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TAG Acquisition Expands Emerson's Service Arm

Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:00:00 AM       Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox                            Digg This Article   Add to Delicious

Abstract:With its acquisition of vendor-agnostic custom process automation system engineering firm The Automation Group (TAG), Emerson Process Management aims to allay its oil and gas customers' services needs.
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With the cost of oil hovering at $100 per barrel, it's no wonder oil and gas companies are clamoring for ways to expand capacity, reduce cost, and eliminate waste. Finding the time to do that, however, is difficult when there's a business to run.

Hearing its customers' cries, Emerson Process Management acquired The Automation Group (TAG), a Houston-based engineering services firm that designs custom process automation systems.

TAG, which builds automation systems for the refining, petrochemical, and oil and gas industries, is vendor-agnostic when it comes to control platforms. And the company will remain true to its multi-vendor roots even after it is under the Emerson umbrella, Emerson officials maintain.

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