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Linde starts up two CO2 plants to supply growing demand
MARKET PROSPECTS generation facilities. Jacobs is performing the work on-site with support from its offices in Saudi Arabia, the UK and India. Marafiq’s core business is the development, operation and maintenance of power and water treatment systems to provide essential utility services for Jubail and Yanbu.
United Water upgrades Rhode Island water pollution control plant
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nited Water has completed a US$52 million upgrade at its East Providence Water Pollution Control Facility in Rhode Island, USA. The treatment plant has undergone extensive improvements that have made the facility more operationally friendly and efficient. The upgrade brings the collection system and plant, which was built in 1954, into compliance with new state Department of Environmental Management mandates. As well as the renovations at the plant, United Water has increased flow capacity at both the Watchemoket Cove and Boyden Boulevard Pumping Stations, to help eliminate sewer system overflows. In 2010, United Water began a 10-year, design-build-operate (DBO) contract for the city’s wastewater collection and treatment facilities, which serve approximately twothirds of East Providence’s 50 000 residents.
DESALINATION
Veolia Water to refurbish Namibian desalination plant
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eolia Water Solutions & Technologies’ Aqua Services & Engineering (ASE) is to upgrade and refurbish a 400 m3/day seawater desalination plant in Walvis Bay, Namibia. The project will help increase potable water supply for domestic use and provide process water for a Walvis Bay factory. Because of the source seawater’s high organic content, ASE has to adapt the air flotation filtration system design, making it suitable for use as a pre-treatment step. “Our engineers will introduce a vortex mixer to
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generate micro bubbles, which are fed into the flocculated raw seawater stream,” said Christian Stöck, ASE managing director. “This will help lighter organic particles float to the surface, and allow for heavier particles to settle.” These settled particles will then be filtered by an ultrafine filtration bed where, unlike with an additional pumping step, minimal break-up of the flocculated particles will occur. This pre-treatment will ensure that the raw seawater, often affected by red tide and sulphur eruptions, meets the required standards for effective desalination in reverse osmosis membranes. ASE will install an energy recovery system to the reverse osmosis membrane system to help the plant optimise its energy consumption. The plant should be operational within 5–6 months.
OIL & GAS
Fluor performs EPC work for deep water gas-to-power project in the Philippines
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luor Offshore Solutions has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) support contract for Phase 3 of the Malampaya Deep Water Gas-toPower Project in the Philippines. The project is being undertaken on behalf of the Philippine government by the Service Contract 38 consortium composed of Shell Philippines Exploration BV (Operator), Chevron Malampaya LLC and Philippine National Oil Co - Exploration Corp. Approximately 40% of the power for the main island of Luzon is generated by power plants using Malampaya gas. Fluor has already completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for Phase 3. Fluor Offshore Solutions is providing detailed engineering, procurement and selected construction support services as well as supporting the Shell team in managing the local fabricator. Malampaya Phase 3 involves the design, fabrication and installation of a new depletion compression platform that is linked by a bridge to the existing shallow water platform. Fluor is responsible for the
engineering and procurement for the new depletion compression platform as well as modifications required on the shallow water platform. The project is already under way and should be completed in 2015. Fluor previously provided ongoing engineering services for the existing shallow water platform from 2000 to 2006 and more recently conducted a hazard and operability analysis for the Malampaya project.
Linde starts up two CO2 plants to supply growing demand
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inde North America has upgraded its carbon dioxide (CO2) plants in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Woodward, Oklahoma to support the oil & gas industry’s growing use of CO2 to displace water and enhance well production in completion designs. The two newly commissioned plants serve the Midcontinent and Eagle Ford shale regions. Linde says that CO2 is ideal for enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons because it is injected in a liquid state and converts to a gaseous stage down-hole, mitigating formational damage and fluid on formation, while enhancing well-clean up and flowback. Conventional liquid pumps are used, so the service companies require no specialised equipment. Linde North America is the largest CO2 producer in North America and provides energised fluid systems for oil and gas customers in most major American basins.
KBR to execute LNG pre-FEED studies in Tanzania
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BR is to perform pre-front end engineering and design (preFEED) studies for Statoil Tanzania AS for a prospective liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Tanzania, East Africa. The pre-FEED study is designed to help Statoil further assess the viability of developing an LNG facility to export natural gas from this East African region. The project is expected to be completed during 2013.
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United Water upgrades Rhode Island water pollution control plant
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nited Water has completed a US$52 million upgrade at its East Providence Water Pollution Control Facility in Rhode Island, USA. The treatment plant has undergone extensive improvements that have made the facility more operationally friendly and efficient. The upgrade brings the collection system and plant, which was built in 1954, into compliance with new state Department of Environmental Management mandates. As well as the renovations at the plant, United Water has increased flow capacity at both the Watchemoket Cove and Boyden Boulevard Pumping Stations, to help eliminate sewer system overflows. In 2010, United Water began a 10-year, design-build-operate (DBO) contract for the city’s wastewater collection and treatment facilities, which serve approximately twothirds of East Providence’s 50 000 residents.
DESALINATION
Veolia Water to refurbish Namibian desalination plant
V
eolia Water Solutions & Technologies’ Aqua Services & Engineering (ASE) is to upgrade and refurbish a 400 m3/day seawater desalination plant in Walvis Bay, Namibia. The project will help increase potable water supply for domestic use and provide process water for a Walvis Bay factory. Because of the source seawater’s high organic content, ASE has to adapt the air flotation filtration system design, making it suitable for use as a pre-treatment step. “Our engineers will introduce a vortex mixer to
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generate micro bubbles, which are fed into the flocculated raw seawater stream,” said Christian Stöck, ASE managing director. “This will help lighter organic particles float to the surface, and allow for heavier particles to settle.” These settled particles will then be filtered by an ultrafine filtration bed where, unlike with an additional pumping step, minimal break-up of the flocculated particles will occur. This pre-treatment will ensure that the raw seawater, often affected by red tide and sulphur eruptions, meets the required standards for effective desalination in reverse osmosis membranes. ASE will install an energy recovery system to the reverse osmosis membrane system to help the plant optimise its energy consumption. The plant should be operational within 5–6 months.
OIL & GAS
Fluor performs EPC work for deep water gas-to-power project in the Philippines
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luor Offshore Solutions has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) support contract for Phase 3 of the Malampaya Deep Water Gas-toPower Project in the Philippines. The project is being undertaken on behalf of the Philippine government by the Service Contract 38 consortium composed of Shell Philippines Exploration BV (Operator), Chevron Malampaya LLC and Philippine National Oil Co - Exploration Corp. Approximately 40% of the power for the main island of Luzon is generated by power plants using Malampaya gas. Fluor has already completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for Phase 3. Fluor Offshore Solutions is providing detailed engineering, procurement and selected construction support services as well as supporting the Shell team in managing the local fabricator. Malampaya Phase 3 involves the design, fabrication and installation of a new depletion compression platform that is linked by a bridge to the existing shallow water platform. Fluor is responsible for the
engineering and procurement for the new depletion compression platform as well as modifications required on the shallow water platform. The project is already under way and should be completed in 2015. Fluor previously provided ongoing engineering services for the existing shallow water platform from 2000 to 2006 and more recently conducted a hazard and operability analysis for the Malampaya project.
Linde starts up two CO2 plants to supply growing demand
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inde North America has upgraded its carbon dioxide (CO2) plants in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Woodward, Oklahoma to support the oil & gas industry’s growing use of CO2 to displace water and enhance well production in completion designs. The two newly commissioned plants serve the Midcontinent and Eagle Ford shale regions. Linde says that CO2 is ideal for enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons because it is injected in a liquid state and converts to a gaseous stage down-hole, mitigating formational damage and fluid on formation, while enhancing well-clean up and flowback. Conventional liquid pumps are used, so the service companies require no specialised equipment. Linde North America is the largest CO2 producer in North America and provides energised fluid systems for oil and gas customers in most major American basins.
KBR to execute LNG pre-FEED studies in Tanzania
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BR is to perform pre-front end engineering and design (preFEED) studies for Statoil Tanzania AS for a prospective liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Tanzania, East Africa. The pre-FEED study is designed to help Statoil further assess the viability of developing an LNG facility to export natural gas from this East African region. The project is expected to be completed during 2013.
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