Contracts & Projects Tracker - September

Contracts & Projects Tracker

September

CB&I for world-scale petchem complex in India

CB&I, through Lummus Technology, has won contracts worth over $45 million from Essar Gujarat Petrochemicals Ltd for technology licenses and basic engineering related to a major grassroots petrochemicals complex in Vadinar, Gujarat, India. The technologies to be provided include ethylene, ethylbenzene/styrene monomer, butadiene extraction, MTBE/ETBE/butene-1, and cumene/phenol. The complex will feature a 1300 ktpa mixed feed ethylene unit that will utilize Lummus' latest generation SRT(R) VI cracking furnaces and recovery technology. The downstream petrochemical units for the production of styrene, butadiene, ethers, butene-1, and phenol are also of world-scale capacity, and are being licensed by Lummus in cooperation with its various licensing partners.

Siemens to supply wastewater treatment plant in Poland

Siemens has been awarded a contract to provide a process control and automation system, and electrical works for the sludge incineration plant at the Lodz wastewater treatment facility in Lodz, Poland. The project, worth ovr Euro1 million is part of an ongoing plant modernisation, which was required to treat an increased amount of wastewater and thus meet the requirements of EU Directive No. 91/271/EEC. The capacity of the plant has increased to 200,000 m3/day (rainless weather), or 52% of the total wastewater in the region, which requires the proper sludge management process implementation.

Norway LNG plant orders Centum VP  

Yokogawa has received an order worth NOK8 million to supply an integrated control, safety and analyser system for the new natural gas liquefaction plant at Risavika, near Stavanger, Norway. The order, which covers the supply of Yokogawa's recently introduced Centum VP Integrated Production Control System, ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system and an analyser system based on the GC1000 Mark II process gas chromatograph, has been placed with Yokogawa by the Linde Group. Linde was awarded a contract for the turnkey construction of the plant by Skangass AS, a joint venture of the Norwegian utility Lyse Gass and the financial firm Celsius Invest. The LNG facility has a capacity of 300 ktpa and will supply LNG to industrial customers in Scandinavia and the Baltic region from 2010.  The order was awarded in August 2008 and is scheduled for completion in June 2009.

Corus nets contract in India

Corus Process Engineering (CPE) has been awarded a contract, worth in the region of £1 million, to provide a complete design for a single strand continuous slab caster for Monnet Ispat & Energy of India. Part of the contract involves converting the existing 254mm thick slab caster to a machine that is capable of producing three different thicknesses of high carbon steel slab. The overall contract between CPE and MIEL includes two other aspects: engineering services, including refurbishment of the turret arms, and the hardware sales and uplift from site. Willie Cowan, Project Manager at CPE comments: “CPE will also provide mechanical and electrical design services in converting the turret arms and Tundish Cars to fit the new Concast plant configuration, which requires considerable design effort and know-how. Much of the overall design effort will be spent converting the existing Concast plant equipment, which previously cast 254mm thick slabs, to plant that is capable of producing three different slab thicknesses: 200mm, 254mm and 300mm.”

Polypropylene complex for T&T

LyondellBasell, Government of Trinidad and Tobago, NGC, NEC and Lurgi have signed a project development agreement to jointly evaluate the construction and operation of a fully integrated polypropylene complex in Trinidad and Tobago. The project will include the production of 490kt of polyolefins based on three world-scale plants, including a methanol plant and a methanol-to-propylene (MTP) plant. The propylene produced by Lurgi's MegaMethanol and MTP technologies will supply feedstock to a polypropylene plant based on LyondellBasell's Spherizone technology.

Instrumentation on Europe’s biggest paper machine

Palm Paper has commissioned VEGA to supply the level, switching and pressure instrumentation for its New PM 7 project in King’s Lynn. The order for the newsprint paper machine was awarded to the company Voith Paper. With a working breadth of 10.6 m and a maximum annual quantity of 400kt, it will be the largest paper machine for newsprint paper in Europe. Start-up is planned for the 3rd quarter of 2009. The order includes pressure transmitters with ceramic measuring cell, radar sensors with various antenna types as well as vibrating level switches. The instruments will be used in all areas of the new plant – from stock processing to paper machine. All continuous measuring instruments are communicating via Profibus PA technology.

Yorkshire Water specifies heavy duty pumps

Yorkshire Water has specified two industrial pumps from Mono NOV to meet heavy duty demands at its Normanton Wastewater Treatment Works. The pumps installed at Normanton are used on a desludging duty, which involves taking sludge from the plant’s primary tanks and feeding it into a sludge storage tank. Mono pumps were installed at the works because the plant’s previous pumps could not cope with the high viscosity of the sludge, which can contain up to 12% dry solids, coupled with a required suction lift of four metres.

