Pipeline & Gas Journal articles from January 2006

Pipeline & Gas Journal archives from January 2006

New world records set at National Gas Rodeo.(Atlanta Gas Light Co.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The Meter Nuts from Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) set new Relay and Overall Championship records at the 2005 National Gas Rodeo. The Meter Nuts secured their second consecutive four-person team championship with a record time in the Relay: it was the...

Industry leaders predict growing need for improved infrastructure.
January 1, 2006... As the financial impact of last year's hurricane season is revised upward, the nation is lacing an uncertain future in energy markets, especially concerning supply, demand and distribution of natural gas, according to executives who met in...

S&P Research forecasts lower oil prices.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... S&P Equity Research said it has lowered its average 2005 West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price forecast by $0.72 to $56.49 per barrel, 2006's by $2.88 to $56, and 2007's by $0.61 to $48.39 trimming its average 2005 Henry Hub bid week (blend...

Enbridge Energy Partners completes $106 million sale of assets.(TexStar Field Services L.P.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. has closed its previously announced sale of midstream natural gas assets to subsidiaries of TexStar Field Services, L.P. for $106 million. Assets included in the transaction were: (a) approximately 327 miles of...

Baker Hughes acquires Baseline Technologies Inc.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Baker Hughes Inc. has acquired Baseline Technologies Inc. of Calgary, Canada. The company is expected to operate as part of the Baker Hughes Pipeline Management Group (PMG), a unit of its Baker Petrolite division. Baseline Technologies provides...

Editor's notebook.(Southern Union Co. plans)(Sid Richardson Carbon and Gasoline Co. acquisition)(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... "Deal track record is solid, but strategy articulation needs work. SUG remains our favorite value name, but can be a 'tough love.' That's a quote from leading analyst Sam Brothwell who heads Wachovia's Securities Power and Gas Team in his...

Pipelines oppose re-regulation of gathering lines.(Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)(gas pipelines)
January 1, 2006... Pipelines and gas producers are on different sides of the rekindled debate over whether FERC should re-regulate natural gas gathering lines in shallow waters in the Outer Continental Shell The debate over gathering lines goes back decades and...

Congress turns to increasing natural gas production.
January 1, 2006... High natural gas prices were apt to be among the first issues Congress had to deal with when it returned to town in early January. With continuing shut-in Gulf production keeping upwards pressure on gas prices, key members of both the House and...

750-mile NGL pipeline planned by Williams.(natural gas liquids pipeline to be constructed by Williams Natural Gas Co.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Tulsa, OK-based Williams is considering the construction of a $500 million, 750-mile natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline, known as Overland Pass. According to Williams, the existing NGL pipeline serving this producing region is currently...

El Paso holds successful open season.(also signed contract with OGE Energy Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... El Paso Corporation's recent open season for the company's 1,000-mile Continental Connector project generated requests for more than 3 Bcf/d of capacity. Importantly, requests were balanced between participants representing both supply and...

Feasibility study announced for pipeline from Fairbanks to South-Central Alaska.(PROJECTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... ENSTAR, ASRC Constructors, Inc., a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), and Michael Baker Engineering, are working together on a $4 million Parks Highway Spur Line Project. The study is funded by $2 million from the...

Texas Eastern begins open season for Lebanon East Expansion project.(Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Duke Energy unit Texas Eastern Transmission is conducting an open season to gauge market interest in its proposed Lebanon East Expansion project to enhance supply diversity for shippers by connecting emerging Rocky Mountain natural gas supplies...

Construction slated on Crosstex pipeline for Barnett Shale.(PROJECTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... With the award of two construction contracts, Crosstex Energy is proceeding with construction of its North Texas Pipeline project to bring gas out of the Barnett Shale and into markets in the Midwest and East. Quanta Services was awarded a...

CB&I gas plant for Camisea expansion.(Pluspetrol Peru Corporation S.A. gets the contract)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... CB&I has been awarded a lump-sum contract to supply a natural gas processing plant in Malvinas, Peru as part of an expansion of the Camisea natural gas project. CBI's contract, valued in excess of $45 million, is with Pluspetrol Peru...

Socotherm Brazil to begin pipe coating operations for Petrobras.(PROJECTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Socothenn Brazil, a joint venture with Tenaris, will begin pipe-coating operations for PDET Profundo, a Petrobras-operated deepwater field development being undertaken in 1,130 feet of water. The contract calls for applying Socothenn's...

J. Ray McDermott earns ISO and OHSAS certification in Caspian.(PROJECTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... McDermott Caspian Contractors, Inc., the Caspian operating subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott, has become the first J. Ray company business unit worldwide to be certified in the three major ISO and OHSAS standards. The certifications were awarded...

