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June 2002
and wastewater treatment facilities, and complete infrastructure improvements.
SWTP AWARDED ST P E T E R S B U R G CONTRACT
W M G SECURES EVERGLADES PROJECT
SWTP Construction Oy, a Finnish construction company in which Skanska, NCC and YIT hold equal ownership, has been contracted to develop a ~128 million concept for the design, construction and operation of a turnkey wastewater treatment plant in St Petersburg, Russia. The Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant (SWTP) will be constructed in accordance with a public-private partnership model, with the municipality of St Petersburg and the private companies working together in terms of financing and ownership. Construction, expected to take around 2.5 years, will begin as soon as the financing structure is finalized. The SWTP Construction consortium is responsible for the entire project, including design, construction, installation and procurements. The consortium will also be involved in plant operations for a period of 12 years. The operating assignment is not included in the construction contract of ~128 million.
Beers/Skanska Construction and The South Florida Water Management District have awarded a contract to The Water Management Group Inc (WMG) to provide water treatment systems and services for two new Storm Water pump stations in the Florida Everglades. These pump stations are an important part of The Everglades Restoration Project, the largest ecosystem restoration programme in Florida. The contract includes the supply of filters, softeners, strainers, reverse osmosis systems, storage tanks and other related equipment for two pump stations. Organics laden canal water will be treated by the integrated systems and used for cooling and lubrication of the pumps that are capable of pumping 4000 cfs of water and around 2 billion gallons per day. A small percentage of the treated water will be used for potable purposes by plant personnel.
URS AWARDED 30 Y E A R O & M CONTRACT URS Corp has been awarded a contract by the Red River Redevelopment Authority to provide operation and maintenance services for the lied River Army Depot located tn New Boston, Texas. The contract he~ a total value of U8593 million over a period of 30 y~ers, Under the terl~ of the ¢,ontfo,t,% U ~ will
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SNC-LAVALIN WINS ALGERIAN WATER DIVERSION PROJECT SNC-Lavalin International Ine has been awardcCl a ~$141 million contract by the Algerian Department of W~l~r
Re~ouree~ to helm a warn' suppl~ tramTer q ~ m , wbt~h will dlverf mu~h-need~ drlnkln~ w ~ r from ~ve
stations, including one floating station, and a water treatment facility. The company will also install a remote processing and transmission system. The water treatment facility will have an ultimate capacity of 150 000 m 3 of water per day, and is scheduled to be running at one-third capacity as early as June 2002.
HAAPAVE SI TO OUTSOURCE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT Kemwater Services Oy, jointly owned by Kemira and Helsinki Water, and YIT Environment Oy have signed a preliminary agreement with the City of Haapavesi and Valio on outsourcing the operations of the Haapavesi wastewater treatment plant. This is the first undertaking in Finland where a municipality outsources its wastewater treatment with privately financed investments. The aim is that the Haapavesi wastewater treatment plant will be transferred to a company that will be established for this purpose. This company will invest just under ~2 million in expanding and reorganizing the plant, and will be respomible for the opera. tions of the facility for the next 12 years. The City of Haapavesi will be a minority shareholder in the new company, Kc~waler S e r v t ~ will be respor~ibl¢ for the ol~ation~ of the plant, and Y1T l~ifon~ ment for the i o v ¢ # t m ~ The ~ e ~ i ws~wst~r
tre~tmcm #am i~ the tuf~st in ~chevn I~i~t~d: h carl treat wa§fi~c¢~f f f o ~
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Council and Valio during spring 2002.
EARTH TECH WINS WATER PROJECT IN SCOTLAND Scottish Water has awarded Earth Tech, a business unit of Tyco International Ltd, in a joint venture with Morrison Construction, a major water project in the Caithness and Sutherland regions of the Scottish Highlands. The project - referred to as the North Coast Regional Scheme - involves modifications to an existing water intake source at Loch Calder, construction of a new water treatment works (WTW) facility, 53 miles of pipeline, two reservoirs and two booster stations. Work on the design/build project is valued at US$40 million and is scheduled to begin at the water treatment facility in June. The entire distribution system is set to begin providing improved water by December 2003. The new Loch Calder WTW facility will have a capacity of 4.6 million gallons of water per day and will supply water for all of the Caithness regions and the northern section of Sutherland; it will replace 11 existing water treatment facilities.