August

Emerson automating ultra-supercritical power plant in China

London - Emerson Process Management has received a contract from Huaneng Group to apply its Plantweb digital plant architecture at Haimen, a new ultra-supercritical, coal-fired power plant being built in China’s Guangdong province. The plant will employ digital bus technologies to achieve construction savings as well as ongoing operational savings for power generating facilities. When completed, the six-unit plant (6 X 1,036 MW) will have a total generating capacity of more than 6,000 MW. Read more

Invensys automation for Czech power plant

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has signed a contract to provide automation upgrades to the Chvaletice power plant in the Czech Republic. IPS will upgrade the existing Foxboro I/A Series system to Version 8.4, allowing the existing mesh network to handle more multiple faults and providing highly intuitive design environments, more integrated input/output functionality and predictive maintenance/field device tool technologies, along with new performance applications. Between 1996 and 1998, IPS carried out three contracts worth around £6.7 million on the plant's boiler control, turbine control and block protection systems. In 2006, it completed an upgrade to an earlier version of I/A Series, following the original installation of Version 4 in 2000. Today the plant operates four 200MW units.

Shell fits tallest column in Singapore

The tallest column in the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex (SEPC) project's entire infrastructure was safely and successfully lifted into place at the end of July. Standing at 107 metres high, the propylene fractionation column weighs 1,000 tonnes. A specially designed platform twin ring containerised crane was used to achieve the lift. The only one of its kind in Singapore, the crane has a lifting capacity of 2,000 tonnes. The fractionation column was erected at the site of SEPC's ethylene cracker complex on Pulau Bukom. Its installation marks a new milestone in the project's construction, which is on track for completion of facilities on time for start up by 2009/2010. The SEPC will include a new world-scale 800ktpa ethylene cracker on Pulau Bukom and a 750ktpa Mono-Ethylene Glycol (MEG) plant on Jurong Island.

Kraton inks $20m services deal with Invensys

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has signed a five-year, more-than-$20 million contract to provide comprehensive industrial automation services and solutions to thermoplastic elastomers company Kraton Polymers. The polymer major hasfacilities in the US, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Brazil, China and Japan. IPS will deliver services and solutions to modernise certain operating aspects of Kraton's Belpre, Ohio, facility. IPS will implement its InFusion enterprise control technology, replace the Belpre plant's existing DCS and digital automation system with IPS' I/A Series DCS, and install Foxboro instrumentation, batch management software and linear and non-linear advanced process control applications.

Stormscreens and pumps for Europe largest treatment plant

Mono NOV stormscreens and pumps have been specified for the Upper-Middle Arroyo Culebro (UMAC) Wastewater Treatment plant in Spain, the largest facility of its type in Europe. Through its Spanish distributor, Albosa, Mono has supplied 32 stormscreens and 46 progressing cavity pumps to the UMAC Wastewater Treatment plant, which was designed to handle a maximum flow of 129,600m3 per day. Read more

ZADCO taps AMEC for largest PMC contract

Zakum Development Co. (ZADCO) has awarded AMEC a five-year programme management consultancy (PMC) contract by in Abu Dhabi. The reimbursable contract is estimated to be worth $75 million over the five years - the largest oil-related PMC contract ever awarded by ZADCO. AMEC will provide engineering, consultancy and project management services extending from concept stage through front-end engineering design (FEED), design, construction and commissioning of several projects on the multi-billion dollar Upper Zakum full field development programme.

StatoiHydro fasibility study for Alliance

Alliance Engineering , part of John Wood Group PLC, has been awarded a concept feasibility study by StatoiHydro for a new fixed jacket platform and topsides production facilities for its Valemon field. Valemon is located in approximately 135 meters of water in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.This concept work facilitates early drilling with a jack-up cantilevered drilling rig and later life installation of gas compression facilities. Alliance's focus will be on reducing weight and improving the project economics.

