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Saudi gas expansion

Technip-Coflexip has been awarded, by Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), a major lump sum turnkey contract for the expansion of the Berri gas plant to handle additional output of sour gas from the Qatif field now under development.

Specialist instrumentation for new dry dock

All the specialist cross site services field instrumentation for the new Class TSSBN submarine dry dock facility at DML Devonport has been supplied by the KDG Instruments division of Solartron Mobrey, based at Crawley, UK.

Trunnion valves for oil and gas pipelines

KF Industries, a division of Circor International, is now offering to the oil and gas pipeline market its Series P3 trunnion-mounted ball valve line directly from its ISO-certified, Oklahoma City-based manufacturing plant.

Piping brochure

Trouvay & Cauvin has produced the 2001 edition of its piping brochure.

Reduced valve operation time on Statoil platform

The time spent operating manual valves on Statoil’s new Huldra platform in the Norwegian Sea has been significantly reduced since the introduction of Smith Flow Control’s Easi-Drive portable valve actuator.

Actuated valves for clean-in-place systems

Plast-O-Matic Valves Inc. has introduced a line of actuated thermoplastic ball valves designed specifically for clean-in-place applications.

Actuated valve

The V Series is an air-operated, piston-actuated valve from Tescom.

Pressure to conform

PED conformity Hoke products now conform to the PED as required by Article 3 of the European Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/PC and under the Sound Engineering Practices of the UK.

Valve catalogues

New catalogues are available from Century Instrument, Marwin Valve, International Valve Marketing and Anderson Metals.

Piping from Trouvay & Cauvin

The latest edition of Trouvay & Cauvin's Piping Equipment catalogue is now available.