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Alstom to service Tzafit gas-fired plant in Israel
MARKET PROSPECTS
MINING
Mining success for Seprotech in British Columbia
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eprotech Systems Inc has been awarded a C$435 000 contract to provide a wastewater treatment solution and equipment to a multinational mining company at a facility in British Columbia. The order comes from a first time customer for Seprotech’s proprietary RBC wastewater treatment system. “I’m pleased to report this recent sale, which highlights Seprotech as a wastewater treatment solutions provider of choice in the mining sector” said Jordan Grant, Chairman & CEO of Seprotech. “With the resurgence in commodity prices we are re-focusing sales efforts on this high growth sector,” added Grant.
OIL & GAS
KBR awarded pre-FEED contract for LNG plant in Mozambique
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BR Inc is to perform a pre-frontend-engineering and design (preFEED) study for Anadarko for a prospective liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Mozambique, Africa. The contract follows the recent natural gas discoveries by Anadarko and its partners in the Rovuma Basin offshore Mozambique. The pre-FEED study is designed to help Anadarko further assess the viability of developing an LNG facility to export natural gas from the region. Partners in the joint venture are Anadarko, ENH, Mitsui, BPRL, Videocon and Cove.
Fluor wins Caspian pipeline expansion contract
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hevron Neftegaz has selected Fluor Corp to provide project services for the marine terminal and supervisory control and data system 4
Pump Industry Analyst
(SCADA) portions of the Caspian Pipeline Expansion project. The pipeline begins in western Kazakhstan and runs 1510 km west to the terminal in Novorossiysk, Russia, on the Black Sea “This pipeline expansion is a vital first step to pave the way for numerous additional crude oil production expansion projects in the region,” said Peter Oosterveer, president of Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals Group. The project is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2014. Fluor was the original program management contractor for the first phase of the Caspian Pipeline project which involved refurbishing more than 700 km of pipeline and building an additional 740 km. Fluor completed the first phase of this pipeline project with the first crude oil loaded onto a tanker at the marine terminal in October 2001.
POWER GENERATION
Jacobs to undertake E.ON UK power work
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acobs Engineering Group Inc has received a framework contract from E.ON UK to provide engineering services and construction management support as part of its ongoing plant life extension program at the 2000 MW coal fired Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station near Nottingham, UK. Jacobs’ work includes the appraisal of system upgrade requirements; compilation of user requirement specifications; condition surveys; design of system upgrade and replacement projects; and support to procurement and construction management services.
Kurion achieves cleanup goals at Fukushima nuclear plant
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uclear waste technology company Kurion Inc says that its Ion Specific Media System at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in Japan has been achieving
its cesium removal goal of approximately 99.9% since startup on 17 June 2011. After a five week design/fabricate/delivery cycle with frequent and significant specification changes, the system was assembled at Fukushima in nine days followed by one day of cold commissioning and three days of warm commissioning before hot startup with actual wastewater. “Anticipating the challenge to quality assurance posed by the highly compressed delivery and commissioning times, Kurion designed the system with redundancies for pumps, valves, and media capacity. For example, TEPCO has the option of not utilizing any of the Kurion system pumps if an increase to the upstream buffer tank pump discharge pressure is made; converting the system to a highly reliable electrically passive system. This improvement will be evaluated along with media and system life extension, return to improved pre-filtration media, installation of shielding on system feed piping to eliminate off-design flushing cycles and reduce dose for safe operator entry during vessel change-out, and other optimizations,” said Kurion vice president of Engineering and Fukushima project director, Dr Richard Keenant.
Alstom to service Tzafit gas-fired plant in Israel
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lstom has signed a 20-year operation and maintenance contract worth around E330 million with Dalia Power Energies Ltd for the 835 MW gas-fired Tzafit power plant in Israel. The service contract follows the agreement signed earlier this year between Alstom and Dalia Power Energies to construct two 417 MW gas-fired combined cycle units on an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) basis. The service contract includes complete day-to-day operation and maintenance of the two gas-fired combined cycle units, located 40 km south-east of Tel Aviv. Each unit is based on Alstom’s GT26 gas turbine, steam turbine, generator, control system and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). The Tzafit power station is expected to enter commercial operation in 2014.
