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December, 2007

12/27/2007

Attendance by Petroleum Equipment Institute members and registrants increased by 15 percent over 2006 attendance at the 2007 PEI Convention, held in conjunction with The NACS Show from Nov. 6-9 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. There were 204 total exhibitors in the Petroleum Equipment and Services area this year, while throughout the show 173 PEI member companies exhibited.

12/27/2007
The comment period is now open for the Petroleum Equipment Institute’s latest draft called Recommended Practices for Installation of Bulk Storage Plants.

November, 2007

11/14/2007

Blair D. Shwedo, president of SouthEastern Petroleum Systems, Inc., Charlotte, NC, has been appointed by the board of directors of the Petroleum Equipment Institute to serve as the 2008 vice president of the organization, while Peter Ward, president of Glasgow Equipment Service, Inc., West Palm Beach, FL, has been named PEI’s new treasurer.

11/09/2007

Larson, who has been a PEI board member for two terms, Vice President in 2007 and Treasurer before that, was elected during the Institute’s annual convention at the NACS Show, which was held this year at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA.

September, 2007

09/21/2007

Print copies of the Petroleum Equipment Institute’s Recommended Practices for Overfill Prevention for Shop-Fabricated Aboveground Tanks (PEI/RP600-07) is available for purchase today, Sept. 21, 2007.

August, 2007

08/27/2007

New “Mega-Sessions” will headline the educational sessions provided by the Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI) at the upcoming NACS/PEI Show from November 6-9, 2007, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. PEI’s educational lineup on Wednesday and Thursday, November 7-8, includes three new Mega-Sessions that are organized to dive deeper into topics.

08/04/2007

Robert Renkes, Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI), co-hosted a webinar on July 26, 2007, entitled "Biofuels Infrastructure." The purpose of the webinar was to provide an overview of the current state of the biofuels infrastructure to the commercial trade service executives at the Department of Commerce and Office of Energy and Environmental Industries within th