Fluor Daniel wins BP Amoco deal

Pump

Industry

Analyst

December

Pump Company Index

ABS

11.12

AlleLaval

1

&torn

12

Andrttz

16

Baker Hughes

10 9

Bran+Leubbe Colfax Corporation

16

CITUW

12,13

Ctycstar

Hydrocabn

Dresser

Indtmtrie6

Pump

6 0

196

Ebara Ebara Techndogies

12

E&

6

EnNunment

9

One

Flowaonm

7.10,11,12,13

F&am

13

Qardnerthver

7, 13

QOfIlWl-Flupp

10

GWIKlb5

13

tblliturton

10

Hex

lO,ll,

13

The companies say the divestitures required to meet the EU competition authorities’ objections would reduce the financial and strategic attractiveness of the merger significantly. In March this year. Ahlstrom and Kvaemer signed a merger agreement and an application for EU approval was submitted.

CONSOLIDATED OUTLINES CAPITAL INVESTMENT

0

IDP lhdu&ri.3l Hotding

13

Ingenoll-Rand

a, 10 11.13

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Pump

Johnston

10 lntern4tionnl

11

Pump

9

Consolidated Papers Inc has approved US$lO6 million in capital improvements in the year 2000. New capital projccls authorised by include a rebuild paper

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VALMET PLANS CHINESE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE Metso Corporation’s libre and paper technology business Valmet is to open a new technolow centre in China. +?I I million will be invesled in the technology centre. near Shanghai. which is schedulcd to open in spring 2001. The new technology ccntre will provide local back-up for Valmet’s machinery deliveries as well as offering a wide range ot specialised services for process improvements, upgrade5 and upkeep of all types of tibrc and paper production lines. According to Metso. the Chinese pulp and paper industry will heavily upgrade and rebuild its machinery over the next few years to meet the rapid

growth

paper,

board

in and

demand

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16

industrial

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Fluid LLC

weair

5 0.10,

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3ebbikl.s&Mprs ?oper Industries

11, 16

9, 10, 12 10 10.16

jchlumberger

13

Mttl

11

8 Loveless

htzer

11

rextron

1,lO

r0tww3 United

11 Domhlon

9. 10. 13

Unlted Techn~as

10

waukesha

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The proposed merger of the pulp and paper machinery businesses of Ahlstrom and Kvaerner will not now take place (see Pump Industry Analyst, February 1999).

10.13

GIWO

Weir

MACHINERY MERGER CALLED OFF

The 40 MW. third phase of the plant is to be built by National Power at Aylesford Newsprint Limited’s Kent paper mill. It supplies annually nearly 400 000 tonnes of IO0 per cent recycled newsprmt to national, regional and Europcun newspapers.

CherIy-BurrelI

9 11 10, 12. 13

cooling

to

No

26

paper

muchinc at the Biron Division: and equipment to improve the hardwood pulp washing conditions at the Kraft Division to ensure comoliance with the

1 DANIEL WINS BP AMOCO DEAL

Duke/Fluor Daniel has been selected by Primary Energy Inc, a subsidiary of NiSource Inc. and BP Amoco to proEPA’s Cluster Rule. vide turnkey engineering, GREEN BOOST TO 1 procurement and construction services for a 525 MW, UK CHP PLANT gas-tired cogeneration faciliA f15 million extension to a ty at BP Amoco’s Whiting green combined heat and refinery in Indiana. Construction of the power plant will make it one of the UK’s largest with over USS250 million plant began this year. with completion 300 MW of capacity.

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planned for the second quarter of 2001. Clarence Ray. president of DukelFluor Daniel, said the facility provided an opportunity to build a new relationship with BP Amoco.

PUERTO RICAN POWER PROJECT SET FOR 2002 AI?! Puerto Rico LP has selected DukeJFluor Daniel to provide turnkey engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning services for the 454 MW, coal-fired Total Energy Plant Project located in Guayama, Puerto Rico. The project is scheduled for completion in mid 2002 and will feature two 2.50 MW circulating fluidised bed coal-fired boilen. selective non-catalytic reduction. two circulating dry scrubbers with particulate collection equipment. a steam turbine generator and a lero discharge system design. Fuel will he delivered via ocean vessels to a docking facility.

GE EQUIPS TURKISH POWER FACILITY GE Power Systems will supply power generation equip- , ment and additional services 1 for the construction of a I US$194 million, build-operate-transfer power plant that will supply 206 MW of electricity for Alapli, firkey. ATAM Elektrik Sanayi ve Tlcarct AS of Istanbul is sponsoring the project which is being co-developed by ATAM and GE Power Systems. The new natural-gas fired plant is scheduled to hegin commercial service in the fourth quarter of 2002. The Turkish Mimstry of Environment has approved the environmcnlal impact assebsment for the project. In addition to being the codeveloper and supplying the power generation equipment and technical advisory services,