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Coating Thickness Gauges
A range of Coating Thickness Gauges currently available from Advanced NDT Limted. Coating thickness is an important variable that plays a role in product quality, process control, and cost control....
EPOCH 1000
Product Overview of the EPOCH 1000 Series, Advanced Ultrasonic Flaw Detectors with Phased Array Imaging. Learn more about the EPOCH 1000 at http://www.olympus-ims.com/ut-flaw/epoch1000/
Chevron Center for Sustainable Energy Efficiency
For more about energy efficiency at Chevron, visit http://www.chevron.com/globalissues/energyefficiencyconse…. The Chevron Center for Sustainable Energy Efficiency at the Qatar Science &...
BP's Energy Outlook 2030
By 2030, the world will have experienced great changes in the way we use and produce energy, according to BP’s Energy Outlook 2030, released in January 2012. Emerging markets will generate ma...
BP Statement on Regarding Indemnity in Deepwater Horizon Accident
This statement was made on 26 January 2012 in response to the court ruling issued the same day. The full judge’s Opinion can be read here: www.laed.uscourts.gov/OilSpill/OilSpill.htm Today’...
Keystone Pipeline Derailed – For Now
On Jan. 18, President Obama rejected the permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project, which was sought by Canadian firm TransCanada and Big Oil interests. The Obama administration det...
A380 wings to be checked for cracks, EASA says
Twenty Airbus A380s will have to undergo checks for cracks in their wings, the safety regulator has said. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said the planes, a third of the current fleet, w...
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5 days ago
Automatic Self-Calibration for Robotic Eddy-Current Testing
“This product will revolutionize the way products are quality tested in the automotive industry,” promised Mark Gehlen, president & CEO of United Western Technologies Corp. (UniWest). UniWest custom-designs eddy-current and ultrasonic testing products for automotive OEM’s inspection tasks. A...
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8 days ago
Outrage as it is revealed foreign firms to supply steel for new Forth Bridge
A FURIOUS row erupted yesterday after it was revealed foreign firms will supply all the steel for the new Forth bridge. The Scottish Government claim they didn’t get a single bid from Scots companies. Chinese, Polish and Spanish firms will provide 37,000 tons for the £790million project. Furious...
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8 days ago
Chevron Appeals Illegitimate Ruling in Ecuador
SAN RAMON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 20, 2012– Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) today announced that it has filed an appeal seeking review by Ecuador’s National Court of Justice of the adverse appellate judgment issued against the company in early 2012 by a panel of three tempor...
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12 days ago
Board raises issue about corrosion at vit plant
Hanford vitrification plant testing has not shown that components that will be difficult to replace can last the required 40 years the plant is designed to operate, according to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Whether vessels and piping for high-level radioactive waste in the plant w...
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12 days ago
Italy races to remove oil from crashed cruise liner
Just ten days ago, the Costa Concordia was a luxury liner cruising the Mediterranean coast. Now it poses a huge threat to a stretch of pristine coastline in Tuscany, as fears grow that the stricken ship could leak heavy fuel from its tanks. A specialist team from the Netherlands, known as Smit, ...
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12 days ago
Kids flee in terror as stadium roof collapses
A group of kids should have enjoyed the ice hockey experience of their lives when they trained with a NHL legend - but that dream turned into a nightmare when the stadium almost collapsed on their heads. The children took to the ice in a new rink in Namestovo, Slovakia, to play alongside former ...
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16 days ago
Bahrain 2012: AeroThrust to set up new engine facility in Bahrain
AeroThrust is to set up a new aircraft engine overhaul facility in Bahrain, investing around $20m over the next three years. The deal, announced in partnership with the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) at the show, will see a 94,000sqft facility being developed at the Bahrain Internation...
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20 days ago
Llandinam wind farm switched off after turbine damage
One of the UK’s largest wind farms has been switched off following damage to one of its turbines. The site above Llandinam, Powys, stopped producing energy after a turbine head containing the blades came off last month. Operator ScottishPower Renewables has launched an investigation at the...
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25 days ago
Boeing Awarded US Army Contract for 14 Additional CH-47F Chinook Helicopters
RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa., Jan. 11, 2012 – The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has received a U.S. Army contract valued at approximately $370 million for 14 CH-47F Chinook helicopters to support Foreign Military Sales efforts. The aircraft will be delivered to the U.S. Army beginning in 2014; all but ...
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25 days ago
PG&E broke laws before San Bruno, state finds
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. broke numerous state and federal safety laws leading up to the San Bruno gas-pipeline disaster, including failing to inspect the line for flaws after twice spiking the pipe’s gas level beyond the legal limit, state regulators said Thursday. Had PG&E conduct...