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Tallgrass Pony Express considers expanding crude oil pipeline
MARKET PROSPECTS NTU’s Nanyang Business School, a former investment banker with DBS Bank and Normura Singapore. Managing director of Nano Sun Adjunct Professor Wong said that the applications and implications for their new technology are wide-ranging. “Apart from our capabilities to improve wastewater treatment and desalination plants, multinational companies in the food and beverage industry have also expressed interest in using our technologies in their production processes,” said Adjunct Professor Wong, who teaches finance at NTU. The NTU invention is now ready for sale in the market.
By-pass pumping project in Florida
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MCOR Group Inc subsidiary Harry Pepper & Associates Inc has secured a contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers for rehabilitation and structural replacement work on the Herbert Hoover Dike in Clewiston, Florida, USA. Harry Pepper will be responsible for the demolition and removal of two of the existing Herbert Hoover Dike culverts and construction of new water control structures. The work includes installation of temporary cofferdams, dewatering systems, placement of surcharge fill, by-pass pumping, and grassing and turbidity barriers and monitoring.
DESALINATION
California American Water awarded US$1mn grant for test well
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alifornia American Water’s desalination test well project is to receive a US$1 million Proposition 50 grant. The grant will help pay for the installation of a US$4 million slant test well, which is intended to prove the viability of beach wells as feed-water for the company’s Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project. Proposition 50, the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water and Coastal and Beach Protection Act, is a US$3.4 billion bond passed by voters in 2002, which allocates US$50 million in grants for brackish water
September 2014
and ocean water desalination projects throughout California state.
4NRg secures funding for renewable offshore desalination unit
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NRg has secured £42 000 of grant funding from a renewable energy programme for its offshore desalination unit. The UK Supply Chain innovation for Offshore Renewable Energy (SCORE) programme awarded a grant to develop the unit. Most desalination units require a large commercial power source and as such are often located near to power stations. This method is therefore not suitable for remote areas and is very energy intensive. 4NRg’s desalination unit can harness the power of the sea, through wave or tidal energy, in order to create fresh drinking water. The unit is currently only at the prototype stage so the next step for 4NRg is to upscale the prototype to a large enough size for it to be tested. It will then be independently assessed and have the amount of water produced and its quality evaluated in order to illustrate its potential to commercial developers. This initial pilot project is planned to take nine months, with the first up-scaled device being ready for testing in three to six months, either in a large testing tank or potentially in the sea. “There are other desalination units on the market and in the development stages, but none are comparative to this one due to it not requiring electricity,” said Mark Aspinall, business development director for 4NRg. “If all goes to plan this unit could also be widely used in disaster areas where fresh water is often a scarce, yet crucial, resource.”
Oasys Water’s FO technology to treat Chinese power plant’s wastewater
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he Changxing Power Plant, in China’s northern Zhejiang province, will use Oasys Water Inc’s patented forward osmosis technology to treat the coal-fired
power plant’s wastewater from flue gas desulfurization. This is Oasys Water’s first international commercial application. The project also marks China’s first commercial application of forward osmosis based Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD), a desalination method that Oasys Water has pioneered. The planned wastewater treatment system will desalinate up to 650 m3/day of the FGD wastewater for reuse. “Being selected as part of the Changxing Power Plant ZLD project being developed with Beijing Woteer is an important milestone for Oasys Water. The win marks the first of many potential ZLD projects for our company, it highlights Oasys’s growth and momentum in the Asia-Pacific region and it also underscores the successful commercialization of forward osmosis technology,” said Jim Matheson, president and CEO of Oasys Water.
MINING
Outotec adds office in the Philippines
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utotec has strengthened its presence in the Philippines with the opening of a new office in Manila. The new office, which is part of Outotec’s expansion in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, will focus on serving customers, driving sales in the growing market and supporting project implementation in the Philippines. Stuart Sneyd, president of Outotec’s APAC region, said: “Apart from the mining and metals sector, this market also offers attractive growth opportunities for Outotec in industrial water treatment and renewable energy sectors. With the opening of our Manila office, we will take our capability to deliver sustainable technology solutions and local customer support services to a whole new level in the Philippines.”
