Contracts & Projects Tracker: April 2010

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Sembcorp is to supply steam to SABIC’s Olefins 6 cracker at the Wilton International site, via a connection from its new £36m gas turbine into an existing pipeline to the cracker. Covering the existing supply of intermediate pressure (IP) steam to SABIC, the recent five-year deal includes provision for an additional 100tph of HP steam if required. In unscheduled flaring situations, SABIC will also be able to safely operate at a reduced rate without taking the plant off line.

Galliford Try’s infrastructure business Morrison Construction has, in joint venture with AECOM Design Build, been awarded two streams of Yorkshire Water’s AMP5 framework worth about £150m over five years. The two streams comprise treatment works, involving capital projects on sewerage and water treatment plants, which is expected to be worth up to £100m and other installation projects, covering pumping station facilities, expected to be worth around £50m.

Natures Way Foods is installing a manufacturing operations management system from CDC Software Corp. at its UK operations. The food company, which is a long-time user of CDC’s Ross ERP system, plans to implement CDC Factory at its Runcton and Selsey plants. Read more

Aggregate Industries is to trial an ’innovative’ heat recovery system at its Haughmond Hill asphalt production site in Shrewsbury, UK. Developed by Econotherm, it will cut energy use by using waste heat to pre-heat the air combusted in the asphalt burner. Trials will tackle issues including moisture and dust in the recovered hot air.

AkzoNobel has officially opened a new monochloroacetic acid (MCA) plant at its Taixing site in China, which now has a production capacity of 60ktpa – double the original design capacity. MCA is a chemical intermediate for products including agrochemicals, carboxymethylcellulose and surfactants.

Sembcorp UK has started a £5m upgrade of the Sembcorp Biomass Power Station. which uses sustainable forms of wood as its fuel. The project will convert it from a power only facility to a combined heat and power unit that recovers and reuses the heat it generates for the benefit of customers at the Wilton International site.

GDF SUEZ has awarded Foster Wheeler a contract for the design, supply and erection of a 190MWe 100% biomass-fired circulating fluidised-bed boiler island for the Polaniec Power Station in Poland. Startup is due by Q4/12. FW will design and supply the steam generator and auxiliary equipment, and carry out the civil works, erection and commissioning of the boiler island on what will be the world’s largest biomass boiler burning wood residues and up to 20% agro biomass.

The Biwater Graham joint venture has announced a contract award in Northern Ireland. The projects involve upgrades to the existing works at Dunmurry and Newownbreda Wastewater Treatment Works and have a combined value of about £9m. When finished the works will have an increased capacity and will produce higher quality effluent. The work includes new activated sludge plants, sludge treatment, odour control and ancillary equipment packages.

Total has announced that the second train of the Yemen LNG natural gas liquefaction plant has started production. Combined with LNG production from the first train, commissioned Q4/09, it will enable the Yemen LNG plant to reach its full capacity – 6.7m t/yr. The $4.5bn Yemen LNG project features a 320km gas pipeline carries feed gas from Block 18 in central Yemen’s Marib region to the Balhaf liquefaction plant on the country’s southern coast.

British Sugar has engaged Sembcorp UK as its preferred supplier to carry out training, auditing and exercising at its four UK production facilities over the next two years. The deal will mean members of the Emergency Planning team will travel to sites at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, Newark in Nottinghamshire, Cantley and Wissington in Norfolk to deliver the service.

Under a three-year agreement, Aker Solutions’ geo business will deliver operational geology services from BP’s onshore facility in Stavanger, Norway, and wellsite geology services from BP’s assets offshore Norway. The agreement covers support to the production drilling activities at BP’s Skarv field.

A new water treatment plant located near Barcelona and designed by Severn Trent Services-Apliclor and the Puig-reig (Spain) City Council is solving a long-standing problem of elevated iron and manganese levels in the city’s drinking water. The plant is alsominimising hazardous compounds that are formed by the reaction of chlorine with organic matter. Water distribution and treatment services company SOREA was the general contractor for the project worth Euro750,000. Read more

Processing equipment from Finlay Plant Northern has helped HJ Banks Mining break through the one million tonne mark at its Shotton open cast site in Northumberland. The machinery includes a new Terex Finlay 694 Supertrak screen, which is being used to produce valuable 3 x 12mm coal for export. The Shotton site has also taken delivery of an ALLU bucket from Finlay Plant Northern, to process coal, which has a higher ash content.

