Projects

Minnesota regulators have endorsed a controversial northern Minnesota pipeline to carry North Dakota’s crude oil, but left open the prospect of shifting its course away from northern lakes. The 5-0 vote by the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) grants pipeline developer Enbridge Energy a certificate of need to construct the $2.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth $3.6 million to J.R. Merit Inc. for the supply of replacement penstock butterfly valves to be used at the 49-MW Lost Creek hydropower project on Oregon’s Rouge River.

On Thursday July 16th, the second afternoon of the Valve World Americas Conference, there will be three educational workshops held concurrently from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. The second workshop in this set will be about Channeling your Valves to the End-user/EPC.

The high-technology engineering and manufacturing project company, ITT Corporation, will be expanding its manufacturing operations in Westminster, South California. The company will invest $1 million to construct a new testing facility for natural gas vehicle (''NGV'') components.

IRM Systems, the independent authority on emergency pipeline repairs, has announced that it has opened a new base of operations in Houston, Texas. Improving efficiencies in hydrocarbon recovery has meant the production cost per barrel using older, existing assets has dropped significantly.

Port Tampa Bay’s Petroleum Facilities Improvements Project, a joint venture between Batson-Cook Construction and Balfour Beatty Construction, was presented the Eagle Award by the Associated Builders and Contractors’ Gulf Coast Chapter at its recent annual awards event.

Automation Technology Inc. (ATI) has named Mr. Bart Dunaway as the regional sales manager for the company’s sales team. His responsibilities will include developing outside sales and building customer relations.

The Northern Pulp mill located in Abercrombie Point, Nova Scotia is planning a 15-day maintenance shutdown on May 30th, to install a new electrostatic precipitator. But the mill’s general manager, Bruce Chapman, has said it will not restart until the precipitator is operational, which could be in late June or early July.

Valve World Americas will be held this summer on July 15th and 16th at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. From 10:30am to noon on the first morning of the conference, three workshops will be held concurrently.

At the end of last month, the A.W. Chesterton Company broke ground on an extensive expansion project at its Groveland Massachusetts facility. The expansion will incorporate new corporate offices as well as a state of the art customer and employee training facility and large service center covering the New England area.