Tag: USA

Clarke Valve recently announced that its shutter valve is now approved for sale to oil and gas customers and all end users in the European Union (EU).

Hunt Valve, a US specialty valve engineering and manufacturing company, recently completed their acquisition of Pima Valve.Pima Valve supplies severe-duty bronze marine valves, and a large variety of special bronze and alloy steel products that meet specific performance requirements for U.S., Canadian and NATO-friendly Navy ships and commercial marine applications.“We are proud to support Hunt Valve’s growth both organically and through acquisitions of high-performing businesses such as MB Valve and now Pima Valve,” said Stephen Griesemer, Partner at May River Capital.

Vogt Valves, a Texas-based valve manufacturer, recently announced a partnership with Canadian-based master distributor M.A.

Valtorc has announced an expansion to their V-Ball, V-Port and V-Notch ball valves lines. The V-ball, V "notch" is an exclusive design that allows precise flow with the ability to modulate and control the flow with 30°, 60°, or 90° degree V "notch".

Rotork intelligent full-turn electric actuators have been supplied for upstream shale gas production wells in the USA. Engineered for choke and control valve applications, Rotork’s IQTF actuators provide reliable flow control for oil and gas or process operations, capable of achieving accuracy to 0.3% and resolution to 0.1%.

The United States likely surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest crude oil producer earlier this year, based on preliminary estimates in EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).

Hazleton City Authority’s 25-year old water filtration plant, located in Hazleton City, Pennsylvania, will be undergoing some upgrades in January 2018.

A bid to expand the Keystone XL pipeline has been rejected by the Obama administration. President Obama released a written statement stating that the decision was not based on the merits of the pipeline but that the deadline set by Congress was of an “arbitrary nature”.

U.S.-based Greenleaf Biofuels is constructing its first biodiesel project, a 10 million gal/yr plant. The plant will utilize waste vegetable oil in a 10 million gallon per year (mgy) biodiesel plant located in New Haven, Connecticut.

Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (Sunoco) has announced plans to convert an existing pipeline to deliver ethane from Marcellus Shale drilling to industrial customers in Canada.