Oil & Gas

Facing rising demand, decarbonization targets, and supply chain volatility, John Crane’s Nico Schmaeling urged turbomachinery professionals at the 2025 Turbomachinery & Pump Symposium to address the energy trilemma—security, affordability, and sustainability—through smarter design, efficiency upgrades, and cross-industry collaboration.

The company’s gas turbine and refrigerant compressor technology supports an additional 6 MTPA of LNG capacity and lower emissions at the Texas-based facility.

A major ethane transmission company installed the Type 8628VL seals on inconsistent pump equipment, achieving non-contact performance, low leakage, and zero failures.

Train 4 is supported by several 20-year LNG sale and purchase agreements, totaling 4.6 MTPA, with ADNOC, TotalEnergies, and Aramco.

With new power plants taking longer to come online, EthosEnergy helps customers extend their current assets through condition monitoring, refurbishment, and a commitment to efficiency.

In addition to five centrifugal compressor trains, the supply includes dynamic process simulations and a digital twin with virtual sensors for the integrally geared compressors.

The Turbomachinery News Network, for the week of September 1, 2025, covers news from Baker Hughes, Doosan Enerbility, Doosan Škoda Power, and Rolls-Royce.

The five-year contract addition allows EthosEnergy to continue life-extension strategies, maximizing asset uptime and minimizing cost for Spirit Energy’s gas assets.

The company will execute reconstruction while six installed machines, boilers, and other equipment remain in full operation, presenting a challenge that requires extensive coordination.

The large-scale permanent carbon sequestration facility, under the CarbonSAFE initiative, will store CO2 from industrial emitters across the Mountain West region.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries seeks to identify the various origins of hydrogen production, in addition to tracking carbon intensity across the co-fired, nuclear, and green typologies.

Building out the Dangjin LNG storage tank infrastructure aligns with South Korea’s plan to improve domestic LNG supplies and may be completed by December 2029.

The engineering and equipment scope includes five 60-MWe units, turboexpanders, and one BRUSH generator for the Cape Station project in Utah.

According to the position paper, hydrotreated vegetable oil can offer decarbonized backup power for data centers with 90% lower CO2 emissions than fossil diesel.

The regasification facility will strengthen natural gas supplies across southern Taiwan, using seawater to heat cryogenic LNG into a gaseous state for pipeline transportation.

The Turbomachinery News Network, for the week of August 25, 2025, covers news from Baker Hughes, ACWA Power, ConocoPhillips, Essential Utilities, and GE Vernova.

The hyperscale project will be powered by 944 MW of behind-the-meter, natural gas combined-cycle combustion turbines, supported by battery storage and a backup grid connection.

Four Aurora-class pure car/truck carriers will use ammonia-fired engines to achieve zero-carbon, sustainable, and environmentally friendly deep-sea transportation.

The 175D engines will power fast patrol vessels with waterjet propulsion systems, executing coastal surveillance, search-and-rescue, military missions, and more.

Previously, the company supplied critical power and compression systems for bp’s Tangguh LNG plant in Papua Barat, Indonesia.

Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 includes two liquefaction trains producing approximately 13 MTPA of LNG, increasing total liquefaction capacity up to 26 MTPA.

Over 730,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen will power NASA’s Artemis missions, returning humans to the Moon and establishing a long-term presence off Earth.

The power plant, supported by six gas engines and auxiliary equipment, balances the grid and provides flexible power during peak demand or energy shortages.

The Turbomachinery News Network, for the week of August 18, 2025, covers news from Duke Energy, GE Vernova, Solvanic, and Pacifico Energy.

The GW Ranch combines natural gas-powered turbines and advanced battery storage technologies, delivering 5 GW to data centers without local grid connections.