Tag: Texas

Magellan Midstream Partners is constructing a 6 mi, 24in diameter crude oil pipeline between the pipeline interchanges of Genoa Junction and Speed Junction. It will connect to the 24in diameter crude oil pipeline along the Houston ship cannel that was previously announced as part of the partnership's Houston-to-El Paso pipeline reversal project, allowing Magellan to further distribute product from the Eagle Ford Shale area to Houston-area refineries.

Tyco Valves & Controls has opened a 12,500 sq/ft, state-of-the-art center in Port Arthur, Texas, to maintain and repair customers’ valves, actuation and controls. An experienced team at the facility will service pressure relief valves, quarter turn valves, control valves and actuators.

Tyco Valves and Controls, a unit of Tyco Flow Control, has opened a new Project Management Center and expanded operations at its oil and gas headquarters in Houston, Texas. The Houston Project Management Center will work in coordination with two existing centers in the United Kingdom and Singapore, providing customers with a single point of contact from Tyco Valves and Controls for the duration of their projects.

KBR subsea subsidiary Granherne has committed to funding $50,000 to the University of Houston to assist in the launching of the nation’s first program in subsea engineering. The program will designate four adjunct faculty members as KBR lecturers in subsea engineering for the 2011-2012 academic year to help teach students about the expectations and demands they will face in the coming years.

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) has awarded Fluor Corp an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its new 540MW combined cycle Ferguson Replacement Project near Marble Falls, Texas.

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

Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed the first law in the U.S. which requires companies drilling and developing shale plays across the state to publicly disclose hydraulic fracturing components.

The first staging of Valve World Expo Americas, held recently in The Woodlands, Texas, just outside of Houston, was a great success, earning raves from exhibitors and visitors alike.

It's almost here! The Premiere edition of the Valve World Conference and Expo Americas is set to start Tuesday June 21.  Time to get to Houston!   

Legislation approved in late May by the Texas House could soon make Texas the first state to require drilling companies to publicly disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing.