Contracts & Projects - December 2010
11 Jan 2011
Eni has selected Wood Group to provide long-term engineering services to support Eni’s Australian assets, including Blacktip, Woollybutt and the upcoming Kitan development. The scope includes providing engineering services, project management and control, planning and document and data management to Eni Australia. The award builds on Wood Group’s existing maintenance services contract that currently provides support for Eni’s Blacktip asset.
Engineering services company Hydratight has won a four-year service and maintenance contract for three of Shell’s major North Sea facilities. Hydratight will handle maintenance and shutdown operations at Shell’s St Fergus gas plant at Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, the Mossmorran fractionation plant on the outskirts of Cowdenbeath, Fife and the Braefoot Bay marine gas terminal near Aberdour. Read more
Honeywell has a new contract with Wintershall Noordzee BV for the installation of its Experion Process Knowledge System at Wintershall’s new offshore gas production facility in UK part of the North Sea, Wingate. The fully automated Wingate platform will extract gas from a recently discovered gasfield. Wingate will become the latest platform to be controlled remotely from Wintershall’s new central control room (CCR) in Den Helder, The Netherlands. Wintershall currently operates 26 platforms in the North Sea, 18 of which are operated remotely from the CCR.
Brammer has clinched a major contract to supply a full range of MRO products to brewing and distilling giant Diageo. The deal covers 37 facilities in Scotland, four in Northern Ireland, and the packaging, canning and bottling plant at Runcorn, Cheshire. Brammer has already enabled Diageo to reduce its supplier base in many MRO product categories, such as bearings, and helped reduce purchasing admin costs through a new self billing system. Read more
Air Liquide has just signed a long-term contract with Tongmei Guangfa Chemical Industry Co. Ltd, whose major shareholder is Datong Coal Mine Group Co. Air Liquide will invest around Euro60m in a large air separation unit (ASU) with production capacity of 2,000 tonnes of oxygen per day to supply oxygen and nitrogen to a methanol production project in Datong, Shanxi province. Industrial production is to begin in July 2012. During phase 1 of the project, 600ktpa of methanol will be produced.
Sika, which produces speciality chemicals for construction and industry, has chosen DHL Supply Chain to handle warehouse and inventory management at its UK distribution centre. Under the three-year contract DHL will handle 50,000 orders per annum, based on 95,000 inbound and outbound pallets. DHL will consolidate four warehouses into a single centre to provide storage at Dunstable, close to the Sika manufacturing facility.
Aker Construction Canada Ltd and JV partner Burns & McDonnell Canada Ltd have completed the EPC of the Halton Hills Generating Facility in Ontario for TransCanada Energy Ltd. The 684MW 2x1 combined cycle natural gas fired plant was built on an 80 acre green field site. Aker subsidiary Aker Construction Canada Ltd performed construction, construction management, portions of procurement and commissioning support for the project. Burns & McDonnell Canada completed project design, procured engineered equipment, provided technical assistance for construction and executed the commissioning and startup.
Sasol New Energy Holdings (Pty) Ltd has awarded Foster Wheeler a contract to perform a feasibility study for a gas-fired power generation plant at Sasolburg, South Africa, using gas engines with an open cycle electrical output capacity of around 140MWe. FW’s scope also includes the capital cost estimate for the overall plant and recommending a preferred gas engine supplier. The feasibility study is to be completed by December. The project will raise Sasol’s electricity self-sufficiency to 840MWe, or 60% of its overall power draw.
Large static mixers from Chemineer are a recent addition to Severn Trent Water’s water treatment works (WTW) in Frankley, Birmingham, where Morgan Sindall has completed a £31.35m upgrade. The 1600mm Kenics HEVW mixers provide precise blending and dispersion of all flow-capable materials by redirecting flow patterns already present in empty pipe. Utilised for disinfection and orthophosphoric acid and flash mixing, the units can be adapted to any piping system.
Work at Cadbury’s new production plant in Poland has led Lorien to expand its engineering and project management services in the country. The UK-based firm is to carry out an explosion protection review of processing equipment for a pharma company in the ?ód? area; and is also working with a European food production group on a process improvement project in Upper Silesia.
An Indian refinery has placed an SEK50m order for Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers. Delivery is scheduled for 2011. The units will be used in a catalytic process to remove sulphur from refined diesel. “Four out of the five large orders Alfa Laval has received recently have been in India”, said Lars Renström, president and CEO of Alfa Laval. “The rapidly increasing standard of living increases the demand for diesel.”
German chocolate maker Ritter Sport is using Autodesk’s Inventor software to help it respond to consumer demand for new shapes and sizes. The software helps the company create new designs 30% faster than previously to more quickly respond to market trends. “We [therefore] have more time to play around with new design ideas,” said Werner Glasser, a plant engineering designer at Ritter Sport.
