[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 31619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-13445]


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 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Petroleum Environmental Research Forum Project 
No. 2013-10, Pressure Relief Valve (PRV) Stability Research Program

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 6, 2015, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Petroleum Environmental Research 
Forum Project No. 2013-10, Pressure Relief Valve (PRV) Stability 
Research Program (``PERF Project No. 2013-10'') 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: ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company, Fairfax, 
VA; BP Products North America Inc., Naperville, IL; Chevron U.S.A. 
Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, acting through its Chevron Energy 
Technology Company division, Houston, TX; The Dow Chemical Company 
Midland, Midland, MI; Flint Hills Resources LP, Wichita, KS; Phillips 
66 Company, Houston, TX; LyondellBasell Industries, Houston, TX; 
Marathon Petroleum Company LP, Findlay, OH; Shell Global Solutions (US) 
Inc., Houston, TX; Valero Energy Corp., San Antonio, TX; Bayer 
MaterialScience LLC, Pittsburgh, PA; and Siemens Energy, Inc., Houston, 
TX. The general area of PERF Project No. 2013-10's planned activity is, 
through cooperative research efforts, to better understand pressure 
relief valve (PRV) stable operation by creating a model, set of 
equations, or other tool that can be used by engineers to predict 
stability (e.g. flutter or chatter) for most of the PRV installations 
(from here on called ``the model''). The model will need to be 
validated through literature and experimental results.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-13445 Filed 6-2-15; 8:45 am]
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