Cabot schedules AspenTech software

Cabot Corp has selected AspenTech’s aspenONE software to improve its scheduling applications. Cabot is expanding its use of the aspenONE Manufacturing suite to include aspenONE Supply Chain to help drive the company’s strategic initiatives in streamlining supply chain processes, improve customer responsiveness, lower inventory and improve manufacturing productivity.
Tranter chooses Arc Energy for oil field contracts

Tranter reaches for Arc

Arc Energy Resources has been awarded a contract by Tranter PHE AB to clad 12 special nozzles for the Swedish company’s plate heat exchangers. The A106 and A105 carbon steel nozzles, which are approximately 300mm long and 450mm diameter, are to be fitted to a bio-central processing platform destined for an oilfield project in Malaysia. The manufacture and supply contract included Arc Energy fabricating the nozzles, NDT testing them prior to cladding, cladding six nozzles in stainless steel and six in Inconel 625, then NDT testing them again before final inspection by the client at the Arc Energy factory at Eastington in Gloucestershire. Since completing the contract Arc Energy has been awarded a second Tranter contract to fabricate and clad similar nozzles for the Qatar Shell Pearl field.

Yorpower for Manchester project

Yorkshire generator supplier Yorpower Manufacturing Ltd has been awarded a turnkey contract for a 1.5 Megawatt installation in Manchester. The scope of supply includes two sound and weatherproof containerized generators, a static load bank, 14,000 litre fuel tank and complete control system. The complete installation is required on the 13th floor of a new office building in Manchester, part of the Spinningfields redevelopment in the City Centre. The installation itself will be complex, requiring a 500 ton mobile crane for lifting the generators, as well as road closure co-ordination. The award follows the company's supply and installation of two generators for another UK bank in the same development earlier this year.

Precision Profiles back to Bystronic

Just 18 months after commissioning the UK’s first 6 kW Bystronic Bystar 3015 laser cutting system, Precision Profiles Laser Division has placed a £500,000-plus order with Bystronic UK Ltd for a second similar system, only this time the machine features the 4 x 2.5 m bed size. Precision Profiles provides a profiling, plasma, laser cutting and steel stockholding facility. The company invested in its first Bystronic laser in 2002 and this was followed by a second machine in 2003. Both these machines feature 3.5 kW resonators and are used to produce components in a wide range of materials for a variety of customers including those in the yellow goods, architectural and bridge building industries, to name just a few. The company identified an opportunity to further increase the service it provides by moving into the 20 – 25 mm material thickness market resulting in the purchase of the first 6 kW system.

Technip on $2.4bn expansion project in Texas

Premcor Refining Group Inc. has awarded Technip an engineering, procurement, construction and management (EPCM) contract for part of the $2.4 billion major expansion of its Valero Port Arthur Refinery located in Texas. Technip¹s scope of work consists of two processing units, including a saturate gas recovery unit and an amine treatment unit; offsites associated with the expansion of the refinery. The expansion is expected to boost overall refinery throughput capacity to 415,000 barrels per day making it one of the largest refineries and giving Valero more capacity to process heavy sour feedstocks.

Shaw chooses CFBs

Shaw Group has selected Foster Wheeler Ltd to design and supply of two circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generators. The two CFBs will be a part of the new Dominion Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center near St. Paul in Wise County, Virginia. The 585 MWe (net megawatt electric output) energy center will have the capability to use a wide range of coal qualities, including waste coal, and up to 20% biomass. Commercial operation of the plant is scheduled for 2012.

FW heaters for Russian complex

Foster Wheeler Ltd is to supply fired heaters for the Nizhnekamsk integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation. The contract was awarded by Open Joint-Stock Company "TANECO," a unit of Russian oil company Tatneft. Foster Wheeler Italiana will engineer and supply the materials for two furnaces for the hydrocracking unit, and a charge heater and three interheaters for the continuous catalytic reformer unit. OJSC TANECO is the new name of CJSC Nizhnekamsk Refinery for whom Foster Wheeler has already successfully completed the front-end engineering design for the new complex and the process design package for the delayed coker. In addition, at the end of 2007, Foster Wheeler Italiana was also awarded a contract for the detailed engineering of two heaters for the new delayed coker.

Morgensen nets Chile contract

Mogensen Raw Materials Handling has received a "substantial" order for a Type S3056 Mogensen Sizer, a vibratory spreader feeder and spares to cover 2000 hours of operation. The Sizer will be supplied complete with support frame, and both machines will be fully dust-proofed and fitted in vulnerable areas with wear-resistant panels, either Creusabro steel or rubber depending on the location within the machines. The Mogensen equipment, designed to handle up to 650tph of copper ore, will be installed in circuit with and prior to a Barmac XD120 crusher as part of a $10-million project to increase capacity at the SCM Carola SA’s Cerrillos plant near Copiapó in northern Chile from 65 kilotonnes to 220kt per month.

