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Mr Julio Cobos, Governor of the Argentine province of Mendoza, has recently presided over the opening of the economic bid from Argentine-Colombian joint venture Ingetec-Inconas-Jaime Lande to carry out the 90MW Portezuelo Del Viento hydroelectric project studies.

DuPont Engineering Polymers (DEP) (Wilmington, Delaware, USA) has revealed a broad range of development projects for the near future at the K 2007 fair in Prague.

Metso Automation is currently producing a large shipment of Neles control and on-off valves for the new SABIC (formerly Huntsman) 400,000tpa polyethylene plant in Wilton, UK due to come on stream in late 2007.

Indigenous communities from the Peruvian Amazon told Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) to clean up its toxic waste from their tropical rainforest or face a major lawsuit.

Since the beginning of April of this year, KSB Aktiengesellschaft has a new brochure available on the subject of pumps and valves for use in high-rise and large buildings.

Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) plans to build another hydroelectric power plant in Mindanao at a cost of about a quarter of a billion dollars to help prevent a looming energy crisis in the country's second-biggest island.

PSL Ltd has recently bagged an order worth USD 21 million for the gas field known as KG-DNN-98/3, within the KG Basin in the Bay of Bengal, India.

Midland-ACS was chosen to design, engineer, manufacture and commission actuated valves for the BTC pipeline's Ceyhan Marine Terminal in addition to four of its pumping stations.

Russia's state-controlled natural gas monopoly has wrested control of the country's largest single foreign investment from Shell, taking a majority stake in the Sakhalin-2 project for USD 7.45 billion in a deal that consolidates the Kremlin's command over national energy resources.

Flowserve Corp. has announced the opening of a new administrative headquarters for its Flow Solutions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMA) operations.