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Valtorc to provide Bechtel actuated ball valves

   The manufacturing division of Valtorc International, USA has been commissioned to manufacture and provide high performance automated ball valves to the Bechtel Corporation for use on a high security nuclear facility in the eastern United States.

Wood Group acquires Mitchell’s Oil Field Services

Wood Group has announced that they formed an agreement to acquire Mitchell's Oil Field Services, Inc. for an initial consideration of $135M (USD). Mitchell's is a provider of maintenance, installation and fabrication services in the oil-rich Bakken shale region.

Foster Wheeler snags deal for two HSRGs in Mexico

Foster Wheeler AG has announced that Global Power Group has been awarded a contract for the design and supply of two heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) to be installed in a cogeneration power plant for the TEREFTALATOS MEXICANOS S.

CB&I awarded petrochemical project contracts

CB&I has been awarded contracts for the technology license, basic engineering and front end engineering and design (FEED) services for a proposed ethane cracker by Occidental Chemical Corporation.

ID cleanup project contract renewed

A company formed by CH2M Hill and URS Corp. will continue to clean up waste at the Idaho National Laboratory for another three years under a USD 730 million-contract extension announced earlier this week. CH2M-WG Idaho will continue its work managing spent fuel and cleaning up solid and liquid waste at the Department of Energy site near Idaho Falls that has hosted nuclear power research projects since 1949.

FirstEnergy considers converting coal-fired plant

FirstEnergy Corp. is studying natural gas pricing trends to determine if the company should convert its 1,710 MW Hatfields Ferry coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania to natural gas, according to Platts. The low NOx burners at the plant's three units are due to be replaced and the company is considering replacing them with technology that allows co-firing gas with coal, a spokesman was quoted as saying in the article.

Honeywell to acquire Thomas Russell Co.

Honeywell said that its UOP business has signed a definitive agreement to purchase a 70 percent-stake in Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Thomas Russell Co., a privately-held, leading provider of technology and equipment for natural gas processing and treating.

WPS to buy Fox Energy Co. LLC

Integrys Energy Group announced that its subsidiary, Wisconsin Public Service Corp. (WPS), has agreed to buy Fox Energy Co.

Additional coal-fired retirements expected

The Brattle Group released a report examining the impact of emerging Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air quality regulations on coal-fired power plants.

Coal-fired plants to be retired Oct. 1

Progress Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, will officially retire two coal-fired power plants Oct.