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.

SAIC & Chevron agree on environmental services con

Science Applications International Corporation subsidiary SAIC Energy, Environment & Infrastructure, LLC has agreed on an environmental services contract with Chevron Corporation subsidiary, Chevron Environmental Management Company.

BP expands upstream exploration in Brazil

The Brazilian National Petroleum Agency approved BP’s farm-in to four deepwater exploration and production concessions in the Brazilian equatorial margin.

Sunoco Philadelphia refinery looking for buyer

    John A. Catsimatidis, chief executive and chairman of United Refining Energy Corp.

CPUC approves Sutter resolution

    The California Public Utilities Commission approved a resolution that will order three investor-owned utilities in California to enter a contract with Calpine Corporation’s Sutter Energy Center within 30 days.

BP entering Ohio’s Utica/Point Pleasant shale

    BP has signed an agreement with the Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley (ALOV) to lease approximately 84,000acres in Trumbull County, Ohio in the Utica/Point Pleasant shale basin.

Westinghouse focus on modular reactor development

Westinghouse Electric Co. will be applying to the Department of Energy for up to USD452 million for the rapid development and deployment of the company’s small modular reactor technology in Cranberry, Pennsylvania.

Demystifying nuclear power

    The Tennessee Valley Authority is taking steps to help the population nervous of nuclear power following last year’s reactor disaster in Japan.

Oil producers oppose Seaway request

    Oil producers in North America are hoping to ease the disconnect in the crude markets by addressing the reversal of the Seaway pipeline to run to refineries nest the Gulf of Mexico from the central United States.

Exelon-Constellation merger closes

Exelon Corporation and Constellation Energy have completed their merger, effective 12 March 2012. The merger creates one of the largest retail customer bases and the leading U.S. competitive energy provider with one of the cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets in the industry.

Foster Wheeler awarded Dominican LNG terminal cont

    A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded the basic design and front-end engineering design contract by Complejo GNL del Este.