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BHP TO F U N D OIL AND GAS FIELD EXPANSION BHP Billiton has approved up to US$355 million to progress the development of the Atlantis oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico. The capital will allow completion of front-end engineering and design work (FEED), progression into detailed engineering and design, purchase
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of long-lead items, most major equipment, and major facility fabrication contracts. Full project approval is expected later this year on completion of the final capital cost estimate and project schedule, which will be derived from the FEED studies. The gross capital cost is expected to be in excess of US$2 billion, with the BHP Billiton share worth around US$1 billion. Located in water depths of 4400--7100 feet, Atlantis will be developed using a moored semi-submersible production facility with a gross design capacity of around 150 000 barrels of oil per day and 180 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. The field will also have a separate semi-submersible drilling unit dedicated to development.
U N O C A L FILES DECLARATION OF COMMERCIAL DISCOVERY Unocal Corp's Vietnam subsidiaries have filed a declaration of commercial discovery with PetroVietnam, the state oil company, for three natural gas fields offshore southwest Vietnam. The declaration covers resources that have been discovered in the Kim Long, Ac Quy and Ca Voi natural gas fields. Based on the drilling to date, Unocal believes the fields have a combined gross discovery volume of 2.5 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas. This resource volume is in a core area that would allow the three fields to be developed in a single programme using shared offshore facilities. Unocal estimates the gross unrisked resource potential, including predicted field extensions and yet undrilled prospective trends, for the combined contract areas (Blocks B, 52/97 and 48/95) at 5-8 tcf. More drilling is planned.
EVN (Vietnam's state electricity company) and Unocal will soon begin a prefeasibility study for an electricity generating plant that would be built at O Mon in the central Mekong Delta. PetroVietnam and Unocal are also completing an initial study on a 236 mile (380 kin) pipeline from the offshore gas fields to O Mon.
ABB AWARDED CASPIAN FIELDS CONTRACT ABB has been awarded a five-year contract to supply project management, design of the process and safety system, environmental protection, project control, procurement, fabrication, and cost estimating for Lukoil's oil and gas field developments in the Northern Caspian Sea. The long-term agreement with VolgogradNIPImorneft, the Lukoil subsidiary, will provide for the joint work and training of its engineers in the various skills for the development of oil and gas production facilities. The first phase of the contract will be the Yuri Korchagin field facilities construction.
COLTKBR WINS MACKENZIE GAS PROJECT CONTRACT Imperial Oil Resources has awarded the conceptual and preliminary engineering for the Mackenzie Gas Project to COLTKBR, a Calgary-based long-term joint venture of Colt Engineering Corp (Colt) and Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR). The engineering work will help to optimize the commercial viability of the Mackenzie Gas Project and support the development of regulatory applications. Imperial is the operator of the gas gath-
ering and pipeline systems for the project. The Mackenzie Gas Project involves natural gas production facilities, compression and gathering pipelines in the Mackenzie Delta area, along with a pipeline to the Norman Wells area where a liquid recovery and compression facility will be installed. A natural gas pipeline with compression facilities will then proceed south from Norman Wells through the Mackenzie Valley into northwestern Alberta.
KVAERNER TO COMMISSION OFFSHORE PLATFORM Norsk Hydro has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for the hook-up and commissioning of the Grane platform. The NKr300 million contract will be undertaken when the platform is installed on the field in April 2003. The jacket and topside modules for Grane will be towed out to the field and installed in the spring of 2003. The topsides consist of three large modules that will be lifted into position on the jacket by a crane vessel. Weighing almost I 1 000 tonnes, the production module and deck are being provided as a turnkey delivery by the Kvaerner Egersund yard. The living quarters, power generation and utilities module, weighing around 5500 tonnes, will comprise a turnkey delivery from Kvaerner Rosenberg. The 6500 tonne drilling module is to be delivered by Aker Stord, with drilling equipment supplied by associate company, Maritime Hydraulics. The jacket will be a turnkey delivery from Aker Verdal. Engineering of the topside modules and jacket has been undertaken by Aker Kvaerner's engineering companies in Oslo and
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Kristiansand. The new contract for hook-up and commissioning will mainly be undertaken by staff of Aker Kvaerner companies in the Stavanger area.
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N E W BAYER PLANT TO EXPAND TDA PRODUCTION Bayer AG is investing around ~170 million in a new plant at its Dormagen site to expand production capacity for toluene diamine (TDA), an intermediate in the production of polyurethanes. The plant is one of the largest production facilities of its type in the world. Production should start during the second half of 2003 when the new facility, with a capacity of around 200 000 metric tons of TDA per year, will replace the current plants. In the future, it is anticipated that Bayer's sites at Leverkusen and Bnmsbiittel among others will also be supplied with TDA from Dormagen. Construction work on the two production buildings, a tank farm, an on-site waste gas incinerator and the operations centre has already begun.
