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HII to acquire UniversalPegasus International

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has entered into an agreement to acquire UniversalPegasus International Holdings (UPI), a provider of engineering and project management services to the domestic and international energy markets.

Regency Energy Partners to construct NGL pipeline

Regency Energy Partners will construct a new processing plant and NGL pipeline at Regency’s Dubberly facility in North Louisiana. The project will include the addition of a new 200MMcfd cryogenic processing plant at the existing Dubberly facility, which will accept gas directly from Regency’s recently completed Dubberly gathering trunkline.

Clippard high-flow bidirectional electronic valves

Clippard Minimatic electronic valves are precision-built 2-way control valves, utilising a unique, patented valving principle.

Rotork CVA assists improved anti-freezing

Rotork’s innovative CVA electric control valve actuators can assist the natural gas industry to eliminate the problem of freezing in pipelines and equipment.Gas hydrate formation is a potentially serious problem in natural gas flow lines in every area, from the production well through to customer delivery.

Metso wins repeat order for noise attenuating valve

Metso has won a significant repeat order from a North American pipeline owner that brings crude oil from Canada to US refineries for Neles ball valves with Neles Q-Trim noise-attenuating technology.

Aker Solutions spins off MMO business

Aker Solutions will split into two companies to speed up a streamlining process that will reduce costs and position all parts of the group better to deal with an increasingly competitive global energy industry.

Treaty Energy acquires Texas Sands Resources

Treaty Energy Corporation, an international energy company, acquired the assets of Texas Sands Resources (TSR) of Abilene, Texas, and appointed Chris Tesarski as the executive chairman of the company.

Wood Group supports Subsea Well Response Project

The engineering company Wood Group Kenny, has provided support to the Subsea Well Response Project (SWRP), which is a joint industry project to further improve the prevention of, as well as response to, subsea well-control incidents.

MRC Global, ConocoPhillips renew MRO contracts

MRC Global subsidiary McJunkin Red Man Corporation signed a five-year contract as supplier of maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) pipe, valve and fitting (PVF) products and services to ConocoPhillips Company's operations in the lower 48 U.

Voith wins contract for three hydropower generators

Voith has won a service contract to modernize three hydropower generators at the Kettle Generating Station in Manitoba, Canada. Voith is a mechanical engineering company specializing in the energy, oil & gas, paper, transportation & automotive, and raw materials industries.