Nexans to supply unique subsea power umbilical.(PROJECTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Nexans has been awarded a NOK98 million contract by BP America Production Company to design and manufacture the world's first subsea service umbilical to integrate a high voltage (HV) cable. The 26-km power-umbilical is to be installed in the...

PDVSA and Ecopetrol plan shared gas pipeline project.(PROJECTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Venezuela and Colombia have agreed to build a 125-mile gas pipeline. The pact for the new pipeline was recently finalized between the two countries' national oil companies, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and Colombia Empresa Colombiana de...

ABB inaugurates groundbreaking technology in North Sea.(Troll A gas platform)(ABB technologies Ltd.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The Troll A gas platform in the North Sea is the world's first offshore platform to be powered by a direct current (DC) electricity link originating on land--an achievement with considerable cost and environmental benefits made possible by ABB...

Neptune moves closer to gaining LNG Port approval.(Neptune LNG LLC)(liquified natural gas)
January 1, 2006... A recent U.S. Coast Guard ruling has deemed the Neptune LNG Deepwater Port application for a license complete. Next, a 330-day review period will be held to approve the license to build the offshore LNG deepwater port about 10 miles south of...

KCI to build Newfield Petroleum pipeline in UK.(PROJECTS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The John Wood Group subsidiary Korndorffer Contracting International (KCI) has been awarded the detailed design contract for the topsides and pipelines of Newfield Petroleum's first project in the UK Continental Shell its Grove platform located...

Greece, Italy sign pact for new natural gas system.(INTERNATIONAL)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Greek and Italian officials signed an agreement recently to develop a new natural gas pipeline connecting the two nations, Italy's Edison S.p.A. and the Greek Public Gas Corporation (DEPA SA) are responsible for the linking of the networks of...

Oil pipeline should be completed by year's end.(oil pipeline connecting Kazakhstan and China )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... A $700 million oil pipeline linking Kazakhstan and China is due to be completed by the end of this year, officials said. KazMunaiGaz started constructing the pipeline between Atasu and China's western provinces in September 2004. Its initial...

Swiss use of natural gas booming.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Natural gas consumption in Switzerland was expected to grow by 7.5% in 2005 over 2004. This represents the fastest growth in a decade and shows the growing significance of this source of energy in Switzerland. Natural gas will soon account for...

Transpetro implements Energy Solutions' integrated pipeline system.(PipelineManager and Pipeline Transporter products )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Energy Solutions International and Transpetro, the Petrobras System transportation company, have successfully implemented an integrated suite of Energy Solutions' PipelineManager and Pipeline Transporter products for Transpetro's natural gas...

Poland plans LNG terminal on Baltic coast.(liquefied natural gas)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Poland plans to build an LNG terminal on its Baltic coast as part of its strategy to diversify gas supply and assure domestic energy security. There is no time frame for the project which is listed among the Polish government's energy policy...

European nations sign on to Energy Treaty.(INTERNATIONAL)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The 25-nation bloc of the European Union and nine partners of South East Europe--Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria and UNMIK on behalf of Kosovo, signed...

Pipeline rises by 32%.(due to inflation in Russia)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Russia has upped its cost estimate for the first leg of the Far East pipeline by 32% to $7.9 billion due to route changes and inflation. The first phase of the pipeline is due to transport oil from Taishet to Skovorodino near the Chinese...

Gazprom to swap pipeline gas for Shell's LNG.(OAO Gazprom and Shell Western E and P Inc.)
January 1, 2006... Gazprom has announced an innovative deal in which it is to swap natural gas from its pipelines for an LNG cargo that is being sold to Shell. The agreement was made between Gazprom's marketing and trading unit, Gaz de France, Med LNG & Gas...

Statoil signs deal to supply ScottishPower.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Statoil has signed a 10-year agreement with ScottishPower to deliver 500 million cubic meters of gas per year--to be supplied through the new 1,200-km Langeled pipeline across the North Sea. The company will start supplying ScottishPower in...

Gazprom, PetroCanada studying LNG plant in Russia.(Petro-Canada Enterprises Inc., liquefied natural gas)
January 1, 2006... Gazprom and PetroCanada are considering constructing the first LNG plant in European Russia in 2007, two years earlier than planned. The US$1.3 billion project would be implemented simultaneously with Gazprom's plans to build a gas pipeline...

