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American Electric Power (AEP) has named Pablo A. Vegas president and chief operating officer of AEP Ohio, effective 1 May 2012. Vegas is the current vice president and chief information officer for the company.

Alfa Laval has won a plate heat exchanger order from a big oil company in Brazil. The order value is approximately SEK 130 million and delivery is scheduled for 2012.

President Felipe Calderon said Mexico has begun inviting bids for the Northwest Gas Pipeline, a conduit that will stretch for more than 2000km from the border with the US to the western city of Mazatlan and is expected to involve investment of roughly USD 3.5 billion. "I have an announcement of interest not only to Zacatecas (the state where he was speaking) but to the entire country, which is the call for bids for the largest of the pipelines to be built over the next few years, the Northwest Gas Pipeline, as well as other natural gas distribution zones," Calderon. Calderon recalled that last year he unveiled a USD 10.5 billion plan for structural change in the country's natural gas market, including construction of a natural gas pipeline network in central Mexico and the creation of four gas distribution zones.

Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a basic design and front-end engineering design contract by Complejo GNL del Este, a Consortium formed by Dominican and Colombian companies that participate in the energy sector of these countries, for a new LNG receiving terminal and jetty to be built in San Pedro de Marcorís in the Dominican Republic.

TNK-BP has announced that Alfredo Barrios has been appointed Executive Director - Executive Vice President, Downstream, OJSC TNK-BP Management, replacing Didier Baudrand.