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Piedmont Natural Gas plans to relocate its 36 employees in Rockingham, North Carolina to a newly renovated, LEED-certified facility in Rockingham West Industrial Park.

The Valve Manufacturers Association (VMA) will be hosting its Annual Meeting, a premier gathering of valve and actuator industry leaders in North America, from October 3rd to 5th. During the meeting, VMA will be celebrating its 75th Anniversary to mark its important role in strengthening an industry that is the backbone for so many others.

Subsea 7 S.A. has been awarded a contract with a value of approximately US$400 million from Petrobras. The contract is for the operation of the Pipe Lay Support Vessel (PLSV) Normand Seven on a day rate basis for around five years, with operations starting in the fourth quarter of this year. The vessel has operated for Petrobras for several years and is currently under contract with this client.

Skanska has been awarded a construction contract to expand a thermal power plant for a confidential client in Brazil.

Metso will deliver a significant order consisting of 38 feeders for the major Mexican copper mine Buenavista del Cobre, owned by Grupo Mexico.

MRC Global has completed the previously announced acquisition of the operating assets of Dan H. Brown, D/B/A Flow Control Products (Flow Control).

Parker Hannifin Corporation, the global motion and control technologies company, has introduced the Viking Lite Valve Series, a new low-cost inline solenoid valve.

BP announced has completed the commissioning and start-up of its new 250,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) crude distillation unit at the Whiting Refinery, marking a major milestone in the multi-billion dollar upgrade of the facility in Northwest Indiana. “The safe start-up of this large sophisticated crude-processing unit at the Whiting Refinery has returned the refinery to its nameplate processing capability of 413,000 barrels per day — initially of mostly light, sweet crude — and paved the way for the remaining upgrades to the plant to be brought on-line”, said Iain Conn, chief executive of BP’s refining and marketing segment.

The Hyundai-Wison consortium has selected Technip to supply proprietary technology as well as engineering and procurement services for its two hydrogen reformers in Venezuela.

Metso’s new line of Neles globe control valves launched last year, which targeted the Asia Pacific, Chinese and Indian petrochemical, refining and oil & gas industries in its first phase, will be launched globally in 2014. The new globe control product line builds and expands on technology and service capabilities acquired when Metso purchased the South Korean company Valstone Control in 2012.