Linde Group is to further expand its gas supply infrastructure for GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, China’s largest producer of highly purified polycrystalline silicon, which is mainly used in solar power applications. Under a new Euro15m deal, Linde will construct additional production and supply facilities for high-purity hydrogen (H2) at the Xuzhou Industrial Park. Linde has already put two steam reformers into operation there and supplies GCL with H2 from these reformers by pipeline.
Invensys Operations Management has signed an agreement with Algiers-based North African Automation, a supplier of control and control-related equipment. The deal supports Invensys’ plan to expand its presence in Algeria, which is a major exporter of crude oil, piped natural gas, LNG and petroleum products,
ExxonMobil Lubricants claims its SHC Cibus 32 HT synthetic heat transfer oil is now a product of choice for many potato chip manufacturers across Germany. The food machinery lubricants are recommended for closed heating and cooling systems in food processing applications where a NSF H1 and HT-1 registered food machinery lubricant is required.
Kolektor Etra, a Slovenian power transformer maker, has given Siemens Industry Solutions a Euro3m order to equip a transformer testing facility with new power engineering, to start up in early 2012. The existing test facilities in Ljubljana, Slovenia, will be expanded with a transformer set with drive technology, a capacitor installation, the switchgear and control engineering.
BP has halted production from the Rhum gas field in the central North Sea pending clarification on new EU regulations concerning restrictive measures against Iran. Owned by BP (50%) and the Iranian Oil Co. (50%), the field is capable of producing up to 5.9 million cubic metres of gas per day. Rhum started production in 2005 and is a subsea gas field which is tied back to the Bruce Field in the central North Sea.
Two years into a five-year £1.5m, single-source, framework agreement with Yorkshire Water Services (YWS), Landia has installed over 100 Anoxic/Selector POP-1 mixers. The framework, which was partly secured by a low maintenance sealing system, specailly adapted to YWS requirements. At the YWS flagship site at Esholt near Bradford, 40 Landia mixers have been put into operation, treating activated sludge in continuous applications where sedimentation in anoxic or anaerobic tanks must be prevented.
Huntsman Pigments has installed a system that generates electricity from waste heat is to be installed at its pigments plant in Hartlepool, UK. The demonstation system, developed by Redcar-based DRD Power, can generate up to 200kW of electricity ? saving up to 750 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. Based on the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), the technology can produce electricity from waste heat streams in the 90-130°C range. The £1m project is due to be operational by March 2011.
ABB has won a $58m order to provide complete power and propulsion systems for six new LNG transport vessels to be built by Samsung Heavy Industries at its shipyard in South Korea. ABB will supply complete electrical systems for the ships; the delivery includes power generation and distribution systems, electric propulsion as well as the propulsion control systems, and related engineering services. To be commissioned from 2012-15, the ships will be used by several major oil and gas industry end customers to transport liquefied natural gas.
Invensys Operations Management has launched a 3D simulation training system in collaboration with Eni Refining and Marketing. Combining Invensys’ SimSci-Esscor Eyesim technology and Eni’s refining expertise, the new training kiosks take a new approach to training field operators on generic and specific process tasks, helping the operator improve the safety and productivity of the refinery. The kiosks will be piloted in Eni’s Gela refinery in Sicily before being deployed in other Eni facilities worldwide.
Mondi has completed its STEP project – one of the largest ever mill modernisations in the Russian pulp & paper industry. Metso supplied most of the automation systems and was the main supplier of valves, delivering 1400 control and automated on/off valves and almost 5500 manual valves. The automation included new control systems for the hardwood and softwood digesters, and a new white liquor production area for causticising and the lime kiln. Systems for both fibre lines and the existing causticising plant previously delivered by Metso were also upgraded and expanded, as were the control systems for PM14 and PM21.
MondiAMECO, part of Fluor Corp., has formed a joint venture with Mikisew Energy Services Group. The Mikisew/AMECO Group JV will provide fleet management and common services for capital construction projects and ongoing operations. Based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, it will provide services in the Wood Buffalo region.
CB&I Lummus is to provide FEED services for the Shtokman LNG storage and loading facility at the sea port in Terriberka, Russian Federation – part of the Shtokman Gas-Condensate Field Development by Gazprom Dobycha Shelf LLC. CB&I’s contract, which is due for completion in 2011, was awarded by Giprospetsgas JSC, general designer of the project comprising production, treatment, transportation, liquefaction, storage and shipping of natural gas and natural gas liquids from the Shtokman field 600km offshore in the Barents Sea. The field has an estimated 3.9 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves.
