Contracts & Projects Tracker: May 2010

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Siemens Water Technologies is working with Centroprojekt do Brasil S/A to supply integrated wastewater technology to the Presidente Getulio Vargas Refinery (Repar) in Araucaria, Parana State, Brazil. The system will consist of API oil water separators, dissolved air flotation (DAF) units, walnut shell filter units, and a Petro MBR (membrane bioreactor) system. Due online in 2012, the system is designed to pre-treat 450 m3/hr of the treated water for reuse as boiler feed water.

ABB has won a $108m from the Saudi Electricity Co., Saudi Arabia’s national power transmission and distribution provider, to construct six new substations. Read more

RWE and its Turkish joint-venture partner, power generation company Turcas, are to build a power plant in the Denizli province, western Turkey. The combined-cycle gas turbine plant (CCGT) will have a capacity of 775MW. The total investment sum amounts to approximately €500m (£328m). Construction work on the Euro500m project is due to start mid-2010 and the power station should go on stream by the end of 2012.

Nagarjuna Oil Corp. Ltd has awarded Punj Lloyd Group an order for its Cuddalore refinery project in Tamil Nadu. The project entails the installation of inside battery limit (ISBL) units and interconnection pipe rack at the refinery, including setting up of crude and vacuum distillation units, gasoline and saturated gas plant, as well as catalytic hydrodesulphurisation and isomerisation units. Read more

Samsung Engineering Co Ltd of Korea has netted a refinery plant contract from NOCL (Nagarjuna Oil Corp. Ltd). The lump-sum turn key project will produce 125,000 barrels per day through a Diesel hydrodesulphurisation process (DHDS), and will be located 160km south of Chennai in Cuddalore of India.

Foster Wheeler has been awarded a project management consultancy contract by Abu Dhabi Co. (ADCO) for onshore oil operations for the Bab Field expansion and the development of the Qusahwira Field in the United Arab Emirates. Foster Wheeler’s primary role will be to manage the EPC tendering and award process and the EPC execution phase on behalf of ADCO.

Sheffield Forgemasters has recently secured a $1m-plus order with Westinghouse Newington for components to support primary reactor pumps in South Korea’s Shin Kori 3 and 4 power stations in Busan, Korea. It will supply eight support skirt castings, which form an integral part of the structure of the reactor. The power plants are due to go into operation in 2013 and 2014 respectively, with a net capacity of 1350 MWe each.

ABB has won an order worth over $60m from Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide an array of power and automation technologies for an offshore production platform at the Goliat oil and gas field off the northern coast of Norway. Read more

Bibby’s HS series of Turboflex disc couplings have been specified as drive couplings on gas turbine power units with outputs up to 64MW. The gas turbine units, supplied by one of the world’s leading manufacturers are used to drive generators for power generation and to drive centrifugal compressors for LPG gas compression.

GE Oil and Gas, a supplier of subsea hardware, has signed a five-year, $80m frame agreement with oil and gas company Maersk Oil, under which GE will continue to supply subsea wellheads, trees and tubular products for exploration and developed projects in the North Sea.

Yara Brunsbüttel GmbH, a producer of ammonia and urea for the fertiliser industry, has installed the HIMax safety controller from HIMA as part of its emergency shutdown (ESD) system for the Brunsbüttel factory’s desulfurisation system. The safety system consists of the central unit, 150 digital input channels, 20 analog input and 50 digital output channels. The redundant structure of the CPU and some of the I/Os are designed to ensure availability for the plant.

ABB has won orders worth a total of $40m from Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co. Ltd to supply crane automation and electrical systems for three projects. Read more

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract from Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd to provide project management consultancy and engineering, procurement, construction management services for the Resid Upgradation Project of CPCL at its Manali facilities in Chennai, India. The project involves a $650m delayed coker unit, a once through hydrocracker revamp, a sulfur recovery unit, a green field coke yard facility, and utilities.

