With 4 facilities located throughout Indiana, Arkansas, and Texas, ORG CHEM Group specializes in the renewal of industrial fluids for further use by their customers while simultaneously reducing waste.

Oil-and-gas producers rely on flaring to limit the venting of natural gas from their facilities, but research led by the University of Michigan shows that this practice is far less effective than estimated.

A safety digest highlights the value of worker participation to prevent chemical incidents.

A gas-fired car-bottom oven with a fume incinerator will be used by a company in the oil-and-gas industry for prebaking drill-pipe joints. Manufactured and shipped by Wisconsin Oven, East Troy, Wis., the industrial oven is capable of heating 70,000 lb of steel from a cold start to 750°F within 75 minutes.

A truck-in oven with a maximum temperature rating of 650°F will be used to test parts used for downhole drilling in the oil-and-gas industry. The Gruenberg oven is constructed from a structural steel frame that supports the 304 stainless steel chamber liner and the exterior sheet metal. All interconnecting struts are noncontinuous, which keeps the exterior cool.

SPX Flow opened two bolting rental service centers in Louisiana. SPX Flow Bolting Systems’ products are used in the energy sector for downstream oil and gas applications including reactors, valves, vessels and all flanged connections; and power generation applications including turbine generators and crossover piping.

Suez broke ground on a laboratory in Tomball, Texas, that will be used to continue the company’s research and development of specialty chemicals for the industrial segment. The facility’s staff will seek process innovations for the oil and gas industry, focusing on global upstream and downstream applications.

A gas-fired car-bottom oven with fume incinerator will be used by a company in the oil and gas industry for thermal cleaning to burn-off residue in oil drilling pipes.

Yokogawa Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corp., and Dover Energy Automation, an operating company within Dover Corp., will join forces to create the “Well Managed” product portfolio.

Developments in a range of extruded materials can achieve more complex geometries to satisfy increasingly challenging requirements from oil and gas markets.