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WATER & WASTEWATER
MARKET PROSPECTS
AMEC RESTORES IRAQI WATER WORKS International project management and services company AMEC has won two further major contracts in Iraq worth up to US$1.1 billion. The awards, won in conjunction with Fluor, its jointventure partner in Iraq, are worth up to US$540 million to AMEC and bring its total share of work in the country to US$780 million. The two contracts, to restore public works and water infrastructure, form part of the major round of contracts currently being awarded by the Coalition Provisional Authority, the US-led body in charge of reconstructing the country. They follow an award worth up to US$500 million to restore power-generating facilities in the country.
PETROCHEMICALS FW AWARDED HUNTSMAN ALLIANCE CONTRACT Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd has been selected by Huntsman Petrochemicals (UK) Ltd as its project, design and technical services alliance partner for a period of three years, covering the company’s Wilton and North Tees sites in the UK. These facilities comprise the assets of Huntsman’s olefins, aromatics and polyurethanes businesses. Under the scope of the contract, Foster Wheeler will provide front-end engineering, project management and detailed engineering services
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and plant technical support, with options for procurement and construction management services. The Alliance will be managed from Foster Wheeler’s Teesside Operations at Middlesbrough, close to both sites, with additional specialist technical support provided from its office in Reading.
JACOBS RECEIVES FLINT HILLS RESOURCES CONTRACT In the USA, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc is providing front-end and detailed design engineering, procurement and construction services for Flint Hills Resources’ ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD) project at the Flint Hills refinery in Pine Bend, Minnesota. Officials estimate the overall value of the project at US$325 million–US$400 million, with completion scheduled for the second quarter of 2006. Jacobs’ contribution includes a hydro-cracker that is used to produce clean fuels for Minnesota-based consumers in order to comply with new federal clean-air regulations. This contract follows the engineering, procurement, and construction that Jacobs recently executed for Flint Hills’ low sulphur petroleum programme in Corpus Christi, Texas.
MARINE & SHIPBUILDING GAZ DE FRANCE ORDERS SECOND LNG CARRIER Alstom is to build another liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier for Gaz de France. The company has confirmed the option to take a second vessel in partnership with
Japanese shipowner NYK Line. The construction contract should be signed before the end of June 2004 with delivery of the carrier scheduled for October 2006. Gaz de France and Alstom signed a letter of intent during July 2003 for the construction of a 153 000 m3 LNG carrier, with an option for a second, identical LNG carrier. The order for the first LNG carrier was signed during September 2003, with delivery scheduled for the end of October 2005. This carrier will be identical to the first ship that was ordered, and which is under construction at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard.
PULP & PAPER MHI TO ESTABLISH JV IN CHINA Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) and Zibo Heng Xing Ji Dian She Bei Co Ltd, one of China’s leading pulp and paper machinery manufacturers, have agreed to establish a joint venture company in Zibo, Shandong Province, China to conduct manufacturing, sales and after-sale services relating to paper machinery. The joint venture, to be named Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Heng Xing Paper Machinery Co Ltd, will be capitalized at approximately ¥700 million. It is scheduled to start operating during October 2004. MHI, with a 60% equity stake, will take charge of managing the new venture. Shandong Province is the centre of paper-making in China, accounting for nearly 20% of that nation’s total paper production. The province is home to six of the country’s top 20 paper manufacturers.
According to the companies, the paper demand in China is expected to remain robust, and many paper manufacturers from all over the world are now investing heavily in country.
SATERI INCREASES PULP MILL CAPACITY Sateri International, Singapore, is planning to expand the capacity of its Bahia Pulp mill in Brazil to produce high-grade dissolving pulp. The mill currently has a production capacity of 120 000 tonnes per year of totally chlorine-free pulp. Following the expansion, which is expected to be completed during 2006, it will have a total capacity of 360 000 tonnes a year. The new line will produce high-grade dissolving pulp for specialized market segments, such as high grade viscose, filaments and acetate, based on the existing eucalyptus resource base in the area.
METSO TO SUPPLY STORA ENSO WITH SC PAPER LINE Metso Paper will supply Stora Enso’s Kvarnsveden mill in Sweden with a new production line for highquality SC paper. The order is the largest in Metso’s and Metso Paper’s history, but the value has not been disclosed. Metso Paper’s delivery covers almost the entire new SC paper mill for PM 12, excluding the building itself. Included are the main papermaking machinery, process systems, auxiliary systems, electrification and services. Also included in the order is an expansion of woodroom, TMP and bleaching plant, needed to support the new production line. Start-up is scheduled for the end of 2005.
