TETRA TECH AWARDED US$7M WATER CONTRACTS

TETRA TECH AWARDED US$7M WATER CONTRACTS

MARKET PROSPECTS Filtration Industry Analyst The contract, worth about 100 million to TechnipCoflexip, is for Pars Petrochemical Co, a wholly owned...

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MARKET PROSPECTS

Filtration Industry Analyst

The contract, worth about 100 million to TechnipCoflexip, is for Pars Petrochemical Co, a wholly owned affiliate of the National Petrochemical Co of Iran. Technip-Coflexip and Nargan will carry out the basic and detail engineering, procurement of equipment and materials as well as construction, commissioning and startup for a 300 000-ton-per-year low density polyethylene unit using Stamicarbon technology. Technip-Coflexip’s engineering centre in Lyon, France will execute the project in collaboration with Nargan, an Iranian engineering company based in Teheran in which Technip-Coflexip has a 20% stake. Work is scheduled to be completed in 34 months.

POWER GENERATION HYUNDAI WINS CONTRACT FOR DIESEL POWER PLANT Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has received a US$60 million turnkey order from Barbados Light and Power Company (BLPC) in Barbados for construction of a 60-MW diesel power plant. HHI will perform all work related to the construction, such as installation and testruns, as well as engineering work and machinery material manufacturing. Completion is expected by September 2004.

FW AWARDED COGENERATION PLANT ORDER Foster Wheeler Italiana SpA has been awarded a US$113 million contract by Voghera Energia Srl for a grassroots combined-cycle cogeneration plant to be built at Voghera, near Pavia, in Italy.

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The natural-gas-fired power station consists of a single-shaft gas turbine and steam turbine generator, heat recovery steam generator and balance of plant facilities. Foster Wheeler will provide engineering, material supply, construction, coordination of pre-commissioning, commissioning and testing for the turnkey plant. Operation is scheduled to begin at the end of 2004.

VA TECH’S COOLKEERAGH PROJECT GETS GREEN LIGHT

also includes an engineering package as well as a study of the plant for a future increased production. Start-up is planned for mid-September 2003.

WATER & WASTEWATER EIB LOAN TO FINANCE SPANISH TREATMENT WORKS

PULP & PAPER

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide a 91 million loan to Canal de Isabel II to finance construction of wastewater treatment facilities in the Madrid Region, as well as the rehabilitation of a water reservoir below the Plaza de Castilla, in the north of the city. Canal de Isabel II is the Community of Madrid’s company responsible for managing the water cycle in the region. The project comprises the construction of 73 new wastewater treatment plants, the expansion and rehabilitation of two existing plants, and the building of 172 kilometres of sewage collectors and 10 pumping stations. These works form part of Madrid’s Regional Sanitation Plan, which aims to treat 100% of the local municipalities’ wastewater by 2003.

KVAERNER SECURES RECAUSTICIZING CONTRACT

BLACK & VEATCH PROVIDES WATER SERVICES TO OHIO

Kvaerner Pulping’s Fiberline Division has been awarded the contract to upgrade and increase the capacity of the existing recausticizing plant at SCP Ruzomberok in Slovakia. The delivery will include a new lime mud filter, lime conveyors, converting of the existing lime mud filter to a dregs filter and a new causticizer. Kvaerner’s scope of supply

Black & Veatch Corp has been awarded a US$35 million contract to provide integrated programme management and design services for a 15-year capital improvement programme that will bring Toledo’s wastewater and combined sewer systems into compliance with federal and state regulations. The company will oversee Toledo’s US$430 million,

A consortium comprising VA Tech Hydro, Combined Cycle and General Electric has been awarded a contract valued at 180 million by Coolkeeragh ESB to build a new combined cycle power plant near Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Work will entail engineering of the entire plant, the manufacture and installation of a gas turbine, a steam turbine, a heat recovery generator, associated civil works and all ancillary plant works and services. The new plant is expected to become fully operational in early 2005.

two-phase Bay View Wastewater Treatment Plant and Collection System Program. Black & Veatch is leading a team of national and local firms in providing planning, regulatory coordination, design and construction management services aimed at abating the chronic sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) that impact local waterways during periods of heavy rain. Specific tasks include system-wide monitoring and modelling; analysis of technology and management alternatives; financial analyses; development of a system-wide, longterm control plan; design of recommended CSO improvements; upgrade of the Bay View wastewater treatment facility; regulatory compliance; and overseeing public involvement and public relations.

TETRA TECH AWARDED US$7M WATER CONTRACTS Tetra Tech has been awarded new water infrastructure contracts valued at around US$7 million from local agencies to upgrade water treatment plants in the city of North Miami Beach and in DeSoto County, Florida, and in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Tetra Tech is designing improvements to both of Atlanta’s surface water treatment plants, one of which is the largest surface water processing facility in the southeastern US. For North Miami Beach, Tetra Tech will integrate innovative reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, lime softening, and direct filtration technologies into a cost-effective 31 million-gallons-per-day water treatment facility. In DeSoto County, Tetra Tech was awarded a comprehensive countywide water quality improvement programme.