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Flowserve to Support Shell’s FLNG Facility

Flowserve has entered into a five-year contract with Shell Australia to provide maintenance services for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility, which produces natural gas from an offshore field in Western Australia.The Shell FLNG facility is an offshore development, producing natural gas from a remote field approximately 475 km north-northeast of the coastal town of Broome in Western Australia.

Husky to Resume Production at White Rose

Husky Energy announced it will resume production from its two drill centers in Newfoundland and Labrador. Husky expects to reach full production rates in the very near future.

Empowering Women in Industry Gala

Empowering Women in Industry will be hosting an awards gala to close the one-day conference on September 26th, 2019 at the Chicago Athletic Hotel.

Curtiss-Wright Awarded Contracts to Support U.S. Navy

Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that it has been awarded contracts valued in excess of $80 million to provide propulsion valves for the U.S.

ACS Valves Releases Guidelines for Choosing Rotors

ACS Valve’s ICS rotor valves can be equipped with many different rotors and are available in several different materials including 304, 304L, 316, 316L or 2205 cast stainless steel valve housing.

Cleantech Investment Coming to Canada’s Oil& Gas Sector

The Honourable Kent Hehr, Member of Parliament for Calgary, on behalf of the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, announced $2.1 million in funding for Linear Motion Technologies (LMT) Canada to design and test a new, cost-saving electric valve system that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.The new valve design could replace the thousands of existing pneumatic valves used to control oil flow rate, pressure and temperature at oil and gas sites.

Emerson Increases Asset Management Coverage

Emerson has expanded their AMS Device Manager with HART-IP™ support, making it easier to connect with devices and control systems.

Milacron to Launch New Products at K 2019

Milacron Holdings Corp., a leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry will announce additional key technologies for K 2019, the world’s largest plastics trade fair held October 16-23 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Clarke Valve™ Upholds ISO 9001:2015 Certification

Clarke Valve™, a company of Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, and OGCI Climate Investments, announced today that it has maintained the ISO 9001:2015 certification for its manufacturing operations and quality management systems.The ISO 9001:2015 certification outlines the criteria for a quality management system and is based on key quality metrics such as customer focus, manufacturing, testing, and inspection processes, and continuous improvement initiatives.The scope of Clarke Valve's registration is "Design, Development and Manufacture of Proprietary Clarke Valves and Associated Products for the Industrial Valve Market." Clarke Valve was audited by the highly rated accrediting certification body AVU Registrations, Inc."Having ingrained ISO 9001:2015 into our company culture, we are delighted to achieve our second certification.

Val-Matic American-BFV® Butterfly Valve

Val-Matic’s recently updated American-BFV® Butterfly Valves are highly engineered to provide long life and trouble-free performance.