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Rawson/Industrial Controls, an ERIKS North America company announced that it is the exclusive distributor for Clarke Valve products to oil and gas and other industrial companies in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma, and the greater Gulf Coast region.

Baker Hughes announced the completion of the First Engine to Test (FETT) for the LM9000 aeroderivative gas turbine. The test took place at the company’s advanced turbomachinery testing facilities in Florence and Massa, Italy.

The University of Texas at Austin, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), ExxonMobil, the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and Pioneer Natural Resources Company are collaborating on a network of sensors for emissions monitoring across the oil and gas process industry.Project Astra seeks to develop a sensor network that would continuously measure emissions of the greenhouse gas methane to locate potential leaks.

Phillips 66 has published its 2020 Sustainability Report titled “Greater Good,” making it digitally available to employees, communities and investors at www.phillips66.com/Sustainability.This year’s report builds on the company’s previous disclosures, proactively sharing Phillips 66’s 2019 performance across its four sustainability focus areas of operating excellence, environmental stewardship, social responsibility and financial performance.The report now includes a chapter on climate change and a Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) analysis.

In May 2020, Utkilen, a shipping company, received delivery of their new vessel, Saltstraum, which is now ship number 4,000 worldwide in operation with Framo pumps on board.Framo has delivered pumps for chemical tankers since the end of the 1960s.

CRANE I&S, a manufacturer of instrumentation and sampling products, has announced the new expansion of its websites. The improved sites, www.hoke.com, www.goreg.com, www.texassampling.com., encompass all of the same product information as the previous websites, but also contain detailed product catalogues for all of its brands, including features and benefits, technical menus, and flow formula calculators.

BASF SE and ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC have released a new highly energy efficient amine gas treatment technology named OASE® sulfexx™.

A large number of environmental monitoring requirements have been suspended for Alberta's entire energy industry.The Alberta Energy Regulator ("AER") issued Decisions 20200520A and 20200520B suspending certain monitoring requirements for oil sands operators and conventional oil and gas producers under the Oil and Gas Conservation Act ("OGCA").

Strengthening its commitment to energy innovation, Southern Company, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has announced an expanded focus for the National Carbon Capture Center.

Fluor Corporation (FLR) announced that it was awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for Minnkota Power Cooperative’s (Minnkota) Project Tundra, a carbon capture, utilization, and storage retrofit project at the Milton R.