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Foster Wheeler has been awarded an engineering and procurement services contract by Gassco AS for the implementation of the blow-down system modification at the Gassco-operated Dunkerque Terminal, France. The project will be executed by FW’s Teesside operation at Middlesbrough, UK. The EPC’s upstream oil & gas division in Reading, UK, completed a feasibility study in 2008 to optimise the blow-down system to meet venting time recommendations for the terminal at Dunkerque.
Welsh Water is investing £200 million to upgrade its water treatment works across Wales by 2015. This includes the water treatment plant at Cwellyn, where Rotork intelligent electric valve actuators have been installed to control the flow through a new state-of-the-art extension to the works. The Cwellyn plant has been designed and built by Black & Veatch Ltd, one of Welsh Water’s Asset Management Alliance partners for water supply capital investment schemes. Read more
INEOS Oxide is to build and operate a new 1000ktpa ethylene terminal at its Zwijndrecht facilities in Belgium. The new deep-sea terminal, which is to start in 2012, will “significantly change the shape of the ethylene market in Europe,” INEOS claimed. The facility will be connected directly to INEOS’ ethylene consuming facilities in the Antwerp Rotterdam Area and into Europe via the ARG ethylene pipeline linking Antwerp to Cologne and the Ruhr industrial area.
The Woodhouse Partnership Ltd (TWPL) has carried out an assessment and gap analysis of Centrica Energy Thermal Generation Business Unit’s asset management processes against the PAS 55:2008 good practice model. The project builds on a relationship going back to 2007 when TWPL initially carried out a review of Centrica’s asset management practices and this was repeated in 2008. Read more
Following the upturn in the first three months of 2010, BASF’s second quarter sales rose 30% on Q2/09 to Euro16.2bn, while income from operations (EBIT) before special items rose 94% to Euro2.2bn. The gains were linked to “very high demand” in its chemicals, plastics, ’functional solutions’ and ’performance products’ segments, plus inventory restocking. Chairman Jurgen Hambrecht said: “We [now] expect our sales to grow in 2010 and outpace global chemical production.”
CB&I has reported net income of $47.3m, on Q2/10. revenues of $916m, up from $869m in Q1/10. New awards totaled $916m for the second quarter, including a new gas processing plant in California, an olefins technology license in China, a gas storage tank project in Abu Dhabi and a concept development award for an LNG liquefaction project in Russia. As of 30 June, CB&I’s total backlog was $6.8bn.
Dawnfresh Seafoods has selected Mainsaver CMMS to manage engineering maintenance activities at its main production site in Uddingston, Lanarkshire.The system was supplied by Birmingham-based Spidex Software, the UK and Ireland distributor for Mainsaver EAM/CMMS software. Read more
Emerson Process Management has won a $2.7m (£1.7m) contract to install its Ovation expert control system at Huadian Lingwu Power Plant units 3 and 4 - the first 1,000MW ultra-supercritical units in China to employ air-cooling condenser technology. Read more
KBR has posted Q2/10 net income of $106million, compared to a prior year figure of $67million, on revenues of $2.7bn – down from $3.1bn in Q2/09. Bill Utt, Chairman, president, and CEO said: “In our North American engineering and construction markets as well as in our international infrastructure and minerals markets, we are seeing economic recovery coming at slower rates than we had envisioned at the beginning of the year. We expect these markets to continue to recover over time, but at perhaps a slower, more measured pace.”
CB&I has won a contract, valued at over $190m, for two LNG storage tanks associated with a major liquefaction project in the Asia Pacific region. CB&I’s scope of work includes the engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction of two 160,000 cubic meter LNG storage tanks. This project is due to be completed in 2013.
ITT Water & Wastewater has secured a £1.5m direct contract with Yorkshire Water (YW), or the repair and maintenance of ITT’s Flygt pumps for ’shining star, critical and large pump sites’. The 12-month initial contract with a potential five-year extension, covers all pump maintenance including product replacement and, for the first time, pump repair and rental. For the past 15 years YW has outsourced all maintenance to a third party, but has set up the pump repair framework to deal directly with suppliers to achieve efficiency savings and exert more control over activity and spend.
Tenaska has chosen Fluor’s Econamine FG Plussm carbon capture technology for use at the proposed Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center being developed near Sweetwater, Texas. Trailblazer will be a 600MW electricity generating plant fueled by pulverized coal and is expected to be among the first full-scale commercial power plants in the US, and the first in Texas, to capture 85 to 90 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) byproduct, sending it via pipeline to the Permian Basin to be used in enhanced oil recovery.
E.ON has recently applied Emerson’s Fisher Control-Disk valve to improve backwash flow control within the water-treatment system at E.ON’s combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Northwich, Cheshire, UK. The resulting elimination of filter media losses and subsequent downtime has enabled E.ON to reduce costs and improve availability as it provides steam for two local soda-ash plants. Read more
Unipetrol is achieving energy savings of Euro2m/year following the implementation of an advanced process control (APC) system at a steam cracker in its ethylene production plant at Litvinov. The technology has also delivered a return on its investment in the system within six months, according to AspenTech, which supplied the system. Read more
Air Products has installed two nitrogen generation systems at Toray Industries’ production facility in France, which develops thermoplastic compounds for the food packaging industry. Nitrogen is used at the site to minimise the risk of fire. After assessing the plant’s gas requirements Air Products has installed two PRISM HPN generators with an associated oxygen monitoring and control system. A Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) assessment showed that the generators complied with EU food hygiene regulations.
Aggreko plc has started work on a new £20m manufacturing facility at Lomondgate, Dumbarton. The 170,000 sq ft facility, which is expected to employ 110 people, will design, develop and manufacture power generators and temperature control equipment to be deployed by Aggreko around the world. Aggreko supplies temporary power and temperature control solutions, including power to all the stadiums and broadcasting facilities at the World Cup in South Africa.
Beancounters at RBC Capital Markets expect Schlumberger Ltd to “outperform” in its markets due to a dominant position in the Middle East / Far East, and extensive product and technology portfolio. Key points to watch for, though, include the impact of the moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico, and how quickly the overall rig count, pricing and margins accelerate.
The US Dept of Energy has announced funding for six projects to convert captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. Read more
ABB’s process automation business has reported increased orders Q2/10 on stronger demand. Base orders grew by over 20% while large orders increased by around 30% from low levels of Q2/09. The strongest markets were minerals, pulp & paper, marine and turbocharging. Oil, gas and petrochemicals orders remained at the same high level as Q2/09. Orders from the Middle East and Africa more than tripled due to major investments in minerals and oil & gas. Asia grew by almost 40% on higher orders from metals, minerals and marine customers. Orders in the Americas increased by over 10% on higher demand from the minerals and oil & gas sectors. Read more
After the 2007 start-up of Russia’s “largest” air separation unit (ASU) at Severstal integrated steel mill in Cherepovets, Air Liquide has a new contract for outsourcing of industrial gases in Cherepovets. Due to start-up at the end of 2012, the unit 2,000 tonnes/day (t/d) gaseous oxygen unit will also produce nitrogen, argon and rare gases. The Air Liquide-designed ASU, will be built and operated by Air Liquide Severstal – a JV in which Air Liquide holds 75% and Severstal 25%. The Euro50m project will bring the capacity of ALS on this site to 5,000 t/d.
Italian agro-industrial group Caviro Distillerie Srl has installed Emerson’s Micro Motion Coriolis mass flow meters at its plant in Faenza, Italy. The installation is part of a project to upgrade the control and supervisory system at the plant, which produces wine and denatured alcohol and also processes the by-products into agricultural chemicals. The Coriolis meters meet a need for accurate measurement devices that are accepted by the regulatory authorities for fiscal metering of alcohol products. Read more
Aker Solutions has won a contract with Eni Norge for the design and supply of an on-vessel Pusnes mooring systemTM for the Goliat FPSO. The total contract value for Aker Solutions is approximately NOK150m. The contract consists of 14 Pusnes fairlead chain stoppersTM and three moveable Pusnes windlassesTM for 165 mm chain size. The hull for the round-shaped FPSO will be built in South-Korea and will then be located at the Goliat field in the Barents Sea.
Infrared specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx has been working with German heating expert Friedr Freek in providing manufacturer, BM Anlagenbau, with some leading edge production processes in order to make its innovative range of coated concrete and stone products. Read more
BP is to sell upstream assets in the US, Canada and Egypt to Apache Corp. The deals, together worth a total of $7bn, comprise BP’s Permian Basin assets in Texas and south-east New Mexico, US; its Western Canadian upstream gas assets; and the Western Desert business concessions and East Badr El-din exploration concession in Egypt. BP last month said that it was increasing its target for divestments to $10bn to increase the cash available to the group.
Fluor Corp. has reached an agreement with Ivanhoe Mines Ltd to move forward with full-scale work at its gold and copper mine development project in southern Mongolia. Fluor’s scope of work will include overall program management (PM) as well as engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) for select portions of the construction of the Oyu Tolgoi mining complex. Fluor booked approximately $1bn into backlog for the project during Q2/10.
