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Metso has won an order from Eni Norge and Statoil to supply latest generation stainless steel valve controllers to the Norwegian Goliat Floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) plant in the Barents Sea.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (JEC) was awarded a contract from BP Raffinaderij Rotterdam B.V. to provide engineering and procurement services, as well as engineering assistance during construction, commissioning and startup for a major shutdown of the fluid catalytic cracker unit (FCCU) at the Rotterdam Refinery in The Netherlands.

Val-Matic® entered the United Kingdom market on a major project for Thames Water. The project involved an upgraded contract worth more than USD189 million at the Crossness Sewage Treatment Plant in east London.

As a complement to its extensive range of butterfly valves for handling liquefied gas, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, Germany will be presenting the new TRIODIS valve series at this year’s ACHEMA.

The Flash Dart is eDart Slurry Valve’s latest control valves range which is a step closer to the company’s aim of becoming a worldwide supplier of slurry flow control systems to the mining industry. eDart aims to further grow its mining valves division in the future by extending and improving its analysis division, which focuses on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). “The CFD software used to develop products allows eDart to perform a number of virtual iterations before any manufacturing takes place.

Webtec Products Ltd, of St Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK has updated the design of the 180 series of high-pressure oil-hydraulic directional control valves, due to be available from June 2012.

Fluor Corporation has won a contract from PETRONAS Gas Berhad, a subsidiary of PETRONAS, to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Malaysia.

Acrodyne introduces Oden turning regulating actuators which are built on a modular system. By combining the different types of basic units and turning modules you get the complete turning actuators.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. will build the world's largest plant, by capacity, for making 1-hexene, a key component of plastic resin. The plant, which Chevron Phillips will begin building this year, is scheduled to begin operations in the first quarter of 2014 and have an annual production capacity of 250,000 metric tons, or 551 million pounds, according to a company announcement.

The new WS Series sleeves incorporate Linatex® wear resistant technology - which is backed by years of experience in tough abrasive and corrosive environments - and is designed using Weir Minerals' extensive experience of slurry knife gate valve applications around the world.