TPi January 2012

business & market news

Oklahoma’s oil industry hosts helping hand event

families in need through no fault of their own. Our primary objective is to not cover all their needs, but to lend a helping hand to help them get back on their own two feet.” In total the organisation has provided more than $1.1mn in financial aid to 127 families.

focuses on raising money and keeping costs down to help someone in the immediate oilfield community. Funds raised during the golf tournament – totalling over $30,000 – will be donated to members of the Oklahoma-based oilfield families who are in critical need of financial assistance due to major medical crises and other life-altering events. Kurt Primeaux, Samson Gulf Coast division operations manager, said, “Oilfield Helping Hands is committed to lending a helping hand to those oilfield

Oklahoma-based Samson Investment Company and a number of its peers in the energy industry – including several pipe companies – joined together late last year to offer a helping hand to families in need. Samson was one of the local sponsors of the inaugural Oilfield Helping Hands Oklahoma Golf Tournament, held at Meadowbrook Golf Course in Tulsa. Through fundraising events Oilfield Helping Hands assists oilfield families in critical need of financial support. OHH

Oilfield Helping Hands – USA www.oilfieldhelpinghands.org

Samson Investment Company – USA www.samson.com

Fluid systems to treat exhaust gases Norma Group has secured a large order from a vehicle and engine manufacturer to develop and manufacture fluid systems for the transportation of fluids into the exhaust pipe to reduce nitrogen oxides. The product solutions are manu- factured for a series of different vehicle platforms. Production will start in 2014. the Normaflex product group used for this order include heated pipe systems and joining technologies of thermoplastics that convey urea into the exhaust pipes. Higher exhaust emission standards increase the demand for new technologies to treat exhaust gases.

to approximately 10,000 customers in 80 countries. The engineered joining products are employed in vehicles, shipping, trains, aircraft and domestic appliances as well as engines and water pipelines. The company operates a network of 17 manufacturing facilities and ten additional sales and distribution sites across Europe, North, Middle and South America, and Asia Pacific.

Norma Group manufactures a wide range of engineered joining technology solutions in three product categories (clamp, connect and fluid), offering more than 35,000 products and solutions

The fluid pipes are an integral part of the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology that reduces nitrogen oxides in exhaust gases. The components of

Norma Group AG – Germany www.normagroup.com

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