I'()XVE R (;I:,N E R V I ' I ( ) N A L S T O M WINS GAZ DE F R A N C E ORDER Alstom has. been awarded a contract by the Gaz de France Group with a total value of around ~450 million for the turnkey supply of an 800 MW gas-fired power plant to be built at Dunkirk, on the northernmost tip of France. Alstom will deliver two 400 MW power trains, each
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composed of one GTI3E2 gas turbine fired by natural gas; one gas-fired boiler running on blast furnace and coke-oven gases from the nearby Sollac Atlantique steel works (Arcelor Group); one 235 MW steam-generator set; the cooling water system; the complete advanced electrical and control system; and all electromechanical auxiliaries. Commercial operation of the combined cycle power plant is scheduled for February 2005.
OHIO AGREES 3 N E W ELECTRIC FACILITIES
Power LLC has been granted approval to construct a US$160 million 300 MW natural-gas-fired electric peaking facility. The plant will occupy a 30 acre site near the village of Metamora in Fulton County and consist of four combustion turbine generators
DUKE/FLUOR DANIEL WINS P O W E R PLANT CONTRACT Duke/Fluor Daniel has been awarded a contract by Duke Energy North America to provide turnkey engineering, procurement and construction services for the 620 M W Fayette Energy Facility in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The facility will feature two General Electric 7 FA combustion turbine generators, fueled by natural gas or fuel oil, operating in combined cycle with a General Electric class D 11 steam turbine/generator. Commercial operation is scheduled for summer 2003.
The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) has approved the construction of three new electric generation facilities. Columbiana County Energy, a subsidiary of Cogentrix Energy Inc, has been given approval to construct a US$660 million 1100 MW combined-cycle, naturalgas-fired electric power generating facility in Columbiana County. The completed plant WASHINGTON will include two independent SELECTED FOR power islands, with each conWISCONSIN taining two natural-gas-fired combustion turbine generators, P O W E R PLANT two heat recovery steam generators, and one steam turbine Washington Group Internatgenerator. Start up is scheduled ional is to provide engineering, procurement, and construcfor June 2004. The board has also given tion services to WE Power approval to Global Energy LLC for a new 500 MW, comInc's subsidiary Lima Energy bined cycle, natural-gas-fueled Co to construct a 580MW power plant to be built at Port integrated combined-cycle Washington, Wisconsin. The new Port Washington gasification facility in the city of Lima. The US$500 million unit will be located on Lake plant will use the integrated Michigan at the site of the gasification combined-cycle company's Port Washington process which powers electric power plant, and will be opergenerators using synthesis gas ated by WE Energies, the prinformed by burning coal waste cipal utility subsidiary of briquettes. The completed Wisconsin Energy. The new facility will consist of two syn- unit will consist of two comthesis-gas-fueled combustion bustion turbines, two heat turbine generators and one recovery steam generators, and one steam turbine. steam turbine generator. The Port Washington projFinally, the Aquila Inc subsidiary Aquila Fulton County ect forms part of Wisconsin
Energy's "Power the Future" plan to add around 2800 MW of new electric generating capacity in Wisconsin. Washington Group will commence detailed engineering immediately. Construction will follow, pending approval of the project by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.
BHEL WINS ORDER FROM KARNATAKA POWER BHEL has secured an order for the supply of hydrogenerating equipment (5x55 MW and lx15 MW) from Karnataka Power Corp Ltd (KPCL) for its Almatti Dam Power House in Karnataka, India. Slated for commissioning in a tight schedule of 41 months, BHEL's scope of work includes the design, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of Kaplan-type hydroturbines with matching generators and auxiliaries; digital excitation system; microprocessor-based controls and the complete data acquisition system.
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BASF BUILDS N E W CITRAL PLANT BASF is building a new production plant for the fine chemical intermediate Citral with an annual capacity of 40 000 metric tons. The plant, scheduled to come on stream in 2004, will replace the existing Citral manufacturing facility, which has a capacity of 10 000 metric tons per year. The expansion will make Citral the production platform for vitamin A and vitamin E, carotenoids and an expanded range of aroma chemicals.
