Industry News

What’s happening and hot in the valve and actuation industry? Mergers and acquisitions, promotions, interesting development in end-user sectors, new project deals and so on.

Large shale oil/gas resources in Alberta

Great oil and gas resources in the emerging shale prospects of the Canadian province of Alberta, have been identified in a new study that suggest that recent takeovers and land buys will yield substantial production gains for some of the largest oil companies in the world.

Murphy Oil acquires Seal

Murphy Oil Company Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Shell Canada Energy to purchase additional interests in lands and take over as operator of Shell’s assets in the Seal Lake area of Alberta, Canada.

Curtiss-Wright and NuScale Power pen deal for rod

The Electro-Mechanical Division business unit of Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s Flow Control segment has signed a contract with NuScale Power to design control rod drive mechanisms (CRDMs) for NuScale's small modular reactor.

Cimarex announces sale of property

Cimarex Energy Co. has entered into an agreement to sell certain non-core long-lived oil and gas properties in Texas. The properties are to be sold for USD$294 million.   The sale is anticipated to close before the end of 2012.

GE Oil & Gas increase growth/hiring in Houston

GE Oil & Gas senior executive Supply Chair, Paul Smith announced that company would be hiring over 200 production manufacturing positions and more than 30 salaried supply-chain positions, in order to grow and increase capacity in Houston, Texas.

Coal-fired plants to be retired Oct. 1

Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, will officially retire two coal-fired power plants Oct.

ExxonMobil acquires Denbury Bakken assets

Denbury Resources Inc. has entered into an agreement to sell its Bakken assets in North Dakota and Montana to Exxon Mobil Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary XTO Energy Inc.

Chevron acquires Delaware Basin Acreage

  Chevron Corporation has announced that its subsidiary, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., has agreed to acquire 246,000 net leasehold acres in the Delaware Basin in New Mexico, a part of the Permian Basin, from Chesapeake Energy Corporation.

GE & Petrobras sign record contract

GE Oil & Gas has signed a record deal of nearly $1.1B (USD) with Brazilian energy company Petrobras. This is the world's largest subsea wellhead production contract.

Sunoco & Carlyle Group complete joint venture

The Carlyle Group L.P. And Sunoco Inc. have completed the formation of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions joint venture that will operate the Philadelphia Refinery, which has a processing capacity of 330,000 barrels of crude oil per day.