ECONTROL has completed engineering, manufacture and supply of materials to Techint-YPF La Plata expansion project in La Plata refinery, Argentina. This project is a part of the nation's critical plan to produce the highest grade fuels locally instead of importing from overseas sources. ECONTROL was chosen among local manufacturers and other European brands as the most reliable partner to ensure on-time delivery and total peace of mind to customer as this critical project must be on-stream by end of 2011. ECONTROL's previous achievements on similar projects were a key factor for this contract and once again an extraordinary performance has been delivered. YPF announced ECONTROL will be preferred for upcoming projects due to its reliability and target accomplishment guarantee.

YPF SOCIEDAD ANONIMA, an energy company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Argentina. The company also involves in refining, marketing, transportation, and distribution of oil and a range of petroleum products, petroleum derivatives, petrochemicals, LPG, and bio-fuels; and gas separation and natural gas distribution operations. As of December 31, 2010, it had proved reserves of approximately 531 million barrels of oil and 2,533 billion cubic feet of gas; and retail distribution network of 1,622 YPF-branded service stations for automotive petroleum products. The company's crude oil transportation network includes approximately 2,700 kilometers of crude oil pipelines with approximately 640,000 barrels of aggregate daily transportation capacity of refined products; crude oil tankage of approximately 7 million barrels; and terminal facilities at 5 Argentine ports. In addition, it participates in 3 power stations with an aggregate installed capacity of 1,622 megawatts. The company was founded in 1977 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. YPF SOCIEDAD ANONIMA is a subsidiary of Repsol YPF, S.A.

28/10/2011 - 11:23 (CET)

YPF La Plata is Argentina's largest refinery located near to Buenos Aires.

Over 30 ECONTROL's VB-100 motorized ball valves have been installed at PDVSA-PETROPIAR's Macolla G2 project in Venezuela as a first delivery of this strategic project. ECONTROL's Valve Engineering Unit (V.E.U.) engineers have been working closely with PDVSA project team to develop made-to-measure solutions to achieve an on time completion of the first part of the project. ECONTROL has also been requested to perform valve design and to tender a complete technical package for further phases of PETROPIAR's facilities. ECONTROL's joint venture with Venezuelan company Valinpeca for operations in Venezuelan market features a complete Integrated Service Center (I.S.C.) for ECONTROL products as the presence becomes wider and wider in the Americas market.

PDVSA-PETROPIAR is a Venezuelan Joint venture created to explore, transport and enhance 190,000 barrels a day of extra-heavy crude oil extracted from Proyecto Hamaca, located in the Orinoco belt in Venezuela. PDVSA controls Petropiar with a participation level of 70%, while Chevron owns the remaining 30%. PETROPIAR reached 160.000bpd capacity recently.

17/01/2011 - 10:51 (CET)

ECONTROL bags new projects in the Americas.

Eni and its EPC contractor Beender Ltd. based in London, UK have chosen ECONTROL to be the integral supplier for the current M'Boundi field development pipeline project in the Republic of the Congo. The awarded contract amounts to $2,87m and involves design, engineering, manufacturing and supplying customer with manual, actuated on-off and control valves for all the line-break pipeline stations and related facilities of the project. The scope of supply involves most of ECONTROL's valve types: gate, butterfly, globe control and ball valves. All required valves must be produced in exotic materials (Monel and Inconel alloys mainly) and in sizes up to 24" with various types of actuation: gas-over-oil, electric and pneumatic. The contract supply will be completed in just 5 months and will be installed on site by end of 2009.

Eni is an integrated energy company. Active in more than 70 countries, with a staff of 79,000 employees, in the oil and gas, electricity generation and sale, petrochemicals, oilfield services construction and engineering industries. Eni has been operating in the Republic of the Congo since 1968 and currently has 24 exploration and production permits in the country. Eni's exploration and production operations in the Congo are regulated by Production Sharing Agreements (PSA). Operations take place in the conventional and deep offshore sector in front of Pointe Noire and in the onshore sector over a total area of 11,099 square kilometres (4,905 attributable to Eni). The M'Boundi and Kouakouala A deposits purchased in 2007 currently produce a total of around 41,000 barrels per day.

The EPC contractor for this project, Beender Ltd. (based in London, UK) is an international oil and gas contracting company, it is a project driven company that is capable of moving its resources worldwide to respond to the demand of oil and gas operators. Is an EPC contractor with experience in the design and construction of Early Production Facilities, Pipelines, Storage tanks, as well as Processing Equipment.

24/07/2009 - 13:22 (CET)

Key supplier for worldwide oil projects.

Sea water desalination and sea water process has been a key operation field for ECONTROL since the 1980s, ECONTROL's Valve Engineering Unit (V.E.U.) has shared its expertise in design and development of both high and low pressure designs and exotic materials and alloys: Super Duplex Stainless Steels (SDSS), Monel, Inconel, Hastellloy, etc…

ECONTROL consolidates its leadership in the water process, sea water desalination fields with the award of high and low pressure valve packages of the new Sydney Water Desalination Project by Blue Water JV, integrated by Veolia Water (France) and John Holland Engineering (Australia), of the Tianjin plant executed by Hydrochem-Hyflux (Singapore) which is the largest plant currently under construction in China, of the Hadera plant executed by IDE Technologies (Israel) the second largest ever built in that country, of the Beni Saf and the Skikda plants executed by Cobra – Tedagua – Sacyr JV (Spain) which are both 200MLD and the two largest ever built in Algeria.

The awarded projects are of great strategic value as, due to worldwide growing demand for desalinated water, vigorous expansion investments are foreseen on which these plants will be used as guidelines for upcoming constructions.

