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Aker Kvaerner wins EPC work for PTA plants
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for a new waste recycling facility at its Secunda operations in South Africa. The facility, with a total investment value of US$75 million, will be the first of its kind in Africa. It will treat the waste from the largest coal-toliquids plant in the world and will comprise a wastewater treatment plant, a bioremediation centre and a solidification plant to recycle and reuse materials emanating from Secunda’s waste streams. What cannot be reasonably reused will be bioremediated or solidified to render it environmentally safe. Some of these materials can then be recycled as fertilizers, fill material, landfill cover and road base. The waste treatment facility will be operational by the end of 2004.
CONSORTIUM WINS MUTINEEREXETER INSTALLATION Santos Ltd has awarded the Subsea 7/Clough Offshore consortium the engineering, procurement, installation and commission contract for the development of the subsea Mutineer-Exeter oil fields, located on the north west coast of Australia. The total contract value is worth US$50 million with Subsea 7’s portion approximately US$28 million and Clough’s US$22 million. Clough will install 10 km of 12-inch production pipeline with a piggy-backed 2-inch well services pipeline. Middepth buoys for supporting the risers will also be installed from a derrick lay barge. Subsea 7 will install the risers, umbilicals and the subsea tieins to the wells, the mooring system, testing and commissioning. The floating production, storage and offloading vessel will be hooked into the subsea system at a later date by a third party contractor.
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December 2003
Completion of the subsea works is planned for the first quarter of 2005.
CHEMICALS AKER KVAERNER WINS EPC WORK FOR PTA PLANTS Aker Kvaerner has won a contract to provide the engineering, procurement and technical advisory support for two new pure terephthalic acid (PTA) plants in the Far East. PTA is used globally as a key ingredient in the manufacture of polyester fibres, resins and films. The contract, valued at US$170 million–US$180 million, comprises basic engineering, the supply of offshore equipment and materials, together with technical advisory services, for two 530 000 tonnes per annum PTA plants.
BOC EDWARDS SUPPLIES GASES FOR CHINA FAB BOC Edwards has secured the supply of all bulk gases, bulk and specialty gas distribution systems, and chemical and slurry management systems for a semiconductor wafer fabrication facility near Shanghai in China. Services to be provided include design, engineering, installation, start-up and commissioning, including sustained operations for the bulk gas pad. More than 30 chemical and slurry systems will be supplied, including high-volume chemical delivery and lorry systems, chemical blending modules and a slurry blending and distribution system. Over 50 speciality gas systems will be installed, including a number of bulk special gas systems and point-of-use abatement units. The bulk gas distribution systems will include the mains
and submains for more than 10 different bulk gases. Prior to securing this work, BOC Edwards successfully completed contracts at China semiconductor fabs for two major bulk gas generating plants, and booked orders for 30 electronic chemical and gas supply systems, 1800 vacuum pumps, and 20 gas abatement systems.
ISOCYANATES COMPLEX NOW A US$1 BILLION PROJECT The consortium involved in the development of an integrated isocyanates complex at the Chemical Industry Park in Shanghai, China, has received approvals to increase the planned capacities. Crude diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) capacity has been increased from 160 000 to 240 000 tonnes per year and that of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) from 130 000 to 160 000 tonnes per year. The US$1 billion project involves chemical giants BASF and Huntsman, together with their Chinese partners Shanghai Hua Yi, Sinopec Shanghai Gao Qiao Petrochemical Corp and Shanghai Chloro-Alkali Chemical Co. The engineering, procurement and construction contract for the project, due to begin before the end of 2003, has been awarded to a consortium of Fluor (USA), Daelim (South Korea), and CTCI (Taiwan).
PETROCHEMICALS TECNIMONT TO BUILD PP PLANT Tecnimont has agreed a US$62 million contract to supply engineering, materials and technical assistance for the construction of a polypropylene (PP) plant to
be built in the Nizhnekamsk complex in the Tatarstan Republic of Russia. Operated by Nizhnekamskneftechim, a European producer of synthetic rubber and petrochemical products, the plant will produce 120 000 tonnes per year of PP using Basell’s Spheripol process technology. It is scheduled for start-up by 2006. In addition, the company has been awarded a contract for an undisclosed sum to build a new polyolefin complex at Plock, Poland. The contract, which is part of a project with a value of about 500 million, is with Basell Orlen Polyolefins, a joint venture formed by Poliski Koncern Naftowy Orlen and Basell Europe Holdings. The scope of work involves the construction of a 400 000 tonnes per year PP plant, based on Basell Polyolefins’ Spheripol process, and a 320 000 tonnes per year high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant, using Basell Polyolefins’ Hostalen process. Start-up is scheduled in 2005.
POWER GENERATION VA TECH HYDRO TO EQUIP ICELANDIC PLANT VA Tech Hydro is to supply the turbines, generators and electrical equipment for the Kárahnjúkar power plant in Iceland. VA Tech Hydro’s scope of supply for this 60 million project comprises six 130 MW high-head Francis turbines and six synchronous generators. With an installed capacity of 780 MW and a harnessed flow rate of 160 m3/s, the plant will generate 4450 GWh of electricity per year. This will be supplied to an aluminium smelter with a capacity to produce 320 000 tonnes of aluminium per year.