KBR has been appointed to an alliance that will design and build one of the world’s largest advanced tertiary wastewater treatment plants for Melbourne Water in Melbourne, Australia.
The plant, which will use an advanced treatment process, currently treats about 40% of Melbourne’s sewage and is Australia’s largest activated sludge plant. Read more
Emerson Process Management is to apply its PlantWeb digital plant architecture with Ovation expert control system at units 3 and 4 of the Samcheonpo thermal power plant in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The six-unit, 3,240-MW plant is owned by Korea South East Power Co., whose power plants currently generate 7,334MW – more than 10% of the country’s electric generating capacity. Emerson’s contract calls for replacement of outdated controls at Samcheonpo units 3 and 4 (2 X 560 MW) with control system.
Jacobs Engineering Group is to lead the program management and engineering design being delivered by the new Scottish Water Solutions (SWS) partnership – a JV between Scottish Water, Jacobs Engineering UK Ltd, Veolia Water UK Plc and Laing O’Rourke Infrastructure Ltd. Jacobs is also expected to provide health and safety leadership and asset maintenance advice. SWS will deliver over $720m of Scottish Water’s new five-year capital investment programme – one of the largest in the UK water industry at $4bn.
Allied Mills has completely reversed its ratio of unplanned versus planned maintenance following the implementation of an SKF-led maintenance programme. Planned work now accounts for 90% of the total, while significant reductions have also been made in the company’s stores value and stock holding costs. Read more
Trouvay & Cauvin UK has recently delivered a complete package of carbon steel and monel piping items for Saudi Aramco Mobil. The package including pipes, fittings, flanges, valves, studbolts and gaskets was awarded through Reading, UK-based EPC Foster Wheeler Ltd for an upgrade of an Aramco Mobil refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. Over 360 separate line items were supplied which had to comply with Aramco, Exxon Mobil and Foster Wheeler specification of approved standards and supplier lists.
Dow Chemical Co. has awarded Jacobs Engineering Group a contract to provide engineering and construction management services for the expansion of its Fombio, Italy site to accommodate the manufacture of uniform particle size copolymers for use in ion exchange resins. The scope covers detailed design and construction management activities, up to mechanical completion of the project, which includes the installation of new process equipment, an upgrade and tie-in of existing utilities and a new control system. Jacobs aims to execute the project from its Milan, Italy office.
Dow Chemical Co. and Mitsui & Co. Ltd are to form a 50:50 manufacturing JV to construct, own and operate a new membrane chlor-alkali facility located at Dow’s Freeport, Texas site. Due for startup in mid-2013, the 800ktpa facility will use Dow chlor-alkali technology, and replaces the Chlorine 7 project – a Dow-only venture. Dow will operate and maintain the chlor-alkali facility under contract to the JV. Construction will begin in Q4/10. Dow said over 70% of its chlor-alkali production is used to serve its “performance” businesses.
BP has signed a new agreement with the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. to develop hydrocarbon resources in the North Alexandria and West Mediterranean Deepwater concessions. Production from the West Nile Delta development is projected to reach up to 1bn cubic feet per day. Phase 1 will develop an estimated 5 trillion cubic feet of gas and associated condensate through subsea development of five offshore fields into a new onshore gas plant on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. First gas is expected in late 2014. The new agreement enables BP and its partner RWE Dea to proceed with development.
OCI Fertilizer International BV, part of Egypt-based Orascom Construction Industries, is to acquire Micro Chemie BV – owner and operator of ammonia storage tanks with a combined storage capacity of 30,000 tons, and a long-term lease holder for a terminal in the port of Rotterdam. The terminal has a permit to receive up to around 600ktpa of ammonia and to deliver up to around 550ktpa.
Polimex-Mostostal SA has awarded Foster Wheeler a contract for the design, supply and erection of a 50 MWe circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) boiler island for the Bielsko-Biała Heat and Power Station in Poland, which is owned by Południowy Koncern Energetyczny. Commercial operation of the new steam generator is scheduled for the middle of 2013. FW will design and supply the steam generator and auxiliary equipment, and build and commission the boiler island. The steam generator will be designed to burn local Polish bituminous coal.
Europe’s largest copper manufacturer Aurubis AG has selected Air Liquide to supply its new long term needs of oxygen in Hamburg and in Lünen, near Dortmund. Air Liquide will construct an additionnal air separation unit in Hamburg with a capacity of more than 500 tonnes per day of gaseous oxygen and liquid products; this plant will be commissioned in 2011.
Total has received approval from UK and Norwegian authorities to develop its Islay gas field in the Northern North Sea, 440km north-east of Aberdeen. Lying in a water depth of 120 metres, it has estimated reserves of near to 17 million barrels of oil equivalent and an estimated peak gas production rate of 2.5 million standard cubic metres per day plus associated condensates.
Air Liquide is investing around Euro90 million in its large industries business. At Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, the largest air separation unit in Germany is currently being built. With a production capacity of 2,400 tonnes per day of oxygen, this plant will start up in 2011. The oxygen will be directly fed into the 500km pipeline network supplying the large customers in the iron and steel, chemical and petrochemical industries in the Rhine-Ruhr area.
Silotank Ltd, a Northern Ireland-based maker of tanks and odour control and chemical scrubbing systems has recently installed CDR pumps for brine mixing systems at a food manufacturer’s plants in both England and Ireland. Silotank engineered an automatic brine mixing system to allow various brine solutions to be provided to fryer lines on demand. The mixing systems, which included a 35-tonne and 23-tonne salt saturator, brine mixing tank and distribution pipework manifold for the fryers, employed two magnetic drive pumps from CDR’s ETN-L range of chemical process pumps, lined in polypropylene.
Technip Samsung Consortium has appointed Emerson Process Management as main automation contractor for the Shell Prelude project, which will potentially be the world’s first Floating LNG development. Emerson will deliver the strategy, design, and engineering of the process control and monitoring technologies to support the production facility. Technip Samsung is the project’s overall FEED contractor. Read more
Foster Wheeler has entered into a framework agreement, awarded by Statoil, acting on behalf of Gassco AS as operator for the Gassled JV, for FEED services through 2013 for the development of the Kårstø oil and gas processing plant in Norway - the world’s third largest LPG export facility. Statoil is modifying the plant to enable it to process new light oil/condensate production coming on stream in the North Sea. FW’s contract is for the Gudrun Onshore Modifications project, to enable the Kårstø plan process light oil from the new Gudrun Field.
The global electric power SCADA market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.3% from 2009-14. A new ARC report projects this growth will result from a confluence of new technology and worldwide infrastructure spending fueled by sovereign investment programmes to increase grid capacity in emerging markets, and upgrade aging transmission and distribution infrastructure.
ABB has reported that its Industrial Extended Automation System 800xA has been sold to more than 6,000 new and existing customers in a wide range of industries, since its introduction in 2004,
Clyde Process Solutions has been awarded a contract from Anglo American plc, one of the world’s largest mining companies. The UK-headquartered miner has signed up Clyde to supply a complete pneumatic conveying system for its nickel operation based in the centre-east region of Brazil.
BP Biofuels North America is to acquire Verenium’s cellulosic biofuels business, including its facilities in Jennings, LA and San Diego, CA for $98.3m. Verenium will retain its commercial enzyme business, including its biofuels enzymes products and have the right to develop its own lignocellulosic enzyme program. Verenium will also retain select R&D capabilities, as well as rights to access select biofuels technology developed by BP using the technology it is acquiring from Verenium through this agreement.
Honeywell is working with Dolphin Energy in Qatar to upgrade its existing Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) servers, stations and software online at its gas processing plant at Ras Laffan to further improve the facility’s efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. The upgrade is to enhance production processes at the plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, which is the largest single build plant in the world and central to Dolphin’s operations in the region. Read more
BP Azerbaijan has awarded the AMEC Tekfen Azfen consortium a five-year master services agreement. The deal covers the provision of project management, engineering services, construction management and commissioning and completions for BP’s oil and gas projects in Azerbaijan, including the Chirag Oil Project - West Chirag project valued at $340m and, in the future, the Shah Deniz 2 project. The first tranche of work under the new agreement is for the project start-up and associated yard preparation works for an 18,000 tonne topsides facility for the Chirag project.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. has denied that it is insolvent, as had been indicated by a statement credited to Nigeria’s finance minister, Remi Babalola. Public affairs boss Levi Ajuonuma insisted that the corporation could meet its debts. He explained that NNPC is owed N1.156 trillion by the Federal Government as a result of petroleum subsidies which if reimbursed would enable the NNPC to offset the N450 billion debt being owed the Federation Account Allocation Committee.
Abu Dhabi Co. for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) has contracted Foster Wheeler to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services for the development of the Bida Al Qemzan oilfield in the United Arab Emirates. FW will manage the EPC phase of the Bida Al Qemzan development and will assist ADCO with the selection and award of EPC and construction contracts. The project aims to achieve a capacity of 20,000 barrels per day by the end of Q3/12.
