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Iraq: offshore oil export facilities

Foster Wheeler AG has announced that its UK-headquartered subsidiary Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by the South Oil Co. for the basic engineering of new oil export facilities, to supplement the existing Al-Basra terminal in Iraq.

Top-Flo® Divert valve

Top Line at York Fluid Controls has launched its Top-Flo® Divert valves.

Control-Disk valve

Emerson Process Management has introduced the Fisher Control-Disk valve. The new Control-Disk valve is suitable for applications that involve fast processes and varying pressure drops, such as in the hydrocarbon, refining, chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining industries.

Rotork wins 2009 Readers’ Choice Award

Control magazine has announced that Rotork Controls is the winner of the prestigious 2009 Readers’ Choice Award for electric valve actuators.

Analogue potentiometer

Automated Motion Systems has launched a rectilinear potentiometer to provide analogue position feedback in hydraulic or pneumatic actuators. The ELTRA EPLB precision rectilinear potentiometer range is available in eight models with stroke lengths from 50 to 500mm.

Fisher control-disk valve

The new Fisher Control-Disk valve from Emerson Process Management offers enhanced throttling capability for applications that involve fast processes and varying pressure drops, such as in the hydrocarbon, refining, chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining industries.

Severn upgrades valve management

Severn Unival Ltd is using PC-based data capture software Transform from Terrington Data Management, York, to upgrade its management of all UK valves and platforms used by oil and gas companies.

Qatar: hydrogen generator contract

Proton Energy Systems has been awarded a contract from Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction to supply HOGEN hydrogen generators for a power plant that provides electricity to Qatalum, proposed to be world's largest aluminum smelting plant.

Sipos aids water management

Mavel Srl has selected Sipos Aktorik’s actuators to aid water management at Pont-Saint-Martin, in the Aosta Valley, Italy.

Hardide Coatings appoints manager

Hardide Coatings Ltd has appointed Nick King as business development manager for UK and Europe.