Emerson wireless technology is being used to enable thermal monitoring of biomass gasification pre-combustion chambers at the Elektrownia Stalowa Wola SA power plant in Stalowa Wola, Poland. Both power and heat are produced by the Elektrownia Stalowa Wola gasification system using forest waste wood and other biomass material from agriculture. The organic waste passes through a 9m long by 3.5m diameter rotating pre-combustion chamber where it is heated using natural gas to a temperature between 280 - 360°C. Read more

The number of PROFIBUS devices sold worldwide rose by 3.1m during 2009 to reach a current total of 31.4m, 5.4m of which are being used in process automation plants, PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) has reported. PROFINET, the Industrial Ethernet part of PI, meanwhile, reported 500,000 newly purchased devices - compared to 460,000 devices in 2008 - to reach an installed basis of 2.1m. Read more

BP has announced the first major contracts, worth a total of around $500m, to provide seven rigs for the rehabilitation of the Rumaila field in Southern Iraq: Schlumberger in partnership with the Iraqi Drilling Co. has been awarded contracts for three rigs; Daqing Drilling has also gained contracts for three rig; Weatherford has won a contract for one rig. Read more

Emerson is to install its Ovation expert control system at the Halmore Power Plant, a new 225MW combined-cycle power generating facility in Bhikki, located in the geographic center of Pakistan. The contract was awarded by Pakistan EPC Descon Engineering Ltd. The plant will run mainly on natural gas, but will also operate on high-speed diesel oil when gas supplies are low or scarce. It is scheduled to be in operation by the end of 2010.

ProSep Inc. is to supply a fuel gas quencher unit based on its proprietary gas-liquid mixing technology as a process component for carbon capture technologies being tested by Statoil, Norske Shell and Gassnova at their European CO2 Technology Center at Mongstad, Norway. The gas quencher will be used to pre-condition flue gas for CO2 capture from sources ranging from gas turbine to coal fired steam boiler applications. The project is valued at $400,000, with delivery due by Q3/10. Read more

GAME Engineering Ltd has recently won a contract to design, supply and install all the handling and process systems for Clugston Construction Ltd on the Valiant project at WoldGrain Storage Ltd. The project involves increasing the existing storage capacity by about 17,000 tonnes, upgrading the intake capacity to 500tph, installing new handling and process equipment rated at 100tph. A new grain drier and blending system is also included.

BASF has renewed its global alliance agreement with Intergraph for SmartPlant Enterprise engineering software over the next three years. The agreement extends BASF’s usage of the software suite solutions which provides design, construction, materials and engineering data management capabilities for large-scale projects.

LUKOIL Group has signed up Emerson to help it modernise 13 refining and petchem facilities in Russia and eastern Europe. Under the agreement to 2014, Emerson will provide equipment, software, and services as part of a strategy to update process automation at LUKOIL operations, including Stavrolen and Saratovorgsintez in Russia, Neftochim Bourgas in Bulgaria, ZAO Lukor in Ukraine, and Vars in Latvia, as well as facilities in Romania; in Ukraine’s Odessa; and in Russia’s Perm, the Volgograd region, and the Komi Republic.

Technip won two contracts by Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd for its diesel hydrotreater project in the Visakh refinery, on the east coast of India. The contracts, due to be completed by H1/12, will be executed by Technip’s operating center in New Delhi. The first, worth about Euro50m, covers the license as and EPC and commissioning (EPCC) for a 36ktpa hydrogen generation unit. The second, worth around Euro65m, is for the EPCC of a 2200ktpa diesel hydrotreater unit.

Total has obtained a government permit to evaluate gas shale potential in France. The five-year exploration permit covers a surface of 4,327 square kilometers that spans from the south of Valence to the region of Montpellier, in the south of the country.

Main contractor Doosan Heavy Industries Co. has selected Honeywell’s Experion Process Knowledge System to control operations for a new supercritical, 660-megawatt, coal-fired power plant near Bangkok. Due for startup in 2011, the plant in Map ta Phut, Rayong will be operated by GHECO-One Ltd. It will supply power to the state-owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, which manages most of the country’s power transmission network, and is expected to increase production capacity in Thailand by 50%.