Süd-Chemie AG is investing around Euro60m to build its first industrial-scale plant for the production of lithium iron phosphate - an energy storage material used in batteries for electric vehicle drives and other applications. Read more
Mustang has a contract with Ecopetrol to perform conceptual engineering and technology evaluations to optimise the production of polymers at its grassroots integrated petrochemical complex in Colombia. The study will look at ways to maximise revenue from the production of polyethylene, polypropylene and aromatics products from ethane, LPG and naphtha feeds from the Barrancabermeja and Cartagena refineries and the Cusiana gas fields. Location options for the new facility include Ecopetrol’s Cusiana or Cartagena sites.
The Jubail II Industrial Complex, is now among the world’s 10 largest programmes under construction, according to Bechtel, which has managed the Saudi project since the mid-1970s. In 2004, Saudi’s Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu asked Bechtel to manage Jubail II, an 8,300-hectare expansion of the city’s industrial and residential areas. Today, Jubail is Saudi Arabia’s industrial center, contributing 7% of the country’s GDP.
Clyde Process Solutions plc has won a £1m contract from the a leading US producer of polyvinyl chloride. CPS will provide this existing customer with a series of vacuum unloading systems and pneumatic conveying systems handling PVC resin, as well as an air filtration system that will be used to capture process dust. The remit is to provide a single source of supply for the transportation of PVC resin as part of the expansion at their petrochemical production facility in Texas.
Foster Wheeler has won a project management consultancy (PMC) services contract with South Oil Co. (SOC) for the Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project. SOC is a company under Iraq’s ministry of oil. The project will include the installation of two new onshore and offshore pipelines plus three single point moorings and a central manifold and metering platform, by July 2013. The project is expected to raise Iraq’s Basra export capacity from 1.8m barrels per day (b/d) to 4.5m b/d by 2014.
The UK government has announced that it is drawing up an action plan to deliver a “huge increase” in anaerobic digestion projects, and is inviting input from stakeholders on how this can be done in a cost-effective way. The UK produces about 100 million tonnes of this waste each year which could instead generate up to 7% of the renewable energy required in the UK by 2020. Read more
Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria has begun producing oil and gas from the Gbaran-Ubie project in the Niger Delta. When fully operational next year, it will be capable of producing 1 billion standard cubic feet of gas a day (scf/d), equivalent to about a quarter of the gas currently produced for export and domestic use in Nigeria. It will also produce as much as 70,000 barrels of oil per day. The project’s gas processing plant is now producing 200 million scf/d from the first two wells out of a planned total of 33.
Two NOV Mono EZstrip progressing cavity pumps have been installed at United Utilities’ Fairbourne, Wales works, which treats wastewater from Fairbourne and Bryn Coch pumping stations. Flows pass through a two-stage screening process into an anoxic zone and then into a submerged membrane bioreactor (MBR) plant. Final effluent is pumped out to sea through the Fairbourne outfall. The new kit pumps return activated sludge from one MBR cell to another at 55m3/h.
ABB has completed its acquisition of K-tek, which becomes part of the Measurement Products business unit within ABB’s Process Automation division. K-tek produces level-detection technology and employs more than 250 people with facilities in China, Netherlands, India, South Africa and the US.
The Clair Ridge Joint Venture has awarded Aker Solutions an EPC-contract for the delivery of two steel jackets, which will be located west of Shetland. The contract will be executed by Aker Solutions’ yard in Verdal, and includes engineering, procurement, construction, load-out and sea-fastening of the two steel jackets and associated piles. Detailed engineering starts immediately, while fabrication in Verdal will commence in June 2011. The jackets will be ready for load-out in mid-February 2013, and delivered in March 2013.
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Emerson Process Management is to install its Ovation expert control system at Saudi Electricity Co.’s new 1,320-MW (2x660 MW) oil-fired Rabigh Power Plant. The contract was awarded by SEPCO III, which is the first Chinese company to secure an EPC contract to build a power plant in Saudi Arabia. Read more
Scotwaste has been granted planning consent by West Lothian Council to build what the company believes will be one of the UK’s largest anaerobic digestion plants. The facility will divert about 100ktpa from landfill and create energy from waste along with more sustainable jobs for Bathgate, said Scotwaste.
Fluor Corp. has commissioned the second and final unit of Luminant’s Oak Grove Power Plant in Robertson County, Texas. The completed units are designed to have lower emission rates than any existing lignite plant in Texas and at least 70% lower than the US coal-plant average. The plants are designed to substantially reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, sulfur dioxide and particulate matter. Oak Grove is also the first US pulverised coal plant fueled by lignite to use new activated carbon sorbent injection technology to remove mercury.
Robotic and automation centre CenFRA Ltd claims to have saved thousands of pounds for Vale of Mowbray by carrying out in-depth analysis on a planned expansion project using discrete event simulation. The technology produces virtual replicas of factory floor space and allows food & drink manufacturers to see how a proposed integration of automation systems would work in reality. Read more
AREVA, the province of New Brunswick and the utility New Brunswick Power are to develop a clean energy park near the Point Lepreau nuclear station in Canada. The site would feature a mid-sized generation III+ nuclear plant and renewable energy sources all built by AREVA, which is working on similar developments near Piketon, Ohio with Duke Energy and Fresno, California with FNEG. The group is developing two mid-sized generation III+ reactors: the 1,250 megawatt KERENA boiling water reactor and the 1,100 megawatt ATMEA1 pressurised water design.
Gazprom, ENI and EDF have recently signed a deal to facilitate the French company’s entry in the shareholding structure of South Stream AG by the end of 2010. The deal envisages EDF taking a stake of at least 10% - through a reduction in ENI’s stake in the joint venture - and also regulates the implementation process of the South Stream gas pipeline’s offshore section construction project at the current stage. Read more
Aker Solutions has won a contract to supply a further 2,500ft riser extension to the Dragonquest (formerly Titanium Explorer) rig, which is owned by Valenica Drilling and managed by Vantage Drilling Co. The contract value is around NOK90 million, including both riser joints and buoyancy. The order comes in addition to the original delivery of a 7,500ft drilling riser system. The riser joints are to be delivered to the client in the summer of 2011.
Borouge has formally signed three EPC contracts, together worth $2.6bn, for its Borouge 3 strategic expansion in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi. The first contract, worth $1,255bn, for two Borstar-technology polyethylene and two Borstar polypropylene units, and second, worth $400m, for a low density polyethylene unit, were signed with a JV consortium Maire Tecnimont and Samsung Engineering. The third contract, worth $935m, for the utilities and off-site facilities for the expanded plant were signed with Hyundai E&C. Read more
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp, China State Engineering Construction Corp. and the Lagos State Government have launched a joint plan to build a 500ktpa liquefied petroleum gas refinery – the first to be built in Nigeria in over 20 years. Sited at the Lekki free trade zone, it is to be integrated with facilities to convert natural gas and refined petroleum products into hydrocarbon derivatives.
Severn Trent Water (STW) and United Utilities have extended their contracts with Deritend. A 20-year partnership with STW originally covered service, repair, overhaul and replacement of electric motors in treatment plants and pumping stations across the Midlands. A two-year renewal, with three-year extension option, now also includes maintenance and replacements for gearboxes across Severn Trent’s network. Deritend will add repair services for Archimedes screws to a five-year contract with United Utilities, which also covers removal, overhaul, repair and reinstatement services for 250 boreholes in north west England.
Foster Wheeler has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Dow Deutschland for a new cogeneration facility to be installed within Dow’s existing chemical complex at Stade, Germany. The new plant consists of three gas turbogenerators, heat-recovery steam generators and combined steam turbogenerators, and electrical infrastructure, offices, storage and utilities. Due to start up in early 2013, it will be designed to have a capacity of 150MWe and associated cogenerated steam.
Five Siemens UV disinfection plants came into operation in May in the Echthausen Water Works belonging to Wasserwerke Westfalen GmbH, Germany. They are said to have considerably reduced the amount of chemicals used by the drinking water supplier. This process also eliminates microorganisms which cannot always be adequately controlled by other disinfection processes. The Barrier M 3800 type UV plants have replaced the previous chlorine dioxide stage, and complete the water treatment.
Tea and coffee merchant, Taylors of Harrogate, has recently recruited Vortex Valves to assist in improving tea transfer at its North Yorkshire plant. To reduce costs and energy consumption, four Vortex Wye line diverters were installed in the system, thus enabling a reduction in pipework and the number of vacuum pumps required for each line. Read more
Aker Solutions has won two construction projects at mining facilities in Arizona, US. Customer and project details are undisclosed. The total contract value to the company for the projects is approximately $50m (£33m).
Eagle Ford Gathering (EFG), a 50/50 JV between Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and Copano Energy, has entered a 10-year gas services deal with SM Energy, which will commit up to 200,000MMBtu per day of natural gas production from three counties in Texas. EFG will provide gathering, transportation and processing services, and will construct around 85 miles of 24in and 30in pipeline from SM Energy’s acreage in the western Eagle Ford Shale play to Kinder Morgan’s Freer compressor station in Duval County, Texas. The pipeline is due to begin service by Q3/11.
