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To Drill Or Not To Drill
Two competing bills in the House Natural Resources Committee starkly illustrate a choice facing Congress, say Western Business Roundtable leaders: promote greater American energy independence by supporting responsible development of the nation's natural resources, or push the U.S. toward increased reliance on foreign energy imports by advancing legislation that seeks to limit domestic access and production.
The two bills at issue are the bipartisan American Conservation and Clean Energy Independence Act (H.R. 2227), introduced by U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), and the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act (H.R.3534), known as the "CLEAR" Act, introduced by U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV).
"Exploring for domestic energy in outer continental shelf areas is critical to moving America to greater energy independence, and H.R. 2227 would move us in that direction," said Roundtable CEO Jim Sims. Sims noted that, according to the U.S. Minerals Management Service, America's OCS areas hold approximately 450 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas resources and 85 billion barrels of oil.
"That is enough oil to replace current Persian Gulf imports for nearly 60 years," he said.
In sharp contrast, according to Sims the Rahall bill would "discourage investment in expanded domestic energy production, both onshore and offshore, and will thus increase our reliance on imported foreign energy."
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McJunkin Red Man Buys British Valve Distributor
McJunkin Red Man Corp.
(MRC) announced that MRC has entered into an agreement to acquire Transmark Fcx Group B.V.
, a leading international distributor of specialty valves and flow control equipment. MRC's President and CEO, Andrew Lane said, "Through the purchase of Transmark, we will expand our product and service offering, provide access to more of the world's leading brand names, and expand our industrial distribution channel." This is the third acquisition by MRC since being formed in 2007 via the merger of McJunkin Corp. and Red Man Pipe & Supply. MRC previously acquired Midfield Supply in Canada and St. Louis-based LaBarge Pipe and Steel. Transmark, headquartered in the UK, has a network of 45 distribution and service facilities in the U.K., Europe, the
Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. The acquisition, which is expected to close within 30-45 days, is subject to European Commission approval and other customary closing conditions. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
F. W. Webb Expands Industrial Pump Offerings, Acquires Rep
F.W. Webb announced that its Webb Pump division has partnered with the Dover Pump Solutions Group to offer the industrial pump lines of Wilden, Blackmer, Mouvex, Neptune, Amatec and Griswold. Also
Webb Kentrol/Sevco is acquiring the
Control Equipment Co. in Cazenovia, NY. They are the Masoneilon rep for upstate New York. Kentrol/Sevco will have the Masoneilon product line for all of New England and Upstate NY.
Lined Produces $1.5 Million Valve
Lined Valve Co. has created what is
said to be one of the world's largest valves. Fitted to a 96-in. pipe for a Chicago storm and wastewater treatment plant, the knife gate valve is 34 feet tall, 11 feet wide and weighs 52,000. It sold for a reported $1.5 million.
Crane Revises Classic Technical Paper
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rane Fluid Handling
announced the availability of the 2009 edition of Crane's Technical Paper No. 410 (TP-410). Originally developed in 1942, the TP-410 is a technical resource for engineers, designers and engineering students which explains the flow of fluid through valves, pipes and fittings to aid in the appropriate selection of equipment for piping systems. The 2009 edition marks the introduction of a companion website containing a suite of Web-based tools that solve equations found within the paper. Other new entries include chapters on pumps, control valves and flow meters.
Pittsburgh Corning Names FOAMGLAS Marketing Head
Paul Treml has been appointed marketing manager for Pittsburgh Corning's FOAMGLAS industrial insulation product line. Prior to joining Pittsburgh Corning, Treml was global program marketing manager for Kennametal, Inc. Complete Services Group.
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The Bias Against Oil & Gas
"It's insane not to encourage more U.S. production (of oil and gas)," writes the best economics journalist around, Newsweek's Robert Samuelson. But that's exactly the attitude held by environmentalists and the present Administration. |
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Tech Tip #31 by Gregg Marshall
To help you make the most of the Digital Age.
Mail Merge Emails
If you use Outlook, did you know you can use Word to do mail merge to create custom emails to a group of people? If not you should check out this Microsoft web page: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA011464811033.aspx
MAPILabs (http://www.mapilab.com/) can take that great feature and make it even more powerful. They have an inexpensive ($24) Word/Outlook add-on that "fixes" two huge Word merge to email limitations.
Word merge to email won't let you have attachments. In the past my way around this was to put Outlook into "work offline" mode, do the merge, open all the messages in my outbox and manually (or using a macro) attach the file or files, and then switch back to online mode to send the messages.
With Mail Merge Toolkit, I can now select to merge to the toolkit which lets me attach the files right at the time of merging.
The other limitation Mail Merge Toolkit "fixes" is I can now do merge substitutions in the subject line of the email, letting me personalize an email more. Either of these two limitations make Mail Merge Toolkit worth every penny, of course it has other features too.
Another related MAPILabs add-on that is inexpensive (also $24) is Send Personally.
If you want to send the same email to a bunch of people, you can stick all their email addresses in the TO field. That really makes some people mad since it discloses their email addresses to other recipients (want to see how mad, just do that to a large group of journalists, you'll get flamed in public as they reply all to tell you how stupid you are).
The alternative is to send that email to yourself and use the BCC for the list. But many spam filters assume that BCC sent emails are spam, so some of your recipients won't get that party invitation.
Send Personally adds a button to your Outlook next to the send button. If you click the Send Personally button, it takes the long list of emails in the TO field and sends the email to each one as if you had done it individually. You can even do some limited data merging without resorting to doing a full scale Word merge.
MAPILabs has other Outlook add-ons that I'll write about later.
Gregg Marshall, CPMR, CSP, is president of Rep Connection Inc. He can be reached by e-mail at gmarshall@repconnection.com, or visit his LinkedIn profile at
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What's The Industry Buzzing About?
One way to tell is to visit the website of Supply House Times
. If you scroll to the bottom of the lead page, you will find lists of the "Most E-Mailed" and "Most Popular Articles" (as measured by visitations). This gives a pretty good feel for what industry citizens regard as important.
For example, as of Wednesday, Sept. 24, these were some of the "Most E-mailed" articles from the Supply House Times website.
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Reversing Electric Actuators
 Hayward Flow Control Systems
has announced availability of their new line of reversing electric actuators and accessories for a wide range of valve automation applications. Hayward's new corrosion-resistant EPM, EPS, and EPL Series electric actuators are available in a variety of quarter-turn reversing, quarter-turn reversing spring return, and linear drive models. EPM Series Reversing Actuators are designed for use with all ball and butterfly valves up to 24" (600 mm) in size, provide torque outputs from 300 (34 Nm) to 13500 in. lbs. (1525 Nm), and are available with positioners for special on/off or modulating requirements. A variety of options such as positioners, extended duty motors, 0-90° -
180°, feedback potentiometer, two additional auxiliary switches, local control stations, 12/24 VDC and VAC, 120/230 VAC (50/60 Hz), and 3 phase w/230 VAC, 380 VAC, or 460 VAC (50/60 Hz) are available depending upon the model selected. |
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