Spanish gas contract for FW

Foster Wheeler Ltd has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract by Gas Natural, for a new 400 megawatt (MW) combined-cycle power plant in Málaga, Spain. This latest award from Gas Natural follows similar PMC awards from this client for a new 1200 MW combined-cycle plant in Cartagena, Spain, completed in 2006, and a new 800 MW combined-cycle plant in Barcelona, currently in construction.

Wood Group on board BP terminal

BP has selected Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd to design and install a new gas processing plant at BP’s Sullom Voe Terminal (SVT). The multi-million-pound refurbishment will replace the existing 25-year old gas processing plant with a slimmed down 21st century model, and will result in a significantly reduced gas inventory being managed on the site while at the same time maximising efficiency. The project will also reduce operating costs and eliminate the need for the planned 2010 major turnaround, modifications and fabric maintenance works on the existing plant.

CB&I for oil sands storage terminal project

CB&I has been awarded an additional US$400 million by Suncor Energy Services Inc. under an existing contract to design and build a storage terminal as part of the Suncor Voyageur Upgrader oil sands project. The original contract was awarded in July 2006 and the total contract value is approximately $500 million. CB&I's scope of work includes detailed engineering design, procurement, fabrication, field construction and mechanical installation, including supporting infrastructure. The project, located approximately 25 kilometers northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, is scheduled to be completed in 2011.

Yokogawa consortium for Romania power plant

A consortium led by its Yokogawa Electric Corp. Austrian subsidiary, Yokogawa GesmbH Central East Europe, has received an order from Austrian Energy & Environment, a major plant manufacturer, to supply electrical equipment and instrumentation for the flue gas desulphurisation systems at the Turceni thermal power plant in Romania. This contract is worth around Euro26 million. Within the consortium, Yokogawa's Austrian subsidiary will be in charge of control & instrumentation and overall project management, and its Austrian partners Siemens Elin and ELIN EBG Motoren will respectively provide electrical equipment and motors for various types of blowers. The Turceni power plant, located in southwest Romania's Gorj county, is this country's largest coal-fired power plant. With a total capacity of 2,310 MW - seven 330 MW units - it generates 10% of the country's electricity.

FW win in Vietnam

Foster Wheeler Ltd has won a contract by Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical LLC for the planned Nghi Son Refinery, which will be Vietnam’s second refinery. NSRP LLC is a joint venture company comprising PetroVietnam and its international partners.

ABB wins $28-million contract in Turkey

ABB has won a $28-million contract for equipment to provide a new steel plant in Turkey, which will have the capacity to produce 2.5 million tonnes of hot flat-rolled products and 1.2 million tons of cold rolled products. The plant will also produce galvanizing steel, dyed sheet steel and rolled steel. ABB will supply technology including a Static Var Compensator (SVC), which compensates for fluctuations in the voltage and current of power supplies that can harm production quality in industrial plants. The contract was awarded by MMK-ATAKAS, a joint partnership between Atakas Metallurgy and Port Management Inc. (Turkey) and Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), a Russian company. The order includes transformers, high- and medium-voltage switchgear, a substation SCADA system, and FACTS (flexible AC transmission system).

Gazprom opts for Yokogawa

Yokogawa Electric Corp. is to supply four JSC Gazprom Neft oil refineries, under a strategic partnership agreement betwen the companies . The deal covers integrated production control systems and operation support software for efficiency improvement and event analysis. Yokogawa said it will also support a Gazprom programme for reducing total cost of ownership by offering technical support with the design, delivery, service, operation, and engineering of control systems. Gazprom's four refineries include the Omsk refinery, Russia's largest such facility with an annual throughput of around 16 million tonnes. According to the Japanese vendor, its deal with Gazprom is linked to an evaluation of its technologies at Sibur, Russia's largest petrochemical and chemicals group, which entered a similar arrangement with Yokogawa In 2006.

Air Liquide hydrogen plant to supply Neste Oil

Air Liquide has won a long-term contract to supply hydrogen to Neste Oil’s Renewable Diesel plant In Rotterdam and is investing Euro160m in a new 130,000 m3/hour hydrogen production unit (Steam Methane Reformer - SMR), which is due to start up in 2011. The SMR unit, to be designed and built by Lurgi, will also be connected to Air Liquide’s Northern European hydrogen network which currently includes eight hydrogen units in operation and more than 900 km of pipeline. Air Liquide has increased its worldwide production capacity of hydrogen by over 50% over the past three years and now operates 200 hydrogen units worldwide, of which 40 are large units.

