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Petroplus International NV and BG Energy Holdings Ltd plan to work together on a proposed LNG import terminal at Milford Haven in Wales.

In what is expected to be the largest combined E&P drilling programme in the Gippsland basin in the Bass Strait off Victoria since the 1980s, Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd and its joint venture partner BHP Billiton Ltd are preparing to locate and extract oil and natural gas from smaller fields that show potential and that are near existing infrastructure in the mature basin.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a USD 250 million loan for the BTC Caspian oil pipeline, removing the final hurdle in the path of the controversial US-backed link.

Gary Powell has recently been appointed product manager at Techalloy’s Baltimore Welding Division.

BASF, Huntsman and their Chinese partners have received approval from the Chinese authorities to expand their planned integrated isocyanates complex at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park.

Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC), ChevronTexaco Corp., ConocoPhillips subsidiary Phillips Oil Co. (Nigeria) Ltd, and Italy's ENI SPA have formed a joint venture, Brass LNG Ltd. JV, to construct a new LNG liquefaction plant in Nigeria's central Niger Delta.

The first in a new series of online CPD presentations on stainless steel is now available to architects and other construction professionals through a web-based broadcasting medium.

French oil giant Total and Norway's state-run oil firm Statoil have joined talks for contracts to develop Iran's massive Azadegan oilfield.

ABS has introduced the new IP 900 pump, which is capable of achieving a flow rate of 5 l/s at a maximum head of 11.7m. The pump replaces ABS’s current IP 700-1200 series. It is constructed in 316 stainless steel (SS) throughout – even the impeller – enabling it to pump corrosive media. The IP 900 can also handle solids-laden flows offering free passage of up to 30 mm in diameter thanks to its vortex impeller and hydraulic section. Typical applications for the pump include dewatering building sites, mines, emptying septic tanks or other containers, and handling effluent from locations below the backwash level in accordance with the DIN 1986 standard. The high grade AISI 316 SS construction materials, combined with static seals made from Viton and a mechanical seal made of silicon carbide, enable the pump to handle chemically contaminated wastewater and heavy agricultural duties, including pesticides, and duties on industrial outflow pipes.

French oil company Total has agreed with India's third largest refiner Hindustan Petroleum Company Ltd to build an underground storage terminal for LPG in the eastern part of the country, where demand for the fuel is rising.