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Partners launch Barzan gas project in Qatar
Indian Oil Corp Ltd (IOCL) to provide project management consultancy services for a 400 000 tons per year Motor Spirit Quality (MSQ) project at the Panipat Refinery in the state of Haryana, India. The US$130 million investment will enable the refinery to produce gasoline conforming to the latest European Union standards. For the MSQ upgrading project, Jacobs will perform front-end engineering, process design, construction management, procurement, and startup support.
AKER KVAERNER TO MODIFY STATOIL NORNE FPSO Statoil has selected Aker Kvaerner to modify the Norne FPSO topside for tie-back of the Alve satellite field, in Norway. The NKr390 million full EPCI contract includes engineering and procurement, construction and installation. The project completion is scheduled for March 2009. The contract will be managed by Aker Kvaerner’s regional office in Bergen, Norway. Part of the engineering work will be performed at Aker Kvaerner’s regional office in Stjørdal, Norway. Design and procurement work has started and pre-fabrication of steel and piping will begin in August 2007 at Aker Kvaerner workshops. The offshore installation work is planned for execution during 2008.
SNC-LAVALIN WINS UPGRADER PROJECT IN ALBERTA SNC-Lavalin is to provide front end engineering design services for Phase I of the Secondary Upgrader portion
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of the Fort Hills Oil Sands Project, located in Sturgeon County, in Alberta, Canada. The Sturgeon Upgrader will process bitumen feedstock from the Fort Hills mine into synthetic crude. The upgraded crude will then be marketed for refining into consumer products such as gasoline and diesel. The front-end engineering design phase of the project will begin immediately. The work will be carried out from SNCLavalin’s Montreal office.
PARTNERS LAUNCH BARZAN GAS PROJECT IN QATAR Qatar Petroleum has offered participation in the Barzan gas project and rights for participation in all future phases of the project to ExxonMobil Middle East Marketing Ltd. The two companies have decided not to progress the Gas to Liquids project and instead to pursue the development of the Barzan Project in the North Field. The initial phase of the Barzan project will supply domestic gas to meet Qatar’s infrastructure and industry growth. Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil have agreed to form a joint venture to oversee the project development. The initial phase of the Barzan Project will yield about 1.5 billion cubic feet per day of sales gas with the startup anticipated in 2012.
NESTE, TOTAL CANCEL FRENCH BIODIESEL PROJECT Neste Oil and Total have decided to discontinue their project to build a plant to produce diesel fuel from renewable raw materials at a Total refinery in France.
Feasibility studies on the project, which was announced in 2005, have shown that building the plant at Dunkirk would have proved too expensive. Neste Oil’s other biodiesel projects continue as planned. Neste Oil has a similar plant in the final stage of construction at its Porvoo refinery in Finland which is due to come on stream in the first half of this year. Recently the company decided to build a second identical plant at the same site which is due to be commissioned towards the end of 2008. The two plants at Porvoo will have a combined output of 340 000 t/a and are projected to cost approximately 200 million.
POWER GENERATION CONSORTIUM TO BUILD TOCOMA HYDRO FACILITY IN VENEZUELA Italy’s Impregilo, Brazil’s Odebrecht, Venezuela’s Vinccler and Brazil’s CBPO Engenharia are to build the Tocoma hydroelectric facility in Venezuela, in a project awarded by EDELCA, the Caroni-based power company. The US$968 million contract was provisionally awarded after an international tender. The project covers the construction of a concrete dam, including a hydroelectric power station with total installed capacity of 2160 MW.
AKER/SIEMENS WIN COALFIRED STATION CONTRACT Longview Power LLC, a subsidiary of GenPower Holdings LP, has awarded Aker Kvaerner Songer Inc and
Siemens Power Generation Inc a series of contracts for the engineering, supply of equipment and construction for the Longview project, a supercritical pulverized coalfired generating facility in Monongalia County, West Virginia. Foster Wheeler North America Corp will supply the boiler. The project is scheduled to begin February 2007 with a 48 month duration. According to GenPower, the Longview project is expected to be one of the cleanest and most efficient coal-fired plants in the US. The project will use the highly efficient super critical boiler design and the best available pollution control technology to minimize air emissions. It will generate 695 MW of electricity using a Siemens Steam Turbine and air quality control system. For further information about sourcing and potential subcontracts for this project, please contact Pat Bailey, Global Sourcing Champion, Aker Kvaerner Songer Inc. Tel: +1 724 416-6765.
AREVA BUILDS 6 BIOMASS PLANTS IN BRAZIL, THAILAND Areva has been awarded contracts worth more than 70 million for the construction of six biomass power plants - four in Brazil and two in Thailand. The contracts are with CCC Machinery in Germany and Bua Sommai Electricity Generating Co in Thailand, respectively. The power plants, with unit capacities of 10 MW and 12 MW, will be fuelled either with wood waste or with rice husk. • AREVA will deliver the nuclear supply steam system for EDF’s European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) at Flamanville in France.
