Projects

The Canadian government recently approved the CAD $1.3 billion expansion of a natural gas gathering pipeline in western Canada, which belongs to a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada Corp.

Argentina's state-controlled YPF has launched negotiations with local conglomerate, Corporacion America, to build a third LNG receiving terminal south of Buenos Aires.

Honeywell and Flowserve, both with US locations, will collaborate to provide Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions to help industrial customers make their operations, safer, more efficient and more reliable.

Golar Power, an operator of LNG carriers, has reached a final investment decision on the Sergipe power project in Brazil and is to charter the newly built floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), Golar Nanook, for 25 years.

Metso, a world leading industrial company serving the mining, aggregates, recycling, oil, gas, pulp, paper and process industries, with many locations throughout the Americas, has introduced its Expertune PlantTriage(TM), a control loop monitoring system that oversees process control loops, diagnoses and prioritizes opportunities for improvements, and pinpoints major economic paybacks.

Amec Foster Wheeler, an international company (with numerous locations in the US) offering consultancy, engineering, project management, operations and construction services worldwide, has been awarded a consultancy contract by INPEX, Japan’s largest oil & gas exploration and Production Company, for the Ichthys Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project in Australia.

Water & Wastes Digest (W&WD) has recently recognized Mueller Co. in its top projects of 2016. Mueller Co. is a subsidiary of Mueller Water Products, Inc.

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) crews will begin a USD $3.4 million valve replacement and upgrade project at a natural gas pipeline valve station in Littlerock, near Palmdale, California.

The Pacific NorthWest liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia has been conditionally approved with 190 legally binding conditions.

Recent statistics, issued by the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy, updated as of end-July, show US LNG exports have opened up a comfortable lead over US LNG imports year-to-date.