Yorkshire-based Klinger is to supply Western Australia’s North Rankin and Perseus gas fields. The company will supply gaskets for the North West Shelf Venturewhich includes the installation of a second offshore platform and a link bridge to the existing platform. Read more

CB&I Lummus has gained a contract for concept development services for the Yamal LNG Integrated Project by Yamal LNG LLC. This contract is scheduled for completion by Q2/11. The LNG project consists of the production, treatment, transport, liquefaction and shipping of natural gas and natural gas liquids from the South Tambey field on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia. The natural gas reserves in the South Tambey field are estimated at more than one trillion cubic meters. Read more

Process system integrator DPS (Bristol) Ltd has won a project in Syria around the disassembly of the Al Dobayat gas gathering station and its relocation and re-assembly 185km away at the North Al Hussin Gas Field. The plant will be reconstructed and accommodate the tie in of six flow lines from the wellheads to the gas station. Read more

Engineering service provider Neste Jacobs has been awarded an engineering and construction management contract by electric and thermal power company Eesti Energia. Neste Jacobs will act as engineering partner for a new shale-oil condensation unit in Estonia. The unit, part of the Enefit-280 project, purificates and fractionates the shale-oil vapour gas mixture. The project is due for completion in 2012.

Sinopec-SABIC (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co. Ltd, a joint venture between Sinopec and SABIC, is employing METEOR process technology from Dow Chemical Co. to produce ethylene oxide (EO) / ethylene glycol (EG) at its recently started 40/360ktpa Sinopec Tianjin complex - the largest single EO reactor in China. Read more

Shell has announced the successful completion of the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex project in Singapore - its largest petrochemicals investment to date. The manufacturing hub on Bukom and Jurong islands, includes an ethylene cracker, which started up in March, and one of the world’s largest mono-ethylene glycol plants, started last November. The project also included modifications to the Shell Pulau Bukom Refinery, enabling it to process a wider range of crudes to supply feedstock to the cracker.

Noble Energy has selected Mustang to perform the FEED work for the Belinda project in Block “O”, offshore Equatorial Guinea. The scope includes the design of both the jacket and topsides of the facility, which will process gas condensate. The Belinda project is being designed as a gas cycling project designed to strip condensate from the field and re-inject the gas for future sales. 

Fluor Corp. has won a FEED contract from Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. for offshore facilities 120km off the northwest coast of Abu Dhabi City. The Satah Al-Razboot (SARB) Full Field Development Project includes an untapped oil field that will prospectively pump 100,000 barrels per day. This includes the design of offshore wellhead facilities, subsea and in-field pipelines, the onshore scope including receiving, processing, storage and support facilities, and the supporting utilities and infrastructure.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has awarded Fluor Corp. a three-year site services contract for its Diablo Canyon Power Plant Units 1 & 2 in Avila Beach, Calif. Fluor will provide ongoing maintenance, modification and outage craft services for PG&E’s nuclear generating units. Fluor booked $62 million into backlog in the first quarter of 2010.

Linde Group is constructing a large air separation plant at steel group ArcelorMittal’s Temirtau site in Kazakhstan. This plant will be Kazakhstan’s first industrial-scale development with a daily capacity of 2,000 tonnes. It is set to go on stream mid-2012. With an investment value of around Euro95 million, it is also the first plant that Linde will engineer and operate for a customer in Kazakhstan. With an annual capacity of around four million tonnes, the ArcelorMittal Temirtau steelworks in north-eastern Kazakhstan produces hot rolled coils, cold rolled coils, galvanised and pre-painted coils.

Fluor Corp. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Qatargas Operating Co. Ltd in Ras Laffan, Qatar. This EPCM contract is part of a project with a total capital expenditure of about $1bn. Under a previous contract, Fluor completed front-end engineering and design and other services.