August 2011
MINING
Mining success for Seprotech in British Columbia
S
eprotech Systems Inc has been awarded a C$435 000 contract to provide a wastewater treatment solution and equipment to a multinational mining company at a facility in British Columbia. The order comes from a first time customer for Seprotech’s proprietary RBC wastewater treatment system. “I’m pleased to report this recent sale, which highlights Seprotech as a wastewater treatment solutions provider of choice in the mining sector” said Jordan Grant, Chairman & CEO of Seprotech. “With the resurgence in commodity prices we are re-focusing sales efforts on this high growth sector,” added Grant.
OIL & GAS
KBR awarded pre-FEED contract for LNG plant in Mozambique
K
BR Inc is to perform a pre-frontend-engineering and design (preFEED) study for Anadarko for a prospective liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Mozambique, Africa. The contract follows the recent natural gas discoveries by Anadarko and its partners in the Rovuma Basin offshore Mozambique. The pre-FEED study is designed to help Anadarko further assess the viability of developing an LNG facility to export natural gas from the region. Partners in the joint venture are Anadarko, ENH, Mitsui, BPRL, Videocon and Cove.
Fluor wins Caspian pipeline expansion contract
C
hevron Neftegaz has selected Fluor Corp to provide project services for the marine terminal and supervisory control and data system 4
Pump Industry Analyst
(SCADA) portions of the Caspian Pipeline Expansion project. The pipeline begins in western Kazakhstan and runs 1510 km west to the terminal in Novorossiysk, Russia, on the Black Sea “This pipeline expansion is a vital first step to pave the way for numerous additional crude oil production expansion projects in the region,” said Peter Oosterveer, president of Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals Group. The project is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2014. Fluor was the original program management contractor for the first phase of the Caspian Pipeline project which involved refurbishing more than 700 km of pipeline and building an additional 740 km. Fluor completed the first phase of this pipeline project with the first crude oil loaded onto a tanker at the marine terminal in October 2001.
POWER GENERATION
Jacobs to undertake E.ON UK power work
J
acobs Engineering Group Inc has received a framework contract from E.ON UK to provide engineering services and construction management support as part of its ongoing plant life extension program at the 2000 MW coal fired Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station near Nottingham, UK. Jacobs’ work includes the appraisal of system upgrade requirements; compilation of user requirement specifications; condition surveys; design of system upgrade and replacement projects; and support to procurement and construction management services.
Kurion achieves cleanup goals at Fukushima nuclear plant
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uclear waste technology company Kurion Inc says that its Ion Specific Media System at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in Japan has been achieving
its cesium removal goal of approximately 99.9% since startup on 17 June 2011. After a five week design/fabricate/delivery cycle with frequent and significant specification changes, the system was assembled at Fukushima in nine days followed by one day of cold commissioning and three days of warm commissioning before hot startup with actual wastewater. “Anticipating the challenge to quality assurance posed by the highly compressed delivery and commissioning times, Kurion designed the system with redundancies for pumps, valves, and media capacity. For example, TEPCO has the option of not utilizing any of the Kurion system pumps if an increase to the upstream buffer tank pump discharge pressure is made; converting the system to a highly reliable electrically passive system. This improvement will be evaluated along with media and system life extension, return to improved pre-filtration media, installation of shielding on system feed piping to eliminate off-design flushing cycles and reduce dose for safe operator entry during vessel change-out, and other optimizations,” said Kurion vice president of Engineering and Fukushima project director, Dr Richard Keenant.
Alstom to service Tzafit gas-fired plant in Israel
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lstom has signed a 20-year operation and maintenance contract worth around E330 million with Dalia Power Energies Ltd for the 835 MW gas-fired Tzafit power plant in Israel. The service contract follows the agreement signed earlier this year between Alstom and Dalia Power Energies to construct two 417 MW gas-fired combined cycle units on an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) basis. The service contract includes complete day-to-day operation and maintenance of the two gas-fired combined cycle units, located 40 km south-east of Tel Aviv. Each unit is based on Alstom’s GT26 gas turbine, steam turbine, generator, control system and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). The Tzafit power station is expected to enter commercial operation in 2014.
August 2011