MOSCOW (MRC) -- Baker Hughes announced an order with Petrobras to provide a suite of digital solutions across Petrobras sites in Brazil, said Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The order, booked in the fourth quarter 2020, will further expand Petrobras’ digital capabilities following a third quarter 2020 order for a three-year frame agreement across multiple Baker Hughes Digital Solutions product lines. Baker Hughes will support Petrobras’ thermal plants; refineries; gas treatment units; production plants; offshore platforms; and floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSO) with its technologies, ensuring the latest regulatory requirements are achieved. The order includes flare monitoring and calibration technologies, cybersecurity and remote monitoring services, and interconnected machinery protection systems and sensors.
"Through our integrated suite of technologies, we can leverage data and the power of our software and hardware systems to significantly advance Petrobras’ digital transformation journey,” said Rami Qasem, executive vice president of Digital Solutions at Baker Hughes. “In addition, our deep domain expertise in industrial asset management will support Petrobras with reducing risks and emissions while maintaining safer operations."
Baker Hughes technologies use real-time analytics to help customers improve machinery health, eliminate unplanned outages, reduce downtime, and avoid catastrophic failures. Petrobras will benefit from several capabilities across Digital Solutions product lines, including: Bently Nevada's latest generation Orbit 60 system, System 1 software licenses, and remote monitoring services for advanced industrial asset management.
Panametrics’ Flare.IQ advanced flare gas monitoring and optimization system, and FlareCare services and parts for reduced carbon and methane emissions. Nexus Controls’ distributed control systems, cybersecurity services and human-machine interface (HMI) upgrades for safer and more reliable operations.
As MRC informed earlier, private equity firm SK Capital Partners has closed the acquisition from Baker Hughes of its specialty polymers business and renamed it NuCera Solutions. The acquisition was first announced in July 2020.
As MRC informed earlier, SK Global Chemical (SKGC), one of the largest producers of petrochemical products in South Korea, plans to permanently close cracking unit No. 1 in Ulsan (Ulsan, South Korea) on December 8 this year.
According to a letter from the company to its customers, production at this 190,000 tonnes of ethylene and 135,000 tonnes of propylene per year will be halted due to unfavorable market conditions. However, SKGC will continue to supply ethylene to its domestic customers from other crackers.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report, PE imports to Russia decreased in January-November 2020 by 17% year on year and reached 569,900 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the greatest reduction in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia increased by 21% year on year to about 202,000 tonnes in the first eleven months of 2020. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase in imports.
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