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Norway: Heidrun platform upgrading contract

StatoilHydro has awarded Aker Solutions an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract at Heidrun in Norway.

Profiler test system

Vicon Control Valve Solutions now offers a two-fold approach to true control valve diagnostic testing.

Stainless steel flowmeters

Universal Flow Monitors Inc. has recently expanded its line of CoolPoint vortex shedding flowmeters.

Rayner leads Eseeco expansion

Rotork has appointed Graham Rayner as Divisional Director for Actuation, Projects and Service at Exeeco, a UK-based specialist valve actuation company serving the power generation industry.

Sub-sea critical duty valve actuator order

Rotork Fluid Systems has announced that it will be supplying specialised hydraulic actuation equipment for critical Sub Sea Isolation Valve (SSIV) duty on a new pipeline in the Petrobel North Port Said gas field, off the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.

Large diameter butterfly valves

GF Piping Systems has introduced its new chemically resistant Type 567 and 568 butterfly valves in large diameter sizes up to 8 or 12in, depending on model.

Flowserve valves to nuclear power plants

Flowserve has received two significant valve orders from Westinghouse Electric Co. for AP1000 nuclear power projects in China.

B&B needle valves

High Pressure Equipment Co. has developed a new line of block and bleed (B&B) needle valves delivering operation to 20,000psi.

Festo to demonstrate at IWEX 2009

Festo has announced that it will be demonstrating at IWEX 2009 how its latest modular controllers and actuators enable system designers to use a task-optimised blend of electrical and pneumatic technology for process control, to help minimise cost and maintenance overheads.

Auma hosts training programme

Auma actuators has hosted and developed a pioneering training programme which has benefited over 100 engineers at Anglian Water in the UK.