Stainless UK supplies pattress plates

With the disappearance of many traditional manufacturers of large diameter pattress plates, engineers have found it difficult to find reliable sources of supply for these products.

Huntingdon to move

Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Ltd, manufacturers of weld purging accessories, pipe stoppers, Tungsten Grinders and the Multi Strike Tungsten Electrodes, will be leaving its Huntingdon home on 19 December 2001 and relocating to Burry Port in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

STEEL24-7 launched

STEEL24-7 has announced the launch of its e-business platform www.steel24-7.com.

NZ’s Pohokura gas field

New Zealand’s Shell Todd Oil Services (STOS) has said its development plan for the Pohokura gas field could potentially cost up to NZD 900 million.

Mad Dog fling

BHP Billiton Ltd plc has decided to spend USD 300 million development of the Mad Dog field in the Gulf of Mexico.

Carpenterdirect in top 200 websites

Carpenterdirect.comTM, the e-commerce operation of specialty steel and materials manufacturer Carpenter Technology, has been named to the 2001 "NetMarketing Top 200" list of the best business-to-business web sites in a competition organised by Advertising Age's B-to-B magazine.

Pegasus wins Talisman contract

Talisman has awarded Pegasus International a lucrative contract for the provision of sub-sea engineering design services for the North Sea Kildrummy field.

Nigerian GTL tenders open

Chevron has opened the contract tendering for the engineering, procurement, and construction contract for a gas-to-liquids plant at Escravos in Nigeria.

Clamp for food and drink industries

Protex (Redditch, UK) has introduced its Bandclamp™ for clamping rubber tubes in the food and drink processing industries.

Yemen signs refinery deal

The Yemen General Investment Authority has signed an agreement with private Saudi and local businesses to set up a new oil refinery with a processing capacity of around 100,000 barrels a day.