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manage the overall programme together in a single vertically integrated team. Scottish Water Solutions will deliver Scottish Water’s capital investment programme to 2006. The work involves more than 1500 projects which will form the basis for upgrading Scotland’s water and sewerage networks and facilities to improve the quality of drinking water and the aquatic environment. This includes building and upgrading water and wastewater treatment works, and carrying out water distribution and sewer renewal throughout Scotland.
PEAB TO BUILD SWEDISH WATER WORKS Peab has secured a SKr200 million contract to build two new water works in Uppsala, Sweden. Under the contract, Peab will also build a 2.4 km main water pipeline. Work on the project has already started and the water works are expected to be ready during autumn 2005.
OIL & GAS ALLIANCE TARGETS IRAQ OPPORTUNITIES The Shaw Group Inc has formed an alliance with AlKhudhairy Group, one of Iraq’s largest construction firms, to undertake major reconstruction projects in the country. This newly formed alliance is actively pursuing opportunities with US and Iraqi agencies involved in reconstruction activities. One example is Team4IRAQ, a US–UK–Iraq joint venture between Shaw, Al-Khudhairy, CSC’s Dyncorp International and John Wood Group plc. Team4IRAQ recently submitted a proposal in
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response to a solicitation from the US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District for Repair and Continuity Operations of Iraq Oil Infrastructure.
NEW DANISH NATURAL GAS PIPELINE TO THE NETHERLANDS AP Møller – Mærsk, Shell, Texaco and DONG are to establish a natural gas pipeline between the Tyra facilities in the Danish North Sea and the NOGAT pipeline system in the Dutch North Sea. The new DKr1 billion pipeline, In Den Helder, will connect the Tyra facilities with the Dutch gas grid via the NOGAT system. The 100 km pipeline, which will pass through Danish, German and Dutch waters, is expected to be fully operational in Autumn 2004.
UNOCAL PLANS TO DOUBLE ITS THAI OIL PRODUCTION Unocal Thailand Ltd is looking for Thai government approval for the second phase of its oil development in Thailand, which would double current gross oil production from the offshore Gulf of Thailand Yala and Plamuk fields to 40 000 barrels per day. The company said that the resource potential has more than doubled since Phase 1 started in 2001 and is now approaching 100 million barrels of oil. Unocal expects to be able to add to the resource base in the future through additional delineation drilling and through improved recovery efficiencies. The first phase of Unocal Thailand’s oil development from the Platong, Yala, Surat,
and Plamuk fields is currently producing more than 20 000 barrels of oil. The Phase 2 development will include facilities and wells that will bring oil rates to 40 000 barrels per day. Current plans are to have the new facilities installed by mid-2005, with start-up soon after.
AIR PRODUCTS TO BUILD, OPERATE SWISS HYDROGEN PLANT Air Products and Chemicals Inc has signed a long-term hydrogen supply agreement with Petroplus Refining Cressier SA to build, own and operate a 7 million standardcubic-feet-per-day hydrogen facility for Petroplus’s Cressier, Switzerland refinery. Air Products’ first Swiss hydrogen production facility will be on-stream in late 2004. It will provide the Cressier refinery with greater options in the supply of feedstock and the ability to meet tight European gasoline specifications that will come into force in 2005. This Swiss hydrogen facility is the 22nd to be built through an Air Products/ Technip alliance.
LINDE EXPANDS EASTERN EUROPEAN GAS BUSINESS Germany’s Linde AG is currently investing 100 million in three new air separation plants in Central and Eastern Europe. Linde Gas will operate each of these on-site plants at the sites of three major customers in the Czech Republic and Romania. With a total output of around 2000 tons of oxygen per day, the plants will supply major consumers with gaseous oxygen and nitrogen via a pipeline.
The largest of the three air separation plants is being installed by Linde Engineering in Vresova, Czech Republic, and will pipe oxygen and nitrogen to Sokolovská Uhelná from 2005. Another Linde air separation plant recently went into operation at the Kaucuk chemicals company near Prague. The third air separation plant is currently being installed by Linde Engineering at Gaz Romania SRL in Ramnicu Valcea, Romania.
JACOBS EXTENDS FIREBAG ROLE Jacobs Engineering Group Inc’s Canadian subsidiary will undertake front-end engineering work on Stage 3 of Suncor Energy Inc’s Firebag In-Situ Oil Sands Project. Jacobs currently provides detailed engineering and procurement services to Suncor for Stage 2 of the Firebag Project.