ABB has signed a frame agreement worth up to $23m (£15m) to deliver and maintain telecommunications systems for all of Statoil’s offshore installations. The agreement runs for three years, with an option for an extra year, and covers all internal and external telecommunications systems for Statoil’s offshore operations on the Norwegian continental shelf. The agreement has an expected value of between $6m and $8mper year.
Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd has awarded contracts worth more than £12m to three companies to provide skilled staff for the next phase of dismantling the site. With effect from 1 Aug, NDSL, Nuvia and Morson Int. will supply up to 70 operatives to work across a range of decommissioning projects at the former nuclear R&D site.
Uhde has won a follow-up contract for the construction of a coke oven plant from Dragon Steel in Taiwan. Uhde will be responsible for the engineering and supply of special equipment, as well as supervision of erection and commissioning activities.
ABB has pulled out of the bidding for Chloride, having decided not to match an offer of 375p per Chloride share made by Emerson on 29 June. “While we still see considerable value in the combination of ABB and Chloride and have a high regard for the Chloride management team, we must take a disciplined approach when assessing potential acquisitions,” said Joe Hogan, ABB’s CEO.
Kazakhmys has awarded Aker Solutions a contract for the provision of services for a feasibility study of the development of the processing facility for the proposed Bozshakol Copper project in Kazakhstan. The contract value to Aker Solutions is approximately $15m (£10m).
Statoil has awarded Aker Solutions a frame agreement for maintenance and modifications on their offshore installations Snorre A/B, Gullfaks A/B/C, Visund and Åsgard A/B in Norway. The contract period is for four years and includes options for further extensions up to four years. The yearly volume of the contract will fluctuate, but Aker Solutions estimates the typical volume to be approximately NOK1.1bn (£112.5bn) per year.
CB&I has won a contract worth over $70m from Daewoo Engineering and Construction to provide the propylene storage tanks for the Ruwais Refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi. Takreer, the Abu Dhabi Refining Company, is expanding the refinery to add 400,000 barrels per day capacity. CB&I’s scope of the project is expected to be completed in 2013.
Fluor has gained a contract from Minera Lumina Copper Chile to deliver engineering, procurement and construction management services for the company’s new Caserones copper mine project in central Chile.
Energy services company Wood Group has been selected by Chevron Global Upstream and Gas to provide ready-for-start-up operations support services for a Wheatstone Project LNG plant on the northwest coast of Australia. Work will be performed by ODL, Wood Group’s consultancy company specialising in operations maintenance.
Lurgi, a subsidiary of Air Liquide Group, previously selected Burckhardt Compression to deliver three process gas compressors (PGCs), used as pipeline compressors, for Air Liquide’s hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The delivery of the three PGCs took place in April 2010. The responsible contractor for the project is Lurgi of Frankfurt, Germany. The compressors will be used to maintain hydrogen pipeline pressure at 100 bar.
Siemens Water Technologies in Singapore and the PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, are collaborating on a membrane bioreactor (MBR) testing facility at PUB’s Changi Water Reclamation Plant. The recently commissioned MBR system treats domestic wastewater at the Changi plant, which is part of the first phase of the Singapore Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) project.
Aker Solutions has secured a three-year contract extension for engineering and construction work with Nexen Petroleum in the UK sector of the North Sea. Aker Solutions estimates the contract value to be approximately £60m.
Fluor has announced today that its Global Services’ subsidiary, Plant Performance Services (P2S), has been selected by BP to execute two contracts to support its Gulf Coast clean-up efforts. P2S will be providing logistics, procurement and personnel support to BP in Alabama and Florida.
CB&I has announced that Ning Bo Heyuan Chemical has awarded Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, a contract for the licence and basic engineering of a DMTO methanol-to-olefins recovery unit and an olefins conversion technology (OCT) unit in Ning Bo, China.
Topell Energy and RWE Innogy have laid the foundation stone at Duiven in the Dutch province of Gelderland for the first commercial-scale plant for the production of biocoal pellets. The plant will have a production capacity of 60,000 tons per year. It is due to be commissioned early in 2011 and investment in the plant will total EUR15m (£12.3m).
Alfa Laval has received an order for heat exchangers and various fluid handling and tank cleaning equipment to be used in the production of a health drink in India. The order value is around £43m and delivery is scheduled for 2010 and 2011.
KBR has won a contract by Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) to provide licensing, basic engineering and extended basic engineering, and technical consulting services for the development of a grassroots ammonia plant in Tres Lagoas, Brazil.
Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by GDF SUEZ to carry out the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) for the development of an onshore LNG plant and offshore gas gathering infrastructure. The project seeks to establish a national gas transportation network linking Cameroon’s offshore gas resources with the state-sanctioned onshore site near Kribi on the southern coastline of Cameroon.
KBR is to provide construction management services at the DuPont Tedlar production facility in Circleville, Ohio. Under the agreement, KBR will provide construction management, engineering design and other related services for DuPont.
Emerson Process Management and Korea South East Power Company (KOSEP) have signed a MoU to collaborate on modernising existing power plants and constructing new ones in Korea, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
KBR has been awarded a contract by Tierra Del Fuego Power and Chemical to provide licensing and process design for a grassroots ammonia plant in Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina. KBR will license its conventional ammonia technology for the anticipated 1,500 metric tons per day plant, which will produce high-yield fertiliser for the region. Work on the project is expected to begin in July 2010.
Sheffield Forgemasters has announced a £30m knowledge transfer package with India-based power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL). The 10-year partnership is to develop power generation forgings on the sub-continent, and will see state-run BHEL buy technology and engineering knowledge from the Sheffield-based manufacturer, which aims to increase its presence in India’s domestic market for turbine and power generation products.
Fluor Corp. has named as program management consultant (PMC) for the Shah Gas Development Project by Abu Dhabi Gas Development Co. Ltd, an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. operating company. Fluor will perform PMC services for the main process packages of the project and will oversee the overall programme. The project is located in Shah, about 220km southwest of Abu Dhabi city. Fluor booked the $160m contract value in Q2/10.
SOCAR & TURCAS Rafineri has awarded Foster Wheeler a FEED contract for its planned refinery to be built st the Petkim Petrokimya facilities at Aliaga, Turkey. The deal includes a license and basic design package for the delayed coker, which will use FW’s SYDECSM delayed coking technology. The facility will have a capacity of 214,000 barrels per stream day (BPSD) and will deliver naphtha and fuel oil to PETKİM for petrochemical use. Read more
Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by Sinopec Wuhan Co. for the design and supply of three circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generators for the Sinopec Wuhan Cogeneration Plant for the 800,000 ton/year Ethylene Project in central China’s Wuhan city. Commercial operation of the new steam generators is scheduled for Q2/12. FW will design and supply the three 80 MWe (gross megawatt electric) CFB steam generators and auxiliary equipment and provide site advisory services for the project. The CFB steam generators will be designed to burn coal and petroleum coke.
KBR has received final change order agreements with its JV partners Technip of France and JGC Corp. of Japan, for the Yemen LNG Plant. The $2bn-plus contract for this lump-sum turnkey project was first announced in 2005. Train 2 of the Yemen project achieved ready-for-start-up status on 12 March and care, custody and control of the project has been turned over to the client. KBR said the final change order agreements will generate it after tax income of around $27m.
The new UK government has halted an £80m loan to help Sheffield Forgemasters build steel components for next generation nuclear reactors. The finance was promised by the previous Labour government in March this year to help buy and install a 15,000-tonne forging press for developing large steel components for next generation nuclear reactors. The capability to make such components on an industrial level is only available at Japan Steel Works. Read more
CSO Technik has reported a contract to supply Roto-Sieve drum screens to the QingHe Wastewater Treatment Plant in Beijing, China. The QingHe plant (3,000,000 PE) will become the largest MBR plant in the world when it is completed with a capacity of 240,000 m3/d. 19 Drum screens are being supplied via Purac China to provide 1mm screening protection for the MBR plant in order to reduce operational maintenance and extend service life.
Decommissioning and demolition of a group of buildings and infrastructure at AWE Aldermaston has been completed by main contractor, Babcock Nuclear, part of the Babcock International group. The contract was worth £3.9M.
South West Water has approved the EZstrip maintain’in-place progressing cavity pump from NOV Mono for use at their waste water treatment plants. The pump design is claimed to reduce the maintenance time needed to replace a rotor, stator, coupling rod and drive train by up to 95%.
Aker Solutions has been awarded another subsea equipment contract by US independent oil and gas company Noble Energy Inc, this time to deliver subsea control equipment worth about NOK150m. Scope of work is engineering, manufacturing and delivery of a subsea controls distribution system, umbilical termination assemblies (UTA) and related equipment. The equipment will be used at Noble Energy’s Tamar project in the Mediterranean Sea.
