President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived at the port of Mombasa to flag off the inaugural shipment of Kenya’s crude oil on Monday. The country will export 200,000 barrels of the Turkana crude marking its entry into the league of oil-exporting countries. Celsius Riga, the vessel to ship Kenya’s crude oil at …
Read More »WearCheck wins double awards in Europe
Condition monitoring specialists, WearCheck, scooped two awards from top international training body, Mobius, at a condition based maintenance (CBM Europe) conference in Belgium recently. The awards are for first place in the Best Training Partner EUMEA 2018/19 and the Best Student Growth Africa 2018/19. Dennis Swanepoel, WearCheck’s reliability solutions consultant …
Read More »Kenya signs milestone crude oil processing deal with firms
The Kenyan government has signed agreement with oil major Total, Tullow Oil and Africa Oil Corp to develop a 60.000-80.000 barrel per day crude processing facility for oil discovered in the county’s northwest. The petroleum and mining ministry said on Twitter on Tuesday that the head of term agreements were …
Read More »19 July: D-day for Barrick to make offer to acquire Acacia
The UK Takeover Panel has approved a further extension to the deadline for Barrick to make a firm offer for Acacia – first extended to 9 July 2019 and now to 19 July 2019. On the back of this announcement, Barrick notes that it is also reviewing a report by …
Read More »KSB expands its aftermarket services
KSB Pumps and Valves is intensifying its focus on aftermarket services that add value to customer operations far beyond the supply and maintenance of its own products. According to the company plans are to extend its services and engineering expertise to include maintenance of entire systems, reverse engineering of rotating …
Read More »Syrah signs BAM site purchase agreement
Syrah has signed a purchase agreement for an industrial site for its Battery Anode Material (BAM) development in Vidalia, Louisiana. The development is the next step following the letter of intent previously announced on the (refer to quarterly update. Under the terms of the agreement, the purchase price of US$1.225 …
Read More »New industrial ventilation firm hits market
Global fan and industrial ventilation firms – TLT MechCaL and TLT ACTOM have announced plans to roll-out its new South African brand: TLT-Turbo Africa, across the continent. The brand will offer clients across the African continent, combined expertise and innovation of the two industry leading firms. “The re-branding of these …
Read More »World’s first pyrometer with automatic spot finder function for OEM’s
South Africa based company Instrotech is now offering the latest in Optris infrared innovation, the Xi series, a fusion between a robust, compact pyrometer and an advanced IR camera. According to the manufacturers the integrated spot finder function enables accurate temperature measurements in moving objects without having to readjust the …
Read More »Density metering of liquid media with Kobold
Kobold’s DWF mechanical density meter is specifically for the monitoring and continuous measurement of liquid media and two-phase liquids. This comes at the back drop of noting that density of liquid media is of high importance in many processes such as in the food or chemical industry. Once it is …
Read More »De Beers support ASM trading
International diamond miner De Beers Group has announced intentions to pilot a programme called GemFair, to create a secure and transparent route to market ethically-sourced artisanal and small-scale mined (ASM) diamonds. The scheme GemFair will use dedicated technology to record ASM production at mine sites that meet demonstrable ethical standards, …
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