Shell has produced its first oil and natural gas from the Perdido Development, the world’s deepest offshore drilling and production facility, which is located in an isolated, ultra-deep sector of the Gulf of Mexico. The facility sits in 2,450 metres of water, and will access reservoirs deep beneath the ocean floor. Perdido smashes the world water depth record for an offshore platform by more than 50%.

Hyundai Heavy Industries has awarded ABB an order worth over $60m from to provide power and automation technologies for an offshore production platform off the northern coast of Norway. The Goliat oil and gas field is being developed and operated by Eni Norway. An FPSO, currently being built in South Korea, will be equipped with a complete package of electrical, automation, instrumentation and telecommunications products and systems from ABB.

Severn Trent Services-Apliclor, in partnership with ACCIONA AGUA, has designed, constructed and installed a Tetra LP Block dual parallel underdrain filters for pre-treatment of the Fouka SWRO desalination plant in Tipaza, Algeria. The 120,000 m3/day plant will provide water to more than 500,000 people. With the completion of construction expected during 2010, the Fouka SWRO plant is part of the Algerian government’s desalination programme, which includes the construction of 12 desalination plants producing a total of 2.2 million m3/day.

Alfa Laval has reported a Euro9.3m order for its Packinox heat exchangers from a Saudi Arabian refinery. Delivery is scheduled for 2011. The plate heat exchangers will be used in the catalytic processing section in the production of mixed xylenes, which, among other things, can be used for production of synthetic fibres such as nylons. The new units can replace up to four of the largest shell and tube heat exchangers and so save considerable space in the refinery.

The US Department of Energy is funding an advanced biofuels process development facility aimed at speeding the commercialisation of advanced biofuels. The $18m unit will be a publicly available facility where researchers can integrate process steps and test innovative technology pathways. It is scheduled to be fully operational by early 2011.

One North East has approved a series of investments in Tees Valley companies. These include: £2m to MSD Biologics UK Ltd, creating up to 75 jobs, to upgrade its biopharma manufacturing facility. £2m is going to PYReco, creating 52 jobs, to develop a new processing plant for the reclamation and recycling of tyres and rubber. Another £1.34m is to enable fertiliser maker GrowHow proceed with a £9m project to slash nitrous oxide emissions at its 200-employee site. Industrial gases manufacturer BOC is getting a £621,600 energy efficiency grant to upgrade an air separation unit with the installation of a hydrogen trailer filler facility at its Tees Dock, Middlesbrough site.

Bayer MaterialScience and Uhde have signed a contract for the construction of a 20ktpa chlorine plant at Bayer’s Krefeld-Uerdingen chemical park. The plant, which is due for startup in H1/11, will be the first time that BMS’s oxygen-depolarised cathodes (ODCs) are to be used in the electrolysis cells developed by UHDENORA/Uhde to produce chlorine on an industrial scale. The technology is said to cut the energy required to produce chlorine by up to 30% compared with standard membrane technology and reduce CO2 emissions by 10kt. Read more

Alfa Laval has won a Euro5m order for an evaporation system to a pulp and paper mill plant in Malaysia. Delivery will be completed in 2011. The evaporation system will be used in a process to concentrate black liquor, a by-product from the pulp and paper production, for further re-use as fuel in the plant. In addition the steam, which is the result from the concentration process, will be condensed and re-used as water in the process thus further reducing the environmental impact of the plant.

Sinopec has completed its project to transmit natural gas from Sichuan to Eastern China. Launched in 2007 following a major breakthrough in the exploration of the Puguang gas field, the project included exploration and development of the Puguang gas field, acidic gas treatment and the transmission pipeline across eight provinces to Shanghai. The designed annual purified natural gas transmission capacity is 12bn cubic meters, with a total investment of around Euro6.8bn. Read more

Aker Solutions has signed a three-year, NOK100m contract with Petrobras for maintenance of subsea control systems supplied to the Brazilian national oil company. Scope of work comprises maintenance, supply of parts and offshore operations on control systems already installed, and on their respective tests and installation tools, which are held onshore. The contract also covers maintenance of equipment installed on platforms, including the hydraulic power unit and electrical power unit.