OIL & GAS
Tallgrass Pony Express considers expanding crude oil pipeline
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allgrass Pony Express Pipeline LLC is looking to potentially
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MARKET PROSPECTS expand its crude oil pipeline system to transport growing production in areas around its existing system receipt points. These areas include the Denver-Julesburg Basin in northeast Colorado and the Niobrara and Codell formations located in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming in the US. Pony Express is also pursuing the expansion from Guernsey, Wyoming to receive additional Bakken Shale crude oil from its existing joint tariff partners and to accommodate growing Powder River Basin production. The proposed expansion, which would be expected to be operational in the second half of 2016, involves the construction of new pipeline facilities to increase the current capacity of the Pony Express crude oil pipeline system by up to 400 000 barrels per day.
Fluor selected for Canadian oil sands project
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ort Hills Energy LP has awarded Fluor Corp a US$1.3 billion engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction contract for the utilities scope of the Fort Hills oil sands mining project. The project, which is located about 90 km north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, will be developed as an open-pit truck and shovel mine and is planned to yield 180 000 barrels of bitumen per day at full production. First oil is expected as early as the fourth quarter of 2017. Fort Hills Energy is a partnership between Suncor Energy, Total E&P Canada Ltd and Teck Resources Ltd.
FW collaborates with ZeoGas on US Gulf Coast gas-to-gasoline plant
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subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has entered into a collaboration agreement 4
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with ZeoGas LLC to support final site selection and project planning towards the development of ZeoGas’s first fuels manufacturing plant, to be located on the US Gulf Coast. ZeoGas’s “Syngas to ZeoGas” process converts a variety of feedstocks to synthesis gas and then to transportation fuels. ZeoGas is developing the first of what it expects to be a portfolio of plants to convert plentiful and clean natural gas into zero sulfur, reduced benzene gasoline.
Technip secures refinery contract in Bahrain
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he Bahrain Petroleum Co (BAPCO) has awarded Technip a reimbursable contract to develop the front-end engineering design (FEED) of a refinery in Bahrain. The FEED contract covers four main work packages, including units aimed at processing the “bottom of the barrel” components to high value products, and all associated offsites and utilities. The project is aiming to increase the refinery’s throughput from 267 000 to 360 000 barrels per day. Technip’s operating centre in Rome, Italy, in cooperation with Technip’s operating centre in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2015.
POWER GENERATION
EDF Energy extends Jacobs UK nuclear contract
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acobs Engineering Group Inc’s contract to provide project services to EDF Energy for its eight nuclear power station sites in the UK has been extended by 12 months with an option for a further year. Jacobs is providing a range of project services to support EDF Energy’s program of maintenance and life extension projects at the stations. EDF Energy’s eight stations have a combined capacity of almost 8.8 million kilowatts.
Doosan to supply main equipment to South Korean nuclear power plant
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oosan Heavy Industries & Construction has been awarded a contract worth about US$2.2 billion by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co to supply the main equipment for the Shin-Kori Nuclear Power Plant Units 5 and 6 in Ulsan City, South Korea. Under the contract, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction will supply reactors and nuclear steam supply systems, including steam generators and turbine generators, which have been designed and manufactured in-house. The 1400MW capacity units are scheduled for completion in March 2021 and March 2022.
Babcock-Hitachi to develop CSP technology
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abcock-Hitachi KK (BHK), a group company of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Ltd (MHPS), has been contracted by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment to develop low-cost technology for a concentrating solar power (CSP) system. A verification facility for the low-cost solar thermal collecting system will be built at MHPS’s Yokohama works, with test operation of the new system set to start in 2016.