FMC Technologies, Siemens to cooperate with subsea gas compression.(Siemens Power Generation)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... FMC Technologies and Siemens Power Generation will develop and market joint solutions for subsea oil and gas recovery, according to a cooperation agreement, which the two companies signed in Oslo. The electric drive centrifugal compression...

Mississippi not forgotten: the gas industry and Hurricane Katrina: the untold story.(Hurricane Katrina 2005)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2006... Most people in the gas distribution industry already know that, following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, APGA, AGA and SGA worked together to coordinate aid to the affected systems. What they probably don't know are the people in our...

P&GJ's Worldwide Pipeline Construction preview.(Pipeline & Gas Journal)
January 1, 2006... The pipeline industry, a truly international business, is gaining more importance the natural gas markets expand globally. These trends are strongly reflected in P&GJ's 2006 Worldwide Pipeline Construction Survey which shows 81,593 miles of new...

HDD solves pipeline installation dilemma for Pemex.
January 1, 2006... Mears Group, Inc.'s MearsMex office in San Pedro--Nuevo Leon, Mexico recently completed a horizontal directional drilling project for Pemex that took an already unique trenchless construction technique to new limits. The completed project...

LNG development question of how rather than whether.(liquified natural gas)(Cambridge Energy Research Associates analysis)
January 1, 2006... High oil and natural gas prices, massive infrastructure commitments and emerging market integration have combined rapidly to transform LNG from a niche regional business into a global industry. Nevertheless, significant market fundamentals and...

Will LNG reach U.S. at right time and place?(Liquified Natural Gas)
January 1, 2006... During the recent hurricane season, it has become even more urgent for the U.S. to build an LNG import infrastructure. The loss of 80% of offshore Gulf of Mexico natural gas production capacity in September and October 2005 drove home the...

Measurement technician training matrix focuses on total job scope and skills.(Column)
January 1, 2006... The Union Gas Training Department is taking a new approach to designing measurement technician training programs by developing a training matrix. The training matrix approach focuses on the total scope of a job and establishes the skills and...

The Lincoln Electric Company.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... The Lincoln Electric Company's new Lincolnweld[R] 888 flux is described as well-suited for submerged arc welding in the offshore and other industries. It is the only highly basic flux on the market that is classified to AWS H4 requirements for...

CRC Evans Pipeline Equipment.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... CRC Evans has a new brochure focusing on its bending equipment. CRC Evans provides two distinct pipe-bending system product lines. One line is high productivity. The other line is standard. CRC helps customers put together a range of...

Emerson Process Management.(Sakhalin II offshore project)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Emerson Process Management has supplied over 1,500 Rosemount[R] pressure and temperature transmitters for the Sakhalin II offshore project in the Sea of Okhotsk. Situated in Russia's far east, Sakhalin Island, north of Japan, experiences...

Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Ltd.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... The Pipestoppers division of Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Limited makes a range of white nylon plugs for pipes of 0.5 to 6 inches diameter and the company now manufactures inflatable stoppers and rigid steel expanding plugs for pipes up to 72...

Borealis and Thermotite.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... Borealis has developed Borcoat[TM] polypropylene (PP) materials that thermally insulate the flowlines and risers serving the deepwater Thunder Horse field in the Gulf of Mexico. At depths of 2200 m the flowlines are exposed to extreme external...

3M.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... 3M has introduced two new welding shields--the WS-320/37154 and WS-110/37155. The WS-320/37154 shield features an auto-darkening filter (ADF) that turns dark the moment an arc is struck and Tight again when welding stops. The welding shield...

Bernard Welding Equipment.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... To reduce downtime and labor costs associated with MIG gun liner changeover, Bernard Welding Equipment offers its patented Jump Liners. These Jump Liners couple with Bernard's rotatable Q[TM] Gun necks, which separate from the handle without...

Perfect Fit Glove Company.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... Perfect Fit Glove and Carbtex Corporation have a new line of Carbtex Electric Plasma Arc Protection Gloves. The Perfect Fit Carbtex line incorporates a new material that is said to provide an exceptional thermal protection. A patented oxidized...

Caterpillar.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... Caterpillar says it has improved the 621G, 623G, and 627G wheel tractor scrapers with a new tractor engine, the Cat C15 with ACERT Technology. The three machines also incorporate several other improvements--a cooling system that reduces...

Ditch Witch.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... The Ditch Witch organization has released Groundbreaking Safety, a new training program designed to promote the sale operation of all types of trenchers, plows, horizontal directional drills, mini skid steers, and mini excavators. The program...

Kenco Corporation.
January 1, 2006... Kenco has rolled out the fully automatic Pipe-Lift. It is described as allowing for hands-free movement of pipe; a doubling of the productivity of pipe installation vs. methods using slings and cables; and allowing for the lifting of a wide...

