Norfolk County wishes to advise residents that emergency teams are out working on all issues due to this evenings strong winds.

Power outages are occurring across Norfolk County. Coordination is taking place with all area agencies and departments in order to keep all Norfolk County residents safe and secure.

Highway 3 between Courtland and Tillsonburg is currently closed to motorists due to downed power lines.

Hydro Update

Norfolk Power and HydroOne advises Residents to expect outages to continue into the evening. Further updates will follow as soon as they can be made available. Intermittent power disruptions can be expected subject to changes in the weather.

Motorists are urged to avoid travel in the Norfolk County area due to downed power lines and tree limbs.

Keeping safe during the power blackout

Norfolk County offers the following safety advice to local residents who are affected by the current power blackout.

Potable Water Safety

All Residents connected to a municipal water supply can be assured that the water distribution system is safe. Emergency back-up generators will continue to maintain a safe drinking water system for all users. The Public Works & Environmental Services Department does however suggest limiting water to indoor use only for the duration of the power outage.

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North America - Coiled Tubing Market Revenue is expected to grow marginally in the Next Five Years

North America is the largest market for coiled tubing by value and by active fleet count. The region which did fairly well in the last 10 years accounted for nearly half of the total revenue in 2013. In North America, the U.S. holds a major share of the active fleet count of more than 59% active fleet count in 2013. Due to the increase in the shale activities in the region there is growth of ultra-deep coiled tubing services.

Coiled Tubing Well Intervention - Major Service Type for the Coiled Tubing Market

Coiled tubing services are categorized into three-well intervention, drilling, and others. Well intervention service is the major category by market size by value. These services include well cleaning and well completion services, such as acid and chemical treatments, fishing, logging and perforation, fracturing, removal of sand, wax, and other plugs, scale removal, high-pressure jet washing, nitrogen pumping, and others. The key advantages of CT technology over conventional technologies include ability to safely work on a live well without having to kill it and increased speed of operations in a well.

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The Mineral Resource Authority of Mongolia (MRAM) has approved Guildford Coals proposed capacity expansion at the Baruun Noyon Uulcoal (BNU) mine in Noyon Soum of the Umnu Gobi province.

The approval was given by the MRAM's Mineral Resources Profession Committee.

As part of the expansion, the mining capacity at the BNU will be increased to 1.5 million tons in 2015 and two million tons in 2016. Guildford Coal managing director Peter Kane said: "MRAM's approval to increase our mining capacity is a significant development for Guildford.

"It allows us to ramp up production at the BNU Mine beyond the recently announced targeted production figures for 2015, if it makes economic sense to do so."

Meanwhile, the company said that washing and laboratory testing of the second trial batch of coal from the BNU confirmed that the project's coal can be washed to produce a low-ash premium quality hard coking coal with low sulphur.

The lab tests were carried out at Alfred H Knight and Bureau Veritas laboratories in Ulaanbaatar.

Further test work is being conducted at the China Coal Research Institute in Beijing.

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28.11.2014 - (idw) FIZ Karlsruhe Leibniz-Institut fr Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH

On-site regeneration of activated carbon for gas treatment Landfill gas sourced from landfill sites and sewage treatment plants can also be burned in combined heat and power plants and used for energy purposes in place of conventional natural gas. To prevent premature wear to turbines and motors, however, the gas must first be cleansed of undesirable impurities such as organic silicon compounds. The BINE Projektinfo brochure Clean use of landfill gas (11/2014) presents a method by which the adsorption agent is regenerated on-site. Consequently, the activated carbon must be exchanged less frequently. The objective is to reduce costs and to make the process of gas purification more efficient.

Adsorption with activated carbon and subsequent regeneration is the most common procedure followed in gas purification. Siloxa Engineering AG together with Fraunhofer UMSICHT have developed an on-site regeneration method for activated carbon through adsorptive purification. The procedure has undergone testing in field trials at the Vereinigte Ville landfill site in Erftstadt-Liblar near Cologne. In order to additionally reduce the load of polar organic compounds such as trimethylsilanol, the researchers recommend a process of pre-purification by means of seepage water washing.

The research group developed a theoretical procedural concept for a gas purification plant with a throughput of 1,000 Nm per hour: For this concept, the research team also produced an operating costs analysis for an average silicon load present in the landfill gas. Based on this information, the researchers calculations determined there to be a considerable advantage in the new method in terms of specific operating costs over a conventional adsorption system involving the exchange of activated carbons. Further tests are needed under boundary application-like conditions to develop the market viability of the on-site method.

