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The U.S. State Department has said it will decide in the first quarter of 2011 whether it will approve another TransCanada Corp. pipeline to bring crude from Alberta's oil sands to the Gulf Coast refineries.

Climax Portable Machine Tools has developed a new line of heavy-duty portable flange facers that gives machinists the option to select one of three configuration options. 

Valve automation specialist Automated Valve & Controls (AVC) has doubled the size of its facility and relocated to Market Street in Houston, Texas.

BP has announced plans to divest two of its US refineries and seek buyers for the Texas City, Texas, and the Carson, California, refineries.

The Brazilian environment agency Ibama has approved the construction of the Belo Monte power dam in the Amazon.  The project has been subject to controversy among natives and other conservationists.

Cameron has acquired Vescon Equipamentos Industriais Ltda., a company which manufactures onshore wellhead and Christmas trees systems and API 6A and 6D valves.

The new M-series metal seat ball valves from A-T Controls stand up to abrasive fluids, high pressure, steam and high temperatures with an oversized stem and larger ball design to prevent leaks.

A variety of stepper drivers from Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, Inc., (Haydon Kerk) are now available for 24 hour shipment.  There’s a stepper driver offered for immediate shipment that will work with virtually any size linear actuator offered by Haydon Kerk.

The new Sharktooth provides excellent throttling characteristics, plus aerodynamic noise attenuation, and liquid cavitation reductions. An innovative Control Cartridge is used to turn triple eccentric butterfly valves into control valves with exceptional control characteristics, as well as Class IV, V, or VI metal-to-metal, fire safe shut-off. They are readily available in carbon steel, stainless steel and special alloys for liquids, gasses, and steam at temperatures from cryogenic up to 850F in 150, 300 and 600 ANSI pressure classes, from 3 in through 48 in, with a wide choice of actuators and control accessories.

Cameron has re-designed its ENTECH DRV-BN Nozzle Check Valve. The DRV-BN is the newest large-bore addition to Cameron’s valve portfolio.