Renewable energy

Besides fossil fuels, Valve World also covers renewable energy sectors, such as hydrogen, hydropower, wind, CCS et cetera. The development and scaling up of green hydrogen production  will definitely impact the valve and actuation sector.

Boardwalk building gas plant in Texas

  Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP subsidiary, Boardwalk Field Services LLC will be constructing a cryogenic gas processing plant to serve producers in the Eagle Ford Shale and will be expanding its gathering system.

Clean Energy to build & supply Texas LNG fueling s

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Texas truck transport provider, Green Energy Oilfield Services, signed a 10-year agreement to build, supply and maintain a new liquefied natural gas fueling station at the Fairfield, Texas-based, Green Energy headquarters.

Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy acquires TX plant

    Through one of its subsidiaries, Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy LLC has acquired a natural gas-fired peaking facility, Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas from Signal Hill Power LLC.

Siemens turns over coal-fired plant to GenPower

Siemens Energy Inc. and Kvaerner ASA subsidiary, Kvaerner North American Construction, Inc.

Energy Coalition New York formed by utilities

Energy Coalition New York has been formed by six investor-owner New York State electric and natural gas utilities. The coalition consists of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, Consolidated Edison Inc.

Duke & Progress Energy delay merger

Duke Energy and Progress Energy’s proposed merger will create the United States largest utility. If approved, the new company will serve over 7 million customers in North and South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.

Dow Site to use UOP tech to convert propane

Honeywell company, UOP LLC has been chosen to provide technology for propylene production by the Dow Chemical Company at a Texas production site.

New ASCO SS valves for offshore

ASCO Numatics has introduced the 8361 series of stainless steel pilot valves. The series’ unique design uses T-seal technology to reduce the dormancy or “sticking” problems that can occur in control valves installed in the pneumatic logic panels that control monitoring safety systems in offshore oil and gas production facilities.

ME2C names president, COO

Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. ( ME2C) has appointed Alan Kelley as President and Chief Operating Officer effective November 1st. Kelley replaces Richard MacPherson, who will move to the position of senior vice president of Strategic Initiatives and will continue as a member of the company’s Board of Directors.

ASCO introduces SS pilot valves for offshore

ASCO Numatics recently introduced the 361 series of stainless steel pilot valves featuring a unique design that eliminates “sticking” problems in low cycle demand applications. These problems can occur in control valves installed in the pneumatic logic panels used to control safety monitoring systems in offshore oil and gas production facilities.