Tag: valves

Administrators at Laredo Community College (LCC) are looking into spending several million dollars to buy real-life equipment used in the industry in an attempt to give a more hands-on education. Oil and gas may have slowed down in the last six months, but the director of the oil and gas program says the industry always needs highly skilled technicians.

The upcoming Valve World Americas Exhibition and Conference 2015 will be held from July 15th to July 16th, 2015 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. There will be three workshops held consecutively from 10:30am to 12:00pm on July 15th.

SGS has been awarded a three-year contract to conduct preventive and corrective maintenance of electrical and mechanical instrumentation at two major petrochemical facilities in Brazil: Terminal Marítimo Almirante Soares Dutra and Terminal de Rio Grande.

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has announced that its Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 1 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania had shut down operations as of April 25th at 12:01am for scheduled refuelling and maintenance.

The global water technology company, Xylem, has announced that today Steven Leung will join the company as Senior Vice President and President, Emerging Markets. His position will become effective April 1, 2015.

Blackmer, a specialist in positive displacement and centrifugal pump, andreciprocating compressor technologies, announced the integration of Ebsray products into its stable of Autogas-equipment solutions for use in the North and South American Autogas/LPG markets.

The Valin Corporation, a provider of process control and automation solutions to a variety of markets, is now the authorized representative of the KOSO Hammel Dahl line of global control valves. Valin has obtained the exclusive distribution rights to the product line in 13 states within the Western United States.

This year's 4C Environmental Conference brings together a record 1,000 representatives from environmental regulatory and regulated communities for 4 days of presentations, trainings, and showcases on the latest compliance topics and products at the newly constructed JW Marriott in downtown Austin on February 16-19th.

AMPO Poyam Valves will supply a series of cryogenic valves for a number of LNG facilities across the world. These include Shell-Prelude FLNG, the world’s first LNG liquefaction offshore floating facility; Sabine Pass LNG Liquefaction project, the world’s first bi-directional facility capable of exporting gas in addition to degasifying imported LNG; Dunquerke LNG, the largest terminal in continental Europe, and Hitachi LNG, an LNG Terminal located in Ibraki Port, Hitachi City.AMPO Poyam Valves designs and manufactures valves for the complete gas chain from gas treatment facilities to offshore, onshore and marine projects.

Plaintree Systems is a diverse company with proprietary technology and manufacturing capabilities in structural design, aerospace and telecommunications. The company’s product line of specialty structures includes the former Triodetic Group, a designer and builder of aluminum and stainless steel structures.