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AKER KVAERNER TO MODIFY STATOIL NORNE FPSO Statoil has selected Aker Kvaerner to modify the Norne FPSO topside for tie-back of the Alve satellite field, in Norway. The NKr390 million full EPCI contract includes engineering and procurement, construction and installation. The project completion is scheduled for March 2009. The contract will be managed by Aker Kvaerner’s regional office in Bergen, Norway. Part of the engineering work will be performed at Aker Kvaerner’s regional office in Stjørdal, Norway. Design and procurement work has started and pre-fabrication of steel and piping will begin in August 2007 at Aker Kvaerner workshops. The offshore installation work is planned for execution during 2008.
SNC-LAVALIN WINS UPGRADER PROJECT IN ALBERTA SNC-Lavalin is to provide front end engineering design services for Phase I of the Secondary Upgrader portion
Pump Industry Analyst
of the Fort Hills Oil Sands Project, located in Sturgeon County, in Alberta, Canada. The Sturgeon Upgrader will process bitumen feedstock from the Fort Hills mine into synthetic crude. The upgraded crude will then be marketed for refining into consumer products such as gasoline and diesel. The front-end engineering design phase of the project will begin immediately. The work will be carried out from SNCLavalin’s Montreal office.
PARTNERS LAUNCH BARZAN GAS PROJECT IN QATAR Qatar Petroleum has offered participation in the Barzan gas project and rights for participation in all future phases of the project to ExxonMobil Middle East Marketing Ltd. The two companies have decided not to progress the Gas to Liquids project and instead to pursue the development of the Barzan Project in the North Field. The initial phase of the Barzan project will supply domestic gas to meet Qatar’s infrastructure and industry growth. Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil have agreed to form a joint venture to oversee the project development. The initial phase of the Barzan Project will yield about 1.5 billion cubic feet per day of sales gas with the startup anticipated in 2012.
NESTE, TOTAL CANCEL FRENCH BIODIESEL PROJECT Neste Oil and Total have decided to discontinue their project to build a plant to produce diesel fuel from renewable raw materials at a Total refinery in France.
Feasibility studies on the project, which was announced in 2005, have shown that building the plant at Dunkirk would have proved too expensive. Neste Oil’s other biodiesel projects continue as planned. Neste Oil has a similar plant in the final stage of construction at its Porvoo refinery in Finland which is due to come on stream in the first half of this year. Recently the company decided to build a second identical plant at the same site which is due to be commissioned towards the end of 2008. The two plants at Porvoo will have a combined output of 340 000 t/a and are projected to cost approximately 200 million.
POWER GENERATION CONSORTIUM TO BUILD TOCOMA HYDRO FACILITY IN VENEZUELA Italy’s Impregilo, Brazil’s Odebrecht, Venezuela’s Vinccler and Brazil’s CBPO Engenharia are to build the Tocoma hydroelectric facility in Venezuela, in a project awarded by EDELCA, the Caroni-based power company. The US$968 million contract was provisionally awarded after an international tender. The project covers the construction of a concrete dam, including a hydroelectric power station with total installed capacity of 2160 MW.
AKER/SIEMENS WIN COALFIRED STATION CONTRACT Longview Power LLC, a subsidiary of GenPower Holdings LP, has awarded Aker Kvaerner Songer Inc and
Siemens Power Generation Inc a series of contracts for the engineering, supply of equipment and construction for the Longview project, a supercritical pulverized coalfired generating facility in Monongalia County, West Virginia. Foster Wheeler North America Corp will supply the boiler. The project is scheduled to begin February 2007 with a 48 month duration. According to GenPower, the Longview project is expected to be one of the cleanest and most efficient coal-fired plants in the US. The project will use the highly efficient super critical boiler design and the best available pollution control technology to minimize air emissions. It will generate 695 MW of electricity using a Siemens Steam Turbine and air quality control system. For further information about sourcing and potential subcontracts for this project, please contact Pat Bailey, Global Sourcing Champion, Aker Kvaerner Songer Inc. Tel: +1 724 416-6765.
AREVA BUILDS 6 BIOMASS PLANTS IN BRAZIL, THAILAND Areva has been awarded contracts worth more than 70 million for the construction of six biomass power plants - four in Brazil and two in Thailand. The contracts are with CCC Machinery in Germany and Bua Sommai Electricity Generating Co in Thailand, respectively. The power plants, with unit capacities of 10 MW and 12 MW, will be fuelled either with wood waste or with rice husk. • AREVA will deliver the nuclear supply steam system for EDF’s European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) at Flamanville in France.
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