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Petrobras has put FPSO Cidade de Paraty onstream June 6 to begin commercial production in the Santos Basin Lula Nordeste pre-salt.

Linde North America will invest more than USD 200M to build a large, state-of-the art air separation unit (ASU), a new gasification train and supporting equipment and facilities at La Porte, Texas.

Control Techniques, an Emerson Industrial Automation company, released its Digitax ST-X indexing servo motor drive with EtherNet/IP™, a new variant of the company’s popular Digitax ST series of pulse duty servo drives.

Tenaris, a leading supplier of tubes and related services for the world's energy industry and other industrial applications, has signed a contract to supply Petrobras with 9 5/8 casing with TenarisHydril Blue premium connections for offshore exploration wells over the upcoming years. The TenarisHydril Blue connections have been developed to face the most challenging E&P environments and tested in accordance with ISO 13679 CAL IV.

GDF SUEZ Gas NA has begun supplying Transgas, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucking company in the Northeast, with LNG for use as a vehicle fuel.

BP has announced plans to invest USD 1B over the next five years at its Alaskan operations for adding two new drilling rigs to its exploration of the North Slope.

Exxon Mobil Corporation has awarded Technip a substantial lump-sum contract for the development of the Julia field located in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico, at a water depth of approximately 7,200 feet. The contract covers the project management, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of more than 48 kilometers of 10.75-inch outer diameter insulated flowlines, steel catenary risers and flowline end terminations. Technip's operating center in Houston, Texas will perform the overall project management, with detailed flowline design being completed by Genesis, Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary.

Wood Group Mustang has been awarded a contract by The Dow Chemical Company to provide services for construction of approximately 140 miles of ethane, ethylene, propane and propylene pipelines, associated interconnections, and station modifications between Dow Texas Operations in Freeport, Texas, and facilities at Mt.

Linde North America will invest more than USD 200M to build a large, state-of-the art air separation unit (ASU), a new gasification train and supporting equipment and facilities at La Porte, Texas.

Ecopetrol S.A. has discovered the presence of hydrocarbons at Cusuco 1, an exploratory well located within the municipality of San Carlos de Guaroa, Meta Province, Colombia. Cusuco 1 is part of the CPO-10 Exploration and Production Agreement of December 2008 between Ecopetrol and the National Hydrocarbons Agency.