Renewable energy

Fugutive emissions can be reduced to less than 10 ppm with Reduced Emissions Kalrez (REK) packing from Research Control Valves. This optional packing system can be installed new, retrofitted, or customized.

Greene’s Energy Group (GEG) has acquired the assets of Houma, LA based Pro-Valve Services, Inc. The acquisition will broaden the after-market production valve services provided by GEG’s Wellhead and Valve division.

The city of Saltillo, Mexico, is the site of a new waste-to-energy plant that will begin construction in November, 2011. Early in September, a consortium including Eco Energía Renovables, Canromex, Guascor de México, Colibrí Capital, Biogás y Energía, Desarrollo de Proyectos de Energía Renovables, and Desarrollo Ecoambiental de México was awarded the contract for what will initially be a 2MW plant.

Mexico's President Felipe Calderón is replacing energy minister José Antonio Meade with Jordy Herrera, the current director of PGPB, the gas and basic petrochemicals subsidiary of Pemex.

The American Petroleum Institute has released a report indicating that proposals to expand offshore oil drilling, boost production of natural gas in New York and other states and build a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline could boost the U.

DSME has been selected by Excelerate Energy to build a new floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to be utilized by Petrobras, which has designated the ship VT3. Said to be the largest vessel of its kind, the vessel will deliver 20 million cum/day of natural gas to the Southeast Region of Brazil.

GE’s has released its Consolidated 1900 Series universal media cryodisc safety valve option is designed to deflect toward the nozzle to create a tighter seal when exposed to isolated colder spots, and helps reduce leakage of cryogenic fluids

Eagle Rock Energy Partners L.P. has announced its intention to install a recently acquired 60MMcf/d cryogenic processing facility in Hemphill County, Texas, in the heart of the prolific Granite Wash play. Eagle Rock expects

Emerson Process Management has released an updated version of its Fisher® Specification Manager software, enhancing ease of use and adding flexibility to this widely-utilised valve selection tool.

El Paso Electric Co will utilize GE aeroderivative gas turbine technology to expand its Rio Grande power plant in Sunland Park, New Mexico. GE will provide an 88 MW LMS100PA aeroderivative gas turbine which will run on natural gas