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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will allow Tesoro to go through with its plans to buy a BP-owned refinery in southern California, bringing the two companies one step closer to sealing the deal sometime this quarter.
The construction of a natural gas pipeline from southern Texas to central Mexico for state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, will allow gas imports from the U.S.
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited has won 100% interest and operatorship in four shallow-water exploration licences, BAR-M292, BAR-M-293, BAR-M-313 and BAR-M-314, in the Barreirinhas basin, offshore Brazil.
Strata-X Energy announced the appointments of David L. Hettich as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company and Shaun Maskerine as the company's Canadian Corporate Secretary (CS).
Emerson Process Management has released cost-saving new diagnostic capabilities in its FieldQ rack & pinion fully integrated valve actuator and controls.
Shell has laid the keel for Prelude FLNG, the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas project. When complete, Prelude is expected to be the largest offshore floating facility ever built.
Exxon Mobil and the workers’ union at the company's Baytown, Texas, refinery reached a tentative agreement over contract language on safety — a dispute that the union said could lead to a strike if not resolved.
A spokesperson for the United Steelworkers local at Baytown said Exxon agreed to implement a fatigue management system regulating the number of days in a row an employee could work, and to accept a process safety representative position in the new three-year contract.
Speaking at the "Global Deepwater Technology Development" panel in Houston, USA, Petrobras' executive manager for production engineering in Exploration & Production, Solange da Silva Guedes highlighted the importance of integrating companies that operate in deepwater oil and gas fields with universities and suppliers for the development of offshore production technology.
The panel, with more than 250 attendees, opened the first day of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), the world's biggest event devoted to offshore oil exploration and production.
Rotork Valvekits, the specialist valve mounting kit company in the Rotork group of flow control businesses, is now the official stockist and distributor for the industry-leading Pneumatrol Namur range of solenoid valves.
The Pneumatrol range, formerly known as RGS Davis, has a long history and excellent reputation for providing pneumatic solenoid valve solutions within hazardous and non-hazardous environments.
