Company News

In this section you can find updates from suppliers, manufacturers, fabricators and stockists of stainless steel material. This company news section is updated regularly with the latest company news from within the global stainless steel world community. If you wish to include your news release on our website and email newsletter, please feel free to contact the editor.

GE & Petrobras sign record contract

newsitemGE Oil & Gas has signed a record deal of nearly $1.1B (USD) with Brazilian energy company Petrobras. This is the world's largest subsea wellhead production contract.

World’s largest high-vacuum pressure chamber to be

   A contract has been awarded to Indian company, Larsen and Toubro Ltd. (L&T) for ITER Cryostat. The Cryostat for the ITER experimental fusion reactor currently under construction in Southern France will be the world’s largest high-vacuum pressure chamber ever built.

GNF signs deal with Gail for LNG

 
 
Gas Natural Fenosa has signed a contract to supply liquefied natural gas to Indian gas company, Gale.

RasGas receives Innovation Award

 
 
RasGas Company Limited was awarded the Innovation Award for its “Safety Ambassador” program during the Qatar Petroleum Industrial Oil and Gas Awards 2011.

Philippe Bello joins Manoir Industries

 
 
Philippe Bello has been appointed as the new President of Manoir Petrochem & Nuclear, one of Manoir Industries’ three business units.

Gabriele Sons appointed to Executive Board of Thys

 
 
The Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG has appointed Gabriele Sons to the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG effective October 1, 2012.

Boardwalk Pipeline, Partner to acquire PL Midstrea

newsitemBoardwalk Pipeline Partners LP (BWP) and its general partner have agreed to acquire PL Midstream LLC from PL Logistics LLC for USD 625 million in cash.

QGOG and Sete to build semisubmersibles

Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás (QGOG) and Sete Brasil signed charter and service agreements for three semisubmersible drilling rigs to be built at the BrasFels shipyard in Brazil.

Brazil chases green petchem goal

newsitemBrazil leads the global production of biopolymers, an industry that generates fewer greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuel-based plastic manufacture.

Braskem delays plans for three plants

newsitemPlans for two new ethanol-based plastics plants in Brazil and a naphtha-based polypropylene plant that were set to break ground this year will be delayed by Braskem SA until 2013.