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Addition of Wood Group's electric submersible pumps and surface wellhead products:
*Provides GE with entry into the fast growing demand for enhanced oil recovery from mature oil fields using downhole pump 'artificial lift' in brownfield developments;
*Expands GE's high-technology product and service offering in unconventional oil and gas production, with significant applications for shale gas production;
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New Hyperbaric Test Chamber Simulates Extreme Deepwater Conditions, Enabling Step-Change in Oil and Gas Industry Safety, Reliability and Performance
NAILSEA, UNITED KINGDOM---February 11, 2011---Demonstrating its continued commitment to subsea equipment safety, reliability and performance, GE Oil & Gas today officially opened both its new Hyperbaric Testing Hall and a newly refurbished Electrical & Electronics Assembly Plant in Nailsea, United Kingdom.
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New Hyperbaric Test Chamber Simulates Extreme Deepwater Conditions, Enabling Step-Change in Oil and Gas Industry Safety, Reliability and Performance
NAILSEA, UNITED KINGDOM---February 11, 2011---Demonstrating its continued commitment to subsea equipment safety, reliability and performance, GE Oil & Gas today officially opened both its new Hyperbaric Testing Hall and a newly refurbished Electrical & Electronics Assembly Plant in Nailsea, United Kingdom.
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ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, United Kingdom--01 February 2011-- GE Oil & Gas is pleased to announce it has been issued orders to supply seven subsea tree and wellhead systems, utilizing the VetcoGray MHXT tree and VetcoGray SG-5 wellhead system, by Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited (Maersk Oil) for deployment in the U.K. North Sea. The total value of the awards is expected to be approximately $20 million.
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GE Oil & Gas Installs First 50-Megawatt Steam Turbines for Acciona Energy Project in Spain
FLORENCE, ITALY and SEVILLE, SPAIN---February 1, 2011---The role of concentrated solar power (CSP) in global renewable energy supply depends upon positive regulatory environments that encourage investment and the availability of proven technologies that efficiently meet capital investment and operating expenditure objectives.
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German Compression Stations Equipment Upgrade to Lowers Emissions and Boost Performance
FLORENCE, ITALY---31 January 2011---GE Oil & Gas has been awarded a contract of more than $120 million (€90 million) to overhaul nine gas turbines located at four compression stations along the Trans Europa Naturgas Pipeline (TENP), which runs across Germany from the Dutch to the Swiss border.
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10-Year Contract Selected to Support Reliable Wind Power for 178 Wind Turbines across Eight Sites
MADRID--31 January 2011-- GE (NYSE: GE) has signed a 10-year contract with Spanish wind developer Cobra Energia to provide advanced services for 178 GE wind turbines installed at eight wind farms across Spain. The agreement is GE's largest wind energy services contract in Europe and reinforces the company's position in Europe's highly competitive wind turbine services sector.