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Take a look at a typical actuator catalogue and it is hard not to be impressed. Wireless communications, modular actuators, safety systems… manufacturers have put in a lot of time and effort to develop and introduce new technologies. Glancing through yet another glossy brochure, however, the Online Team at Valve World did start to wonder about the practicability of these sophisticated new features.

Phil Keating, a leading international valve expert and specialist in the oil and gas sector will be one of the speakers at the prestigious 2013 Valve World Asia conference being held in Suzhou, China, in September.

The U.S. Navy recently awarded KBR a contract under the Navy’s Global Contingency Construction Multiple Award Contract.

Wherever aggressive biodiesel and alcohol additives are utilised in motor fuels, it poses particular problems associated with unstable chemistry during production, blending, transportation and dispensing of such fuels.

Over twenty years of field operation, research, development and engineering enhancements have combined to make the Tideflex TF-1 Check Valve an extremely reliable check valve.

Capstone Mining has entered into an option agreement with Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) to earn up to 70% of a property, Project Providencia.

TransCanada Corporation will be moving forward with the 1.1 million barrel per day (bpd) Energy East Pipeline project based on binding, long-term contracts received from producers and refiners.

Fluor Corporation has received full notice to proceed from Dominion Virginia Power to begin construction on the company’s new 1,358-megawatt, natural gas-fueled power station in Brunswick County, Virginia.

Petrobras has confirmed the extent of the light oil and natural gas discovery in the Muriú area announced in a press release of December, 2012. The drilling results are for extension well 3-SES-175D (3-BRSA-1180-D-SES), known as Muriú 1, located in the BM-SEAL-10 concession area (blocks SEAL-M-347 and SEAL-M-424) in the ultra deep waters of the Sergipe Basin. The well is located 83 kilometers from the city of Aracaju, 4.4 kilometers from the discovery well and at a water depth of 2,432 meters, and confirms the existence of a 24-meter thick reservoir with good permo-porosity characteristics. The well reached a final depth of 5,627 meters.

Metso has completed the acquisition of a steel foundry in Quzhou City, Zheijang Province some 400km Southwest of Shanghai.