Contracts

A £25million contract to provide additional gas compression capacity at three Transco sites in the UK has been won by Stone & Webster Engineering. S&W is working closely with Transco - formerly British Gas's distribution arm - and Dresser-Rand, supplier of the five 30MW gas turbine compressors to go into the Aberdeen, Bishop Auckland and Carnforth sites.

* Record pumps for offshore

Ingersoll-Dresser Pumps has delivered two of the largest vertical reciprocating pumps ever fitted to a North Sea platform. Valued at $2.5million, the seawater-injection pumps form part of a platform in the Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) 150 miles east of Aberdeen.

* Multiphase wins onshore

Sulzer (UK) Pumps has won a £1.5million contract from a Russian oil company to supply two machines incorporating multiphase pumps to an onshore field in Siberia. Capable of pumping crude direct from the wellhead without the need for processing, the pumps are based on the Poseidon concept - helico-axial in design rather than the conventional centrifugal.

* Cool work for plastics producer

Over £1million worth of projects have been completed by Coolmation for British Polythene Industries (BPI). Coolmation cooling systems are now in use serving numerous blown film lines at BPI's sites in the UK.

* Twin success for valve sisters

Sister companies within the Tyco International group, Winn Valves and Hindle Valves have between them won contracts worth over £300,000 from Aker Maritime of Aberdeen. Winn butterfly and Hindle ball valves are to be installed on a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel destined for the Conoco Banff Field in the North Sea.

* Jamaican alcohol made safer

A new methanol plant in Trinidad, Jamaica, is to be fitted with a £250,,000 combined ESD (emergency shutdown) and fire detection system from Rotork Instruments. The independently-configured safety system will be installed at Trinidad Methanol IV's Point Lisas plant.