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Statoil recently announced that a 19-month drilling campaign in the Flemish Pass off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, has resulted in two discoveries of oil in the Bay du Nord area.

Hayward Flow Control has announced the expansion of its Chemical Feed Product lines. Hayward Flow Control, a division of Hayward Industries, is a US manufacturer of industrial thermoplastic valves, actuation and controls, instrumentation, filters, strainers, corrosion resistant pumps, bulkhead fittings and tank accessories, for use in water and wastewater treatment, chemical processing & transfer, chemical feed, aquatic/animal life support systems, mining and other industrial processing systems.

Citgo Petroleum, the US unit of Venezuela's PDVSA, will likely invest approximately USD $400 million to USD $600 million to overhaul Aruba's refinery under a 25-year lease with the Caribbean island's government, a top PDVSA official said recently.

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Clippard has launched NIV series PTFW media isolation valves. The Clippard NIV Series Media Isolation Valve is a solenoid-operated device that uses a flexible diaphragm to isolate the actuation mechanism from the fluid path.

Kinder Morgan Inc. said it has agreed to sell half its stake in an Ohio pipeline project to private equity firm Riverstone Investment Group LLC.

Connecting valves and fittings with a threaded connection can be time-consuming and often, it leaves part of the thread exposed to the medium and external environment.

As a complement to its range of butterfly valves the KSB Group, with branches in North and South America, has launched a special version for fire protection applications.

Bimba and Acro Associates, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illinois-based Bimba, has announced the release of the Model 600 series pneumatic pinch valves.

Montreal, Quebec-based Velan traditionally offered two versions of bonnetless globe valves: the XB series with a rotating stem and the Z series with a non-rotating stem.

In order to ensure proper cleaning procedures are performed on valves intended for oxygen, ozone, chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, isocyanate and other applications, DeZURIK has constructed a new dedicated clean room within its Sartell manufacturing plant in Minnesota.