26/03/2008 - 08:40 (CET)

Partnering major projects.

ECONTROL Spain entered on October 14 into a contract for supply of motorized valves and instrumentation to Saudi ARAMCO for the ongoing critical Al-Khafji Field Onshore Facilities Development Project (Phase 1).

The signed contract involves design, engineering, manufacturing, instrumentation integration, site delivery and commissioning of 104 valves in large sizes (through 56") and high pressure duty (through (ANSI 1500# rating) and related instrumentation. The total contract value amounts to above $3,1m.

The complete production process will be executed from ECONTROL's new production facility in Constanti, Tarragona (Spain) which is specialized in large diameter valves. The valve actuators will be delivered by technology partner Auma (Germany) and integrated at ECONTROL production facility prior to export. The complete delivery will be finished by April 30, 2008.

22/10/2007 - 09:22 (CET)

Saudi ARAMCO is the world's largest oil exporter.

ECONTROL will supply the refrigeration division of GEA Group, Industrie Technofrigo Dell'Orto S.p.A. based in Bologna, Italy with an integral valve supply contract for their ongoing gas compression projects which are being developed in partnership with Korean contractor Doosan.

The signed contract (which may be extended next year) includes integral control, ball, butterfly valve supply for modular gas compression stations being assembled at GEA plant in Italy and exported worldwide. ECONTROL will also engineer and supply instrumentation for the valves in partnership with Invensys Group and will provide site assistance and commissioning services by ECONTROL engineering team.

ECONTROL bid won the contract among the most reputed European valve manufacturers as it featured the most competitive price and shortest delivery time for the most reliable product of its kind.

19/09/2007 - 16:30 (CET)

Three leaders in gas compression technology join hands to perform together.

An ambitious expansion plan for ECONTROL engineering and production facilities in Spain was approved as of June 1st and the work implementation started on August 1st.

The upgrade plan involves investment in the R+D+I area and expansion of administration and office space for engineering and design teams at the head office but the most relevant portion of the approved investment will be allocated for the construction of ECONTROL's third production facility with a total effective area of above 22.000 sq. f. and 50 ton elevation capacity to be installed by ABUS (Germany). Individualized paint cabins will be designed and installed by GEINSA (Bilbao, Spain). Instrumentation and actuator assembly and testing areas will be designed and installed by ECONTROL technology partners SIEMENS (Germany), Invensys Group (France) and Auma (Germany) for integration purposes.

The new third facility is being built to serve the large worldwide growing demand of large diameter valves and will manufacture all ECONTROL ball and butterfly valves series up to 60" and 200" respectively. It is located at the government-approved expansion project of the Polígon Industrial Constantí (Tarragona, Spain) from where ECONTROL operates. The new factory will be built on urgent basis and will deliver its first models by November 1, 2007.

28/08/2007 - 08:20 (CET

Aerial view showing current status and expansion plan of the Pol. Ind. Constantí (Constantí Industrial Estate) where ECONTROL head office and production complex is located in Constantí, Tarragona (92Km. South of Barcelona).

ECONTROL is proud to introduce in May 2007 a major upgraded range of VM-200 high performance butterfly valve series.

The VM-200 series range has been widened to designs up to ANSI 1500# rating developed at ECONTROL's Valve Engineering Unit (V.E.U.).

Severe service applications have been improved including suitability for temperatures ranging from -196ºC to above 550ºC. ECONTROL's unique disc design guarantees a perfect valve sealing at the most extreme temperature fluctuations ensuring full bi-directionality and fire-safe properties.

All VM-200 designs comply to DIN 3230, API 607, BS 6755, API 598, API 6FA.

11/05/2007 - 11:51 (CET)

ECONTROL leads the high performance rotary valves market.

Iberia's central branch for aircraft maintenance ( www.iberiamaintenance.com ) located at Madrid-Barajas airport is undertaking a major upgrade and renovation project of all its aviation test areas to comply with new requirements of major aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing and its strict maintenance procedures.

ECONTROL has been selected as sub-contractor for the complete control valve and instrumentation package design, engineering and commissioning. The scope of supply requires highly precise control valves for pressure and temperature control duty capable of operating up to +600ºC of temperature and 45bar of pressure delivering pressure / temperature controls with minimum error margins of 0,068 bar (1 psi) and 0,01ºC respectively.

27/08/2006 - 16:25 (CET)

IBERIA is Spain's leading air carrier. IBERIA offers an average of 1,000 daily flights with its fleet of more than 200 aircraft. It carries more than 30 million passengers and cargo to more than 100 domestic and international destinations, including code-sharing agreements.

EECONTROL has designed, developed, engineered, built and commissioned in cooperation with the engineers of oil company Repsol-YPF ( www.respolypf.com ) a series of individualized designs for globe control valves in sizes ranging from 1" to 20", ANSI 300# and ANSI 600# rating in a cooperation agreement between both parties to achieve "zero-emission" designs in critical areas of the oil company plants.

The individualized designs were developed by the control valve engineering team at ECONTROL's V.E.U. (Valve Engineering Unit) in built at ECONTROL's factory (both in Constantí, Tarragona) following the requirements of customer engineers and delivered in several packages following customer commissioning calendar needs.

27/08/2006 - 11:40 (CET)

ECONTROL has consolidated over the last months the Valve Engineering Unit (V.E.U.) as our active branch for Research + Development + Implementation of new designs and materials on control valve technology to solve permanent challenges from our customers.

The V.E.U. is a team of senior mechanical, chemical and electronic engineers with wide expertise on process engineering that use the latest software in valve sizing and 3D design.

08/03/2006 - 13:26 (CET)