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Onsite laboratories, responsible for quality control and assurance at refineries, operate as the backbone of their operations ensuring that they are meeting industry standards, complying with regulatory requirements, and consistently producing a product to their targeted specifications. To do this, a refinery’s onsite QA lab must constantly analyze samples of pretreated materials, production, and blending, […]
India is set to dominate the Asian new-build and expansion refinery projects between 2022 to 2026, as the country is expected to account for 47% of the upcoming crude oil refinery projects starting in the region, driven by economic growth and rising consumption of oil, reveals GlobalData, a leading data, and analytics company. GlobalData’s latest […]
An ethical framework developed by government, road users and other stakeholders must steer the introduction of new road rules for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), international experts say. They warn that strictly forbidding CAVs of various kinds to break existing traffic rules may hamper road safety, contrary to what most people may claim. However, this requires close scrutiny […]
Mason Graphite Inc. is pleased to announce that graphene resulting from the patented process owned by Black Swan Graphene Inc., and produced by Black Swan’s strategic shareholder Thomas Swan & Co., was recently used in the concrete mix poured during the construction of a large residential development in the United Kingdom. Nationwide Engineering Group, a […]
Lomiko Metals Inc. is pleased to announce positive results from the Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) on its 100 percent-owned La Loutre Project in south-eastern Quebec. The PEA was completed by Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc. (“Ausenco”) in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”). Lomiko now aims to initiate a Preliminary Feasibility Study (PFS) to advance […]
Two successful projects have emerged from Round 3 of ERA’s five-year funding competition, Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses. ERA is awarding $5 million to Mangrove Water Technologies and $5 million to CarbonCure Technologies to support commercialization of their technologies in Alberta. ERA launched the $35-million Grand Challenge in 2013 to find the world’s most innovative […]
August 16, 2019 Today, the Honourable Lisa Dempster, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Environment, on behalf of the Honourable Siobhan Coady, Minister of Natural Resources, and Yvonne Jones, Member of Parliament for Labrador, on behalf of the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Rural Economic Development, announced funding for a new power transmission line and terminal station in […]
Wood has secured a new multi-million dollar contract with Hyundai Engineering to provide detailed engineering services and material supply for a steam methane reformer, part of a new Wood-licensed hydrogen production unit for the Melaka Refinery Diesel Euro 5 Project in Malaysia. Wood will deploy its leading proprietary Terrace WallTM technology for hydrogen production as […]
THE EARLY DAYS I remember way back in the early 1990’s; there were a lot of lands staked in Labrador as prospectors were looking for diamonds. Al Chislett, Chris Verbiski, of Archean Resources, knew that the Archean rock formations of Labrador were one of the earth’s oldest rock groups where diamonds are often found. They […]
In Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope, he said that his role as the president was a great responsibility and his drive came from great discontent. I thought a lot about that and realized that discontent comes from the disparity between where we are and where we can be. It’s that uncomfortable edge that has […]
