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Calpine Corporation has signed an agreement to supply electric generation capacity and power to American Electric Power Service Corporation.

ExxonMobil has announced an investment of more than US$200 million to increase the capacity of its Baton Rouge chemical and lubricants plants for synthetic lubricant base stocks manufacturing and lubricants blending, packaging and storage. The expansion will increase ExxonMobil’s worldwide capacity of synthetic esters and alkylated naphthalene by more than 25 per cent.

Enbridge Pipelines Inc. has announced that it has received approval from the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board to begin construction on the Woodland Pipeline Extension Project. Enbridge Pipelines Inc.

Sunoco has announced a pipeline project to deliver propane and ethane from the liquid-rich Marcellus Shale areas in Western Pennsylvania to Sunoco’s facility in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania.

A huge power uprate of 149MWe at unit 2 of Florida Power & Light's St Lucie nuclear power plant has been approved by the US nuclear regulator.

 Control valve specialist Samson Controls has introduced enhanced versions of two of its established products: the Type 3291 valve and the Type 3730-6 positioner.The Type 3291 valve is suitable for use in severe operating conditions, such as those found in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries.

Victaulic has acquired MTS Valves & Technology's desalination business, which manufactures and designs valves for the desalination market such as the MTS Plug Valve. A high-pressure valve for control in seawater reverse-osmosis applications, the MTS Plug Valve is also used in other high-pressure membrane treatment applications in highly corrosive environments such as offshore oil and gas sulfate removal systems, water processing for mining, industrial water reclamation and reuse facilities and high-purity water treatment for power.

   Emerson Process Management has announced that it will now offer Valve Seat Leak Detection Services which includes solutions for valve-seat leak detection, open inspection, diagnostics, OEM-certified and replacement of its Fisher brand control valves.

As part of its strategy to broaden the company's offering of fluid system technology products and services, Swagelok Company has acquired the assets of Innovative Pressure Technologies (IPT). Erie, Pennsylvania-based, IPT is a manufacturer of subsea valves, fittings and fluid control devices used primarily in oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical, automotive, water blasting, waterjet cutting and similar applications.

A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler's Global Engineering and Construction Group in consortium with Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. of South Korea, has been awarded a contract for Phase 1 (Hydroskimming section) of the new Batalla Santa Ines Refinery, by Petróleos de Venezuela, S.