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Jacobs designs Canadian acid plant
MARKET PROSPECTS and Innovation Authority (WIFIA), a funding mechanism modelled after the highly successful US Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act. WIFIA would help local governments with water infrastructure needs and leverage available federal dollars through low-interest funding. “Introduction and eventual passage of new water infrastructure financing legislation is an important step in recognising the value of water and the need to support our essential water infrastructure,” said Eger. Eger also stressed the need to raise public awareness about the value and importance of water through its WATER’S WORTH IT campaign.
Jacobs awarded St Louis sewer contract
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he Metropolitan St Louis Sewer District (MSD) has selected Jacobs Engineering Group Inc to provide professional engineering services for the Lower & Middle River des Peres CSO Controls System Improvements in St Louis, Missouri, USA. The project includes the design of tunnels, high rate treatment systems, pump stations and near surface facilities.
Siemens supplies 7th wet air oxidation system to Sinopec
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iemens Industry Automation Division is providing another Zimpro wet air oxidation (WAO) system to treat wastewater at Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co Ltd’s facility near the Yangzi River in Jiangsu Province, China. This is the seventh Zimpro WAO system to be installed at Sinopec facilities and will be used to treat sulfidic spent caustic wastewater streams generated in the production of petrochemicals. The Zimpro WAO system is designed to eliminate odourous sulfide pollutants and to generate a biodegradable effluent that can be discharged to conventional biological wastewater treatment. The Yangzi system, which will treat approximately
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4 m3 of wastewater per hour, is expected to be operational by the end of this year. The Yangzi facility includes both a refinery and a petrochemical plant where fuels and ethylene are produced.
American Water secures brewery wastewater treatment work
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S water and wastewater utility company American Water is to manage start-up and operations for a wastewater pre-treatment plant at City Brewery in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The plant will pre-treat up to 590 000 gallons per day of wastewater from the brewery operations before being discharged to the local municipal wastewater plant. American Water’s Contract Services Group, through its Environmental Management Corp arm, has already been working with City Brewery and their design consultants to provide operational input into the design of the wastewater pre-treatment plant. “Pre-treating wastewater prior to its discharge is key to meeting environmental standards, and we’re happy to be a part of City Brewery’s continued efforts to operate responsibly and sustainably,” said Adam McDonough, president of American Water’s Contract Services Group.
AECOM JV undertakes two Rhode Island water treatment plant projects
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n AECOM Technology Corp joint venture has been awarded a US$62.3 million design-build contract for Rhode Island’s Lawton Valley Water Treatment Plant and for the upgrade of the state’s Station No 1 plant in Newport. Under the contract, the AECOM joint venture will deliver design-build services for the two water treatment plants, including permitting, design, construction, start-up and commissioning.
The 7 million-gallons-per-day Lawton Valley plant will be demolished and replaced with a new, compact building, while Station No 1’s existing 9 million-gallons-per-day plant will be upgraded.
DESALINATION
Hyflux, Hitachi and Itochu to develop Asia’s largest seawater desal project in India
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consortium of Hyflux Utility (India) Pte Ltd, Hitachi Ltd and Itochu Corp are to develop a 336 000 m3 per day seawater desalination plant in the Dahej Special Economic Zone in the state of Gujarat, India. The US$600 million project will be developed on a Design, Build, Own and Operate (DBOO) basis. Hitachi will be the lead engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor and will collaborate with Hyflux on the EPC and O&M works for the project. The facility will employ ultrafiltration pre-treatment and reverse osmosis membrane technologies to treat the seawater into water suitable for industrial use. This will be Asia’s largest seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant to date.
CHEMICALS
Jacobs designs Canadian acid plant
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acobs Engineering Group Inc is to design and supply a new sulfuric acid plant for Teck Metals Ltd’s Trail operation located in British Columbia, Canada. The new acid plant is replacing two ageing plants at the site and is expected to improve operating reliability and flexibility, reduce downtime and maintenance costs, and improve environmental performance. The contract includes the design of the complete sulfuric acid plant contact section, including catalytic DeNO(x) system, as well as supply of all equipment and the majority of materials. The plant includes Jacobs’ proprietary Chemetics equipment throughout, including
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MARKET PROSPECTS stainless steel converter (with dual internal exchangers), radial flow gas-gas exchangers, acid coolers and SARAMET distributors and piping. The bulk of the proprietary equipment is being fabricated at Jacobs’ facility in Pickering, Ontario.