Severn Trent Services-Apliclor is to design and install a disinfection system for the Iznajar Drinking Water Treatment Station, which serves the Spanish province of Cordoba. The system, which utilises Aquadiox generators to produce chlorine dioxide on site, is due to be completed by the end of 2010 – doubling water treatment capacity to 103,680 m/day. The Euro370,000 contract also includes upgrading the existing chlorine gas dosing equipment.
Saudi Cement is employing thermal imaging equipment from Thermoteknix at its Hofuf plant. The equipment is enabling the company to fully monitor two 10,000 tonnes/day kilns with six-stage preheaters via three Thermoteknix ThermaScope HTV cameras that provide live images of the burner pipe as well as the first and second stage coolers at the site. Read more
A programme of plant decommissioning, isolation, demolition and ground remediation recently reached a close at GrowHow UK Ltd’s Severnside site, under the guidance of project consultants CDM and coordinators RVA Group. Following this project, RVA has now been engaged by GrowHow to co-ordinate the dismantling and packaging of two remaining LCA (leading concept ammonia) plants and a utilities area, bought by a US firm for resale outside of the UK. Read more
Severn Trent Response, a JV between Severn Trent Services and the Response Group, has won a Euro60m, 20-year operations and maintenance contract for the Limerick Main Drainage Project in southwest Ireland. Operational takeover of the assets started in May. Read more
Foster Wheeler is to design, supply and provide site advisory services for two sets of solar steam generators (preheaters, kettle type evaporators, superheaters and reheaters) as well as low pressure and high pressure feedwater heaters. The contract was awarded by the project’s EPC contractor, a joint venture created by the Spanish companies SENER and COBRA. Read more
Terrane Metals Corp. has awarded British Columbia Mining Joint Venture – a 50:50 JV between Fluor Canada Ltd and AMEC Americas Ltd – a contract to perform engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for Terrane’s 100%-owned, Can$915m Mt. Milligan copper-gold project, about 150km northwest of Prince George, British Columbia. The contract covers EPCM services for a 60,000 tonnes/day copper flotation process plant, tailings storage facility, ancillary plant facilities, 92km of electric power transmission lines and a 600-person construction camp.
Invensys has signed a second long-term agreement with China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. (CNPE) to provide safety and DCS systems for two 650MW pressurised water reactor units under construction on Hainan Island, China. This follows an agreement between the companies in 2008 for the development and implementation of four large-scale DCS systems, including digitised main control rooms, equipped with Invensys safety and control system technology, for two nuclear power plants under construction in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.
INEOS Bio has been awarded a £7.3m grant from One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change for construction of Europe’s first advanced bioethanol from waste plant using the INEOS BioEnergy Process Technology. Read more
Alfa Laval has received orders “of record size” for its PureBallast systems from two shipyards in South Korea. The systems will be installed onboard 14 vessels built for A.P Møller - Maersk. The total order value is about SEK80m and delivery is scheduled for 2011 and 2012: the systems being installed onboard a series of container vessels that Korean shipyards are building for a Danish ship owner A.P. Møller - Maersk – the largest ship owner in the world.
An Aker Solutions-built semi-submersible platform is on its way from the yard at Stord for installation at the Gjøa oil and gas field offshore Norway. Production start-up is scheduled for Q4/10. It will be Statoil’s first floating platform supplied with power from shore and is expected to reduce carbon emissions by about 250ktpa. Gjøa is one of the largest ongoing field development projects in the North Sea.
Chelsea Technologies Group is providing crude oil tracking sensors to monitor the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Originally designed for military use, the submersible fluorimeters can monitor the concentration of refined (360nm) or crude hydrocarbons (440nm) in coastal, marine and fresh water applications. They can be deployed independently as well as from submersible vehicles, diver held, moored, profiled or as part of a flow through system.
Northumbrian Water Ltd (NWL) has managed to offset some of the impact of recent plant closures by its customers in the North East: securing a contract with the new owner of the Artenius site as well as a contract extension with a Corus business unit. Read more
Chesterfield BioGas (CBG) is to supply Centrica with one of the UK’s first biogas upgrading plants for the production of clean biomethane from waste for direct injection into the national gas grid. The order, worth over £0.6m, has resulted from a partnership between Centrica, Scotia Gas Networks and Thames Water to process the gas naturally produced by waste water at the Didcot Sewage Works. Read more
Keppel Seghers, the environmental technology division of Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited (KIE), has contracted Konecranes UK’s Industrial Crane Division to supply the cranes for the £233-million EPC contract to build an energy-from-waste CHP (combined heat and power) plant for the Greater Manchester region. The order totaling £4m is in two parts. Read more
Cheniere Energy Partners LP has approved the initiation of a project to add liquefaction services at the Sabine Pass LNG receiving terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Cheniere plans to work with Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals to design and construct the liquefaction facilities, using ConocoPhillips’ Optimized Cascade technology. Bechtel designed and built the original Sabine Pass terminal, one of the world’s largest facilities for receiving and regasifying LNG.
ABB has won a $155m contract from the Kuwait Oil Co. for a turnkey project to design a new crude-oil transit line and build and associated ancillary systems.The project includes the expansion of an existing manifold (a pipeline consolidation installation) at a location in the north of the country, and the installation of the new transit line. The 123 km, 30-inch-diameter transit line will run between oil fields in the north of the country and a storage facility in the south. Read more
Emerson Process Management is to modernise controls at Ekibastuz GRES-1, the largest thermal power plant in Kazakhstan, with its PlantWeb digital plant architecture and Ovation expert control system. The 4,000 MW facility produces 13% of the country’s power. The project is to help ensure the plant is operating efficiently so that it is better able to meet the growing electricity needs of Kazakhstan. Read more
Aggregate Industries has installed a new Linatex G4 rubber pump, which is designed to offer energy efficiency and maintenance benefits in slurry applications. The company has reported power consumption savings of 18% when processing coarse sand, and 44% for fine sand applications – compared to a previously used LP111r pump – equating to annual saving of around £2000 and £1500, respectively. Aggregate Industries has also noted reduced wear and maintenance issues.
Formosa Chemicals and Fiber Corp. has recently installed Honeywell’s OneWireless wireless technology to eliminate the need to take manual temperature measurements on three of its rotary machines at its rayon plants in Yilan, Taiwan. The system was also used to fix the deviation in infrared sensors it was experiencing due to weather changes.
Shell has taken an equity stake in Virent Energy Systems Inc. and begun a joint technology programme to convert plant sugars directly into diesel. Since 2007, Shell and Virent have been conducting a joint R&D effort culminating late last year in the start-up of a pilot plant. This effort will now be expanded to include research into the production of diesel. Virent’s BioForming process can convert non-food plant sugars directly and provide fuel with the same properties as conventional diesel.
Cocoa and chocolate products manufacturer Barry Callebaut has recently purchased a specially developed stainless steel Pure-Screen duplex filter system and frame from filtration company, Axium Process. The system is completely jacketed to ensure the product temperature will be maintained to close limits.
Masdar has appointed Total and Abengoa Solar as partners to own, build and operate Shams 1, the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant and the first of its kind in the Middle East. A JV between Masdar (60%), Total (20%) and Abengoa Solar (20%) will develop, build, operate and maintain the plant in Madinat Zayed, 120 km southwest of Abu Dhabi. Shams 1 will cover 2.5 km², with a capacity of about 100 MW and a solar field consisting of 768 parabolic trough collectors to be supplied by Abengoa Solar. Construction is to begin during Q3/10 and take around two years.
Finning (UK) Ltd has invested £170,000 in three new Thermo iCAP ICP fluid and condition monitoring equipment at its laboratory in Leeds. The kit is to help it’s fluid and condition monitoring service deliver faster, more accurate fluid data to customers; increasing its wear metal analysis capacity by 10% to 150,000 additional fluid samples per year.
Parker Hannifin and Hydrasun have signed a strategic partnership for the development, sales and support of fluid and gas handling and process control technologies. Aberdeen-based Hydrasun supplies fluid power and transfer products and is a designer and manufacturer obespoke connectors, assemblies and umbilicals.
ABB looks set to acquire Chloride, whose board has now backed its £860m offer for the company. The deal would combine Chloride’s position in the medium- to high-power UPS (uninterruptible power supplies) business with ABB’s global power and automation offerings for sectors including oil, gas, and petrochemicals. Chloride would join ABB’s Discrete Automation and Motion division.
Wood Group GTS has signed a multi-year agreement with Mass Global Investment Co. for operations & maintenance of the Solymaniah Power Facility, located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The 500-megawatt electric generation facility has four GE 9001 E combustion gas turbines in simple cycle configuration. This exclusive operations & maintenance (O&M) contract includes both transition and operational phase services, with an initial term of seven years.