Linde Group is set to expand its gas supply network for ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe at its largest production location in Duisburg, Germany. Under the terms of the agreement, Linde will construct another industrial-scale air separation plant in Duisburg-Ruhrort. This will be the eleventh air separator that Linde has built for ThyssenKrupp. It will have a daily capacity of 1,500 tonnes (tpd) of oxygen. The new facility is set to go on stream in the third quarter of 2012. The total investment in the new plant and in existing plants in Duisburg-Ruhrort is valued at around Euro75 million.

Pneumatic conveying and air filtration systems Clyde Process Solutions has won two contracts in the minerals and chemicals markets. CPS’s North American operation has secured a £0.7m order from an engineering and construction company, while its South African operation has won a £0.5m order from a major integrated and diversified chemical company.

Chevron has awarded Redhall Engineering a multimillion-pound, five-year contract, to carry out tank maintenance services at its oil refinery in Pembroke, Wales. Up to end of 2014, 72 tanks ranging in size from three to 82 metres in diameter will undergo routine maintenance and major repairs where necessary. The programme of works on-site will be ongoing, with between 20 and 50 Redhall engineers carrying out planned maintenance, ensuring there is no disruption to any of the day-to-day operations at the refinery.

Shell’s Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) technology has been selected as the Sunrise Joint Venture’s preferred option for developing the Greater Sunrise gas fields in the Timor Sea. Subject to approvals, Shell will operate the 4m tonnes/yr FLNG facility and manage the design and build phases of the FLNG project. This would be the second deployment of Shell’s design, following Shell’s Prelude FLNG development offshore Western Australia.

Petrobras has awarded Technip a contract for the infield lines of the pilot system for the Tupi field, located at a water depth of 2,200 meters in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, approximately 300km offshore the Brazilian coast. The contract includes the engineering, procurement, manufacturing and supply of 90 kilometers of risers and flowlines for water injection, oil production, gas lift and carbon dioxide reinjection. Project challenges include the water depth, and the large CO2 and hydrogen sulfide content in the produced fluid.

Aker Solutions has awarded Siemens the contract to design, manufacture and install an SST 800 steam turbine for Tullis Russell which is establishing the UK’s largest ever biomass-fired combined heat and power plant at its Fife-based paper plant. Aker is EPC contractor to RWE npower renewables on the project, which will replace an existing coal-fired facility. Commercial operation is due by the end of 2012. Siemens’ turbine will be fired with 400 ktpa of harvested wood and waste and have an installed capacity of 50MW.

DuPont has awarded Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. a contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services (EPCM) under a master services agreement for Europe, Asia and North America. Under the three-year deal, Jacobs will execute projects at DuPont manufacturing facilities. Jacobs will provide EPCM services at various DuPont project sites in Northern Europe, Southern Europe and South Asia and FEED services at certain DuPont project sites throughout North America.

Honeywell Process Solutions has renewed its existing contract as preferred control systems supplier for Woodside Energy Ltd,one of Australia’s leading oil and gas exploration companies. The new five-year preferred supplier arrangement extends a contract established seven years ago for the implementation and support of control systems and associated applications on Woodside’s existing assets and new projects.

ConocoPhillips has quit its partnership with Saudi Aramco on a new refinery project being built in Yanbu Industrial City.
“The quality of Saudi Aramco as a partner and significantly reduced capital costs from the recent re-bidding process made it a very difficult decision for us,” said Willie Chiang, senior VP, refining, marketing and transportation, ConocoPhillips. “We ultimately decided this project was not consistent with our current strategy to reduce our downstream footprint.”

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has gained a contract from Corus Staal BV to provide basic engineering services to support Corus’ new “TRUST” investment in a 525 MWe cogeneration plant in IJmuiden, The Netherlands. Corus aims to redirect increased production gases to provide electricity for the onsite steel plant and to the national grid. Jacobs will perform front-end engineering for all utilities connections between the offsite and onsite portions of the new plant area.