PETROCHEMICALS
Toyo wins large-scale ethylene complex project in Malaysia
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oyo Engineering Corp has been awarded a contract for a Steam Cracker Complex (SCC) project in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia. The SCC will be part of PETRONAS’s Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project. The contract has been awarded on a lump sum turn-key basis and is scheduled for completion by mid-2019.
September 2014
By-pass pumping project in Florida
E
MCOR Group Inc subsidiary Harry Pepper & Associates Inc has secured a contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers for rehabilitation and structural replacement work on the Herbert Hoover Dike in Clewiston, Florida, USA. Harry Pepper will be responsible for the demolition and removal of two of the existing Herbert Hoover Dike culverts and construction of new water control structures. The work includes installation of temporary cofferdams, dewatering systems, placement of surcharge fill, by-pass pumping, and grassing and turbidity barriers and monitoring.
DESALINATION
California American Water awarded US$1mn grant for test well
C
alifornia American Water’s desalination test well project is to receive a US$1 million Proposition 50 grant. The grant will help pay for the installation of a US$4 million slant test well, which is intended to prove the viability of beach wells as feed-water for the company’s Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project. Proposition 50, the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water and Coastal and Beach Protection Act, is a US$3.4 billion bond passed by voters in 2002, which allocates US$50 million in grants for brackish water
September 2014
and ocean water desalination projects throughout California state.
4NRg secures funding for renewable offshore desalination unit
4
NRg has secured £42 000 of grant funding from a renewable energy programme for its offshore desalination unit. The UK Supply Chain innovation for Offshore Renewable Energy (SCORE) programme awarded a grant to develop the unit. Most desalination units require a large commercial power source and as such are often located near to power stations. This method is therefore not suitable for remote areas and is very energy intensive. 4NRg’s desalination unit can harness the power of the sea, through wave or tidal energy, in order to create fresh drinking water. The unit is currently only at the prototype stage so the next step for 4NRg is to upscale the prototype to a large enough size for it to be tested. It will then be independently assessed and have the amount of water produced and its quality evaluated in order to illustrate its potential to commercial developers. This initial pilot project is planned to take nine months, with the first up-scaled device being ready for testing in three to six months, either in a large testing tank or potentially in the sea. “There are other desalination units on the market and in the development stages, but none are comparative to this one due to it not requiring electricity,” said Mark Aspinall, business development director for 4NRg. “If all goes to plan this unit could also be widely used in disaster areas where fresh water is often a scarce, yet crucial, resource.”
Oasys Water’s FO technology to treat Chinese power plant’s wastewater
T
he Changxing Power Plant, in China’s northern Zhejiang province, will use Oasys Water Inc’s patented forward osmosis technology to treat the coal-fired
power plant’s wastewater from flue gas desulfurization. This is Oasys Water’s first international commercial application. The project also marks China’s first commercial application of forward osmosis based Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD), a desalination method that Oasys Water has pioneered. The planned wastewater treatment system will desalinate up to 650 m3/day of the FGD wastewater for reuse. “Being selected as part of the Changxing Power Plant ZLD project being developed with Beijing Woteer is an important milestone for Oasys Water. The win marks the first of many potential ZLD projects for our company, it highlights Oasys’s growth and momentum in the Asia-Pacific region and it also underscores the successful commercialization of forward osmosis technology,” said Jim Matheson, president and CEO of Oasys Water.
MINING
Outotec adds office in the Philippines
O
utotec has strengthened its presence in the Philippines with the opening of a new office in Manila. The new office, which is part of Outotec’s expansion in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, will focus on serving customers, driving sales in the growing market and supporting project implementation in the Philippines. Stuart Sneyd, president of Outotec’s APAC region, said: “Apart from the mining and metals sector, this market also offers attractive growth opportunities for Outotec in industrial water treatment and renewable energy sectors. With the opening of our Manila office, we will take our capability to deliver sustainable technology solutions and local customer support services to a whole new level in the Philippines.”