TECHNIP WINS GREEK REFINERY EXPANSION PROJECT Motor Oil Hellas SA has awarded Technip a lump sum turnkey contract worth more than 300 million for the addition of new process units and utilities at the company’s refinery in Corinth, Greece. The upgrade is designed to meet stringent EU specifications which come into force in January 2005. The main new process units are a 37 000 BPSD mild hydrocracker integrated with a 32 000 BPSD gas oil polishing unit, as well as a 65 000 Nm3/h hydrogen plant and a 70 t/d sulphur recovery unit. The project also includes revamping several process units, such as a vacuum distillation unit, a diesel hydro-desulfurization unit and important
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PEAB TO BUILD SWEDISH WATER WORKS Peab has secured a SKr200 million contract to build two new water works in Uppsala, Sweden. Under the contract, Peab will also build a 2.4 km main water pipeline. Work on the project has already started and the water works are expected to be ready during autumn 2005.
OIL & GAS ALLIANCE TARGETS IRAQ OPPORTUNITIES The Shaw Group Inc has formed an alliance with AlKhudhairy Group, one of Iraq’s largest construction firms, to undertake major reconstruction projects in the country. This newly formed alliance is actively pursuing opportunities with US and Iraqi agencies involved in reconstruction activities. One example is Team4IRAQ, a US–UK–Iraq joint venture between Shaw, Al-Khudhairy, CSC’s Dyncorp International and John Wood Group plc. Team4IRAQ recently submitted a proposal in
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response to a solicitation from the US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District for Repair and Continuity Operations of Iraq Oil Infrastructure.
NEW DANISH NATURAL GAS PIPELINE TO THE NETHERLANDS AP Møller – Mærsk, Shell, Texaco and DONG are to establish a natural gas pipeline between the Tyra facilities in the Danish North Sea and the NOGAT pipeline system in the Dutch North Sea. The new DKr1 billion pipeline, In Den Helder, will connect the Tyra facilities with the Dutch gas grid via the NOGAT system. The 100 km pipeline, which will pass through Danish, German and Dutch waters, is expected to be fully operational in Autumn 2004.
UNOCAL PLANS TO DOUBLE ITS THAI OIL PRODUCTION Unocal Thailand Ltd is looking for Thai government approval for the second phase of its oil development in Thailand, which would double current gross oil production from the offshore Gulf of Thailand Yala and Plamuk fields to 40 000 barrels per day. The company said that the resource potential has more than doubled since Phase 1 started in 2001 and is now approaching 100 million barrels of oil. Unocal expects to be able to add to the resource base in the future through additional delineation drilling and through improved recovery efficiencies. The first phase of Unocal Thailand’s oil development from the Platong, Yala, Surat,
and Plamuk fields is currently producing more than 20 000 barrels of oil. The Phase 2 development will include facilities and wells that will bring oil rates to 40 000 barrels per day. Current plans are to have the new facilities installed by mid-2005, with start-up soon after.
AIR PRODUCTS TO BUILD, OPERATE SWISS HYDROGEN PLANT Air Products and Chemicals Inc has signed a long-term hydrogen supply agreement with Petroplus Refining Cressier SA to build, own and operate a 7 million standardcubic-feet-per-day hydrogen facility for Petroplus’s Cressier, Switzerland refinery. Air Products’ first Swiss hydrogen production facility will be on-stream in late 2004. It will provide the Cressier refinery with greater options in the supply of feedstock and the ability to meet tight European gasoline specifications that will come into force in 2005. This Swiss hydrogen facility is the 22nd to be built through an Air Products/ Technip alliance.
LINDE EXPANDS EASTERN EUROPEAN GAS BUSINESS Germany’s Linde AG is currently investing 100 million in three new air separation plants in Central and Eastern Europe. Linde Gas will operate each of these on-site plants at the sites of three major customers in the Czech Republic and Romania. With a total output of around 2000 tons of oxygen per day, the plants will supply major consumers with gaseous oxygen and nitrogen via a pipeline.
The largest of the three air separation plants is being installed by Linde Engineering in Vresova, Czech Republic, and will pipe oxygen and nitrogen to Sokolovská Uhelná from 2005. Another Linde air separation plant recently went into operation at the Kaucuk chemicals company near Prague. The third air separation plant is currently being installed by Linde Engineering at Gaz Romania SRL in Ramnicu Valcea, Romania.
JACOBS EXTENDS FIREBAG ROLE Jacobs Engineering Group Inc’s Canadian subsidiary will undertake front-end engineering work on Stage 3 of Suncor Energy Inc’s Firebag In-Situ Oil Sands Project. Jacobs currently provides detailed engineering and procurement services to Suncor for Stage 2 of the Firebag Project.
TECHNIP WINS GREEK REFINERY EXPANSION PROJECT Motor Oil Hellas SA has awarded Technip a lump sum turnkey contract worth more than 300 million for the addition of new process units and utilities at the company’s refinery in Corinth, Greece. The upgrade is designed to meet stringent EU specifications which come into force in January 2005. The main new process units are a 37 000 BPSD mild hydrocracker integrated with a 32 000 BPSD gas oil polishing unit, as well as a 65 000 Nm3/h hydrogen plant and a 70 t/d sulphur recovery unit. The project also includes revamping several process units, such as a vacuum distillation unit, a diesel hydro-desulfurization unit and important
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