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Will invest 60 billion yen to develop around 1,000 homes in Fujisawa

Fujisawa (Japan), November 27:

On a bright sunny morning, after several days of rain and chilly winds, Panasonic Corporation flagged off here on Thursday what couldemerge as a new business for it, the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (SST).

Fujisawa, a town 40 km from Tokyo, from where one cansight the country's storied Mount Fuji, is the site of the Japanese conglomerates experiment with sustainable living.

On a 47-acredisused factory site in the Kanagawa prefecture, Panasonic will eventually invest 60 billion yen (around $500 million) by 2018, when the site will seearound 1,000 homes spring up, and around 3,000 people will live there.

Masahiro Ido, Executive Officer of Panasonic Corp, who made a presentation on the city to media from around the world, said thetown will generate 30 per cent of its power requirements from solar energy and will share services such as electric cars andelectric-powered bicycles. Already 100 families have moved into the SST and been living there since April when the project was soft-launched.

The day also marks the 120th birth centenary of Kounosuke Matsushita, who founded the consumer electronics giant in the city ofOsaka in the 1920s.

A Panasonic spokesman, who took the media on a tour of the SST, says the group expects to earn 27 billion yen in revenues initiallywhen all the houses are sold by 2018. Around 600 single homes and 400 apartments will be constructed.

Panasonic heads a consortium of18 companies, which have collaborated in setting up this smart town and Fujisawa SST Management Company, which will manage the townsessential services of energy, security, mobility and healthcare, will continue to earn revenue from providing these services. In a30-year period, the company expects to earn 40 billion yen in revenues.

Ido said three more such towns are planned in the country in Osaka and near Fujisawa, commencement of which will be announcednext spring.

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These days, you can hardly have a technology conversation without talking about the Internet of Things (IoT). And when that conversation shifts its focus to the industrial sector, including energy, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, and petrochemicals, among others, the discussion changes to what is being called the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

So what is all this hype about? The convergence of cheap processing, unending storage, massive bandwidth, near-ubiquitous connectivity, and cloud-based applications is driving new capabilities for gathering information and changing the way we interact with machines and services. The data generated by sensors in this network of connected devices is being collected and analyzed, spawning the growth of big data analytics and applications. And the resulting analytics are being used to improve business efficiency, better serve customers and disrupt old business models.

There will be nearly 26 billion connected devices by 2020, according toGartner, which is an increase of 30 fold over 2009. Impressive, but what does it really mean to have all these devices connected to the internet? Is there any real value involved? Just because you can, does it mean that you should? We all remember the technology boom and bust of the late 1990s and early 2000s (aka Dot-com Bubble) that was fueled by an excessive amount of wishful thinking or irrational exuberance.

But the IIoT can and will be different if we keep our collective eyes on the prize. Unlike consumer-based IoT that is trying to devise a way to make your world a better place by telling you when your washing machine needs service or letting you control all of your homes systems while you are away, the IIoT is working to make our collective world a better place by improving the monitoring, control and safety of everything around us. In short, reducing risk and improving the reliability of our massive industrial systems. No small task given the amount of data that will be generated by all of those devices running around the clock.

But there is an important component missing from many conversations that will glue it all together: software.

Think about it: How good is your computer without a good operating system to make all those programs function properly, or your smartphone without a million apps to connect you and your friends or coworkers and the information you share? Large hardware vendors recognized long ago that it is the software that makes the hardware more valuable. Software supports the human interaction side of the equation by helping to turn data into information. But not just basic information, I am talking about critical, insightful, influential, and actionable information, without which we run the risk of potentially dangerous outcomes.

This next-generation software should be cloud-based because, lets face it on-premises solutions require significantly more time, money and resources than you would like to afford while trying to remain competitive. Advanced software should easily connect the existing enterprise asset management (EAM) or computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) with the field-based industrial devices and equipment. It should provide early, rapid insight into the volumes of data and information that mere mortals are expected to evaluate to find business opportunities and make recommendations as part of a larger asset performance management strategy. But more importantly, software should make it easier for your organization to achieve its highest objective: operational excellence.

