[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 130 (Thursday, July 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 39901]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-16637]



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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 and 

Validation of FlawPRO for Assessing Defect Tolerance of Welded Pipes 

Under Generalized High Strain Conditions



    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 and Validation of FlawPRO for 

Assessing Defect Tolerance of Welded Pipes Under Generalized High 

Strain Conditions (``FlawPRO-JIP'') 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 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., Houston, TX; Heerema Marine 

Contractors Nederland B.V., Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS; Tubos De Acero De 

Mexico S.A., Veracruz, MEXICO; Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX; and 

ExxonMobil Development Company, Houston, TX. The general area of 

FlawPRO-JIP's planned activity is to develop an enhanced version of the 

FlawPROTM software (hereafter called FlawPROTM 

Version 4) that includes a comprehensive high-strain assessment 

capability based on recently developed tearing-fatigue and ratcheting 

fatigue. Moreover, the methodology incorporated into 

FlawPROTMVersion 4 will be validated by comparing software 

prediction with newly measured results obtained from full-scale tests 

on pipes subjected to ratcheting fatigue and increasing monotonic 

strain conditions while being loaded by bending and internal pressure.



Patricia A. Brink,

Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 2011-16637 Filed 7-6-11; 8:45 am]

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