Thorite has a supplied three PIAB vacuum pumps to McCambridge Foods Ltd, a Blackburn, UK-based producer of mince pies. The order followed a bumper pre-Christmas production run that put strain on the company’s existing pumps. A reduction in vacuum resulted in batches of pastry casings being pulled out of place or damaged. Read more

The UK government has given the green light to Helius Energy plc to build a new 100MW power plant fuelled by biomass at Bristol Port, Avonmouth. The plant will generate enough electricity to power up to 200,000 homes, creating up to 250 jobs during construction and approximately 40 full-time jobs when fully operational.

Lenzing Group is expanding the capacity of its fibres production facility in Nanjing, China, and downsizing and modifiying its sites in Lenzing, Austria to produce more high-value product. The projects complement a Euro120m capacity expansion programme launched in December 2009. Capacity will more than double at the Chinese site to 140ktpa under a Euro55m investment to come on stream within two years. Another Euro23m is being spent on the Lenzing site. Read more

Aker Solutions has signed a NOK550m contract with Chevron Australia Pty Ltd to supply 264km of steel tube umbilicals and associated equipment for the Gorgon Project, offshore Australia. The prject is to develop the Greater Gorgon Area gas fields, located about 130km off the north-west coast of Western Australia. The umbilicals will connect the subsea production system to an onshore LNG plant on Barrow Island, Western Australia.

KBR’s consulting subsidiary, Granherne is to take part in the FEED contract for the Greenfield sections of Hess Denmark ApS’ South Arne Phase 3 Development in the North Sea. The scope comprises two new well head platforms, one of which is bridge linked to the existing South Arne facility. The other is located 2.5 km NNW of the existing platform. The two platforms are linked by subsea pipelines and an umbilical.

Simon Storage Ltd is to supply gas storage and handling facilities at its Seal Sands Terminal on Teesside for BOC. Two liquefied gas storage vessels at the terminal have been customised to store special gas formulations for subsequent delivery to key BOC customers. Each tank has a storage capacity of 317 tonnes and is provided with dedicated piping systems for road vehicle loading and off loading, vessel recirculation and product sampling.

Engineering project management company PROjEN of Cheshire, UK, has reported its completion a project for a supplier (not named) of advanced alginate-based wound care products. The project included the design and build of an acetone and industrial methylated spirits tank farm.

Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd has secured a £140m funding package to enable it to install the UK’s first 15,000 tonne forging press: making it one of only five companies worldwide capable of meeting growing demand for such safety critical forgings for nuclear power reactors. The package comprises an £80m UK government loan plus contributions by key partners of SFIL, including leading nuclear power-plant manufacturer Westinghouse. Read more

Emerson is to install its Ovation expert control system at units 1 and 2 of the new 1,200-MW (2 X 600) supercritical ZhenXiong thermal power plant in Yunnan Province, southwest China. The contract was awarded by China Huadian ZhenXiong Power Generation Co Ltd. The ZhenXiong power plant is China’s first supercritical plant equipped with Harbin anthracite-fired boilers incorporating vertical tube Posiflow technology from Doosan Babcock.

ABB will charter one of Aker Solutions’ new vessels for installation campaigns during 2012 and 2013. Aker Solutions estimates that this can generate revenues up to NOK500m. The agreement also covers project management, engineering and offshore execution, and includes options for further campaigns in the period 2014 - 2016.

Cristal Global has declared force majeure on all products manufactured at its Stallingborough, UK TiO2 production facility as the result of the 5 March incident that forced it to suspend operations. The plant remains shutdown, with the company awaiting the outcome of an investigation into the incident before repairing the damaged units. Cristal said it could not yet predict when normal production would resume. Read more

Mexico’s state oil company PEMEX Refining has awarded ICA Fluor – a JV of Empresas ICA, SAB de CV and Fluor Corp. – the EPC contracts for two low-sulfur gasoline projects in Mexico valued at $622m. Read more

Alstom has won a contract worth Euro90m for the automation of Eskom’s latest thermal power plant project, Kusile. Alstom Power will engineer, supply and install its ALSPA Series 6 distributed control system – part of its portfolio of integrated energy management solutions for power plants.

