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BP workers were preparing to vacuum up about 4200 gallons or 100 barrels of crude oil and a smaller amount of produced water that overflowed from a tank at a Prudhoe Bay oilfield facility, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said on Tuesday.

Hayward Flow Control announces release of their new platinum GF-PP (Glass Filled Polypropylene) TB Series Ball Valves. The addition of the platinum GF-PP material compliments the PVC line and CPVC ball valves, as well as increasing the range of piping applications that can be serviced with the TB Series.

The Shaw Group Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell substantially all of its Energy & Chemicals business to Technip. Under the terms of the agreement, Technip will acquire substantially all of the business of the Energy & Chemicals Group for approximately USD 300 million in cash consideration, subject to adjustment based on the Energy & Chemicals Group’s debt and working capital levels at closing. Shaw will retain Energy & Chemicals Group personnel in its Baton Rouge office, which will be integrated into the company’s Plant Services Division, as well as Shaw Consulting International Inc., which will be incorporated into Shaw’s Environmental & Infrastructure Group.

Reliance Industries Limited announced that it has selected Phillips 66’s E-Gas™ Technology for its planned gasification plants at Jamnagar.

Reliance's Jamnagar site is the largest refining complex in the world, with an aggregate refining capacity of 1.

Comatrol,a global leader in the design, manufacture and sale of engineered hydraulic cartridge valves and HICs, introduces the PFD10-OD Proportional Flow Divider for compensated flow sharing between two motors or hydraulic circuits.

Sterling Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce the execution of an agreement with Enquest PLC under the terms of which Sterling will acquire Enquest's 10% interest in its F-Quad and L-Quad licences in the Dutch North Sea, and Enquest will acquire Sterling's 50% interest in the Cairngorm licence (Block 16/3d) in the UK North Sea.

PSV Mitech’s range of pneumatic rotary actuators is custom designed to suit various applications. The instruments are low maintenance and available with either a double crank mechanism for modulating control or a scotch yoke mechanism for on/off duty.

McDermott International, Inc. announced that its Malaysian affiliate Berlian McDermott Sdn. Bhd. was awarded a significant subsea contract for executing a deepwater engineering, procurement, construction, transportation, installation and commissioning project offshore Malaysia.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced it was awarded a contract from Evonik Industries AG to provide basic engineering services for an investment in a grassroots polyamide 12 production facility in Asia.

Fluor Corporation’s joint venture with WorleyParsons, the Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas (KING) and KazGiproNefteTrans Engineering Company (KGNT EC) was awarded a contract by Tengizchevroil, LLP (TCO) for its Wellhead Pressure Management Project in Kazakhstan.