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The graduates

May 05, 2016
Papua New Guinea is an important country for GE, which opened its Port Moresby office in July 2014 in order to play a bigger role in the development of the PNG economy, and to help bring global energy, water treatment and healthcare to its population.
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A day in the life of the centre of the Oil & Gas universe

April 27, 2016
The Western Australian sun finds its match in the right-back-at-ya glass-and-brilliant-white exterior of GE’s Jandakot Oil & Gas hub just south of Perth. Inside, technicians are learning how to maintain gas well heads that control the flow of gas 1.4 kilometres beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean.  This is an average day in the life of the $100-million facility, set up to support the oil and gas industry in the region. Come in, meet the Oil & Gas experts.
Ross Graham and Matthew Ray transfer knowledge
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Can you make pigs fly? New science challenge seeks to disprove impossible idioms

April 20, 2016
Thomas Edison cofounded GE 124 years ago and the company celebrated his birthday earlier this year by proving that — scientifically speaking — the “impossible” was possible. Its engineers took a literary tack and disproved three popular English idioms describing impossible things with science — they brought a snowball back from hell, caught lightning in a bottle and made a wall talk.
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Making Middle Earth water fit for humans

April 20, 2016
The final stage of an upgrade to Waitaki District Council’s water-treatment plant (WTP) using GE ZeeWeed will save $400,000, consume less energy, and produce 25 percent more high-quality drinking water for 14,400 residents in the area, which almost spans the breadth of New Zealand’s south island, north of Dunedin.
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In for the LNG haul

April 18, 2016
The scope of LNG 18 was broad, as the complexities of LNG demand, and some 6,000 people gathered beside the Swan River in Perth last week to contribute to the discussion of what’s coming down the pipeline for producers and consumers. For an industry based on technology, it’s revealing that one of the strongest themes of the event was social license—people’s perception of LNG.

Modules to megajoules: masterminding a new plan for LNG

April 12, 2016
There’s nothing small about LNG, right? OK, there’s the price of gas. But in Australia, the industry in recent times has been characterised by massive processing plants designed to capitalise on the bounty of vast gas fields; compressing natural gas into liquefied natural gas for cost-effective export to global markets.
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Ambition on the agenda at D61+LIVE

April 07, 2016
It had all the wonder of the Royal Easter Show, but with science and technology taking the place of animals and rides. There were robots, drones, models, modelling, a mammoth mobile emergency-services integrated-communications truck and, on the main stage, a grand parade of inspiring minds and ambitious ideas. (Oh, and there were food stations serving pulled-pork tacos, steamed dumplings, noodle boxes and mini Wagyu beef burgers—streets ahead of the usual sideshow fare.)
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Hungry lions loose in the GE Store

April 05, 2016
  • GE Turbomachinery Solutions workshop, responsible for repair and maintenance of oil and gas equipment, is an essential part of GE’s $100 million Oil & Gas facility in Western Australia.

  • The workshop is modelled after best-practice workflows fine tuned in GE Aviation support facilities.

  • A Predix-based software program developed in Australia for use by GE workshops globally manages priorities to make on-time or even earlier customer deliveries.

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Watt's new in wastewater treatment?

March 23, 2016
Google Dr Lindsey Gove, and one of the references that surfaces is to the 20th European Biosolids Conference, held last year in Manchester. Peruse the program of now past sessions; one of the most intriguing is Future Markets For Sludge. You’re smiling, right? And that’s perhaps before you know that “sludge” refers to sewage solids—what’s left after most of the first flush of water has been removed from raw sewage and treated for release back into the wild.
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Raising a glass to World Water Day

March 22, 2016
In 2016, the focus of UN World Water Day is on “Water and Jobs”. It recognises that the majority of work undertaken in the world, in agriculture, manufacturing, service provision, commerce, research and so on, relies on water and its management. That may be directly, as in irrigation of crops, or indirectly, to enable workers to gather on a large scale—in the hive of activity that is an office building or a shared work space.
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