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10/23/2026

Know your inventory. Control your fuel. Optimize your terminal.

On many terminals, gauging, loading and accounting run on separate systems. When a tank shows a loss, someone spends days reconciling numbers that never agreed.

Varec has worked on that problem since 1928. FuelsManager brings it into one platform: inventory management from the tank gauge, terminal automation at the load rack (rack control, driver entry, bills of lading), and inventory accounting with gain/loss analysis and reconciliation.

The field side comes from Cognesense too: Varec float-and-tape gauges, L&J Technologies radar and the Varec 8810 RTU, so the data runs from gauge to screen with no gap between vendors.

Terminal managers and fuel accounting teams: when a tank shows a loss, how long does it take you to trace it?

On the same stand, Shand & Jurs covers the vents and flame arresters on that tank.

ADIPEC 2026 | 2-5 November | ADNEC Abu Dhabi | Hall 8, Stand 8533
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10/21/2026

Most energy assets are handed over with a data book. Far fewer are handed over with a working record.

The difference shows up later, usually when an insurer's risk engineer or a regulator asks for evidence that levels, alarms, and safety devices are monitored and acted on.

EPC teams specify most of that equipment long before the owner takes over: tank gauging and overfill alarms, conservation vents and flame arresters, fuel inventory and accounting software, lighting, signaling and enclosures for classified areas, pressure instrumentation, and noise, dust, and air-quality monitoring at the site boundary. Each package usually arrives from a different supplier, with its own data, its own format, and its own login.

Three habits make the owner's life easier from day one:

1. Specify instrument, tank, and hazardous-area packages to report into one record, not three.
2. Make time-stamped alarm and test history a deliverable, not an afterthought.
3. Treat inventory and emissions data, such as gain/loss by tank and vent leakage, as part of the same record as safety data.

The payoff for the owner: evidence built once and used twice, for the insurer's risk survey and for emissions reporting. The payoff for the EPC: fewer vendors to qualify, fewer document cycles, fewer interface clashes.

Our white paper 'Contain, prevent, account, prove' has a short section for EPC teams: https://cognesense.com/white-papers/?paper=6310 -6310

If you are working on a Gulf project heading toward handover, our specialists will be reviewing package lists and data sheets with EPC teams at ADIPEC, Hall 8, Stand 8533, 2-5 November.

10/20/2026

Operate safely where explosive hazards exist.

A standard forklift or diesel engine carries ignition sources: hot surfaces, sparks, electrical faults. In a Zone 1 or Zone 2 area, it must be certified for the atmosphere it works in.

Pyroban has engineered and certified explosion-proof conversions since 1972. On site: forklifts, access platforms, trucks and AGVs converted to ATEX 2014/34/EU, with system6000 gas detection alerting the operator if a hydrocarbon cloud forms. Offshore: Ex kits and powerpacks for diesel engines on well-service equipment, certified to EN 1834-1.

HSE and fleet managers at refineries, terminals and offshore service companies: do you know which vehicles on your site are certified for the zone they enter?

A classified area needs more than vehicles. Petrel Zone 1 and 2 lighting and Ex-tech Signalling beacons and sounders are on the same stand.

ADIPEC 2026 | 2-5 November | ADNEC Abu Dhabi | Hall 8, Stand 8533

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10/16/2026

Better measurement. Smarter tank operations.

Most decisions on a tank farm start with one number: the level in the tank. Receipts, transfers, overfill margins and reported inventory all depend on it.

Since 1976, L&J Technologies has focused on tank level gauging for bulk liquid storage: non-contact radar, servo and float-and-tape gauges, plus alarms, switches and overfill prevention.

For terminal and refinery engineers, the practical point is choice. Product, tank and accuracy needs differ, so the gauge should fit the application, not the other way around.

A question to take into ADIPEC: if an auditor asked how each gauge was chosen and verified, how fast could you answer?

The level is half the story. On the same stand, Clairvoyance turns it into inventory, and Shand & Jurs protects the tank.

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10/15/2026

Shand & Jurs has built tank safety equipment for that job since 1922: conservation vents for normal breathing, emergency vents for fire-case relief, flame arresters to keep an external flame out, plus gauge hatches and fittings for safer access.

One detail worth knowing: the industry standard reference for vent leakage is 1.0 SCFH at 80-90% of set pressure. Expanda-Seal vents leak less than 0.5 SCFH at 95%. Less leakage means less product lost to evaporation.

Tank engineers at terminals and refineries: when did you last check if your vents leak just below set point?

The same tank needs an accurate level, too. L&J Technologies gauging is on the same stand.