Xcite Energy Resources Ltd has appointed AMEC to undertake consultancy work to help develop the Bentley heavy oil field situated in the North Sea, 160km east of the Shetland Isles. Working as part of XER’s project consortium, AMEC will provide technical consultancy, engineering and project management for the well test programme planned for mid-2010.

Tamar Foods, a UK manufacturer of quality pastry products and desserts, has selected Spidex Software’s Mainsaver CMMS to manage engineering maintenance activity at its bakery in Cornwall. The implementation will also include the Spidex WM web maintenance module together with an interface to Tamar Foods’ ERP software, System21.

ARCADIS UK has gained a position as a provider to Scottish Water under its framework agreement for cost management services. The framework covers cost consultancy services over the next four years. ARCADIS will be eligible to provide cost management services to Scottish Water and has worked for the organisation since 2006.

AMEC has signed a major contract with EdF to support its Architect Engineering operation for the proposed delivery of four new EPR nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point and Sizewell in the UK. The contract will run for 11 years, with an option to extend for a further four. Read more

KSB Group has received a Euro1m order for five giant main cooling water pumps for a new 1,200 MW heavy-oil fuelled steam power station in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. The pumps will be supplying the seawater needed for cooling the condensate circuit. The order covers the supply of five vertical tubular casing pumps type SEZA 22-160, each with a flow rate of 15.5 cubic metres per second and a head to be overcome of just under 17 metres. Read more

Aker Solutions has secured a one-year contract extension, worth an estimated £25m, for maintenance, modifications and operations work with Mærsk Oil North Sea Ltd in the UK sector of the North Sea. The original E&C contract with Mærsk was signed in Q1/04 for three years, and included three options. This is the fourth option that Mærsk has exercised under this contract. Aker’s scope of work involves engineering and construction support on the installations Janice, GPIII and Gryphon.

A CB&I joint venture with WorleyParsons and Aker Solutions has gained an updated FEED services contract from Shell Development Kashagan BV for phase II of the full-field development of the Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan. The £170m contract, which replaces an earlier £90m contract awarded at the end of 2008, includes FEED work for both onshore and offshore facilities and pipelines and options for early works, detail engineering, procurement services, technical assistance and design/system integrity. The project is expected to be completed in Q2/11.

Statoil ASA has awarded Technip a three-year framework contract for the design, fabrication and supply of flexible pipe products for projects in Norway. The contract will be executed by the Group’s operating center in Oslo, Norway. It covers the supply of flexible risers, flowlines and associated equipment. The flexible pipe will be fabricated at Technip’s plant in Le Trait, France.

Petrofac has ordered $4m worth of pumps from Amarinth, mostly for the ASAB Full Field Development project in Abu Dhabi. The main order of $3m is to supply 33 VS4 vertical, and eight OH2 horizontal pumps, some with Amarinth Protect System seal support systems and others with it’s in-pump gulley sucker arrangement. Read more

Alfa Laval has received an order from an Indian refinery for a Packinox heat exchanger. The order value is about SEK95m (£8.6m) and delivery is scheduled for 2011.

AMEC and its joint venture partners have secured a three-year extension worth €200m (£176m) per year for the Integrated Services Contract for the assets known as Shell Onegas Southern North Sea.

Revolvo has secured a £1.2m order from Jindal Steel and Power, a steel producer in India, for its SRB split roller bearings.

Edwards has won an order to supply an EDP400 chemical dry pump system to CABB AG, which produces fine chemicals for the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.

European technical services provider Imtech has secured a number of energy orders in the Netherlands. The orders relate to the development of ’green’ power supplies and the completion of a wood-fired bio-power plant with a total value of more than €20m.

Foster Wheeler has been awarded contracts by Petrom for investments that form part of a refinery modernisation project being implemented at the Petrobrazi Refinery in Ploesti, Romania. Petrom is majority-owned by OMV of Austria. Foster Wheeler will provide front-end engineering design modification services, and engineering, procurement and construction management for the revamp of an atmospheric/vacuum distillation unit at the refinery.

