A new thermocouple has been launched that offers high performance and longer life in harsh process environments, providing improved resistance to temperature, vibration, impact, corrosion and abrasion.

STERLING, AN OIL and gas exploration and production company with interests in Africa and the Middle East, has announced the spudding of the Sangaw North-1 exploration well. The well, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, was spudded on 1st February 2010.

INVENSYS OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, provider of technology systems, software solutions and consulting services to the process and manufacturing industries, has announced it has reached a multi-year agreement with US company, ConocoPhillips.

For use under difficult conditions on oil fields and in refineries, Baumer’s product segment process instrumentation has developed a range of special safety pressure gauges.

Rosemount TankRadar Rex and Pro tank gauging systems now have Emerson Smart Wireless functionality included.  This allows installation of a new radar-based Rex and Pro without any new long distance signal wiring to significantly reduce material and labor costs as well as engineering and project execution time.