World-wide, 85 percent of oil & gas wells currently use some form of artificial lift, and nearly all wells need stimulation at some point during their production. Common artificial lift mechanisms include beam pumps, gas lift injection, submersible pumps, and hydraulic pumps—all of which require periodic optimization.

Air Liquide and Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic), Oman’s national refining company, recently signed a long term agreement for the supply of nitrogen to the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex.

Praxair (China) Investment Company, in a joint venture with Chongqing Chemical and Pharmaceutical Holding Group Company (CCPHC), will supply oxygen, nitrogen and clean dry air to a major integrated chemical production complex in Chongqing (Changshou) Chemical Industrial Park.

Under the agreement, Wuxi STA will become the preferred CDMO partner of Dizal Pharmaceutical for the production of GMP. With this, Wuxi STA will provide integrated CMC process research and manufacturing services from API to drug product.

Zydus Cadila, a leading Indian pharmaceutical company, bought Macofar technology when it intended to expand production. The machine not only efficiently fills small vials but is also complaint to cGMP regulations. Read on to know more about it.

Exner’s new generation of Excell sensor series not only provides the end user with higher flexibility during application, but at the same time allows safer processing.

Pumping is one of the challenging tasks in the process industry. Depending on the company’s area of operations, content to be pumped vary, and hence the choice of pumps also differs. However, peristaltic is one of the pump types that is capable handling various kind of contents including abrasive, viscous, high density, corrosive, etc. This feature makes the pump ideal for varied purposes such as yeast pumping, vending machine applications, chemical pumping and many more.

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures and Carbon Engineering have collaborated to design a DAC facility in the Permian Basin which will be capable of capturing 500 kilo tonnes of carbon dioxide annually directly from the atmosphere.

BASF 3D Printing Solutions is to provide innovative additive manufacturing materials to Paxis LLC for their new WAV technology. This is currently in development and is designed to meet the needs of additive manufacturing users.

Variohm Euro Sensor’s SMO3100 series pressure sensors are now available with SIL 2/ PLd functional safety. Aimed at safety-critical pressure measurement tasks for gas and liquids compatible with stainless steel or titanium wetted parts, the new SMO3100 PLd will allow user’s the ability to meet SIL2 functional safety levels on machines and systems. The robust and durable sensor series is available in twenty pressure range versions from 0.5 to 5000 bar and with best accuracy to 0.5 % F.S.