Tag: pipeline

Louisiana Valve Source (LVS), a company specializing valve repair and remanufactured process equipment, announced the release of its engineered gate valve for the midstream pipeline market. LVS designed the Sup-R-Seal Model ES Gate Valve per the specification for pipeline valves, API 6D.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation announced that it will expand its existing Horizon Pipeline System for an estimated capital cost of approximately USD 125M. Horizon, a 513km pipeline, was originally commissioned in 2008 and built to connect Canadian Natural Resources' Horizon Oil Sands facility to refineries, export pipelines and other delivery locations in the Edmonton area.

Praxair announced plans to build a new air separation unit (ASU) supporting its Detroit, Michigan, area pipeline system to meet the growing demand for industrial gases from customers in the region as well as rare gas customers worldwide.

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.

ValvTechnologies has named Ricky Ford as the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry Director, announced company president Kevin Hunt. Based in Houston, Ford will have global management responsibility for ValvTechnologies’ upstream oil and gas group and activities worldwide as well as long-term vision strategies for development and growth in the upstream severe service market.

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.

Tipiel, Technip’s subsidiary in Colombia, was awarded a front-end engineering design and detailed engineering design contract on a lumpsum basis by the Consorcio Constructor Ductos del Sur. This covers the development of a new gas pipeline to transport gas from the Camisea field to Southern Peru.

The Toronto City Council in Toronto, Ontario, Canada recently voted to ask Enbridge Pipelines Inc. to install automatic shut-off valves and that the National Energy Board (NEB) not grant the pipeline firm Leave to Open.

Mexico's state-owned petroleum company Pemex has signed an agreement giving two investment funds a 45 percent stake in a natural gas pipeline in exchange for $900 million. The Los Ramones pipeline will transport natural gas from Texas to Mexico and is intended to facilitate imports of cheap US gas and lower Mexico's high commercial electricity rates.

Rotork GO gas-over-oil actuators have been supplied for vital failsafe valve control duties on a new cryogenic LNG pipeline in Venezuela. The San Joaquin Pipeline, owned by Venezuela state oil company PDVSA, transports LNG for the international market between the San Joaquin and Jose cryogenic plants.