POWER GENERATION
Preferred bidder named for Kuwait’s first IWPP project
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umitomo Corp, International Power-GDF SUEZ and Abdullah Hamad Al Sagar and Bros Co have received preferred bidder notification from Partnerships Technical Bureau (PTB) for the development, financing, procurement, construction, insurance, operation and maintenance of the Az Zour North Independent Water & Power Producer (IWPP) project in Kuwait. The consortium is set to build a gas-fired combined cycle power plant with a capacity of at least 1500 MW and a 102–107 MIGD desalination plant. Commercial operation of the new power and desalination plant is scheduled to start in May. All generated electricity and water will be purchased by Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water under a 40-year, long-term energy conversion and water purchase agreement. Sumitomo will also set up an operation & maintenance company with IPR and be responsible for work on the plant.
CARBON CAPTURE
Hitachi partners with SaskPower on CO2 capture test facility
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itachi Ltd is to work with Saskatchewan Power Corp to jointly construct a Carbon Capture Test Facility (CCTF). Equipment to capture CO2 will be installed at SaskPower’s 298 MW Shand Power Station, near the city of Estevan in Saskatchewan. SaskPower and Hitachi will jointly invest ¥5 billion in the CCTF which is expected to begin operating in mid 2014. Hitachi will produce and supply its CO2 capture solvent (H3-1) and the main 4
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equipment for the facility. The Hitachi Group companies Babcock-Hitachi KK and Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd will be in charge of production and supply. The test facility will be part of SaskPower’s Clean Coal Project, which is an initiative to select and apply emerging carbon capture technologies to coal fired power plants to manage their emission of greenhouse gases.
OIL & GAS
PETRONAS selects Technip for FEED project in Malaysia
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echnip has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by PETRONAS for its proposed Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in Malaysia. RAPID aims at building a world-scale integrated refinery and petrochemical complex to address the growing need for specialty chemicals and to meet the demand for petroleum and commodity petrochemical products in the Asia Pacific region by 2016. The proposed refinery will have a capacity of 300 000 barrels per standard day and will supply naphtha and liquid petroleum gas feedstock for the RAPID petrochemical complex, as well as produce gasoline and diesel that meet European specifications. Technip says that the petrochemical units will enhance the value of the olefin streams coming from the RAPID steam cracker by producing merchant grade petrochemical products such as polyethylene, polypropylene, synthetic rubbers and other petrochemicals products. The contract is scheduled for completion in 2013.
be built in San Pedro de Marcorís in the Dominican Republic. Foster Wheeler has previously completed a feasibility study for the selection of the most suitable technology for the new terminal, which will be designed for a send-out capacity of 240 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscf/d), with an LNG storage tank of 160 000 cubic metres. The design will also consider future expansion up to 700 MMscf/d. Foster Wheeler will work with a local partner in executing this work, which is expected to be completed in September 2012.
Aker Solutions secures Draupne FEED contract
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ker Solutions has won a contract from Det norske oljeselskap to conduct a front-end, engineering and design (FEED) study for the Draupne field on the Norwegian continental shelf. The study will be carried out by Aker Solutions’ newly established engineering office in London, and delivered to the licence partners later this year. Aker Solutions decided to re-enter the London engineering market last year. The engineering office now has 90 employees, with 200 planned by the end of 2012.
SNC-Lavalin signs Venezuelan project management contract
S FW wins LNG receiving terminal contract in Dominican Republic
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subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded the basic design and frontend engineering design contract by Complejo GNL del Este, for a new LNG receiving terminal and jetty to
NC-Lavalin has entered into a C$133 million project management contract with Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) for the Delta Caribe Oriental project. Located in the Sucre State in northeastern Venezuela, the Delta Caribe Oriental project consists of four offshore gas fields and an onshore development for industry. Working closely with PDVSA, SNCLavalin’s project management team will supervise the work of contractors who will be providing engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning services for the offshore and onshore facilities.
