Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced recently it has been awarded a contract from QGC, part of BG Group plc (LSE: BG.L), a world leader in natural gas. QGC is one of the major proponents in the rapidly developing coal seam gas (CSG) to liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in Australia. Officials did not disclose the contract value, but noted that the services are being provided from Jacobs’ Brisbane, Australia and Denver, Colo., U.S.

Aspen Technology, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, announced the availability of aspenONE V8.4 software, featuring new Activated Exchanger Design and Rating (EDR) and updates to Activated Energy and Activated Economics in Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus

To help manufacturers and systems designers more easily achieve compliance with increasingly stringent industrial and automotive safety requirements, Freescale Semiconductor recently announced a family of robust CAN transceivers designed for high-speed performance and reliability

Globeleq, the leading independent power company in Africa, indicated that construction for the 139 MW expansion of its existing 288 MW Azito gas-to-power plant near Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire continues to remain on schedule

Savigent Software, Inc., the Minnetonka-based company specializing in event-driven manufacturing operations management software, announced today that it has been selected by Seagate Technology to implement a significant number of the company’s continuous improvement initiatives, including fault detection. As part of the improvement effort, Savigent will deploy its Catalyst Platform