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JENBACH, Austria--Wednesday, May 05, 2010--Helping to alleviate China's energy shortage, GE's (NYSE: GE) ecomagination-approved Jenbacher biogas engines will power the new Liaoning Huishan Cow Farm, which, once completed, will become world's largest biogas project based on cow manure.
The manure from the 250,000 cows at the Huishan farm, located in Shenyang, China, will be converted into biogas and is expected to produce 38,000 MWh a year through four GE JMS420 Jenbacher gas engines. The energy generated will be sold to the state grid in China.
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ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND---May 3, 2010---GE Oil & Gas is pleased to announce the signing of a new frame agreement with Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited. The new agreement runs from March 1, 2010, for a five-year period.
Under the new agreement GE Oil & Gas will continue to supply subsea wellheads, trees and tubular products for exploration and developed projects in the North Sea. GE Oil & Gas estimates the total value of the agreement to be in excess of $80 million.
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* GE Healthcare installs its new wide-bore MR system, Optima MR450w, at Hospital Laennec in Creil, France --- a first in Europe
* 115 patients have been scanned in the first three days since the installation this week.
* This system offers a 70 cm bore for enhanced patient comfort and 50 cm field of view with uncompromised image quality over large anatomies
* More than 20 units of this new system are scheduled to be installed across Europe before the end of the summer