June 2002
and wastewater treatment facilities, and complete infrastructure improvements.
SWTP AWARDED ST P E T E R S B U R G CONTRACT
W M G SECURES EVERGLADES PROJECT
SWTP Construction Oy, a Finnish construction company in which Skanska, NCC and YIT hold equal ownership, has been contracted to develop a ~128 million concept for the design, construction and operation of a turnkey wastewater treatment plant in St Petersburg, Russia. The Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant (SWTP) will be constructed in accordance with a public-private partnership model, with the municipality of St Petersburg and the private companies working together in terms of financing and ownership. Construction, expected to take around 2.5 years, will begin as soon as the financing structure is finalized. The SWTP Construction consortium is responsible for the entire project, including design, construction, installation and procurements. The consortium will also be involved in plant operations for a period of 12 years. The operating assignment is not included in the construction contract of ~128 million.
Beers/Skanska Construction and The South Florida Water Management District have awarded a contract to The Water Management Group Inc (WMG) to provide water treatment systems and services for two new Storm Water pump stations in the Florida Everglades. These pump stations are an important part of The Everglades Restoration Project, the largest ecosystem restoration programme in Florida. The contract includes the supply of filters, softeners, strainers, reverse osmosis systems, storage tanks and other related equipment for two pump stations. Organics laden canal water will be treated by the integrated systems and used for cooling and lubrication of the pumps that are capable of pumping 4000 cfs of water and around 2 billion gallons per day. A small percentage of the treated water will be used for potable purposes by plant personnel.
URS AWARDED 30 Y E A R O & M CONTRACT URS Corp has been awarded a contract by the Red River Redevelopment Authority to provide operation and maintenance services for the lied River Army Depot located tn New Boston, Texas. The contract he~ a total value of U8593 million over a period of 30 y~ers, Under the terl~ of the ¢,ontfo,t,% U ~ will
~ernte, maintain a ~ ~ovMe water
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SNC-LAVALIN WINS ALGERIAN WATER DIVERSION PROJECT SNC-Lavalin International Ine has been awardcCl a ~$141 million contract by the Algerian Department of W~l~r
Re~ouree~ to helm a warn' suppl~ tramTer q ~ m , wbt~h will dlverf mu~h-need~ drlnkln~ w ~ r from ~ve
stations, including one floating station, and a water treatment facility. The company will also install a remote processing and transmission system. The water treatment facility will have an ultimate capacity of 150 000 m 3 of water per day, and is scheduled to be running at one-third capacity as early as June 2002.
HAAPAVE SI TO OUTSOURCE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT Kemwater Services Oy, jointly owned by Kemira and Helsinki Water, and YIT Environment Oy have signed a preliminary agreement with the City of Haapavesi and Valio on outsourcing the operations of the Haapavesi wastewater treatment plant. This is the first undertaking in Finland where a municipality outsources its wastewater treatment with privately financed investments. The aim is that the Haapavesi wastewater treatment plant will be transferred to a company that will be established for this purpose. This company will invest just under ~2 million in expanding and reorganizing the plant, and will be respomible for the opera. tions of the facility for the next 12 years. The City of Haapavesi will be a minority shareholder in the new company, Kc~waler S e r v t ~ will be respor~ibl¢ for the ol~ation~ of the plant, and Y1T l~ifon~ ment for the i o v ¢ # t m ~ The ~ e ~ i ws~wst~r
tre~tmcm #am i~ the tuf~st in ~chevn I~i~t~d: h carl treat wa§fi~c¢~f f f o ~
June 2002
Council and Valio during spring 2002.
EARTH TECH WINS WATER PROJECT IN SCOTLAND Scottish Water has awarded Earth Tech, a business unit of Tyco International Ltd, in a joint venture with Morrison Construction, a major water project in the Caithness and Sutherland regions of the Scottish Highlands. The project - referred to as the North Coast Regional Scheme - involves modifications to an existing water intake source at Loch Calder, construction of a new water treatment works (WTW) facility, 53 miles of pipeline, two reservoirs and two booster stations. Work on the design/build project is valued at US$40 million and is scheduled to begin at the water treatment facility in June. The entire distribution system is set to begin providing improved water by December 2003. The new Loch Calder WTW facility will have a capacity of 4.6 million gallons of water per day and will supply water for all of the Caithness regions and the northern section of Sutherland; it will replace 11 existing water treatment facilities.
