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Successful debut of VW Expo and Conference America

The first staging of Valve World Expo Americas, held recently in The Woodlands, Texas, just outside of Houston, was a great success, earning raves from exhibitors and visitors alike.

MOGAS offers performance guarantee

Effective July 1, MOGAS Industries began offering an application specific performance guarantee on their metal-seated isolation and control valves.

BLACOH Announces additions to management team

BLACOH Fluid Control, Inc recently announced the company has expanded its management team and realigned key positions within the company.

Flowserve to provide valves for Brazilian plant

Flowserve Corp has signed a purchase agreement with Eldorado Celulose e Papel, S.A., a Brazilian pulp company, to supply control and on-off valves for a new plant.

Marathon Oil Corp becomes independent

Marathon Oil Corp has completed the spin-off of Marathon Petroleum Corp, making Marathon Oil an independent upstream company. The company will continue to be based in Houston.

New line of valves introduced

Primary Fluid Systems Inc. has introduced a new line of diaphragm style back pressure valves and pressure relief valves named TOP VALVE.

Shaw Group building CCGT plant in Louisiana

Entergy Louisiana has granted The Shaw Group an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the construction of a dual-fuel 550MW combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant in Louisiana.

Shell signs agreements for CCS project

Shell has signed agreements with the Governments of Alberta and Canada to secure USD 865 million in funding for its Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project in Canada. The Quest Project will capture and permanently store deep underground more than one million tonnes of CO2 per year

DX Slurry knife gate valve

Carnegie, Pennsylvania-based Red Valve has released its new Series DX Slurry knife gate valve. It is designed especially for heavy slurry applications in the power and mining industries. When the Series DX valve opens,

Iraq and Canada firm power plants deal

Canada-based Capgent has signed USD 1.66 billion contract with Iraq's electricity ministry to build 10 power plants of 100MW. The plants are to be constructed within 12 months in the Sunni provinces of Anbar,