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OFS International LLC, which is controlled by TMK, one of the world’s leading producers of tubular products for the oil and gas industry, has acquired a 100 per cent stake in the pipe services and precision manufacturing assets of ITS Tubular Services (Holdings) Limited and a group of affiliated shareholders. The facility is located on an 84-acre site north-east of Houston and has the capacity to produce more than 700 thousand joints of threaded pipe and around 250 thousand couplings.

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. announced that it has entered into a five-year contract with BP to provide well intervention services to BP in the US Gulf of Mexico with Helix’s deepwater well intervention semisubmersible vessel, the Q5000, currently being constructed in Singapore.

Engineering and technology group SENER has opened an office in São Paulo, Brazil. The company establishes an operating and permanent division in the country made up of about 300 Brazilian professionals specialized in engineering and construction that will carry out projects in the fields of power and process, civil engineering and architecture, aerospace and marine engineering.

Rotork-Hiller, a manufacturer of pneumatic and hydraulic valve actuators for the nuclear industry, has successfully completed the full qualification of a new scotch yoke rotary pneumatic actuator to the latest industry standards.

Smith Flow Control has developed the EasiDrive portable valve actuator to operates valves in power plants. The actuator allows one operator to efficiently operate multiple valves with a single tool while reducing fatigue and injury risk.

BP has completed a successful flow test of the Itaipu-1A discovery well offshore Brazil. The drill stem test was the latest activity in the ongoing appraisal program at the BP-operated Itaipu discovery.

Foster Wheeler AG has announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Pecket Energy to perform feasibility, conceptual and basic engineering studies, and develop an overall investment cost estimate for a substitute natural gas (SNG) production facility which is planned to be built near Punta Arenas, Chile.

Germany’s biggest power supplier E.ON will increase its stake in Brazilian electricity producer MPX to just over 36%.

ASK Chemicals plans to impress at this year’s CastExpo event in St. Louis, MO, April 6th to 9th. Located on booth 2656, ASK Chemicals will feature fifteen different customer castings arranged specifically by the incorporated ASK Chemicals product line used in its production: Coatings & Auxiliaries, Cold-Box, Feeding Systems, Metallurgy and No-Bake.

BP has announced completion of a successful flow test of the Itaipu-1A discovery well offshore Brazil. The drill stem test was the latest activity in the ongoing appraisal programme at the BP-operated Itaipu discovery.