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Pneumatic valves are positioned as close to actuators as possible, because shorter tubing lengths reduce the required compressed air by up to 20%.

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.

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.

The second Valve World Americas Expo & Conference will be held eon June 25th-26th, 2013 in Houston, Texas.

Rotork Fairchild, a member of the Rotork Instruments Division, announces the introduction of the all-new Model 11 low pressure regulator.

Nuclear technology firm Invap will construct two research reactors, one in Brazil and one in Argentina, under a contract signed with the two countries.

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.