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Jacobs wins Glaxo contract in Singapore

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has announced that a subsidiary company in Singapore was appointed by GlaxoWellcome Manufacturing Pte Ltd (a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) company) to deliver scheme design and engineering, procurement, and construction management services to redevelop the facilities that house technical development and quality assurance/quality control analytical testing support to manufacturing at Jurong, Singapore.

Emerson wins automation contract in Oman

Emerson Process Management has been selected by Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) to automate a new gas/oil separation plant at Barik Gharif field.

Velan supplies valves for Filipino mine

Velan has begun to ship Securaseal Severe Service Metal-Seated Ball Valves for the Rio Tuba Nickel HPP Project, in the Philippines.

Subsea Systems for North Sea

FMC Technologies Inc. has signed an agreement with Norsk Hydro ASA to supply subsea systems and related services for the Oseberg Vestflanken Field in the North Sea.

Brochure from Leslie Controls

Leslie Controls has announced its new “Steam & Thermal Fluid Controls” brochure.

Emerson architecture used in Brazilian plant

Emerson Process Management has completed an automation retrofit to six of eight diverse product units within the Elekeiroz Chemicals plant near São Paulo, Brazil.

Foster Wheeler wins NZ contract

Foster Wheeler has announced it has been awarded a USD 90 million contract by the New Zealand Refining Company Ltd. (NZRC) for the Future Fuels clean fuels project.

CNOOC and Gorgon sign LNG Deal

CNOOC Limited has announced it has signed an agreement with the Gorgon Venture Participants that is expected to lead to one of the biggest LNG deals in the industry's history.

Parker represented in Japan

Parker Instrumentation has signed a representation agreement for its fluid instrumentation manifolds, valves and tube fitting product lines with Benfield Electric Japan (BEJ).

Safe sampling solution

The problem of obtaining process samples from reactor vessels without requiring process shutdown has been solved by the PV vessel sampling device from Neotecha.