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SPX opens Aberdeen facility

Jan 23, 2015

Flow technology specialist SPX has opened a new Aberdeen Service Centre to provide local specialised pump repair services to independent oil companies and service providers in the North Sea oil and gas sector. Located in the ABZ Business Park…

Magnomatics, Zilift enter partnership

Nov 24, 2014

Magnomatics, the magnetic transmissions and ultra-compact motor company, signed an exclusive licensing deal with Zilift, a leading developer of permanent magnet technologies for innovative artificial lift applications in the oil and gas industry…

Alfa Laval wins pumping systems order

Sep 29, 2014

Alfa Laval won an order to supply Framowith water pumping systems to an oil drilling platform, which will be located in the Atlantic Ocean east of Newfoundland. The order, booked in the marine and offshore pumping systems segment, has a valueof approximately US$16…

Milton Roy upgrades SOLAROY series

Sep 24, 2014

Milton Roy, manufacturer of controlled volume pumps, recently enhanced its SOLAROY series of solar-powered metering pumps. The SOLAROY series feature an enhanced drive engineered to accommodate target-end load force. New radial bearings…

Alfa Laval picks up Egina gig

Aug 29, 2014

Heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for use on Total's Egina FPSO. The order, worth about SEK 240 million…

FTSI signs JV with Sinopec for hydraulic fracturing

Jun 10, 2014

FTS International, based in Ft. Worth, Texas, announced today that it has signed a 15-year joint venture agreement with Sinopec Group to bring its well stimulation capabilities and expertise to China. Hydraulic fracturing is recognized as one of the keys to unlocking production in shales…

OTC14: Milton Roy launches Primeroyal X pump

May 07, 2014

Milton Roy, manufacturer of controlled volume pumps, and a brand of Accudyne Industries, is launching the industry’s most powerful API 675 pump yet, Primeroyal X, during OTC this year. The addition of the Primeroyal X pump to the company’s…

OTC14: ABB, Statoil partner in DW technology

May 05, 2014

ABB has entered a joint industry program (JIP) with Statoil to develop solutions for transmission, distribution and power conversion systems designed to power and control subsea pumps and gas compressors at depths of 3000m and over vast distances…

Alfa Laval snaps up Framo brand

Apr 07, 2014

Heat transfer, separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has agreed to buy submerged pump systems firm Frank Mohn AS for NOK 13 billion from Wimoh AS.  Alfa Laval said the move, which includes the Framo brand products, would strengthen its fluid handling portfolio…

Mariner FSU gets Wärtsilä pumps

Feb 14, 2014

Finland's Wärtsilä has signed a contract for a range of pumping solutions for a new floating storage unit (FSU) to be used on the Mariner oilfield in the North Sea (pictured). Wärtsilä's contract is with South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI)…

OneSubsea wins Congo project

Nov 19, 2013

OneSubsea is to provide pump systems for the Total Moho Phase 1bis development in the deep water Moho-Bilondo license offshore Congo.   The contract includes a multiphase pump station with two 3.5megawatt high-boost pumps, a power and control module…

Accelerated Production Systems acquires Texas Systems & Controls

Sep 01, 2013

Accelerated Production Systems Inc. acquired Texas Systems & Controls, Inc., strengthening Accelerated’s capabilities in the design and manufacturing of well testing, artificial lift, pumping, and process and filtration equipment for their energy-industry customers…

Sulzer to Supply Pumps for Brazilian FPSOs

Aug 20, 2013

Sulzer Pumps will supply 42 pumps for installation on two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels (P-66 and P-69) that will operate in the pre salt Iracema cluster areas located in the Santos Basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro…

Robbins & Myers adds three businesses to its NOV Mono division

Jul 18, 2013

After closing its US$2.5 billion acquisition of well-drilling equipment parts provider Robbins & Myers, Houston-based National Oilwell Varco (NOV) adds three more businesses to its NOV Mono division: Moyno Inc., Chemineer Inc., and Tarby Inc…

Deepwater production gets high-pressure boost

Jul 17, 2013

Petrobras leads subsea pumping development to overcome deepwater production problems Subsea boosting has evolved since the first subsea multiphase pump was installed, in 1994, by Shell at Draugen field in the Norwegian Sea. That pump…

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