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Controlled documents are “living” entities that define products, describe processes, and depict infrastructures. They are the DNA upon which all large industrial facilities are built. These documents will change over time, and as a result their revisions are managed so that the current version is always available to users. Companies with large numbers of controlled … Read more

You know, the idea of storing large volumes of industrial hydrogen in an underground cavern is pretty cool, like something Jules Verne would have dreamed up. Air Liquide has recently commissioned the largest hydrogen storage facility in the world, an underground cavern in Beaumont, Texas, in the Gulf Coast region of the US.  The underground … Read more

by Rick Kaiser A controlled document is any digital or hard-copy entity which is required by a company, a standards organization, or a regulatory agency to be managed within a tightly controlled process that maintains the integrity of the document’s content through revisions. Examples of controlled documents include engineering drawings, industrial diagrams, operating procedures, contracts, and … Read more

Food-grade liquid carbon dioxide is now being produced commercially from waste carbon dioxide, heretofore an industrial by-product that was released into the atmosphere, at a Delaware City CO2 purification and liquefaction plant run by Praxair, Inc.. Back in 2015, Praxair signed a long-term agreement with Delaware City Refining to purchase their crude carbon dioxide. The … Read more

Six years ago, a Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s pipeline under San Bruno California ruptured and the resulting explosion and fire killed eight people. In April 2015, the California Public Utilities Commission fined PG&E $1.6 billion for causing the San Bruno disaster. This was the largest financial punishment ever levied on an American utility. In … Read more

Tesoro Corporation announced today that it will acquire Western Refining at an implied current price of $6.4 billion, including the assumption of approximately $1.7 billion of Western’s net debt and the $605 million market value of non-controlling interest in Western Refining Logistics, LP. The acquisition will add three new refineries to Tesoro’s collection of oil … Read more

Gasoline is an important commodity, especially on the heavily-populated east coast of the US. After the deadly October 31st rupture and fire in the 1.3 million barrel per day Line 1, production is once again resuming in the pipeline. AIS Software is all about making industrial infrastructure safer by developing and offering solutions that distribute … Read more