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.

Gulf of Mexico: gas discovery

Probe Resources Ltd has made a gas discovery in the Gulf of Mexico that is expected to be capable of producing 25 million to 35 million cu/ft per day of natural gas.

Refinery complex in NW China

PetroChina's branch company in Lanzhou, is planning to build a 428,000bpd capacity refinery during the period of China's Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011-15).

USA: natural gas power plant

Basin Electric Power Cooperative of Bismarck is proceeding with plans for a 300MW combined-cycle natural gas plant.

Suraj Stainles receives Award

Suraj Stainless Ltd, a manufacturer of welded and seamless pipes, tubes and U-tubes based in Ahmedabad, has received the Federation of Indian Export Organization (FIEO) “Niryat Shree” Certificate of Excellence (Non-SSI) award at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi.

USA: oil discovery

Daybreak’s Sunday-1 well at the company's East Slopes Prospect in the San Joaquin Basin near Bakersfield, California has been drilled to a total depth of 3065ft.

Canada: Deep Panuke wellhead contract

EnCana has awarded Aker Solutions a contract for the transport and installation of wellhead protection structures on the Deep Panuke development, offshore Nova Scotia.

USA: natural gas storage facility

AGL Resources' Golden Triangle Storage has started construction of a 12 billion cu/ft working gas capacity salt dome natural gas storage facility at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

Arab gas pipeline extension

Whilst visiting Syria, a Stroytransgaz delegation headed by the Chairman of the Management Board Mr Vyacheslav Makhonin signed a contract to construct an extension of the Arab Gas Pipeline.

USA: gasification facility for green refinery

Houston-based company Hunton Energy is proposing to build what it calls the world's first "green refinery" on the Texas Gulf Coast.

China: power plant in Jiangsu

Huaneng Power International Inc. has announced that it has been approved by the regulator to build a coal-fired power plant at Jiangsu province in East China.