Nexans.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... Nexans has developed a new steep-terrain dredger/sub-sea intervention vehicle called the Spider. Spider combines powered tracks, with an articulated walking leg system, enabling it to function in terrain with up to 35 degrees slope. The Spider...

Sonar Research and Development.
January 1, 2006... SRD, based in Beverley, UK, has carried out a 325-square-km subsea survey in the New Ireland archipelago, approximately 1,000 km northeast of Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby. This job used the recently developed SVS3 digital sonar...

Xplore Technologies Corp.(What's New In Welding Products And Pipeline Construction Products And Services)
January 1, 2006... Xplore has unveiled the new Rugged Tablet PC with sunlight readable capability. The iX104 has Centrino technology combined with Xplore's designs to provide ruggedness, dependability and performance. The iX104 with AllVue Technology, Xplore's...

Re-evaluating pulsation bottle design can boost efficiency; new predictive capabilities help engineers optimize integral compressors.(Column)
January 1, 2006... Many compressors would benefit from a re-evaluation of their pulsation bottle design using the industry's continually developing predictive capabilities to increase their operating efficiency. In some cases, even marginal increases in...

Data integration tools improve process efficiency and effectiveness.(Pipeline Integrity Management)(Shell Pipe Line Corp.)
January 1, 2006... Shell Pipeline Company LP (SPLC) has developed or purchased a number of integrity management tools over the last five years which enable data to be integrated efficiently during risk assessments and following m-line inspection runs. It has also...

Retirement? Not for this executive: new book offers some tips for sales people.(James R. Hutton of CECO Compressor Engineering Corp.)(Interview)
January 1, 2006... When it comes to gas compressors, James R. Hutton probably won't be able to take one apart and put it back together. But don't doubt for a second that he could find someone who can--no matter where the station is, what type of compressor is...

Environmental protection, cost savings with automated corrosion monitoring.(TECH NOTES)
January 1, 2006... Rohrback Cosasco Systems, Inc. (RCS) recently provided a major corrosion solution at an industrial site in the Fort Lauderdale area with state-of-the-art equipment to monitor corrosion automatically. The solution provided significant cost...

NuFlo.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... The Scanner 1150 Flow Computer is the latest offering in NuFlo's line of Scanner EFM/ RTUs and combines efficiency and versatility in a low-power, single stream gas measurement device. Its easy-to-use laptop interface and industry standard...

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... Northeast Wisconsin Technical College offers a course "Operator Qualifications Solutions for the Natural Gas Industry." A color flyer is available. At the school's Natural Gas Industry Regional Evaluation Center, services are provided,...

James Walker RotaBolt.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... James Walker RotaBolt has launched "Vision" as the world's first safety bolt that gives a visible indication of a loss of tension across a bolted joint that can be seen up to 25 meters away. The Vision is based on the integrated technology of...

Pipeline Inspection Company, Ltd.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... The Model 780 and Model 790 SPY holiday detectors from Pipeline Inspection Com-pany can quickly be converted from pipeline inspection design to a general tool with a simple attachment. The handheld wand enables the operator to inspect crevices...

CRC Evans pipeline equipment.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... CRC-Evans offers customers a brochure devoted to the full range of the company's coating plant equipment systems. CRC-Evans says it can help customers design the pipe-coating system solution they need to precisely meet their productivity and...

Emerson Process Management.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... Emerson Process Management has announced the latest release of the Rosemount[R] 3420 Fieldbus Interface Module (FIM). Designed for users in facilities without fieldbus I/O, the Rosemount FIM enables installation of FOUNDATION[TM] fieldbus...

AMETEK.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... AMETEK Power Instruments says its new Panalarm Series 90A Annunciator will cause many people to rethink their Alarm Management Strategy. The Series 90A is said to perform many new functions, allowing operators to consolidate the amount of...

Control Microsystems.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... Control Microsystems unveiled the SCADAPack2, said to be the next generation SCADAPack. It offers high performance, Ethernet and expanded memory. The SCADAPack2 is described as representing a quantum leap in programmable logic controller...

Benstone Instruments.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... Benstone Instruments recently introduced Impaq--a four-channel real-time portable dynamic signal analyzer with 40 kHz BW on each channel. Benstone says Impaq has Windows CE operating system and a built-in fast digital signal processing (DSP)...

The Lincoln Electric Company.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... The Lincoln Electric Company's new Invertec[R] V450-PRO is a multi-process inverter-based welding power source intended for heavy fabrication. It is described as especially suited for shops commonly welding with 1/16-inch or larger diameter...

