[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 122 (Thursday, June 25, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 36578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-15559]


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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 Wet Gas 
Compression Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 19, 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''), Southwest Research Institute--
Cooperative Research Group on Wet Gas Compression Consortium (``WGCC'') 
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: Petr[oacute]leo Brasileiro S.A.--Petrobras, Rio de 
Janeiro, BRAZIL; MAN Diesel & Turbo Schweiz AG, Zurich, SWITZERLAND; 
Dresser-Rand, Houston, TX; ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, 
Spring, TX; Hitachi, Ltd., Tsuchiura, JAPAN; Solar Turbines 
Incorporated, San Diego, CA; FMC Technologies Kongsberg Subsea AS, 
Kongsberg, NORWAY; and Ingersoll-Rand Company, Buffalo, NY. The general 
area of WGCC's planned activity is to improve the physical 
understanding of wet gas compression by studying turbomachinery 
operation and performance in wet gas conditions. The goals of the WGCC 
are to cost-effectively provide a fundamental understanding of wet gas 
compression, identify current knowledge gaps, and suggest future 
research required to close those knowledge gaps.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-15559 Filed 6-24-15; 8:45 am]
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