2001 with the support of VHA staff, members of a VHA Advisory Panel, and simulation...
Given the high price you're paying at the pump, it probably comes as no surprise that the oil industry has racked up record profits. Exxon Mobile takes the trophy for highest profits in U.S. corporate history: $39.1 billion in 2006. The oil giant trumped its own 2005 record of $36.1...
Whether your goal is to reduce oil imports, lower carbon dioxide emissions, or just save money, geothermal heat pumps MAY be an answer for you. In many places and under many circumstances, this heat source makes economic sense without any need for subsidy (although, in...
The cumulative waste heat currently released to the environment by the chemical and refining industries, amounts to 110 PJ/a in the temperature window 50 < ToC < 200. A huge energy saving potential exists if this waste heat can be upgraded to either industrial cooling levels (T < 10oC) or...
The firewater system on an offshore oil installation is normally built around a firewater ring main FRM, fed by large-capacity firewater pumps FPs, located at sea level. Jockey pumps are used to maintain FRM pressure at all times. When a deluge system (i.e. a high-flow firewater user) is activated, the...
Oak Resources, Inc. Oak began employing progressing cavity pumps PCPs in the West Hewitt Penn Sand Unit, a waterflood in Southern Oklahoma, in September 1988. This article explains why after experience with beam pumps and electric submersibles, the operator found progressing cavity pumps to be more cost effective and efficient...
The paper mentions that the information presented during the workshop provided attendees with the opportunity to refresh their knowledge of basic artificial lift concepts, while exposing them to new developments with the several different types of lift systems (beam pumps, electric submersible pumps, progressing cavity pumps, long-stroke pumps). A central...
The paper describes for RO, MSF and MED plants the technical arrangement possibilities for speed control systems for small and large pumps and compares the energy consumption with conventional arrangements. It is demonstrated that for RO high pressure pumps speed control results always into an overall cost saving and for...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I've often written the first firearm I ever shot was a top-break .22 pistol on my uncle's farm. However, as I have been thinking about it lately I have come to realize that's probably not true. Like many young boys growing up in the '30s, '40s,...
Motorists will not have to pay 2p extra on a litre of fuel after Alistair Darling announced plans to suspend the tax rise due in October. The Chancellor's move followed a backlash from motorists and hauliers over the remorseless rises in prices at the pumps. But he...
HOUSTON -- Rowan Companies, Inc. (NYSE:RDC) announced today that its wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary, LeTourneau Technologies, Inc. LTI, has entered into a contract to provide major components for nine new 1500 horsepower land drilling rigs. The contract is with Nomac Drilling, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corporation,...
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Smiths Medical, part of the global technology business, Smiths Group, announced today that it has been awarded a multi year contract with HealthTrust Purchasing Group HealthTrust to provide its Medfusion([TM]) Syringe Infusion System and CADD([R]) Ambulatory Infusion Systems to HealthTrust's over 1400 acute care hospitals and...
It would seem that Kenneth Nessen (Readers' Forum, July 13) didn't live through the 1970s gas crisis when a 55-miles-per-hour speed limit did help to conserve gas and our gas dollars. However, a national speed limit wouldn't be needed if we all would just obey the posted speed limit. Just...
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Reebok Launches the VY Electrify, Vince Young's First Ever Signature Footwear Collection CANTON, Mass. -- Reebok, the authentic outfitter of the NFL, today announces the launch of the VY Electrify football cleat and trainer. The shoes, appropriately named for one of the most explosive and dynamic young quarterbacks...