American Innovations.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... American Innovations' Integrity Management Division (IMD), a provider of integrity and risk management software and engineering services for the pipeline industry, announces IMD software for Pemex Refinacion. The software includes the Integrity...

GE Inspection Technologies.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... GE Inspection Technologies unveils Lightscan, a complete, automated, shopfloor solution for quickly and accurately measuring compressor blade airfoils for comparison with CAD data to obtain immediate go/no go sentencing. The new system is said...

Smart Pipe Pipe lining.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... Smart Pipe[R] is now installing an innovative, light-weight, composite pipe lining system that can be installed in degraded pipelines in continuous lengths of up to 10 miles per pull. The stand-alone design is described as adding strength and...

Quarter Turn Resources Inc.(NEW PRODUCTS)
January 1, 2006... Quarter Turn Resources Inc. located in Ponca City, OK is the exclusive distributor for Valvitalia in the United States and Canada for the DELTA trunnion mounted ball valve and lubricated steel pressure balanced inverted type plug valve....

American Public Gas Association.(Association News)
January 1, 2006... Les Fyock has joined the Washington, DC-based American Pubic Gas Association as its vice president of Regulatory Affairs. Fyock will play a primary role to develop and coordinate policies and positions of public gas systems before the Federal...

Safeco.(appoints and promotes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... AGL Resources Chairman, President and CEO Paula Rosput Reynolds has resigned to become President and CEO of Safeco, the Seattle-based property and casualty insurance company. D. Raymond Riddle, director and former chairman, will step in as...

Heerema Marine Contractors.(appoints John B. Reed)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... John B. Reed will rejoin Heerema Marine Contractors in the position of CEO. He will take over from Hein Mulder, who will retire in the first half of 2006.

New Jersey Natural Gas.(promotes)
January 1, 2006... Craig Lynch has been promoted to vice president--energy delivery, for New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG). Lynch joined NJNG in 1984 as a corrosion technician and has served in various positions throughout his more than 20 years with the company. He...

Southern Union Company.(appoints Eric D. Herschmann )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The board of directors of Southern Union Company recently named Eric D. Herschmann to senior executive vice president, effective Nov. 16. He has served as counsel for Southern Union since 1997, was named national litigation counsel for the...

Deep Marine Technology Inc.(appoints)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Deep Marine Technology Inc. of Houston has appointed two new members to its board of directors. The appointees are Bruce Gilman and Drew Michel. Gilman's experience spans over four decades in the offshore industry with particular emphasis on...

Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company, LLC.(Dr. Ralph S. Cunningham resigns)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company, LLC, general partner of TEPPCO Partners, L.P. recently accepted the resignation of Dr. Ralph S. Cunningham as chairman of the board of directors. Lee W. Marshall Sr. will succeed Cunningham as chairman.

AGL Resources.(promotes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... AGL Resources has promoted R. Eric Martinez Jr. to Executive Vice President of Utility Operations, Kevin Madden to Executive Vice President of External Affairs, Peter Tumminello to Vice President of Corporate Business Development and Dana A....

Tengasco Inc.(appoints)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Jeffrey R. Bailey has been named CEO of Tengasco Inc. The company has not recently maintained a separate office of CEO. Bailey has served as president in which he exercised all authority granted to a chief executive. The separate title and...

Crosstex Energy.(appoints Joel Moxley)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Crosstex Energy recently named Joel Moxley to Senior Vice President, Commercial for the south Louisiana processing region. Moxley has more than 25 years of experience in gas processing, transportation and NGL marketing.

Duoline[R] Technologies.(appoints Bryana Ward)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Bryana Ward is Duoline[R] Technologies new marketing assistant. Ward is a 2004 Graduate of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications.

Innovative Gas Systems.(new office at Moscow)(Holtz Rubber Company acquires Polymachine L.L.C.)
January 1, 2006... Innovative Gas Systems, a technology-based company headquartered in Houston with operating facilities in Europe, Asia and South America, has opened a new office in Moscow. The company's literature and Internet site are available in the Russian...

Innoprise Software.(new corporate office)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Innoprise Software has opened a new corporate office in the Interlocken Business Park at 370 Interlocken Boulevard in Broomfield, CO, a suburb of Denver. The company also has corporate offices in Orlando, FL and Bend, OR.

Thermo Electron Corporation.(new manufacturing facility at Texas)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Thermo Electron Corporation, a manufacturer of gas flow computers, nuclear sensors, process analyzers and ultrasonic flow meters, has opened a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Sugar Land, TX. The new center has consolidated operations...