ADIPEC 2026 | 2-5 November | ADNEC Abu Dhabi | Hall 8, Stand 8533
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10/14/2026

The fastest way to destroy a level switch is to put it inside the process.
Aggressive chemistry makes the point better than any brochure. Acids and caustics attack wetted probes. Seals weep. Every vessel pe*******on you add for instrumentation is one more fl**ge to maintain and one more potential leak path to manage.

Microwave beam-break switches take a different approach: stay outside entirely. A transmitter and receiver mount on opposite sides of the vessel and detect whether the beam path between them is made or broken. The beam passes through materials that are transparent to microwave energy like quartz, Teflon, UHMW, fiberglass, and Lexan, so the sensors can work through an existing sightglass or a non-metallic vessel wall. No wetted parts. No coating, corrosion, or probe fouling. External mounting options detect without adding a vessel pe*******on.

Pressure is where this architecture earns its keep. Because the electronics never enter the process, the pressure boundary is the window, not the instrument. High-temperature glass window assemblies for the Microwave 320 are rated to 450 PSI at 70 F, and to 500 F at atmospheric pressure — several times the operating-pressure ceiling typical of microwave switch hardware in this class, where the electronics themselves carry the process rating.

Even better, availability now matches the engineering: we have stocked the key components behind every Microwave 320 build, so lead times across the whole line are shorter — often shorter than the incumbent’s replacement quote when it is time to swap a failing switch.

One practical note for tank owners: the same chemical tanks that need level switching usually carry pressure/vacuum relief. Cognesense covers both sides of that vessel: Shand & Jurs tank safety equipment protects the tank the Microwave 320 is watching.

If a level switch fails in your plant this year, odds are it is a wetted one. Worth asking whether it needed to be wet at all.

10/13/2026

Ask an underwriter and an emissions manager what worries them on an energy site, and you get two lists that look a lot alike.

A tank overfill.

A vent that leaks, or a flame arrester that fails to protect a tank.

A pressure excursion.

An ignition source in a classified area.

An inventory loss no one can explain.

Each one is a safety event an insurer prices in. Each one also ends in a release that shows up in the emissions numbers.

That matters in the Gulf this year. Insurance has become one of the biggest costs and concerns for regional energy assets, and decarbonization and methane commitments have not moved. Operators are being asked the same question from two directions: how well is your site controlled?

Five things tend to separate the sites that can answer quickly:

1. Overfill alarms, tests, and responses are recorded per tank, with timestamps.

2. Vent and flame arrester inspection status is a live list, not a pre-audit spreadsheet.

3. Classified-area equipment sits in one register, with certification and maintenance status.

4. Inventory gain/loss is reconciled per tank, so unexplained losses are traced, not written off.

5. Noise, dust, and air quality at the site boundary are measured and kept in the same record as the safety data.

The equipment is usually there. The evidence is what goes missing.

Our new white paper, 'Contain, prevent, account, prove', explains in plain language what a full record of site control looks like: https://cognesense.com/white-papers/?paper=6310 -6310

If you are an asset owner, EPC, HSE manager, or risk manager heading to ADIPEC next month: how long would it take your team to produce those five records today?

We will be discussing exactly this at Hall 8, Stand 8533.

10/06/2026

False alarms are how chute protection dies. Falling material momentarily blocks the beam, the relay chatters, operators stop trusting the alarm -- and eventually someone bypasses it.

The Microwave 320 separates falling product from a real plug with independent make and break time delays, adjustable from 50 milliseconds to 30 seconds. The relay only speaks when it is sure -- and it speaks twice, through a DPDT output that drives two circuits at once.

How stable chute detection works: www.cognesense.com

10/02/2026

Booth 837 is packed up. Thank you to everyone who stopped by WEFTEC 2026 in New Orleans.

The conversations on the floor kept circling back to the same theme: methane fees are climbing, EPA's Super-Emitter Response Program is real, and an unannounced vent event is now a compliance problem, not just a safety one. That's exactly the gap the Shand & Jurs Biogas gas safety line, L&J Technologies gauging, Varec RTU integration, and Sonitus Systems' Clairvoyance Cloud were built to close -- and it showed in how many people wanted to see the Candlestick Waste Gas Burner, the Expanda-Seal diaphragm, and the new Preventative Maintenance Monitoring demo running live.

If we talked at the booth, you'll hear from us soon. If we missed each other on the floor, let's fix that.

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10/01/2026

That’s a wrap on WEFTEC 2026!

New Orleans brought the energy, and our team brought the innovation. If you couldn't make it to the show floor, our experts have you covered. Check out this quick intro video to see exactly what we showcased this week and hear how we're advancing the future of water and wastewater management.

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