Qatar National Facilities Services, a new venture part-owned by Fluor Corp., has signed a five-year maintenance and services contract with Qatar Shell Gas-to-Liquids Ltd for its Pearl Gas-to-Liquids project in Ras Laffan, Qatar. The deal covers the utilities and GTL process sections of what will be the world’s largest GTL plant. Construction is due to finish by late 2010 with production ramp-up in 2011. The project is being developed under a production sharing agreement with Qatar Petroleum.

Coriolis, differential pressure and magnetic flowmeters accounted for around 65% of a $4bn world market for flowmeters used in industrial and upstream custody transfer applications, IMS Research estimates. Demands for higher accuracy is now driving a migration to newer technologies and multivariable instruments, which are displacing more established technologies, such as turbine and positive displacement flowmeters. Read more

Thames Water has appointed a joint venture of Galliford Try, Biwater and Mott MacDonald as contractor for over £100m worth of work and potentially up to £500m worth under its AMP5 frameworks for the next five years. The contract to upgrade water and waste water treatment facilities in both the north and south London regions will. Meanwhile, the network contract to improve water pipelines and sewers in south London will be carried out by Galliford Try in joint venture with Morrison Utility Services.

Northumbrian Water is to upgrade Benwell Pumping Station, which pumps 40 million litres of water every day to a reservoir in the west end of Newcastle. The reservoir supplies water to 30,000 homes in Fenham, Gosforth, Heaton, Jesmond and Kenton. The project is part of a £1.2 billion investment by Northumbrian Water between 2010 and 2015. Read more

High-spec polymer ( PEEK – polyetherether ketone) producer Victrex has announced a 52% hike in first half sales volumes to around 1,170 tonnes. “The rebound in sales volume we saw in January was sustained in February and March, reinforcing the positive underlying trends in the Victrex Polymer Solutions business,” the UK group said in a trading update for the six months to 31 March.

The increase in oil and gas prices offers opportunities to UK manufacturers, according to a Special Metals Forum report, ’Materials’ Supply Chains in the UK’s Oil and Gas Market’, which identifies areas of predicted future growth and how manufacturers can get involved in the supply chain. A lack of investment in new wells over the past two years means products and services are needed for new exploration, as well as for upgrading and refurbishing existing facilities, said SMF.

Foster Wheeler is to design and supply of two axial deaerating surface condensers for the Samsun Power Plant in Turkey.
Under the contract, Foster Wheeler Energia, SL in Madrid will supply the condensers to METKA SA of Athens, which is acting as EPC contractor for the project. FW has previously supplied condensers to METKA for five separate projects.

Aker Solutions is to supply subsea umbilicals for Noble Energy Inc., by Q2/11. The initial order, worth around NOK650m, is for about 240km of steel tube umbilicals. Engineering and project management will be provided from Aker’s Houston office, with manufacture at its Mobile, Alabama facility. The umbilicals will be used at Noble’s Tamar project in the Mediterranean Sea.

Redhall Group plc has won a £30m contract for the fabrication and mechanical installation of pipework for a new bio-ethanol plant at BP, Salt End for Vivergo Fuels Ltd. Redhall has also also won a contract involving tankage and engineering work for Chevron over the next five years worth a total of £15m. In the civil nuclear field, meanwhile, the group is to commission the new boiler park at Sellafield where we have won a contract valued at £3.2m. Read more

Total E&P UK Ltd has awarded Wood Group a three-year extension, plus two optional years, to an existing contract to provide engineering design, procurement, construction and ancillary services at its offshore assets, Alwyn, Dunbar, Elgin, Franklin, plus St Fergus, TOTAL’s onshore site. The contract is worth up to £50m/year. Total first awarded Wood Group the North Sea engineering & construction contract seven years ago.