Centro Energia Teverola Spa has reported significant performance improvements following its installation of Emerson asset management software at its 150-MW combined cycle cogeneration power plant in Teverola. Read more

Virent Energy Systems Inc. and Shell have start production at what they say is the world’s first demonstration plant converting plant sugars into gasoline and gasoline blend components, rather than ethanol. The startup at Virent’s site in Madison, Wisconsin is part of a joint biogasoline R&D effort launched by the companies in March 2008. The demo plant has the capacity to produce up to 38,000 litres per year, which will be used for engine and fleet testing. Read more

Shell has announced the start up of the ethylene cracker at its Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex (SEPC) project in Singapore. The ethylene cracker complex (ECC) - ethylene capacity 800ktpa, propylene 450ktpa and benzene 230ktpa - was producing on-specification ethylene as of 22 March. Read more

The Corus pipe mill at Hartlepool has signed a letter of award for a contract worth almost £200m as part of Total’s new gas field project in Scotland. Corus will be supplying pipes to Total and its partner Dong Energy which are investing £2.5bn in developing the Laggan and Tormore offshore gas fields in the region west of Shetland. Over 350 jobs will be safeguarded or created to fulfil the contract over the next two years, with the plant producing 520km of pipes.

Arc Energy Resources, a supplier of fabrication services and a principal fabricator to Hydro International, has supplied the world’s largest vortex flow control unit as part of a contract to produce five Hydro-Brake flow control units for the £53m White Cart Water flood prevention scheme for Glasgow City Council. Read more

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has won a contract from Storengy UK Ltd to provide EPCM services for the above-ground infrastructure associated with the new gas storage facility located in Stublach, Cheshire. Jacobs will design and install new gas compression, gas treatment facilities, a control system and utilities for the project. The work will be executed from Jacobs’ office in Manchester. The overall project aims to expand storage capacity up to 400 million cubic meters, making the facility one of the largest in the UK. Operations at the new facility are scheduled to begin in 2013 with a total investment estimated at £350m.

Edelchemie is building a 15ktpa treatment plant for the recovery of metals, ammonia and other components from industrial waste for clients ranging from SME’s to blue chips such as Johnson Matthey and Shell. Stricter environmental rules, higher disposal rates and commodity prices have increased demand for these services, leading Edelchemie to purchase a 4.5 acres at a former ICI site at Lostock, Northwich in late 2008. Read more

Water technology company Modern Water plc has claimed an important milestone with the visit of His Excellency Mohammed Al Mahrouqi, chairman of the Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) in Oman to a new desalination plant in the village of Al Khaluf. The plant in Al Khaluf is the first plant in the Middle East that uses a new process called Manipulated Osmosis (“MO”) developed by Modern Water. Read more

Birds Eye has signed a £30m, three-year contract with DHL Supply Chain to manage distribution of all Birds Eye frozen foods to UK customers following a competitive tender process. The deal will see DHL handle some 550,000 pallets a year and manage activity to support seasonal peaks in product harvesting. DHL will transport all Birds Eye frozen foods by road and ferry from all European production points to the company’s national distribution network.

Total has unveiled plans for its Laggan and Tormore gas fields development in the offshore frontier region of the West of Shetland The scheme is subject to approval by UK government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change. Launching th development, Total also annnounced that it had acquired the 10% interest in Laggan and Tormore previously held by Chevron North Sea Ltd and the 20% interest previously held by ENI UK Ltd. This brings Total’s interest in this project to 80% alongside partner DONG E&P (UK) Ltd. Read more

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking organisations or consortia to bid for a £25-million technology project to establish an advanced CO2 capture demonstration project in the UK. The project goal is to take the technology to a stage where it has completed full-scale demonstration by 2015 and is ready for adoption in commercial power applications by 2020, said ETI - a UK government funded body with industrial members including BP, EDF Energy, E.ON, Rolls-Royce and Shell. Read more

The UK government is to invest over £6m in a new £20m project that will see the construction and demonstration of Europe’s largest post combustion carbon capture pilot plan. Scottish and Southern Energy, Vattenfall and Doosan Babcock will jointly develop the facility, with support from three UK universities. The project is being co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board, the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Northern Way partnership. Read more

Total plans to shut down its refining operations in Dunkirk, northern France, which will be ’repurposed’ with the installation of new operations support and petroleum logistics activities as well as the joint implementation of an LNG terminal project with EDF at the site. The plan, which envisages no redundancies among the 370 employees at the Flandres refinery, is in response to a collapse in petroleum product demand in France, Europe and the US. Read more

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. (EMRE) has agreed to allow Invensys Operations Management to sub-license a suite of its refinery process models to third parties. The suite of models will be delivered through Invensys’ SimSci-Esscor optimisation software, using its ROMeo system to enable clients to model and optimise process units. Read more

Foster Wheeler has been awarded an EPCM contract by Sasol for its Fischer-Tropsch Wax Expansion Project to be located at Sasolburg, South Africa. This wax expansion project, which is expected to double F-T hard wax production at Sasolburg, will be managed from FW’s full-service execution center in Midrand, near Johannesburg. Completion is scheduled for 2012.

