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PETRONAS selects Technip for FEED project in Malaysia
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.
March 2012
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
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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.
March 2012