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Statoil focuses on its valve needs

Statoil has signed 17 frame agreements with 12 suppliers to safeguard its valve requirements over the next five to seven years.

Wave Energy Park

Oceanlinx Ltd, an international developer of wave technology for renewable energy and clean water, has, through its US subsidiary, applied to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a preliminary permit to establish a wave energy facility offshore of Florence in the state of Oregon on the West coast of the USA.

Philippines: hydroelectric power plant

Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) plans to build another hydroelectric power plant in Mindanao at a cost of about a quarter of a billion dollars to help prevent a looming energy crisis in the country's second-biggest island.

Rotork opens in Spain

Worldwide valve actuation group Rotork has selected its company in Spain to be the tenth Centre of Excellence for the Rotork Fluid Systems Division's pneumatic and hydraulic actuation business.

FM approved oil/gas shut-off valves

FM-approved valves and valve assemblies for liquid and gas shutoff, new from A-T Controls, bring advanced design, patented features, and build-to-order application flexibility to protection of fuel-burning equipment.

Pneumatic quarter-turn actuators

New Pneumatic quarter-turn actuators from Remote Control offer a compact design and are extra corrosion protected.

UK: offshore wind farm

The Siemens Power Generation Group (PG) will build a further offshore wind farm in Britain. Siemens will supply 30 wind power systems with a combined capacity of 108MW for the Gunfleet Sands project off the east coast of England.

Keraflo KP Type float valve kit

Keraflo's latest development, the KP Type float valve kit, allows full flexibility in the level of stored water that is available in large tanks supplied by pipework up to 200mm in diameter.

MDG mobile directional control valve

Eaton Corp. has introduced a mobile directional control valve based on its Vickers(TM) DG4V3 design.

CRDV/S drain valve

Spartan Scientific, a manufacturer of standard and custom designed solenoid valves, has introduced its CRDV/S drain valve.