Parker Hannifin wins instrumentation contract with Shell

Parker Hannifin has won a contract with Shell to become the single source supplier of a range of process instrumentation products.

The company will provide the oil and gas giant with manifolds, instrumentation valves, process-to-instrument valves, fittings, tubing and protective enclosures, over an initial period of five years. Ian Huggins, general manager of Parker Hannifin's Instrumentation Products Division, said: "We are delighted to win this contract with such a major player in the oil and gas business, and are confident that our manufacturing resources will meet the enormous challenges of this supply agreement. "We are also excited with the prospect of closer engineering cooperation, as this will give us a front row view of emerging technical challenges in critical application areas."