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Dominion to build natural gas processing, liquids fractionation plant in West Virginia

Dominion said Thursday that it is proceeding with its next major project in the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions, which is the construction of a large natural gas processing and fractionation plant along the Ohio River in Natrium, W.Va. The first phase of construction includes facilities that can process 200 million cubic feet/day of natural gas and fractionate 36,000 bpd of natural gas liquids.

ExxonMobil, Honeywell form licensing alliance for hydroprocessing, engineering

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. (EMRE) and Honeywell’s UOP have formed a joint marketing and licensing alliance for lube and advanced fuels hydroprocessing and engineering capabilities to companies in the refining sector.

Oil demand, prices to rise in Q3 - Ernst & Young

Oil demand and prices should continue to rise in the third quarter of 2011 according to indicators, even with ongoing uncertainty with respect to the economic recovery, deficit reduction initiatives in the US and the debt crisis in Europe, according to a quarterly outlook from Ernst & Young.

Eastman buys US specialty chemical firm Dynaloy

Eastman Chemical has acquired the assets of Dynaloy, a specialty chemical business based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Shaw awarded pipe fabrication services deal for US manufacturing facility

US-based engineering and construction firm The Shaw Group signed a multi-year contract with a private company to provide pipe fabrication services for a new $1 billion domestic manufacturing facility, officials said on Tuesday.

Control-valve seat leakage

GE Energy: Sanders, D.

Enhancing initial performance, extending service life of valves offers benefits

Avoid failures with pump power-end upgrades

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Designing-out maintenance and failure risk starts with simple upgrading measures, culminates in re-thinking entire bearing housing configuration

Consider life-cycle costs in specifying control valves

Samson AG: Kiesbauer, J.  |  Vnucec, D.

Latest approach improves sizing valves while also incorporating total ownership investment

Use a new calibration method for gas pipelines

University of Boumerdes: Guemana, M.  |  Aissani, S.
University of Djelfa: Hafaifa, A.

An advanced method improves calibrating orifice flowmeters while reducing maintenance costs

Decrease vibration in piping with reciprocating compressors

Reliance Engineering Group (REG): Choudhury, M. G.
BecRel Engineering Pvt. Ltd.: Tripathi, R.

Case study identifies problems in new compression unit