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GREENVILLE, S.C. & HOUSTON (March 19, 2014) – Wood Group Mustang promotes Tim Griffin to vice president, industrial operations, leading the company’s North American industrial division based in Greenville, S.C.

The division serves the automotive, aerospace, industrial manufacturing, pulp and paper and engineered materials industries with a strong focus on providing solutions for grassroots projects, revamps, facility expansions and modernizations.

LONDON (March 18, 2014) – GE Oil & Gas signed a global licensing and technology collaboration agreement with Highview Power Storage, a UK supplier of large-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) systems. The companies will explore opportunities to integrate Highview’s LAES technology in peaker power plants where GE gas turbines and gas engines are currently or will be installed to increase power plant efficiency, grid reliability and the distribution of renewable energy.

LEONBERG, Germany (March 18, 2014) – LEWA GmbH has been awarded a five year global framework agreement with BP to supply Chemical Injection Packages for BP's Global Projects Organization. This framework agreement enables BP’s Global project teams (including their EPMS/EPC contractors) to access LEWA GmbH’s international resources to supply Chemical Injection Packages.

MIAMI (March 13, 2014) – Abakan Inc. announced that its 72 percent owned subsidiary, MesoCoat, Inc. has received the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Materials Performance (MP) Corrosion Innovation of the Year Award in the Coatings and Linings category. The award was conferred upon MesoCoat's CermaClad high-speed, large-area, metal cladding technology.