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Jacobs awarded St Louis sewer contract
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he Metropolitan St Louis Sewer District (MSD) has selected Jacobs Engineering Group Inc to provide professional engineering services for the Lower & Middle River des Peres CSO Controls System Improvements in St Louis, Missouri, USA. The project includes the design of tunnels, high rate treatment systems, pump stations and near surface facilities.
Siemens supplies 7th wet air oxidation system to Sinopec
S
iemens Industry Automation Division is providing another Zimpro wet air oxidation (WAO) system to treat wastewater at Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co Ltd’s facility near the Yangzi River in Jiangsu Province, China. This is the seventh Zimpro WAO system to be installed at Sinopec facilities and will be used to treat sulfidic spent caustic wastewater streams generated in the production of petrochemicals. The Zimpro WAO system is designed to eliminate odourous sulfide pollutants and to generate a biodegradable effluent that can be discharged to conventional biological wastewater treatment. The Yangzi system, which will treat approximately
March 2012
4 m3 of wastewater per hour, is expected to be operational by the end of this year. The Yangzi facility includes both a refinery and a petrochemical plant where fuels and ethylene are produced.
American Water secures brewery wastewater treatment work
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S water and wastewater utility company American Water is to manage start-up and operations for a wastewater pre-treatment plant at City Brewery in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The plant will pre-treat up to 590 000 gallons per day of wastewater from the brewery operations before being discharged to the local municipal wastewater plant. American Water’s Contract Services Group, through its Environmental Management Corp arm, has already been working with City Brewery and their design consultants to provide operational input into the design of the wastewater pre-treatment plant. “Pre-treating wastewater prior to its discharge is key to meeting environmental standards, and we’re happy to be a part of City Brewery’s continued efforts to operate responsibly and sustainably,” said Adam McDonough, president of American Water’s Contract Services Group.
AECOM JV undertakes two Rhode Island water treatment plant projects
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n AECOM Technology Corp joint venture has been awarded a US$62.3 million design-build contract for Rhode Island’s Lawton Valley Water Treatment Plant and for the upgrade of the state’s Station No 1 plant in Newport. Under the contract, the AECOM joint venture will deliver design-build services for the two water treatment plants, including permitting, design, construction, start-up and commissioning.
The 7 million-gallons-per-day Lawton Valley plant will be demolished and replaced with a new, compact building, while Station No 1’s existing 9 million-gallons-per-day plant will be upgraded.
DESALINATION
Hyflux, Hitachi and Itochu to develop Asia’s largest seawater desal project in India
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consortium of Hyflux Utility (India) Pte Ltd, Hitachi Ltd and Itochu Corp are to develop a 336 000 m3 per day seawater desalination plant in the Dahej Special Economic Zone in the state of Gujarat, India. The US$600 million project will be developed on a Design, Build, Own and Operate (DBOO) basis. Hitachi will be the lead engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor and will collaborate with Hyflux on the EPC and O&M works for the project. The facility will employ ultrafiltration pre-treatment and reverse osmosis membrane technologies to treat the seawater into water suitable for industrial use. This will be Asia’s largest seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant to date.
CHEMICALS
Jacobs designs Canadian acid plant
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acobs Engineering Group Inc is to design and supply a new sulfuric acid plant for Teck Metals Ltd’s Trail operation located in British Columbia, Canada. The new acid plant is replacing two ageing plants at the site and is expected to improve operating reliability and flexibility, reduce downtime and maintenance costs, and improve environmental performance. The contract includes the design of the complete sulfuric acid plant contact section, including catalytic DeNO(x) system, as well as supply of all equipment and the majority of materials. The plant includes Jacobs’ proprietary Chemetics equipment throughout, including
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MARKET PROSPECTS stainless steel converter (with dual internal exchangers), radial flow gas-gas exchangers, acid coolers and SARAMET distributors and piping. The bulk of the proprietary equipment is being fabricated at Jacobs’ facility in Pickering, Ontario.
