[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 130 (Thursday, July 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39901-39902]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-16633]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE



Antitrust Division




Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 

Production Act of 1993--Cooperative Research Group on Development of a 

Predictive Model for Corrosion-Fatigue of Materials in Sour Environment



    Notice is hereby given that, on May 17, 2011, pursuant to Section 

6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 

15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Southwest Research Institute--

Cooperative Research Group on Development of a Predictive Model for 

Corrosion-Fatigue of Materials in Sour Environment (``Model-CFM'') has 

filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General 

and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) The identities of the 

parties to the venture and (2) the nature and objectives of the 

venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the 

Act's provisions limiting the recovery of



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antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.

    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties 

to the venture are: Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Energy Technology Co., 

Houston, TX; ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co., Houston, TX; Petrobras, 

Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL; Tubas De Acero De Mexico S.A., Veracruz, 

MEXICO; and Vallourec Mannesmann Oil & Gas France, Aulnoye-Aymeries, 

FRANCE. The general area of Model-CFM's planned activity is to develop 

an analytical/computational model and associated fundamental experiment 

that will enable the prediction of corrosion-fatigue performance of 

material-environment systems of technological interest to the oil and 

gas industry. To maximize the model's applicability and robustness, it 

will be (1) Based on scientific principles, (2) informed by fundamental 

electrochemical experiments to capture the key material-environment 

interactions, and (3) validated against critical experiments, including 

long-duration experiments that are currently being performed in 

parallel, complimentary projects.



Patricia A. Brink,

Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 2011-16633 Filed 7-6-11; 8:45 am]

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