Bayer - through its Bayer MaterialScience and Bayer Technology Services units - RWE Power AG and RWTH Aachen University are working jointly on a project, called “Dream Production”, to turn carbon dioxide emissions into polymers. Read more
Yokogawa UK has won a “major” contract from Orbital Gas Systems for pressure and temperature transmitters for use on the National Grid gas network. The contract covers the supply of 350 EJX pressure transmitters and 80 YTA temperature transmitters for major upgrades to the UK’s National Transmission System (NTS): the high pressure part of the UK’s natural gas transmission network, consisting of more than 7400 km of pipeline operating at up to 85 bar. Read more
The Environment Agency has approved CEMARS, the chosen certification standard for Achilles’ carbonReduction programme, as an Early Action Metric in the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. Achilles claims the decision puts the “programme at the forefront of credible carbon measurement, management and reduction in the UK.” The CEMARS standard provides certification to ISO14064 Part 1, the company also noted.
Finning has recently signed a three-year service support-led deal for nine items of Caterpillar equipment worth over £1m, with Raymond Brown Group for use in its construction, minerals and recycling divisions. The deal includes five Cat 320DL excavators, two Cat 962H wheel loaders, one Cat 966H wheel loader and a Cat M318DL Material handler, with a guaranteed three year uptime promise for every machine.
Shell Exploration and Production has awarded a five-year condition monitoring (CM) contract to AV Technology, an Independent industrial consultancy based in Handforth, Cheshire. The deal covers the provision of CM consultancy, training and equipment to ten offshore platforms and three onshore terminals located throughout the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), mainland UK and Ireland. Read more
Chemineer has reported that five of its agitators have successfully completed trials at a major pharma company’s pilot plant in Singapore. For gas dispersion and reincorporation of gas from head space, one agitator had three up-pumping Maxflow-W impellers. Other designs included two high efficiency impellers with a low level operation that were designed to avoid the bottom outlet valve.
DPS (Bristol) Ltd is to act as FPSO consultancy to ONGC of India for a proposed D-1 marginal field FPSO. The D-1 field is 200km west of Mumbai and currently under production through an MOPU-based Early Production System. ONGC aims to install three new well platforms, drill extra wells and lay pipelines and subsea manifolds. DPS will initially help it select an FPSO configuration, prepare a technical bid package, and subsequently interface between ONGC, the contractor, classification society, regulatory authorities and other agencies on the FPSO project.
Green Biologics Ltd, an Oxford-based technology provider for bio-butanol production, has completed an investment round of £4.9 million to roll out its technology and commercialisation plans. The company develops retrofit packages to convert ethanol plants to bio-butanol and with fermentation and process technology solutions for existing and new-build bio-butanol plants. Read more
Honeywell is to upgrade operational safety at a major ethylene plant operated by Noretyl AS, part of INEOS. The scope of work includes the immediate installation of four Safety Manager systems and three redundant C300 controllers at the plant in Rafnes, Norway. Honeywell will also provide local services and support and eventually will replace all the plant’s remaining, ageing safety systems. Read more
Shell is to acquire subsidiaries which own substantially all of the business of East Resources, Inc. for $4.7 billion, from East Resources, its private equity investor, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and its advisors Jefferies & Co. The deal is subject to certain regulatory approvals. Read more
Air Liquide is to invest Euro25m in a new air separation unit (ASU) for Dongbei Special Steel Group in Dalian, China. The new ASU will have a production capacity of about 800 tonnes of oxygen per day, to supply oxygen and nitrogen. It follows a first long-term gas supply contract signed in 2007. Commissioning of the new unit is due in Q3/11. Plant operation teams will be from Air Liquide China, while the ASU will be designed and manufactured by Air Liquide Hangzhou, Air Liquide’s Engineering centre in China. Dongbei Special Steel has a total special steels capacity of around 3300ktpa.
Cameron has developed an automated Jiskoot Fast Loop sampling system under a technical cooperation deal with Petrobras for use in a 20in multi-product pipeline in Brazil. The system is designed for unmanned multi-batch collection of representative batch and spot samples of refined fuels for lab analysis. It can take up to 10 composite or intermediate samples while monitoring performance dynamically using weighing systems, using NeSSi technology to minimise the risk of intra-sample contamination combined with a pressurised, volume burst, inert purging system. A Petrobras DCS system is connected to the Jiskoot Controller via Modbus to provide SCADA operation.
Fluor Corp. has reached mechanical completion on Renewable Energy Corp.’s Silicon IV silane gas plant for its Moses Lake Expansion Project in eastern Washington state, about 100 miles southwest of Spokane. The Silicon IV silane gas plant is currently in a testing and commissioning phase in preparation for production start-up. When completed, the silane processing plant will provide silane gas for the production of high-grade polysilicon for use in solar panel manufacturing.
Foster Wheeler has been awarded a feasibility study and FEED contract by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil for a new grassroots refinery at Nassiriya in southern Iraq. The proposed refinery will have a capacity of 300,000 barrels per day. FW will develop the configuration of the new refinery to meet the client’s processing objectives, evaluate proprietary technologies, prepare a report covering the feasibility of the project and the design basis of the refinery facilities, engage the selected licensors and prepare the front-end engineering design package for the total project.
Fluor Corp. has won a contract with Rentech Inc. to provide FEED services for the Rialto Renewable Energy Center, near Los Angeles. The project, which will use green urban waste as feedstock, is among the first commercial biomass gasification facilities in the US to co-produce renewable electric power and synthetic diesel fuel. It will produce about 35MW of base-load renewable electricity and 640 barrels-per-day of fuels from urban woody green waste. Fluor has executed over 20 gasification projects globally, 150 gasification feasibility studies and also helped to develop the major Fischer-Tropsch plants in operation today.
KBR has been awarded a contract by Jilin Connell Chemical Industry Co. Ltd to provide licensing and related services for its grassroots aniline plant in Jilin City, China. The aniline technology is offered by KBR through a licensing alliance with DuPont. KBR will license this leading technology for Connell’s 150ktpa aniline plant, which will enable it to double its existing production capacity at this site. KBR will also provide basic engineering, training and field support services. This award follows the successful licensing by KBR of two aniline plants in China. Work on the project is already underway.
KBR has won a contract by Houston-based FPR Inc. to provide design and early engineering services for the development of the Araromi Refinery Project in Nigeria. KBR will execute the services for a low complexity 160,000 barrels per day (B/d) greenfield refinery and marine facility estimated in excess of $3bn. The refinery will produce motor gasoline, automotive gas oil, kerosene and jet fuel. The contract was awarded under an agreement under which both firms anticipate executing various phases of the project, including EPC-GM and operation and maintenance. The project will be developed in phases, with an ultimate capacity of 320,000b/d with a full petrochemical complex.
Foster Wheeler has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) services contract by Société Nationale de Raffinage (SONARA) for phase 1 of the Limbé Refinery upgrade and modernization project in Cameroon. FW has already completed the front-end engineering design for the entire project. phase 1 includes the revamp of the existing crude distillation unit, addition of a new vacuum distillation unit, new catalytic reformer unit, and power generation and associated offsites and utilities facilities.
Aker Solutions has signed an $18m contract with Ilim Group to supply an integrated chlorine dioxide plant for Ilim’s pulp mill project in Bratsk, Russia. The contract covers the supply of technology, engineering, equipment, site and commissioning services from Aker’s office in Vancouver, Canada, with support from its office in Moscow. Read more
Technology company Novozymes, COFCO, a producer of processed agricultural products, and Sinopec are to build a demonstration cellulosic biofuel plant in China. Novozymes will supply with enzymes for the unit, which is to start up in Q3/11, producing 3m gallons of bioethanol made from corn stover a year. It will be the largest demo facility converting agricultural waste into biofuel in China.
Aker Solutions has won two contracts, together worth $180m, from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd (DSME) in South Korea for the delivery of two drilling equipment packages. It is to deliver complete drilling equipment packages consisting of equipment deliveries and commissioning services, while DSME will manufacture both units in South Korea. Delivery is due in H1/12.
Industrial door maker Stertil Stokvis is to supply more than 250 doors and shutters to two waste management projects in a contract worth nearly £1.5m. Waste 2 Resourcesis constructing two waste treatment facilities in Leyland and Thornton in Lancashire in partnership with waste processing company Global Renewables.
UK company ENER-G Energia Technologia has designed and built a Euro2.6m renewable energy centre at the Budapest wastewater treatment plant in Csepel - as part of the Living Danube programme. ENER-G has installed a 4.5MWe biogas cogeneration system, together with three 2.5MW Loos boilers for additional hot water generation using natural gas, or biogas. The company also manages the operations and maintenance services. Read more
Hungarian ice cream manufacturer Magic Ice has substantially increased productivity through the installation of a Verderflex Smart F30 tube pump, which can double production by accommodating several pump heads. Currently Magic Ice has a twin head Verderflex Smart F30 on its production line. The pump, however, can be expanded up to four heads, providing the potential for future expansion. Read more
Foster Wheeler, ENDESA and Spanish body Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN) have signed a grant agreement with the European Commission (EC) for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology development in Spain. The 300 MWe oxy-combustion power plant is to receive Euro180m of EU funding under the EC’s European Energy Program for Recovery. Read more
GEA Niro has recently won a contract “worth several million Euro” with Dao Heuang Group in Laos for the delivery of a complete instant coffee processing line. It will produce 3,000 tons of instant coffee annually and is due to start operation in November 2011. GEA Niro is to supply two extraction lines, evaporators, aroma recovery plant, a spray dryer, an agglomerator and an extendable continuous freeze drying plant.