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BHP TO F U N D OIL AND GAS FIELD EXPANSION BHP Billiton has approved up to US$355 million to progress the development of the Atlantis oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico. The capital will allow completion of front-end engineering and design work (FEED), progression into detailed engineering and design, purchase
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of long-lead items, most major equipment, and major facility fabrication contracts. Full project approval is expected later this year on completion of the final capital cost estimate and project schedule, which will be derived from the FEED studies. The gross capital cost is expected to be in excess of US$2 billion, with the BHP Billiton share worth around US$1 billion. Located in water depths of 4400--7100 feet, Atlantis will be developed using a moored semi-submersible production facility with a gross design capacity of around 150 000 barrels of oil per day and 180 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. The field will also have a separate semi-submersible drilling unit dedicated to development.
U N O C A L FILES DECLARATION OF COMMERCIAL DISCOVERY Unocal Corp's Vietnam subsidiaries have filed a declaration of commercial discovery with PetroVietnam, the state oil company, for three natural gas fields offshore southwest Vietnam. The declaration covers resources that have been discovered in the Kim Long, Ac Quy and Ca Voi natural gas fields. Based on the drilling to date, Unocal believes the fields have a combined gross discovery volume of 2.5 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas. This resource volume is in a core area that would allow the three fields to be developed in a single programme using shared offshore facilities. Unocal estimates the gross unrisked resource potential, including predicted field extensions and yet undrilled prospective trends, for the combined contract areas (Blocks B, 52/97 and 48/95) at 5-8 tcf. More drilling is planned.
EVN (Vietnam's state electricity company) and Unocal will soon begin a prefeasibility study for an electricity generating plant that would be built at O Mon in the central Mekong Delta. PetroVietnam and Unocal are also completing an initial study on a 236 mile (380 kin) pipeline from the offshore gas fields to O Mon.
ABB AWARDED CASPIAN FIELDS CONTRACT ABB has been awarded a five-year contract to supply project management, design of the process and safety system, environmental protection, project control, procurement, fabrication, and cost estimating for Lukoil's oil and gas field developments in the Northern Caspian Sea. The long-term agreement with VolgogradNIPImorneft, the Lukoil subsidiary, will provide for the joint work and training of its engineers in the various skills for the development of oil and gas production facilities. The first phase of the contract will be the Yuri Korchagin field facilities construction.
COLTKBR WINS MACKENZIE GAS PROJECT CONTRACT Imperial Oil Resources has awarded the conceptual and preliminary engineering for the Mackenzie Gas Project to COLTKBR, a Calgary-based long-term joint venture of Colt Engineering Corp (Colt) and Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR). The engineering work will help to optimize the commercial viability of the Mackenzie Gas Project and support the development of regulatory applications. Imperial is the operator of the gas gath-
ering and pipeline systems for the project. The Mackenzie Gas Project involves natural gas production facilities, compression and gathering pipelines in the Mackenzie Delta area, along with a pipeline to the Norman Wells area where a liquid recovery and compression facility will be installed. A natural gas pipeline with compression facilities will then proceed south from Norman Wells through the Mackenzie Valley into northwestern Alberta.
KVAERNER TO COMMISSION OFFSHORE PLATFORM Norsk Hydro has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for the hook-up and commissioning of the Grane platform. The NKr300 million contract will be undertaken when the platform is installed on the field in April 2003. The jacket and topside modules for Grane will be towed out to the field and installed in the spring of 2003. The topsides consist of three large modules that will be lifted into position on the jacket by a crane vessel. Weighing almost I 1 000 tonnes, the production module and deck are being provided as a turnkey delivery by the Kvaerner Egersund yard. The living quarters, power generation and utilities module, weighing around 5500 tonnes, will comprise a turnkey delivery from Kvaerner Rosenberg. The 6500 tonne drilling module is to be delivered by Aker Stord, with drilling equipment supplied by associate company, Maritime Hydraulics. The jacket will be a turnkey delivery from Aker Verdal. Engineering of the topside modules and jacket has been undertaken by Aker Kvaerner's engineering companies in Oslo and
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Kristiansand. The new contract for hook-up and commissioning will mainly be undertaken by staff of Aker Kvaerner companies in the Stavanger area.
