Foster Wheeler acquires Mexican engineering compan
Foster Wheeler AG has acquired NorthAm Engineering S.A. DE CV, a privately held engineering company located in Monterrey, Mexico.
NorthAm is one of the largest Mexican engineering and project management companies, with a track record in upstream, offshore and onshore, downstream and power projects.
Technip wins Pacific NorthWest LNG contract
Technip, leader of a consortium with Samsung Engineering and China’s Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, was awarded a contract for the front-end engineering design and the early detailed engineering services of a grassroot liquefied natural gas (LNG) project by the Pacific NorthWest LNG Limited Partnership.
Plains All American to extend western Oklahoma pip
Plains All American Pipeline announced that it is constructing a 95-mile extension to its existing Oklahoma crude oil pipeline system to service increasing production from the Granite Wash, Hogshooter and Cleveland Sands producing areas in western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle.
The new Western Oklahoma pipeline will provide up to 75,000 barrels per day of new takeaway capacity from Reydon, Okla.
Constellation employees win award for equipment re
Employees at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Maryland, USA have been honored with the B. Ralph Sylvia “Best of the Best” Award for an innovative pressurizer component replacement, the NEI has reported.
Pneumatics with an energy-efficient design
Pneumatic valves are positioned as close to actuators as possible, because shorter tubing lengths reduce the required compressed air by up to 20%.