Technical

  Monday, June 24, 2013 9:00 am to 5:00 pm 1 day prior to the start of Valve World Americas Expo & Conference 2013 George R.

Tenmat Ltd, a specialist manufacturer of highly technical composite materials, has announced that they have won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Outstanding Achievement in International Trade for the second year in a row.

Intertek, the leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide, has stated that liquefied natural gas usage, encouraged by offshore and shale gas projects, continues to expand in global markets, as the company attended and exhibited at the LNG-17 conference in Houston, Texas.

Rotork-Hiller, a manufacturer of pneumatic and hydraulic valve actuators for the nuclear industry, has successfully completed the full qualification of a new scotch yoke rotary pneumatic actuator to the latest industry standards.

ASK Chemicals plans to impress at this year’s CastExpo event in St. Louis, MO, April 6th to 9th. Located on booth 2656, ASK Chemicals will feature fifteen different customer castings arranged specifically by the incorporated ASK Chemicals product line used in its production: Coatings & Auxiliaries, Cold-Box, Feeding Systems, Metallurgy and No-Bake.

Statoil was the highest bidder on 15 leases in the central region U.S. Gulf of Mexico lease sale. With the addition, Statoil will control more than 340 leases in the Gulf of Mexico, further securing its significant lease holder position. “This addition of leases allows us to further build upon our broad-based strategy for exploration in the U.S.

Petrofac’s Engineering & Consulting Services business (ECS), in partnership with Doris Engineering of Houston (Doris), has been awarded a project management contract by Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) for specialised technical assistance and supervision for the construction, installation, commissioning, testing and start-up of deep-water subsea wells and infrastructure for the Lakach project.

Fresh on the heels of its recent acquisition of eLearning specialist Oilennium Ltd, Petrofac Training Services (PTS)has announced the launch of a new eLearning course, “Introduction to Oil & Gas,”.

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) has announced that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox mPower, Inc.

The latest agent recruited by electric actuator manufacturer SIPOS Aktorik is WS Controles in Campinas – São Paulo, Brazil.