Nuclear inspection hoist

Nuclear Engineering Services Limited (NESL) said it is currently completing a contract to build a seventh core inspection hoist commissioned by British Energy for its Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGR). Destined for service at the seven British Energy AGR Nuclear Power Stations, the steel framed (3 metres x 1 metre x 2 metres high) hoist, with its polycarbonate containment box, will be used to deploy a series of tools via two duplex chains, to undertake various inspection duties within the reactor cores. A typical inspection duty is to drill out samples from the moderator (the graphite core bricks) and retrieve them to the containment box to allow analysis of the sample to be undertaken. An integral camera at the top of the chains monitors the tools as they are lowered and relays images back to a screen mounted on the control console. Strategically positioned glove ports on the containment box will assist working with the inspection tools.

Yorkshire Water awards £8.3m contract

Engineering company Earth Tech Morrison has been awarded an £8.3m contract from Yorkshire Water to improve the Eccup water treatment works in Leeds. The aim of the Eccup project is to construct a new treatment stage to remove manganese and carry out base maintenance work on the plant to maintain water quality. Civils work will include installing a new filter block and shaft for a pumping station and increasing wall heights from inlet channels to flocculators to allow throughput of 60 million litres. The project is due for completion in November 2009 and work will start on site in August this year.

Over 100 flowmeters for Africa oil platform

Litre Meter has supplied over 100 VFF positive displacement flowmeters for Integrated Flow Systems (IFS) in a deal worth almost $350,000. The meters form part of a chemical injection metering skid system to be installed in Chevron's Tombua Landana Drilling and Production Platform located offshore Angola, Block 14. In order to fulfil the order for the injection rate control device (IRCD) skid Litre Meter had to undergo a rigorous accreditation process to attain Underwriters Laboratories (UL) explosion proof certification for equipment used in hazardous locations. The meters supplied are low flow meters designed to measure a range of chemicals including demulsifier, defoamer, scale inhibitor, water clarifier, corrosion inhibitors and methanol.

Spectrum in offshore acquisition contact with GX Technology

Spectrum has signed a long term contract with GX Technology (GXT), a subsidiary of ION Geophysical Corp., for the12-month charter of the GGS Atlantic seismic vessel. The GGS-Atlantic will acquire long offset 2D seismic data for ION GXT's BasinSPAN program, a portfolio of global, ultra-deep seismic data libraries that enable geoscientists to better understand petroleum systems, from source rocks to the reservoir traps. The contract includes an option for a further 12 month charter period and allows for the vessel to complete a Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) contract off the east coast of India which is a contractual obligation of Spectrum's former parent company GGS ASA.

Bectel nets $200m Rio Tinto EPC deal

Bechtel has signed a $200m engineering, procurement, and construction management agreement with Rio Tinto Alcan for the Kitimat Smelter modernization project in Kitimat, British Columbia. The proposed $2.5bn project would increase production capacity at the smelter by 40%, taking it up to 400ktpa and increase Rio Tinto annual global primary aluminum production capacity by more than 3%. This will make Kitimat not only one of Rio Tinto largest wholly-owned smelters, but also one of the three largest in North America. Kitimat's aluminum production capacity will increase by 125 ktpa using clean and renewable hydroelectric power from the Kemano power station and also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 40% per year. First metal from the modernised smelter is expected in 2011.

Jacobs deals with Lanxess

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.is to provide Front End Loading services for a Lanxess butyl rubber manufacturing plant project located on Jurong Island in Singapore. Officials estimate the project's total installed cost at around $700m. Construction is expected to start early next year and be completed by the end of 2010. Once built, the 20,000-square-meter facility will produce 100,000 tons of butyl rubber annually to serve Asia's markets. Jacobs has also signed a deal with Lanxess Deutschland GmbH to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management services under an Engineering Services Agreement (ESA) for LANXESS' operations in Germany. As one of the leading companies in specialty chemicals, LANXESS had sales in 2007 of 6.61 billion Euros and currently has 14,620 employees in 21 countries.

Jacobs wins Suncor EPC

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract to provide detailed engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for Suncor Energy's Voyageur Upgrader near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Jacobs will provide EPC services for the sulfur complex of the Suncor Voyageur Upgrader, which is a key component of Suncor's plan to achieve a targeted production capacity of 550,000 barrels of oil per day by 2012. The Voyageur Upgrader will upgrade bitumen primarily from the Firebag in-situ site. The new sulfur complex includes two sour water stripper units, one amine unit, three sulfur recovery trains, sulfur degassing, an LT SCOT tail gas treating unit, and a sulfur truck loading terminal. Jacobs will also perform the pipe fabrication and module assembly work at their Edmonton, Alberta, facilities.