OIL & GAS
Tallgrass Pony Express considers expanding crude oil pipeline
T
allgrass Pony Express Pipeline LLC is looking to potentially
Pump Industry Analyst
3
MARKET PROSPECTS expand its crude oil pipeline system to transport growing production in areas around its existing system receipt points. These areas include the Denver-Julesburg Basin in northeast Colorado and the Niobrara and Codell formations located in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming in the US. Pony Express is also pursuing the expansion from Guernsey, Wyoming to receive additional Bakken Shale crude oil from its existing joint tariff partners and to accommodate growing Powder River Basin production. The proposed expansion, which would be expected to be operational in the second half of 2016, involves the construction of new pipeline facilities to increase the current capacity of the Pony Express crude oil pipeline system by up to 400 000 barrels per day.
Fluor selected for Canadian oil sands project
F
ort Hills Energy LP has awarded Fluor Corp a US$1.3 billion engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction contract for the utilities scope of the Fort Hills oil sands mining project. The project, which is located about 90 km north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, will be developed as an open-pit truck and shovel mine and is planned to yield 180 000 barrels of bitumen per day at full production. First oil is expected as early as the fourth quarter of 2017. Fort Hills Energy is a partnership between Suncor Energy, Total E&P Canada Ltd and Teck Resources Ltd.
FW collaborates with ZeoGas on US Gulf Coast gas-to-gasoline plant
A
subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s Global Engineering and Construction Group has entered into a collaboration agreement 4
Pump Industry Analyst
with ZeoGas LLC to support final site selection and project planning towards the development of ZeoGas’s first fuels manufacturing plant, to be located on the US Gulf Coast. ZeoGas’s “Syngas to ZeoGas” process converts a variety of feedstocks to synthesis gas and then to transportation fuels. ZeoGas is developing the first of what it expects to be a portfolio of plants to convert plentiful and clean natural gas into zero sulfur, reduced benzene gasoline.
Technip secures refinery contract in Bahrain
T
he Bahrain Petroleum Co (BAPCO) has awarded Technip a reimbursable contract to develop the front-end engineering design (FEED) of a refinery in Bahrain. The FEED contract covers four main work packages, including units aimed at processing the “bottom of the barrel” components to high value products, and all associated offsites and utilities. The project is aiming to increase the refinery’s throughput from 267 000 to 360 000 barrels per day. Technip’s operating centre in Rome, Italy, in cooperation with Technip’s operating centre in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2015.
POWER GENERATION
EDF Energy extends Jacobs UK nuclear contract
J
acobs Engineering Group Inc’s contract to provide project services to EDF Energy for its eight nuclear power station sites in the UK has been extended by 12 months with an option for a further year. Jacobs is providing a range of project services to support EDF Energy’s program of maintenance and life extension projects at the stations. EDF Energy’s eight stations have a combined capacity of almost 8.8 million kilowatts.
Doosan to supply main equipment to South Korean nuclear power plant
D
oosan Heavy Industries & Construction has been awarded a contract worth about US$2.2 billion by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co to supply the main equipment for the Shin-Kori Nuclear Power Plant Units 5 and 6 in Ulsan City, South Korea. Under the contract, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction will supply reactors and nuclear steam supply systems, including steam generators and turbine generators, which have been designed and manufactured in-house. The 1400MW capacity units are scheduled for completion in March 2021 and March 2022.
Babcock-Hitachi to develop CSP technology
B
abcock-Hitachi KK (BHK), a group company of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Ltd (MHPS), has been contracted by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment to develop low-cost technology for a concentrating solar power (CSP) system. A verification facility for the low-cost solar thermal collecting system will be built at MHPS’s Yokohama works, with test operation of the new system set to start in 2016.
PETROCHEMICALS
Toyo wins large-scale ethylene complex project in Malaysia
T
oyo Engineering Corp has been awarded a contract for a Steam Cracker Complex (SCC) project in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia. The SCC will be part of PETRONAS’s Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project. The contract has been awarded on a lump sum turn-key basis and is scheduled for completion by mid-2019.
September 2014