Company News

T.D. Williamson (TDW), supplier of pipeline equipment and services, announced that Bruce Thames has been promoted to the position of Sr.

    BP has signed an agreement with the Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley (ALOV) to lease approximately 84,000acres in Trumbull County, Ohio in the Utica/Point Pleasant shale basin.

Subsea 7 awarded contract offshore Canada Subsea 7 S.A. has won a SURF contract valued at approximately USD 100 million from Suncor Energy on the Terra Nova Field, situated 350km south east of St John’s, Newfoundland, offshore Canada.

Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it is splitting its Nuclear Power Plants product line into two distinct organizations of Nuclear Power Plant Project Delivery and Nuclear Power Plant Business Development to further strengthen the company and better position it for future growth. The newly-created Nuclear Power Plant Project Delivery organization, which will focus exclusively on the delivery of new plant projects to Westinghouse customers, will be led by Senior Vice President Deva Chari.

Alfa Laval has won a plate heat exchanger order from a big oil company in Brazil. The order value is approximately SEK 130 million and delivery is scheduled for 2012.

Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a basic design and front-end engineering design contract by Complejo GNL del Este, a Consortium formed by Dominican and Colombian companies that participate in the energy sector of these countries, for a new LNG receiving terminal and jetty to be built in San Pedro de Marcorís in the Dominican Republic.

Chesapeake Energy will work with partners to build a USD 900 million natural-gas processing plant in Columbiana County. The Oklahoma City-based company announced the plan, saying it will work on the project with M3 Midstream and EV Energy Partners.

International oilfield service company Expro has agreed to sell its Connectors & Measurements (C&M) business, including the Tronic and Matre brands, to Siemens AG for USD 630 million.

The boards of directors of Nippon Steel Corporation (Nippon Steel) and Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Metals), have nominated the Chairman and the President of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, the integrated company that is planned to be formed on 1 October 2012.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation (CW) has announced that Dean M. Flatt, a twelve-year veteran of the aerospace and defense industry, has been chosen to serve on its Board of Directors.