WATER & WASTEWATER
MARKET PROSPECTS
AMEC RESTORES IRAQI WATER WORKS International project management and services company AMEC has won two further major contracts in Iraq worth up to US$1.1 billion. The awards, won in conjunction with Fluor, its jointventure partner in Iraq, are worth up to US$540 million to AMEC and bring its total share of work in the country to US$780 million. The two contracts, to restore public works and water infrastructure, form part of the major round of contracts currently being awarded by the Coalition Provisional Authority, the US-led body in charge of reconstructing the country. They follow an award worth up to US$500 million to restore power-generating facilities in the country.
PETROCHEMICALS FW AWARDED HUNTSMAN ALLIANCE CONTRACT Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd has been selected by Huntsman Petrochemicals (UK) Ltd as its project, design and technical services alliance partner for a period of three years, covering the company’s Wilton and North Tees sites in the UK. These facilities comprise the assets of Huntsman’s olefins, aromatics and polyurethanes businesses. Under the scope of the contract, Foster Wheeler will provide front-end engineering, project management and detailed engineering services
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and plant technical support, with options for procurement and construction management services. The Alliance will be managed from Foster Wheeler’s Teesside Operations at Middlesbrough, close to both sites, with additional specialist technical support provided from its office in Reading.
JACOBS RECEIVES FLINT HILLS RESOURCES CONTRACT In the USA, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc is providing front-end and detailed design engineering, procurement and construction services for Flint Hills Resources’ ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD) project at the Flint Hills refinery in Pine Bend, Minnesota. Officials estimate the overall value of the project at US$325 million–US$400 million, with completion scheduled for the second quarter of 2006. Jacobs’ contribution includes a hydro-cracker that is used to produce clean fuels for Minnesota-based consumers in order to comply with new federal clean-air regulations. This contract follows the engineering, procurement, and construction that Jacobs recently executed for Flint Hills’ low sulphur petroleum programme in Corpus Christi, Texas.
MARINE & SHIPBUILDING GAZ DE FRANCE ORDERS SECOND LNG CARRIER Alstom is to build another liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier for Gaz de France. The company has confirmed the option to take a second vessel in partnership with
Japanese shipowner NYK Line. The construction contract should be signed before the end of June 2004 with delivery of the carrier scheduled for October 2006. Gaz de France and Alstom signed a letter of intent during July 2003 for the construction of a 153 000 m3 LNG carrier, with an option for a second, identical LNG carrier. The order for the first LNG carrier was signed during September 2003, with delivery scheduled for the end of October 2005. This carrier will be identical to the first ship that was ordered, and which is under construction at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard.
PULP & PAPER MHI TO ESTABLISH JV IN CHINA Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) and Zibo Heng Xing Ji Dian She Bei Co Ltd, one of China’s leading pulp and paper machinery manufacturers, have agreed to establish a joint venture company in Zibo, Shandong Province, China to conduct manufacturing, sales and after-sale services relating to paper machinery. The joint venture, to be named Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Heng Xing Paper Machinery Co Ltd, will be capitalized at approximately ¥700 million. It is scheduled to start operating during October 2004. MHI, with a 60% equity stake, will take charge of managing the new venture. Shandong Province is the centre of paper-making in China, accounting for nearly 20% of that nation’s total paper production. The province is home to six of the country’s top 20 paper manufacturers.
According to the companies, the paper demand in China is expected to remain robust, and many paper manufacturers from all over the world are now investing heavily in country.
SATERI INCREASES PULP MILL CAPACITY Sateri International, Singapore, is planning to expand the capacity of its Bahia Pulp mill in Brazil to produce high-grade dissolving pulp. The mill currently has a production capacity of 120 000 tonnes per year of totally chlorine-free pulp. Following the expansion, which is expected to be completed during 2006, it will have a total capacity of 360 000 tonnes a year. The new line will produce high-grade dissolving pulp for specialized market segments, such as high grade viscose, filaments and acetate, based on the existing eucalyptus resource base in the area.
METSO TO SUPPLY STORA ENSO WITH SC PAPER LINE Metso Paper will supply Stora Enso’s Kvarnsveden mill in Sweden with a new production line for highquality SC paper. The order is the largest in Metso’s and Metso Paper’s history, but the value has not been disclosed. Metso Paper’s delivery covers almost the entire new SC paper mill for PM 12, excluding the building itself. Included are the main papermaking machinery, process systems, auxiliary systems, electrification and services. Also included in the order is an expansion of woodroom, TMP and bleaching plant, needed to support the new production line. Start-up is scheduled for the end of 2005.