Foster Wheeler has announced the start of commercial operation of a large-scale, 125MWe, circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) boiler island delivered to Kaukaan Voima Oy, in Finland. The new biomass unit fires a combination of biomass and peat and has the capability to fully fire either fuel, supplying process steam and electricity to the adjacent UPM-Kymmene Corp.’s pulp and paper mill, as well as electricity and district heat to the city of Lappeenranta. Read more
France’s Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) is to partially fund the Euro54m France Nord carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. A consortium of EU manufacturers and research bodies will examine the feasibility of installing a CCS demo facility in a sedimentary basin in northern France. Detailed studies will be conducted to select a suitable geological site for storing the CO2 in deep saline aquifers and to identify the appropriate infrastructure necessary to transport CO2 from industrial facilities.
Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group Co. has opted to use Arkema technology at two new plants to be located in Xining City, China. Under an agreement reached with Arkema in 2008, Aker Solutions will prepare the basic engineering for the 230ktpa suspension polymerisation plant and 35ktpa emulsion process plant.
Borouge and Linde Group have formally signed a $1.075bn contract to establish a 1500ktpa ethane cracker at Borouge’s production site in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi. The cracker, the third of its kind to be built by Linde for Borouge in a decade, complements the existing 600ktpa and planned 1500ktpa ethane crackers at the site. On completion, ADNOC/Borealis JV Borouge will have the world’s largest ethane cracker complex.
Siemens Water Technologies will provide its Zimpro wet air oxidation technology at PetroChina’s Daqing ethylene plant projects in Heilongjiang Province, China. A system will treat sulfidic spent caustic wastewater streams from the production of ethylene; destroying odorous sulfide pollutants and generating a biodegradable effluent that can be discharged to conventional wastewater treatment. The Daqing system will treat about 22.7 m3/h of wastewater.
North East food manufacturer Longbenton Foods is creating 314 jobs as it continues a multi-million pound recovery. The former Findus factory at Longbenton was forced to lay off its entire 420-strong workforce after a devastating fire there early last year. Read more
Jams, marmalades and honeys producer Duerr’s has recently commissioned Denca Controls Ltd of Widnes, Cheshire, to upgrade its honey processing production line. The project followed the addition of a second melting chamber to increase capacity at the plant. Read more
Lanemark International Ltd has installed a second oven retrofit heating system at BG Penny & Co. Ltd, a powder coating subcontractor to a range of industries. The project follows a previous Lanemark installation at the Coventry site and is set to repeat the enhanced performance via high levels of control and reliability. Read more
PROjEN’s capital/energy management services are helping GlaxoSmithKline to exceed energy reduction targets at its Stevenage chemistry pilot plant. Between May 2009 and April 2010 the unit’s energy requirements fell by 56 million kWh – saving £250k and 1,600 tonnes of CO2. Critical Peak Pricing (CPP) is now 6% ahead of GSK’s target of a 20% cut in energy usage by the end of 2010. PROjEN is also helping GSK meet a target of a 45% reduction by 2015.
Fluor Corp. has won a series of contracts from a Ma’aden/Alcoa JV to provide program management consultancy and engineering, procurement and construction management services for a number of projects related to the development of the integrated Ras Az’Zawr aluminum complex. The $11bn super-project will include a bauxite mine, alumina refinery, aluminum smelter and rolling mill. Fluor expects to book about $3bn in Q2/10. Read more
Occidental of Elk Hills Inc. has awarded a CB&I project, worth over $280m for a new gas processing plant at the Elk Hills oil and gas field in Central California. CB&I’s scope of work includes the EPC of the 200m cubic foot per day natural gas processing plant, including fractionation, storage tanks and export pipelines. In addition, CB&I’s Lummus Technology sector is providing proprietary NGL-MaxSM recovery technology. The project is scheduled for completion in H1/12.
The Enfield depot of family baker Warburtons has recently added a pallet lift installation from Tecmach to enable operators to process heavy batches of raw ingredients more efficiently, whilst removing the risk of injury. Read more
Imtech NV has been selected by the Dutch Province of Limburg to establish two sustainable power plants at the ’Klavertje 4 / Greenport’ site in Venlo and the ’Belvedère’ site in Maastricht. The power plants, which represent a combined investment of Euro140 million, will generate electricity equivalent to the needs of 65,000 households. Read more
Bechtel has installed a 45-tonne shield door at the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) site in Hanford, Washington. The door, in the WTP’s High-Level Waste Vitrification Facility, was installed to tolerances down to 0.13 millimeters. It is one of six doors that Bechtel will install at WTP. Bechtel is designing and building WTP, the world’s largest radioactive waste treatment plant, for the US Department of Energy. The plant is to begin operating in 2019.
Eni has awarded Technip a contract for the Kitan field development project - in 350 meters of water, in an area of the Timor Sea jointly administered by Timor-Leste and Australia. The contract covers project management and engineering, supply and installation of 23 kilometers of flowlines and risers, and installation of the umbilical system.
J P Kenny is to carry out FEED work for the subsea Julimar Development Project, offshore Western Australia. Apache has a 65% operating interest in the project, with Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. owning the remaining 35%.The contract includes up to 18 subsea wells plus completions, tied back to the Wheatstone Central Processing Platform. Three fields – Julimar, Brunello and Grange, containing around 2.1 trillion cubic feet of gas - are to be developed as feedstock for the Chevron-led Wheatstone LNG project. Phase I is due by October, and the second FEED phase by June 2011.
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has engaged SmartSignal Corp. to install its SmartSignal EPI*Center Predictive Analytic software to protect SSE’s entire large thermal fleet. SmartSignal will be monitoring all 6.5 GW at all SSE coal and CCGT plants in the UK. In addition, SSE will be using SmartSignal’s xConnector. Read more
Invensys has won a $12.4m contract to upgrade and modernise a distributed control system for Malaysia Liquefied Natural Gas Sdn Bhd. The Bintulu LNG Complex houses the MLNG, MLNG Dua and MLNG Tiga plants, and it is currently one of the world’s largest LNG production facilities from a single location. Read more
Over the years, Cotto Tiles has tried chemical additives and a range of electronic and wrap-around water conditioners, but nothing was able to stop a 10mm build up of scale in the pipes which reduced the water flow. It was also effecting production as moulds could not cool properly. Fluid Dynamics International identified oil in the system and proposed a radical solution combining two of its technologies. Read more
Technip has signed a deal, worth about €30 million, with Statoil ASA for the fabrication and installation of a pipe-in-pipe flowline to support the Marulk field development in the Norwegian Sea, 30 km southwest of the Norne field. Statoil is carrying out parts of the Marulk development project on behalf of the operator Eni. The initial development will consist of two wells tied back to the Norne FPSO.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. ( NNPC) and China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd (CSCEC) are to jointly establish three greenfield refineries and a petrochemicals complex at various locations in Nigeria. The partners are to seek an estimated $23bn in contractor financing and supplier credits from the China Export & Credit Insurance Corp., SINOSURE, and a consortium of Chinese Banks. Read more
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has won a contract from ICA Construcciones Pesadas to provide detail engineering services for a waste water treatment plant in Zapopan, Mexico. The plant will process most of the waste water produced by the cities of Guadalajara, Tonala and Zapopan in Jalisco, encompassing a population of over four million.
A biogas recovery and electricity generation project in Honduras has employed hand-held analysers from Gas Data to check on methane-rich biogas being emitting into the atmosphere from eight open wastewater treatment lagoons. Read more
Schaeffler (UK) Ltd has completed the removal and replacement of a drive end bearing on the pipe storage and deployment reel on a Subsea 7 pipe-lay vessel, the ’Seven Navica’. The replacement required Schaeffler engineers to conduct a survey on the condition of the bearing before removing the existing bearing from the starboard side of the main reel, and then replacing this with a new bearing, mounted in the existing pedestal housing. Read more
US-based fruit juice producer Cliffstar Corp. has increase the efficiency of its juice manufacturing facilities follwing the implemented of GE Intelligent Platform’s Proficy production software suite.
Qatar Petroleum, on behalf of the Government of the State of Qatar has signed a 30-year exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA) with Shell and PetroChina for Qatar Block D. Read more
Dubai Aluminum Co. Ltd has cut energy use ’by 13%’ following the installation of a wireless network at its site in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. The Emerson system was required to manage an increasing demand for compressed air in each of the seven plant areas at the facility - one of the world’s largest aluminium smelters. Read more
SKF has won a five-year contract with Metso Lindemann, a supplier of equipment, services and process solutions, to manage its worldwide wear and spare parts warehouse and distribution operations. The agreement will see SKF supplying Metso Lindemann’s customers in the mining, construction, power generation, oil & gas, recycling and pulp & paper industries worldwide, on a daily basis, from a central distribution centre in Tongeren, Belgium.
