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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Texas General Land Office
Streamlines Map Searches
AUSTIN, TX.-The Texas General
Land Office has launched HistoricTexasMaps.com,
its new map store and
database.
" For almost two years the GLO has
worked diligently with our vendor, Keepthinking,
to produce a website that is not
only significantly more user-friendly, but
also incorporates a new content management
system that helps GLO staff manage
the tremendous amount of metadata associated
with our continuously growing collection
of 45,000 maps, " says Texas Land
Commissioner Dawn Buckingham. " This
new site will make it easier than ever for
Texans to own their own piece of Texas
history and will provide even better support
for our constituents, like land surveyors,
teachers, oil and gas professionals, historians,
genealogists and anyone else interested
in Texas's rich land history. "
According to the GLO, the new site
lets researchers search map titles, map
numbers, dates, keywords, subjects and
thousands of newly-added named features
that have never been digitally cataloged
or available before.
To schedule an appointment with staff
or to learn about options when researching
the GLO archives and records, call 512463-5277
or email archives@glo.texas.gov.
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TechnipFMC Contracted For Subsea Interventions
HOUSTON-TechnipFMC reports it
has been awarded a significant contract
by Equinor to provide riserless light well
intervention (RLWI) services on the Norwegian
Continental Shelf.
The contract runs from 2024 to 2025,
with options to extend for each of the
three subsequent years, TechnipFMC relates.
The company says it will provide
production enhancement, production data
and pre-plug-and-abandonment services
to Equinor using RLWI.
RLWI enables well interventions from
a monohull vessel, eliminating the need
for a riser and the rig required to connect
the riser to the subsea well. Instead, remotely
operated well control systems are used to
facilitate operations on the seabed, TechnipFMC
describes. According to the company,
this approach reduces cost and complexity,
increases efficiency and accelerates
the time frame for increased production.
" TechnipFMC has been providing
RLWI services to Equinor since 2006.
Over that period, the average duration of
an intervention has been reduced by
nearly two-thirds thanks to improvements
in process and technology, aided by the
collaborative relationship with Equinor's
dedicated RLWI team, " says Jonathan
Landes, TechnipFMC's subsea president.
" It is a pleasure to continue developing
that relationship as we help our client
meet demand for energy. "
For more information, visit www.technipfmc.com.
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TotalEnergies,
CSU Partner To Assess Emissions Data
PARIS-As part of its commitment
to identifying, quantifying and reducing
its operations' methane emissions, TotalEnergies
announces it is partnering
with Colorado State University to develop
an international protocol for qualifying
methane emissions measurements.
The U.S. Department of Energy and
the European Commission's DirectorateGeneral
for Energy recognized that the
Transverse Anomaly Detection Initiatives
developed by TotalEnergies and CSU
G2R-Flex™ Helps Plants Recover More Propane
HOUSTON-BCCK now offers
G2R-Flex™, which it introduces as a
patent-pending, turnkey technology for
optimizing propane recoveries at existing
cryogenic plants.
" Typical gas subcooled process
(GSP) plants recoveries in ethane rejection
are 20% ethane and 95%
propane. Our new technology can improve
that range with a bolt-on package, "
says Jamey Wasson, BCCK's
director of process engineering.
G2R-Flex can recover as much as
99% of propane while sustaining a high
ethane rejection rate, BCCK details.
The technology is connected to existing
GSP plants to reduce ethane recovery
and increase propane recovery.
Consisting of a set of small pumps,
vessels and heat exchangers, G2R-Flex
requires no additional compression or
power, BCCK mentions. With no need
for additional residue compression,
the company continues, the
technology offers a 50% reduction
in facility propane refrigeration
requirements.
For more information, visit
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BCCK says its G2R-Flex™ process
is a bolt-on upgrade for gas subcooled
process plants that lets
them increase propane recoveries
without building new facilities.
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may become world references for qualifying
methane emission quantification
technologies, TotalEnergies recounts. The
company says such a transatlantic initiative
is needed because there is no agreement
on how to validate methane emissions
measurement methods, which is indispensable
to compare reported emissions
regardless of technology.
TotalEnergies and CSU indicate they
will collaborate to develop:
· Protocols to certify the accuracy,
detection limits and operational restrictions
of the measurement methods used for
methane accounting; and
· A method for estimating annual
methane measurements from point measurements.
" TotalEnergies
is committed to reducing
methane emissions in line with its
target of reducing them by 80% by 2030,
as compared to 2020. The reduction of
methane emissions requires an accurate
quantification of these emissions. Defining
a standard that certifies the accuracy of
measurements and compares measurements
between equipment and continents
is a must, " says Marie-Noëlle Semeria,
TotalEnergies' chief technology officer.
" To this point, there was no standard
that people could access to make their solutions
viable around the world. I think we
are taking a step toward that. There is a
commercially enabling aspect to this that
we find very exciting, " says Daniel Zimmerle,
who directs CSU's Methane Emissions
Technology Evaluation Center.
For more information, visit https://totalenergies.com/
or https://energy.colo -
state.edu/metec.
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