Company News

IPP Group are pleased to announce the following appointments within the company.

Ian Loftus has taken on the role of Production Manager for IPP Scomark with total control of the IPP Scomark shop floor.

Remi – an Indian stainless steel tubes and pipes company – received approval from India’s major thermal and nuclear power companies for its seamless, welded and welded cold drawn (WCD) Heat Exchanger HP Heater U Bent tubes for use in places where the temperatures (390°C) and pressures (~600Kg/cm2) are super critical.

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) and Sumitomo Corporation have agreed to proceed with signing a contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum Co (BSP) concerning the supply of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) pipes threaded for connection.

The board of directors of Kennametal appointed Donald (Don) A. Nolan as the company’s president, CEO and member of the board of directors, while electing William R.

Praj Industries, a global process solutions company, won a EUR 30M order for oil & gas process skids for Petrobras, Brazil.QGIT, the main contractor for the Petrobras project in Brazil, has awarded the order for skids to Praj.

Essar Oil appointed Manish Maheshwari as CEO – Exploration & Production (CEO – E&P). With around 23 years of experience, Maheshwari was the managing director of Hindustan Oil Exploration Company (HOTEC) until recently.

Spiecapag (VINCI Construction), a global specialist in onshore pipelines and oil & gas infrastructure, has won one contract in Australia and two in Colombia for the construction of two gas pipelines and one oil pipeline.

Wood Group CFO Alan Semple announced his plans to retire and step down from his current role and from the board after the company’s annual general meeting in May 2015.

A new oxygen facility with a cryogenic air-separation unit (ASU #3) has entered the pilot production phase at Metalloinvest company, OEMK.Metalloinvest and Germany’s Linde Engineering Dresden signed a contract in 2012 to construct the facility.

TransCanada Corporation has placed into service the Tamazunchale Pipeline Extension, the most recent natural gas infrastructure project to be completed by TransCanada in Mexico."The completion of the Tamazunchale Pipeline Extension marks another milestone in our decade-long commitment to building new energy infrastructure in Mexico�, said Russ Girling, TransCanada's president and CEO.