The Venezuelan government has recently awarded a consortium a 40% stake in a company to carry out the $20bn Carabobo-1 project, in the country’s Orinoco region. The consortium comprises ONGC Videsh Ltd (11%), Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (3.5%), Oil India Ltd (3.5%), Repsol YPF (11%) and PETRONAS (11%). Read more
Santos has selected Fluor Corp. as the preferred contractor for EPC work on the upstream facilities component of the Gladstone LNG project in Australia. In anticipation of awarding a full EPC contract, Santos, in the interim, has extended Fluor’s current engineering design contract to include early works activities. Fluor will book around $45m in Q2/10 with a full EPC contract award expected later in 2010.
Jiskoot, part of Cameron’s Measurement Systems Division, has employed Burkert’s ex-proof AirLINE Ex 8650 system, working in conjunction with modules from the intrinsically safe Siemens SIMATIC ET 200iSPTM system, in a recent North Sea project. Read more
Impress, one of Europe’s leading metal packaging firms, has installed pedestrian and vehicle barrier systems from A-Safe at its Merthyr Tydfil site. Halifax-based A-Safe’s extruded polymer barriers are designed to withstand an impact of up to 304KN and have been certified BS6180 and BS6399.
Indian Oil Corp. has started up a new naphtha cracker at Panipat – the largest such facility in India. Naphtha for the unit is being sourced from IndianOil’s Koyali, Panipat and Mathura refineries. The cracker will produce over 800ktpa of ethylene, 600ktpa of propylene, 125ktpa of benzene, and other products. It will serve downstream units for - polypropylene (600ktpa), high density polyethylene (300ktpa) and linear low density polyethylene (350 ktpa swing unit with HDPE), monoethyleneglycol (325ktpa).
Jee Ltd, a pipeline, riser and subsea engineering firm, has been awarded a three-year contract extension, with a further optional two years, for the integrity management of Perenco’s 1600km of pipelines and umbilicals in the southern North Sea. The contract covers risk-based inspection planning, technical integrity assessment, development and prioritisation of preventative and remedial activities, and representation to government authorities.
Xstrata AlloysRhovan has installed a Verderflex peristaltic pump within the precipitation plant at its South African mining site which extracts vanadium, a metal whose principle use is for strengthening steel. The VF40 has been employed to pump abrasive mining slurry at 6 – 8 m3/hour, a medium with 60% solid content. The pumps regularly handle slurries with sub-micron content in excess of 80% and with a specific gravity rating of more than 2.0.
Danish group Topsoe is to help design of the world’s first plant for producing substitute natural gas (SNG) from biomass. The complete process includes biomass gasification, tar scrubbing, gas conditioning and methanation, resulting in a green gas for the gas grid. Topsoe will contribute with the gas conditioning and methanation technologies. Read more
Selby Renewable Energy Park has appointed Entec Biogas GmbH as its technology provider for the UK’s largest anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. The unit is being established at the site of a former Tate & Lyle citric acid plant in Selby. Read more
Auma UK has reported an expanding client base for ITT’s sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) incorporating AUMA actuator technology. Latest installations, it said, include wastewater treatment works in Oman, Qatar and Ireland. Read more
Jordanian manufacturer Jordan Advanced Machining Co. has cut production time on a project by half after receiving expert assistance from Dormer Tools International, based in Yorkshire. Read more
Severn Trent Water is saving around £100,000 per year on energy costs following the installation of ABB variable speed drives at its Wanlip Sewage Treatment Works in Leicestershire. Read more
Arkema and Daikin have started up a HFC-125 production plant built at the Changshu site, China, as part of the Arkema Daikin Advanced Fluorochemicals Co. Ltd JV (ADAF) – owned 60 % by Arkema and 40 % by Daikin. HFC-125, with HFC-32, is a component in new-generation refrigerant blends such as R-410A which replaces HCFC-22.
Pemex Refinacion and Haldor Topsøe have signed a contract for the modernisation of eight existing diesel hydrotreaters and licensing of one new diesel hydrotreater at the Pemex Tula and Salamanca Refineries in Mexico. The redesign will enable Pemex to supply the market with ultra low sulphur diesel with less than 15 wt ppm from the Tula and Salamanca refineries. Danish group Topsøe said its new TK BRIM catalysts will provide Pemex with operational and cost benefits.
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has upgraded its water treatment monitoring systems to ABB’s new Aztec 600 colorimetric range. The new systems have been installed at nine water treatment works, where utility is monitoring aluminium and iron using the Aztec 600 series, as well as phosphate, manganese and nitrate levels using Aztec 1000 units. Read more
UK fertiliser manufacturer GrowHow is upgrading the emergency shutdown system (ESD) at its Teesside Billingham chemical plant. Hima-Sella has been selected to establish a TÜV-certified HIQuad H51qHS system at the facility, which produces and stores ammonia, nitric acid and ammonium nitrate. Read more
ABB is to supply two new substations and expand two existing substations for Transmissora Delmiro Gouveia (TDG), which is jointly owned by the Brazilian state utility CHESF and engineering concern ATP Engenharia. TDG is investing around $130m in these substations, and ABB has been assigned a significant portion. ABB will deliver one of the largest transformers ever built in Brazil for the project.
Fluor Corp. has won an engineering and limited procurement contract for Newmont Mining’s Minas Conga project in Peru. The company booked about $170m for the current stage 4 portion of the project, having completed stage 3. The award covers select activities through Q2/11, including overall engineering, procurement and construction management services for the project. It will focus mainly on the copper concentrator and associated mining facilities at the project.
Clyde Process Solutions has gained £1.1m worth of orders for its European operation. A £0.8m contract involves the supply of storage silos, pneumatic conveying systems, bag dischargers and dosing injection systems to a UK waste recycling provider. The project will be commissioned by CPS in two phases and is due for completion in March 2011. Read more
Engineering companies are picking up some encouraging signals from across the process sector, but going on their latest financial statements very few of the major players are betting on a significant upturn over the next 12 months. Read more
BP has selected Emerson’s METCO Services unit as its single-source provider for offshore and onshore measurement audits and for onshore contract measurement engineering support of BP installations in the UK. The company will also provide operational support to the existing BP Measurement engineering team. Read more
Rotork Fluid Systems has completed a project to retrofit improved partial stroke testing capabilities on heavy duty pneumatic valve actuators installed at the Raffineria Milazzo refinery in Sicily. The 212-hectare site is said to be one of the most complex refinery facilities in Europe, producing high quality, low sulphur products. Read more
Air Liquide has been awarded a contract by RasGas Co. Ltd, on behalf of Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co. Ltd and Qatargas Liquefied Gas Co., for a large turn-key helium extraction, purification and liquefaction unit to be installed in Ras Laffan, Qatar. Read more
ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. ) has awarded Samsung Engineering a $1.5bn gas development contract covering petrochemical and refinery projects and gas processing and fertiliser facilities. The UAE major has now awarded a total of three contracts worth $5.4bn awarded to Samsung in the past six months. Read more
Agricultural chemicals company Nufarm UK Ltd is nearing completion of a project to decommission and clear its 12 acre site in Belvedere, Kent following the relocation of its UK operation to West Yorkshire. Read more
Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Co. has selected Aker Solutions as its contractor for the detailed engineering of the Kebabangan Northern Hub development project located in the South China Sea, 130km offshore Sabah in East Malaysia. The four-year, NOK170m contract covers detailed design and engineering support through to the start up phase of project.
Lion Oil is using Emerson’s Smart Wireless technology to check product inventory, prevent overfill and remediation costs, monitor UPS power for the radio tower, and monitor safety shower use in areas over 1,600 feet from the control room at its El Dorado, Arkansas facility. Read more
Hyderabad, India-based IT services provider Mahindra Satyam has signed a three-year off-shoring deal with BASF IT Services – a BASF Group company and one of the leading IT service providers for the process industries. The contract is to enhance BASF’s capacity to provide managed services for the company’s extensive installed base of SAP, messaging and groupware as well as user administration.
Farmer-owned dairy business Milk Link has awarded Culina Logistics a contract to provide national distribution and warehousing for its chilled cheese, butter and milk-finished goods. Culina will collect more than 400 finished product line, with picked orders subsequently being delivered to retailers, food processors and food service organisations across the UK.
One of the largest asbestos removal projects in Europe has just been completed as part of decommissioning the Calder Hall nuclear power station at Sellafield. The £26m project to strip asbestos cladding from the heat exchangers, turbine halls and associated plant was completed on 23 March. Read more
Vattenfall has recently opened a new straw-burning unit at the Fynsværket power plant in Odense, Denmark. More than 300k large bales of straw will be burnt in Fynsværket’s new large boiler every year, replacing the use of approx. 100ktpa of coal. Vattenfall has set a target for its Nordic operations to become CO2-neutral by 2030.
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