Even in todays increasing connected environment, industrial organizations do little more than make use of a minimal set of vendor-supplied analytics related to machine-specific solutions automated instrument calibration, instant vibration analysis of pumps and compressors, or other equipment related algorithms. The analytical capabilities of affordable processing and storage capacity in new software solutions are just beginning to be tapped.

One key to discussing the software needs of the IIoT is to include asset performance diagnostics. More specifically, to take advantage of all the useful information out there and the connectivity promised by equipment and software vendors, we need to discuss asset performance diagnostics; the ability to quickly assess a plants equipment/asset status or health. This ability can be critical for merger and acquisition activity versus building new. This implies that we must be able to check across many equipment types, not just one or two manufacturer-specific reports, in order to understand where our metrics stand in relation to our industry peers.

Additionally, with next-generation software, organizations will gain enhanced asset reliability and comparative analysis for operational goals. Operators can perform better and faster analysis on collected data to report to the C-Suite executives, who then have better context for defining strategic goals. Comparative analytics provide the ability to internally compare the status and performance of the equipment or assets to get your own house in order and really ignite your continuous improvement initiatives. Next-generation software must help organizations take it to the next level. To get there, you need to benchmark your operations against your peers and competitors. That capability will help you move to the pinnacle of continuous improvement, and closer to overall operational excellence.

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As it edges closer to its 50th birthday next April, the Astrodome is getting a bath of sorts.

This week plans were announced to give the Astrodome, that historic bone of contention for many in the city, a serious power washing. Work should begin at the beginning of December and run until early January. It's a big structure so of course it will take a month and change for work to be completed.

The price tag on the heavy duty bath? Just around $63,800, all of which will be paid for from the proceeds of the last two Astrodome memorabilia sales, according to Joe Stinebaker, director of communications for Harris County Judge Ed Emmett.

The Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation unanimously approved the plan late Wednesday afternoon. Stinebaker says he's heard nothing but support for the scheduled cleaning.

The hope is that the work will stave off further decay along the exterior of the structure. A number of events coming up at NRG Park, including the upcoming RodeoHouston season, the NCAA Final Four in 2016, and Super Bowl LI coming the year after were named as reasons for the scrub-up.

The stadium, which opened in 1965, was the world's first domed super-stadium, but has not housed a sports team since the Astros left for Minute Maid Park after the 1999 season.

A local firm, Green Team Services, will be doing the work set to start Dec. 1 and conclude on Jan. 10 using a special "green" solution on the exterior pre-cast concrete.

Stinebaker noted that the work was approved by the Texas Historical Commission this week. The commission must sign off on all things related to the Dome's appearance as it continues to deliberate over whether the structure should be granted state antiquities landmark status. The matter has been tabled to give the county more time and leeway to strike a deal with private investors, while also protecting the half-century-old stadium from the wrecking ball.

While designation as a state antiquities landmark would not assure that the world's first domed stadium is safe from demolition, it makes the possibility more remote because the county must first get permission from the commission. That also is the case when an application for designation is still under consideration, meaning that tabling one has virtually the same effect.

In Nov. 2013, Harris County voters rejected a $217 million bond to turn the Dome into an event and exhibition center. That would have increased the property tax rate by half a cent.

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The clean up is underway after severe storms uprooted trees, felled power lines, washed away cars and shut down Brisbane's commuter rail network.

The storms hit southeast Queensland late on Wednesday afternoon, bringing driving rain and powerful wind gusts of over 100km/h to some areas.

The two hardest hit suburbs were on opposite sides of Brisbane - the southwest suburb of Inala recorded 100mm of rain in one hour, while the northside suburb of Geebung was hit with 95mm of rain in one hour.

Heavy downpours flooded many parts of the city, washing away a number of cars, including in inner city suburbs like Bowen Hills.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services told AAP swift water rescue teams were called to some reports of people trapped in flooded cars, but they managed to escape by the time crews arrived.

Emergency services received around 250 calls for assistance - more than 90 from within the Brisbane city area.

Energex recorded more than 16,000 lightning strikes and said at the peak of the storms 250,000 homes and business had power problems.

About 530 customers still didn't have power on Thursday morning.

Trains, buses and ferries were also disrupted, with hundreds of commuters forced to wait for hours because of flooded train tracks in some CBD stations.

Translink took to Twitter to announce that all rail, bus and ferry services had returned to normal on Thursday morning.

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