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Saudi Arabia’s oil giant still plans to pay $75bn (£57bn) to its shareholders this year, even as the impact of the COVID-19 caused its profits to plummet.

Marius Grisaru writes about the changes in the size of the transformer, the ratio of oil volume to the transformer power, and more.

USA, North Carolina: Multiple fire departments responded to a large transformer fire and a subsequent oil fire on Monday evening at Southern Power Plant Rowan in Salisbury, North Carolina.

USA, Michigan: A large power transformer holding 113,500 litres of cooling oil failed on Friday afternoon at the Cook Nuclear Plant in Michigan, leaking the oil.

USA, Kentucky: The U.S. Department of Energy and its contractors at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) used a unique method to remove and dispose of PCB oil taken from transformers at the site.

United Kingdom: Centrifugal pump maker SPP Pumps has opened a brand new transformer oil manufacturing and testing facility at its Gloucestershire base in the UK.

Germany, Munich: Siemens has signed a far-reaching agreement with the Hidrocarbon and Energy Ministry of Bolivia on energy cooperation and future collaboration in the field of products and services for the oil & gas industry

USA, New York: Following the 9 May transformer failure at Indian Point Unit 3 in the suburbs of New York, preliminary estimates indicate that about 11,356 litres of dielectric fluid from the failed transformer have entered the Hudson River, revealed the plant operator Entergy.

Brazil, Santa Catarina: WEG has announced the acquisition of Transformadores Suntec S.A.S., a Columbian power transformer manufacturer based in Medellin.