Honeywell has signed a global agreement to become a Main Automation Contractor (MAC) for Shell. Under the five-year Global Framework Agreement (GFA), Honeywell will design automation and safety systems that will help Shell meet its customers’ energy demands. Honeywell is currently working on three of Shell’s largest projects: its new GTL plant in Qatar, the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, and the expansion of its Port Arthur Refinery. Read more

Rotork fluid power valve actuators have been installed throughout a major new LNG importing and distribution project that is to meet 40% of the demand for gas in Chile and help secure its energy independence. The LNG complex at Quintero Bay encompasses the installation of a sea terminal to receive LNG from tankers and a plant for regassifying and distribution by pipelines into central Chile.

Emerson has installed its PlantWeb digital plant architecture with Ovation expert control system at Unit 1 of the newly commissioned Dnestrovskaya pumped storage power plant (PSPP). This hydroelectric plant is located on the Dniester river, near Novodnestrovsk, Ukraine, which is used for load balancing: enabling water accumulated at night or during off-peak hours to be used to satisfy electricity needs during times of peak demand. Read more

Chocolate and confectionary maker Kinnerton, part of Zetar Plc, has decided to standardise on Masosine SPS positive displacement pumps from Watson-Marlow. The decision follows the installation of the pumps maker’s Masosine MR and SPS series units at its Fakenham, Norfolk plant. Read more

ArcelorMittal steelworks in Le Creusot, France is operating two overhead cranes from Taim Weser. The cranes company was chosen just over a year ago to supply, assemble and start up two large-tonnage overhead cranes for the steelworks. Final start-up took place just before 1 Feb at the newly enlarged steelworks. Read more

Peristaltic pump maker Verderflex has recently exported 30 of its VF hose pumps to cobalt mines in Morocco. Manufactured in Leeds, the pumps are used in the refining of cobalt: mainly to transfer sulphuric acid and ammonia solutions from storage and dilution tanks to reactors and electrolysis baths. Read more

Overseas demand for UK-made goods is continuing to recover with export order books the least depressed since August 2008, though overall demand remains weak, according to the CBI’s monthly Industrial Trends Survey in March. Of the 499 manufacturers that responded, 22% said export orders were above normal and 40% said they were below normal. Read more

Imtech has gained orders worth over Euro175 million to supply engineering and technology to UK water utilities. The Dutch group is to to maintain and improve water and wastewater assets for Welsh Water, under the next AMP phase, and support a Thames Water upgrade to the Crossness and Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.Read more

Construction work has started on the expansion of the Industrial Biotechnology demonstrator facilities in Wilton, Teesside. The UK government has invested £12m in the facility, which is to help develop novel and more sustainable manufacturing and process technologies at the chemicals complex. Read more

Gee & Co. has recently supplied three packaged plant systems for the dosing of ferric and glycerol at Ballynacor & Armagh Wastewater Treatment works - including a new glycerol plant which was designed, constructed and installed in less than 12 weeks. The three packaged plant systems were delivered as part of Northern Ireland Water’s Project Omega, a £122 million capital investment wastewater treatment and sludge disposal scheme for Northern Ireland, and one of the most advanced wastewater management schemes of its type in Europe. Read more

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. has formed a strategic alliance with Fluor Corp.’s Power Group to market and sell carbon dioxide capture systems for existing coal-fired power plants in the US and Canada. The alliance combines the strengths of the Fluor technology and engineering, procurement and construction capabilities with B&W PGG’s expertise in the retrofit supply and integration of air quality control systems. Read more

Continuous flow reactor (CFR) maker Uniqsis Ltd, based in Cambridge, has signed up Teledyne Isco Inc. to provide post-installation field, depot and warranty repair services, as well as equipment repair service consultation via telephone in the US for its FlowSyn CFR systems. The service agreement is for units installed since January 2010. Read more