Fluor Corp awarded Shell projects
Fluor Corporation has announced that Shell has awarded the company a 5-year enterprise framework agreement for engineering and project management services for Shell’s downstream, and potentially, upstream onshore projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EAME).
Global demand for oilfield equipment forecast
Global demand for oilfield equipment is forecast to rise 3.8%per year through 2016 to $109 billion. Gains will be fuelled by a substantial increase in oil and gas production as the world economy rebounds from the general economic weakness triggered by the 2009 global recession. Weatherford Kazakhstan awards CIS
Conductor Installation Services Ltd (CIS), an Acteon company, announced that it has been awarded a USD multi-million contract by Weatherford Kazakhstan to provide conductor-driving services in Kazakhstan.
DOE to award USD 1M for clean coal technology
Unity Power Alliance, a joint venture between ThermoEnergy Corp. and ITEA S.p.A., will receive an award of USD 1M from the U.S. AMPO reaffirms leadership at Gastech 2012
AMPO Poyam Valves, the leading company in cryogenic valves and a reference supplier of high-specification valves, is attending Gastech with its own stand to present a selection of valves for the gas industry. 
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) has exercised its options to order another two Ramform Titan-class vessels at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. 
China may be pushing forward with a plan of revitalizing its struggling shipbuilding industry by injecting a major order of 50 VLCCs. 
Transocean Ltd. announced that it has been awarded 10-year contracts for four newbuild dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillships by Royal Dutch Shell (Shell). 
Raymond Cordewener was presented with the Duplex Excellence Award 2012 during the Duplex Seminar & Summit, which was held in Stresa (Italy) 26 & 27 September.