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Invensys Rail strengthens senior team with major appointments
30-Jul-2010
JULY 30, 2010/LONDON –Leading railway signalling and train control provider Invensys Rail is strengthening its senior team with the appointment of Graeme Charnock as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from 26 July 2010.

Invensys Rail Awarded Thameslink Resignalling Contract
29-Jul-2010
JULY 29, 2010/LONDON – Network Rail has awarded the £32m Thameslink core area resignalling contract to Invensys Rail. On completion, the project will provide a significant increase in route capacity, allowing 24 trains per hour to run from Loughborough Junction in the south, through central London and on to Kentish Town in the north.

PAS Appoints David Vinzant as Vice-President of Sales
28-Jul-2010
Houston, TX – July 27, 2010 – PAS, a leading supplier of software products and consulting services to the processing industries worldwide, recently appointed David Vinzant as Vice-President of Sales. Mr. Vinzant has over 30 years of industry experience and joins PAS from SunGard Energy where he was the Chief Operating Officer and Head of Sales. Prior to SunGard, he held executive-level positions at Invensys and TransEnergy.

EAGC confirms top speaker line up
26-Jul-2010
An exciting conference programme with an array of industry leading speakers has been confirmed for the 25th anniversary of the European Autumn Gas Conference (EAGC). Hosted by RWE Supply & Trading and sponsored by E.ON Ruhrgas, eni, Gas Strategies and Gasunie, the EAGC is one of Europe’s longest running annual gas conferences, with senior executives representing the most important gas players in the market.

Reservoir Group Adds to Succession of Acquisitions
23-Jul-2010
Global-leading oil and gas energy services company Reservoir Group has bolstered its growth after acquiring Enigma Data Solutions. The acquisition is part of Reservoir Group’s strategy to invest in valuable new additions to its already-strong cast of companies. The Enigma purchase will reinforce RGIS, the information services division of RG, which already includes three companies.

Thomson introduces self-lubricating linear bearing blocks
22-Jul-2010
Lube for Life assembly eliminates incorrect or inadequate bearing lubrication

Thomson stellt wartungsfreie, selbstschmierende Linearlagerblöcke vor
22-Jul-2010
„Lube for Life“-Baugruppe elemeniert fehlerhafte oder mangelhafte Schmierung

Thomson lancia i supporti intermedi per cuscinetti lineari autolubrificati
22-Jul-2010
I gruppi di tipo Lube for Life eliminano lubrificazioni dei cuscinetti inadeguate o incorrette

SSTL kicks off small satellite for Kazakhstan
20-Jul-2010
SSTL has commenced building a small satellite for the Republic of Kazakhstan that will provide medium resolution multi-spectral earth observation capability to complement the high resolution satellite that is being provided by EADS Astrium as part of the contract awarded to the company in October 2009.

BGP Marine shoots for Spectrum
06-Jul-2010
The BGP Challenger is currently acquiring 2D long offset seismic data on behalf of Spectrum Multi-Client in the US Gulf of Mexico. The BGP Challenger, which was commissioned in early 2009 is currently acquiring Phase 4 of Spectrum’s extensive Big Wave Multi-Client programme in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. By the end of June the Challenger had acquired more than 5,000 km of high quality seismic data with a 10,000m streamer and 4,260 cu ins source array. Spectrum’s own vessel, the GGS Atlantic, had previously acquired more than 3,700 km of Big Wave Phase 4 before mobilising to Trinidad to acquire a proprietary 3D survey.

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