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Pacific Valves brochure

Pacific Valves, a division of the Crane Valve Group, has published an eight-page brochure with insert.

Meter prover for Snohvit condensate

A 30-inch bi-directional meter prover supplied by Skeltonhall Limited of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK, is on its way to the Statoil LNG plant at Melkoya Island outside Hammerfest in northern Norway.

Buzzard contract

Weir Westgarth, part of the Techna Division of the Weir Group, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract on the Buzzard Oilfield Development Project.

Mouse-sized pressure control valve

Hoerbiger-Origa has enhanced its intelligent proportional pressure control valve, Airfit Tecno, with a redesign that improves its performance and ensures its reliability in the most arduous application zones.

Belgian chemical upgrade

Ineos-Phenol GmbH & Co. KG has awarded AK Engineering Services, part of the Aker Kvaerner group, an alliance contract to assist in upgrading its Phenol-Acetone plant in Doel, Belgium.

Hydrogen plant in Finland

Fortum Oil & Gas has commissioned ThyssenKrupp Group's engineering arm Uhde GMBH to design and supply equipment for a 140 MMscfd hydrogen production plant at Porvoo, Finland.

Pressure relief valves meet PED requirements

Bidirectional A04J2 pressure relief valves from Sterling Hydraulics are now available in CE-marked versions that are suitable for use on all equipment required to comply with the Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC (PED).

Valve complies with German gas laws

Lutz-Jesco has introduced its multifunction PENTABLOC valve, designed to comply with German legislation concerning exposure to dangerous gases or substances.

Long life for check valves

A new series of ball-cage check valves from Parker Hannifin Instrumentation Products Division is optimised for higher temperature applications.

Technip sets world record

Technip has set new world deepwater records with the Deep Blue on the Na Kika project in the Gulf of Mexico.