(Aug. 6, 2014)—Shell’s deep-water subsidiary in Nigeria, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd (SNEPCo) started oil production from the first well at the Bonga North West deep-water development off the Nigerian coast on Aug. 5, another milestone for the country’s energy industry.
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BADEN, Switzerland (Aug. 6, 2014) – ABB announced that it has signed a five-year maintenance agreement with Prestige Cruise Holdings (PCH) to provide services, parts and support for all turbochargers installed on its fleet of eight cruise ships. The contract provides global access to maintenance services for the turbochargers to ensure their continued safe and reliable operation.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (August 5, 2014) – Pumps & Systems, the leading magazine for pump users worldwide, is happy to announce “Variable Frequency Drives,” a webinar presented in partnership with the Submersible Wastewater Pump Association (SWPA), the educational leader and authoritative source for the submersible wastewater pump industry for more than three decades.
ABERDEEN, Miss. (Aug. 5, 2014) – GE’s Digital Energy business and the City of Aberdeen has announced plans to implement GE’s Solutions as a Service (SaaS) technology. SaaS is a cloud-based, fee-for-service grid management system that enables small- and mid-market utilities, like the City of Aberdeen, to build modern and interconnected grids.
ALGIERS, Algeria (Aug. 5, 2014)—GE’s Distributed Power business announced orders for eight trailer-mounted GE TM2500+ aeroderivative gas turbine-generators and the first Jenbacher gas engine project in Algeria.
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (August 4, 2014) – ITT Corporation unveiled the newest addition to its Seneca Falls, New York, manufacturing campus: an advanced testing and packaging facility for its engineered pumps used primarily by the global oil and gas, petrochemical and mining industries. The new building totals 89,000 square feet including office space, with approximately 79,000 square feet dedicated to product operations.
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (Aug. 4, 2014) – Oxford Performance Materials, Inc., (OPM) announced the appointment of Severine Zygmont and Paul Martin as presidents of OPM Biomedical and OPM Aerospace & Industrial divisions, respectively.
RALEIGH, N.C. (August 4, 2014) – The City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department received the “Directors Award of Recognition” from the Partnership for Safe Water, a program developed by AWWA, EPA and associated partner organizations to guide water suppliers towards improving water quality by optimizing system operations.
ERLANGEN, Germany (August 4, 2014) – Siemens Energy will supply high-efficiency steam turbine-generator sets with associated instrumentation and control components to power plant projects in India. The machines are destined for the coal-fired units of the North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Project (STPP) located in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, and for IB Thermal Power Station Banharpalli in the neighboring state of Odisha.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (August 4, 2014) – Franklin Electric Co., Inc., completed two acquisitions in India. In the first, Franklin Electric acquired 70 percent of the outstanding stock of Pluga Pumps and Motors Private Limited, based in a newly constructed facility in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Pluga designs, manufactures and distributes groundwater motor and pumping equipment through 11 branch offices located throughout India.