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N E W BAYER PLANT TO EXPAND TDA PRODUCTION Bayer AG is investing around ~170 million in a new plant at its Dormagen site to expand production capacity for toluene diamine (TDA), an intermediate in the production of polyurethanes. The plant is one of the largest production facilities of its type in the world. Production should start during the second half of 2003 when the new facility, with a capacity of around 200 000 metric tons of TDA per year, will replace the current plants. In the future, it is anticipated that Bayer's sites at Leverkusen and Bnmsbiittel among others will also be supplied with TDA from Dormagen. Construction work on the two production buildings, a tank farm, an on-site waste gas incinerator and the operations centre has already begun.
I'()XVE R (;I:,N E R V I ' I ( ) N A L S T O M WINS GAZ DE F R A N C E ORDER Alstom has. been awarded a contract by the Gaz de France Group with a total value of around ~450 million for the turnkey supply of an 800 MW gas-fired power plant to be built at Dunkirk, on the northernmost tip of France. Alstom will deliver two 400 MW power trains, each
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composed of one GTI3E2 gas turbine fired by natural gas; one gas-fired boiler running on blast furnace and coke-oven gases from the nearby Sollac Atlantique steel works (Arcelor Group); one 235 MW steam-generator set; the cooling water system; the complete advanced electrical and control system; and all electromechanical auxiliaries. Commercial operation of the combined cycle power plant is scheduled for February 2005.
OHIO AGREES 3 N E W ELECTRIC FACILITIES
Power LLC has been granted approval to construct a US$160 million 300 MW natural-gas-fired electric peaking facility. The plant will occupy a 30 acre site near the village of Metamora in Fulton County and consist of four combustion turbine generators
DUKE/FLUOR DANIEL WINS P O W E R PLANT CONTRACT Duke/Fluor Daniel has been awarded a contract by Duke Energy North America to provide turnkey engineering, procurement and construction services for the 620 M W Fayette Energy Facility in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The facility will feature two General Electric 7 FA combustion turbine generators, fueled by natural gas or fuel oil, operating in combined cycle with a General Electric class D 11 steam turbine/generator. Commercial operation is scheduled for summer 2003.
The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) has approved the construction of three new electric generation facilities. Columbiana County Energy, a subsidiary of Cogentrix Energy Inc, has been given approval to construct a US$660 million 1100 MW combined-cycle, naturalgas-fired electric power generating facility in Columbiana County. The completed plant WASHINGTON will include two independent SELECTED FOR power islands, with each conWISCONSIN taining two natural-gas-fired combustion turbine generators, P O W E R PLANT two heat recovery steam generators, and one steam turbine Washington Group Internatgenerator. Start up is scheduled ional is to provide engineering, procurement, and construcfor June 2004. The board has also given tion services to WE Power approval to Global Energy LLC for a new 500 MW, comInc's subsidiary Lima Energy bined cycle, natural-gas-fueled Co to construct a 580MW power plant to be built at Port integrated combined-cycle Washington, Wisconsin. The new Port Washington gasification facility in the city of Lima. The US$500 million unit will be located on Lake plant will use the integrated Michigan at the site of the gasification combined-cycle company's Port Washington process which powers electric power plant, and will be opergenerators using synthesis gas ated by WE Energies, the prinformed by burning coal waste cipal utility subsidiary of briquettes. The completed Wisconsin Energy. The new facility will consist of two syn- unit will consist of two comthesis-gas-fueled combustion bustion turbines, two heat turbine generators and one recovery steam generators, and one steam turbine. steam turbine generator. The Port Washington projFinally, the Aquila Inc subsidiary Aquila Fulton County ect forms part of Wisconsin
Energy's "Power the Future" plan to add around 2800 MW of new electric generating capacity in Wisconsin. Washington Group will commence detailed engineering immediately. Construction will follow, pending approval of the project by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.
BHEL WINS ORDER FROM KARNATAKA POWER BHEL has secured an order for the supply of hydrogenerating equipment (5x55 MW and lx15 MW) from Karnataka Power Corp Ltd (KPCL) for its Almatti Dam Power House in Karnataka, India. Slated for commissioning in a tight schedule of 41 months, BHEL's scope of work includes the design, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of Kaplan-type hydroturbines with matching generators and auxiliaries; digital excitation system; microprocessor-based controls and the complete data acquisition system.
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BASF BUILDS N E W CITRAL PLANT BASF is building a new production plant for the fine chemical intermediate Citral with an annual capacity of 40 000 metric tons. The plant, scheduled to come on stream in 2004, will replace the existing Citral manufacturing facility, which has a capacity of 10 000 metric tons per year. The expansion will make Citral the production platform for vitamin A and vitamin E, carotenoids and an expanded range of aroma chemicals.