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Fertiliser complex for Turkmenistan

Gap Insaat of Turkmenistan, a subsidiary of Calik Holding of Istanbul, Turkey, has commissioned Krupp Uhde with the design and construction of a natural gas-based fertiliser complex comprising an ammonia plant and an urea plant.

Statoil awards contracts

Statoil has awarded contracts for the Kristin and Mikkel gas and condensate fields in the Norwegian Sea.

FMC sells subsea solutions offshore Brazil

FMC Technologies has announced that its FMC Energy Systems business has been awarded contracts valued at USD 16 million to supply sub-sea production solutions for Petrobras and Halliburton KBR offshore Brazil.

Self-sealing break-apart valve

Breakaway Technologies Inc. (BTI), the US specialist in cryogenic valve designs, has introduced the CryoBreak Force.1™ valve, aimed at reducing loss caused by human error inherent with filling cryogenic bulk storage tanks.

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.