Technical

The White House recently announced that it will seek to limit methane emissions from existing sources in the oil and gas industry through forging a relationship with Canada to implement the historic Paris Agreement, by developing mutual environmental control regulations.

The Fluid Sealing Association® (FSA) will be presenting a 1.5-hour webinar on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 2:00 PM EDT on “The Fundamentals of Bolting for Gasketed Joints”.

Aker Solutions and Total, both with numerous operations in North and South America, have recently agreed to collaborate on research and innovation to develop new cost-effective subsea field technology.

Hydro Alternative Energy, Inc., an emerging independent power provider, recently announced that after almost four years of research, development, legal and technical work, it has received from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a Notice of Allowance (NOA) for its Hydrokinetic Energy Conversion System, patent application number US 13/679,268.

Sherwood Valve, headquartered in Washington, Pennsylvania, has formed a new partnership with Holding Suramericano to provide local sales and technical support in Latin America. Holding Suramericano will represent Sherwood for industrial and specialty gas valves in the Latin American regions including Mexico, Central, South America and the Caribbean.

Houston-based Watson Valve Services Inc. recently announced “Watson Valve Services, Australia.” Watson Valve will now have the ability to support the supply of its severe service valve products to non-US domestic sites from its Australian based service agent, Process Plants International (PPi) under the name, “Watson Valve Services, Australia.

Tennessee-based Mueller Industries, which manufactures valves, tubing and various other components for OEM operations, recently announced the signing of a joint venture agreement with Cayan Ventures and Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company to build a copper tube mill in Bahrain.

Shaker High School and Union College are among 13 Albany, New York area schools scheduled to receive robotic equipment donated by Precision Valve & Automation (PVA).

The US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing earlier this month to conduct oversight of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The hearing focused on FERC’s role in ensuring reliability in light of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP), as well as FERC’s efforts to permit new natural gas pipelines and LNG export facilities.

Pennsylvania-based Victaulic has introduced a new FireLock® NXT Series 768N Dry Valve. Re-engineered according to customers' needs, the new dry valve provides simplified set-up and maintenance for fire protection contractors and fitters, while still maintaining the core features and benefits of the original technology.