POWER GENERATION
Preferred bidder named for Kuwait’s first IWPP project
S
umitomo Corp, International Power-GDF SUEZ and Abdullah Hamad Al Sagar and Bros Co have received preferred bidder notification from Partnerships Technical Bureau (PTB) for the development, financing, procurement, construction, insurance, operation and maintenance of the Az Zour North Independent Water & Power Producer (IWPP) project in Kuwait. The consortium is set to build a gas-fired combined cycle power plant with a capacity of at least 1500 MW and a 102–107 MIGD desalination plant. Commercial operation of the new power and desalination plant is scheduled to start in May. All generated electricity and water will be purchased by Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water under a 40-year, long-term energy conversion and water purchase agreement. Sumitomo will also set up an operation & maintenance company with IPR and be responsible for work on the plant.
CARBON CAPTURE
Hitachi partners with SaskPower on CO2 capture test facility
H
itachi Ltd is to work with Saskatchewan Power Corp to jointly construct a Carbon Capture Test Facility (CCTF). Equipment to capture CO2 will be installed at SaskPower’s 298 MW Shand Power Station, near the city of Estevan in Saskatchewan. SaskPower and Hitachi will jointly invest ¥5 billion in the CCTF which is expected to begin operating in mid 2014. Hitachi will produce and supply its CO2 capture solvent (H3-1) and the main 4
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equipment for the facility. The Hitachi Group companies Babcock-Hitachi KK and Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd will be in charge of production and supply. The test facility will be part of SaskPower’s Clean Coal Project, which is an initiative to select and apply emerging carbon capture technologies to coal fired power plants to manage their emission of greenhouse gases.
OIL & GAS
PETRONAS selects Technip for FEED project in Malaysia
T
echnip has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by PETRONAS for its proposed Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in Malaysia. RAPID aims at building a world-scale integrated refinery and petrochemical complex to address the growing need for specialty chemicals and to meet the demand for petroleum and commodity petrochemical products in the Asia Pacific region by 2016. The proposed refinery will have a capacity of 300 000 barrels per standard day and will supply naphtha and liquid petroleum gas feedstock for the RAPID petrochemical complex, as well as produce gasoline and diesel that meet European specifications. Technip says that the petrochemical units will enhance the value of the olefin streams coming from the RAPID steam cracker by producing merchant grade petrochemical products such as polyethylene, polypropylene, synthetic rubbers and other petrochemicals products. The contract is scheduled for completion in 2013.
be built in San Pedro de Marcorís in the Dominican Republic. Foster Wheeler has previously completed a feasibility study for the selection of the most suitable technology for the new terminal, which will be designed for a send-out capacity of 240 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscf/d), with an LNG storage tank of 160 000 cubic metres. The design will also consider future expansion up to 700 MMscf/d. Foster Wheeler will work with a local partner in executing this work, which is expected to be completed in September 2012.
Aker Solutions secures Draupne FEED contract
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ker Solutions has won a contract from Det norske oljeselskap to conduct a front-end, engineering and design (FEED) study for the Draupne field on the Norwegian continental shelf. The study will be carried out by Aker Solutions’ newly established engineering office in London, and delivered to the licence partners later this year. Aker Solutions decided to re-enter the London engineering market last year. The engineering office now has 90 employees, with 200 planned by the end of 2012.
SNC-Lavalin signs Venezuelan project management contract
S FW wins LNG receiving terminal contract in Dominican Republic
A
subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded the basic design and frontend engineering design contract by Complejo GNL del Este, for a new LNG receiving terminal and jetty to
NC-Lavalin has entered into a C$133 million project management contract with Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) for the Delta Caribe Oriental project. Located in the Sucre State in northeastern Venezuela, the Delta Caribe Oriental project consists of four offshore gas fields and an onshore development for industry. Working closely with PDVSA, SNCLavalin’s project management team will supervise the work of contractors who will be providing engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning services for the offshore and onshore facilities.
March 2012