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TORP Technology Partners with Hargrove
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12/13/2008
Sullivan-St. Clair Marketing/Public Relations Press Release From: www.bienvillelng.comNEWS RELEASE:December 13, 2007 (251) 476-1283jennifer@sullivanstclair.comTORP Technology Partners with Hargrove and Associates(MOBILE) –TORP Terminal announced today that it has hired Hargrove and Associates, Inc. to provideowner’s engineering services for the company’s planned Bienville Offshore Energy Terminal, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification facility utilizing ECO-loop technology to be located 63 miles off the coast of Alabama.Hargrove and Associates, assisted by subcontractor Thompson Engineering, will serve as an engineering representative for TORP and will complement TORP’s staff on the terminal project by providing engineering and technical support services. “We are very excited to be working with Hargrove and Associates as well as Thompson Engineering on the Bienville Offshore Energy Terminal,” said Joe Berno, chief executive officer of TORP Terminal, the company that will own the Bienville Terminal. “We have been in discussions about our project with each of these firms for more than a year and are extremely pleased to have partners of their reputation and quality working with us on the Bienville Terminal.” “The TORP Facility represents a significant advance for the energy future of the Gulf Coast. Hargrove and Thompson are honored to be the local partners of this distinguished international task force,” stated Ralph A. Hargrove, President of Hargrove and Associates, Inc.More than seven years and 70,000 man-hours of engineering have gone into the development of the technology to be used at Bienville Terminal. Berno and other members of the TORP team have met with environmentalists,conservationists and marine biologists in an effort to make the Bienville Terminal project as environmentallyfriendly as possible. TORP is committed to engaging as many qualified resources from Alabama as possible in the project.TORP Terminal, which has offices in Mobile, Ala., and Houston, Tex., is a subsidiary of TORP Technology,headquartered in Houston, Texas. For more information, visit TORP Terminal’s Web site at www.BienvilleLNG.com.Hargrove and Associates, Inc. is a full service engineering, technical support, procurement, construction and project management company headquartered in Mobile, Ala., with offices in Decatur, Ala., Atlanta, Ga., and Savannah, Ga., serving the pulp and paper, power, refining, steel, oil and gas, automotive and petrochemical industries as well as other industrial sectors.
Jennifer Jenkins
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