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Microchip to invest $880M to expand its SiC and Si capacity in Colorado

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One significant phase of the expansion is to develop and upgrade its 50-acre, 580,000-square-foot Colorado Springs campus for increased SiC manufacturing for use in automotive/E-Mobility, grid infrastructure, green energy, and aerospace and defense applications.

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Kinder Morgan to purchase El Paso for approximately $38B to form largest natural gas pipeline network and largest midstream energy enterprise in North America

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KMI) and El Paso Corporation on Sunday announced a definitive agreement whereby KMI will acquire all of the outstanding shares of EP in a transaction that will create the largest midstream and the fourth-largest energy company in North America with an enterprise value of approximately $94 billion and 80,000 miles of pipelines.

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NIST awards nearly $4M to support metals-based additive manufacturing

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The process offers advantages such as reduced material waste, lower energy intensity, reduced time to market and just-in-time production. The following organizations will receive NIST Metals-Based Additive Manufacturing Grants Program funding to be spent over two years: Georgia Tech Research Corporation ($1 million).

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Record $86B in 2011 US oil and gas upstream deals, led by unconventional sector with $62B

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Already in 2012, Devon Energy has struck a $2.5 In July, BHP acquired Petrohawk Energy for $15.1 Earlier in the year, in February, BHP acquired all of Chesapeake Energy’s interests in the Fayetteville shale play in central Arkansas for $4.8 Values of US upstream M&A oil and gas M&A deals, 2006-2011. Click to enlarge.

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Shell and Kinder Morgan plan to export LNG from the United States

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Shell US Gas & Power LLC (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, and Southern Liquefaction Company, LLC, a Kinder Morgan company and unit of El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. The total project is expected to have liquefaction capacity of approximately 2.5

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NAMII awarding $9M to 15 additive manufacturing projects

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CDI Corporation; Honeywell Aerospace; Pan Computing LLC; Penn State University; United Technologies Research Center; and the University of Louisville). Concurrent Technologies Corporation; General Electric; and Robert C. University of Texas - El Paso (Lockheed Martin; Northrop Grumman Corporation; rp+m, Inc.;