Filtration Industry Analyst
for a new waste recycling facility at its Secunda operations in South Africa. The facility, with a total investment value of US$75 million, will be the first of its kind in Africa. It will treat the waste from the largest coal-toliquids plant in the world and will comprise a wastewater treatment plant, a bioremediation centre and a solidification plant to recycle and reuse materials emanating from Secunda’s waste streams. What cannot be reasonably reused will be bioremediated or solidified to render it environmentally safe. Some of these materials can then be recycled as fertilizers, fill material, landfill cover and road base. The waste treatment facility will be operational by the end of 2004.
CONSORTIUM WINS MUTINEEREXETER INSTALLATION Santos Ltd has awarded the Subsea 7/Clough Offshore consortium the engineering, procurement, installation and commission contract for the development of the subsea Mutineer-Exeter oil fields, located on the north west coast of Australia. The total contract value is worth US$50 million with Subsea 7’s portion approximately US$28 million and Clough’s US$22 million. Clough will install 10 km of 12-inch production pipeline with a piggy-backed 2-inch well services pipeline. Middepth buoys for supporting the risers will also be installed from a derrick lay barge. Subsea 7 will install the risers, umbilicals and the subsea tieins to the wells, the mooring system, testing and commissioning. The floating production, storage and offloading vessel will be hooked into the subsea system at a later date by a third party contractor.
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December 2003
Completion of the subsea works is planned for the first quarter of 2005.
CHEMICALS AKER KVAERNER WINS EPC WORK FOR PTA PLANTS Aker Kvaerner has won a contract to provide the engineering, procurement and technical advisory support for two new pure terephthalic acid (PTA) plants in the Far East. PTA is used globally as a key ingredient in the manufacture of polyester fibres, resins and films. The contract, valued at US$170 million–US$180 million, comprises basic engineering, the supply of offshore equipment and materials, together with technical advisory services, for two 530 000 tonnes per annum PTA plants.
BOC EDWARDS SUPPLIES GASES FOR CHINA FAB BOC Edwards has secured the supply of all bulk gases, bulk and specialty gas distribution systems, and chemical and slurry management systems for a semiconductor wafer fabrication facility near Shanghai in China. Services to be provided include design, engineering, installation, start-up and commissioning, including sustained operations for the bulk gas pad. More than 30 chemical and slurry systems will be supplied, including high-volume chemical delivery and lorry systems, chemical blending modules and a slurry blending and distribution system. Over 50 speciality gas systems will be installed, including a number of bulk special gas systems and point-of-use abatement units. The bulk gas distribution systems will include the mains
and submains for more than 10 different bulk gases. Prior to securing this work, BOC Edwards successfully completed contracts at China semiconductor fabs for two major bulk gas generating plants, and booked orders for 30 electronic chemical and gas supply systems, 1800 vacuum pumps, and 20 gas abatement systems.
ISOCYANATES COMPLEX NOW A US$1 BILLION PROJECT The consortium involved in the development of an integrated isocyanates complex at the Chemical Industry Park in Shanghai, China, has received approvals to increase the planned capacities. Crude diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) capacity has been increased from 160 000 to 240 000 tonnes per year and that of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) from 130 000 to 160 000 tonnes per year. The US$1 billion project involves chemical giants BASF and Huntsman, together with their Chinese partners Shanghai Hua Yi, Sinopec Shanghai Gao Qiao Petrochemical Corp and Shanghai Chloro-Alkali Chemical Co. The engineering, procurement and construction contract for the project, due to begin before the end of 2003, has been awarded to a consortium of Fluor (USA), Daelim (South Korea), and CTCI (Taiwan).
PETROCHEMICALS TECNIMONT TO BUILD PP PLANT Tecnimont has agreed a US$62 million contract to supply engineering, materials and technical assistance for the construction of a polypropylene (PP) plant to
be built in the Nizhnekamsk complex in the Tatarstan Republic of Russia. Operated by Nizhnekamskneftechim, a European producer of synthetic rubber and petrochemical products, the plant will produce 120 000 tonnes per year of PP using Basell’s Spheripol process technology. It is scheduled for start-up by 2006. In addition, the company has been awarded a contract for an undisclosed sum to build a new polyolefin complex at Plock, Poland. The contract, which is part of a project with a value of about 500 million, is with Basell Orlen Polyolefins, a joint venture formed by Poliski Koncern Naftowy Orlen and Basell Europe Holdings. The scope of work involves the construction of a 400 000 tonnes per year PP plant, based on Basell Polyolefins’ Spheripol process, and a 320 000 tonnes per year high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant, using Basell Polyolefins’ Hostalen process. Start-up is scheduled in 2005.
POWER GENERATION VA TECH HYDRO TO EQUIP ICELANDIC PLANT VA Tech Hydro is to supply the turbines, generators and electrical equipment for the Kárahnjúkar power plant in Iceland. VA Tech Hydro’s scope of supply for this 60 million project comprises six 130 MW high-head Francis turbines and six synchronous generators. With an installed capacity of 780 MW and a harnessed flow rate of 160 m3/s, the plant will generate 4450 GWh of electricity per year. This will be supplied to an aluminium smelter with a capacity to produce 320 000 tonnes of aluminium per year.