AMEC has been commissioned by Oyu Tolgoi LLC to undertake the feasibility study for Lift 1 of the underground Hugo North block cave operation of its copper and gold mining project in the South Gobi region of Mongolia. When Oyu Tolgoi moves into full production, it will be one of the world’s top three copper-gold mines. Over the next 25 months, AMEC will work with Oyu Tolgoi’s engineering team to develop designs, specifications, cost estimates and a construction schedule for an 85,000 tonnes-per-day block cave operation.
Invensys Operations Management has entered a contract with Bluewater (Glas Dowr) NV, a company specialising in the design, development, lease and operation of tanker-based production and storage systems. Invensys will update the legacy DCS and safety systems aboard the Glas Dowr FPSO unit, which will be operating about 170km south of the Timor-Leste coast in the Timor Sea.
AMEC has been selected by INEOS New Planet BioEnergy to help deliver the first commercial-scale advanced bio-energy facility to use the INEOS Bio technology. AMEC is providing EPC services for the $100m plant in Vero Beach, Florida, which will produce eight million gallons of third generation bio-ethanol per year from renewable biomass, including yard, wood, vegetative, and municipal solid wastes. The facilityl, which will also generate renewable power for export, is due to be operational in 2012.
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC) is to establish two 10ktpa plants to manufacture electrolyte for Li-ion batteries (LiBs) in the UK and the US. Both will be located on sites of Lucite International Group Ltd - a Mitsubishi Rayon subsidiary. The UK unit, to be operated by newly formed TBD, will be based in Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, and is to begin operations around Q3/11. TBD will also operate a unit in Memphis, Tennessee, which is due to start up around Q2/12. MCC claims to be the world’s sole producer of all four key LiB materials - electrolyte, anode, cathode, and separator.
In Elyria, Ohio, BASF has commenced construction of a $50m+ production facility for innovative cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries used to power hybrid and full-electric vehicles. Due to start up in 10§2, the facility is being built with the help of a $24.6m grant from the US Department of Energy. In the US, BASF is one of only two licensed suppliers of the Argonne National Laboratory’s patented lithium-stabilised Nickel-Cobalt-Manganese cathode materials, which employ a special combination of lithium and manganese-rich mixed metal oxides.
Following a local government decision not intend to proceed with the proposed Oakville Generating Station in Ontario, Canada, TransCanada Corp. has terminated a CA$400m agreement with Aker Construction Canada Ltd, part of Aker Solutions, for the proposed natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant. Aker was awarded a notice to proceed by TransCanada for the construction of the facility pursuant to a JV with HDR Corp. and in cooperation with TransCanada.
CB&I has been awarded a contract, worth over $40m, by Daewoo Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd for a storage tank project in Abu Dhabi. Takreer, a subsidiary of ADNOC, is the project owner. CB&I will supply and install various storage tanks for the Mussafah terminal, part of Takreer’s Inter Refinery Pipeline Expansion project (IRP Phase II), which will enhance jet fuel distribution to airports in the UAE via a pipeline from Takreer’s Ruwais Refinery.
Wood Group has been reappointed for three years as the prime contractor by Hess Ltd and co-venturers to provide operations & maintenance services to the Triton FPSO operating in the Bittern, and Greater Guillemot Area, located 140 miles east of Aberdeen. The contract also has three further one-year extension options and is estimated to be worth up to £50million per year. Wood Group is also providing operations and maintenance support to Hess’s operations offshore in Equatorial Guinea.
Evonik is shaping up to establish a commercial-scale facility based on its new Aveneer process for producing methyl methacrylate.Like the traditional ACH sulfo process, the technology uses ammonia, methane, acetone, and methanol feedstocks, but does not use sulfuric acid. This acid therefore need not be recycled, which lowers costs and conserves resources. The process can generally be used at typical chemical production sites anywhere in the world, and second, existing Evonik plants can be refitted to use it.
Emerson Process Management reports that its Smart Wireless technology has saved Atlas Pipeline - Westex an estimated $725k in installation costs and has improved production efficiency at Atlas’ Benedum natural gas processing facility near Midkiff, Texas. The self-organising WirelessHART network connects a new plant with an older unit in the same facility. Pulling data from the old plant into the new plant’s control room using conventional wiring was not financially feasible because of the distance and obstacles between the two plants.
AVEVA Group plc is to supply a suite of plant engineering and design software for OJSC Power Machines, a Russian manufacturer supplying the power engineering field. Power Machines has purchased a package – including PDMS, Review, Diagrams, Schematic 3D Integrator, Instrumentation and Multi-Discipline Supports – for executing all stages of a power project. PDMS enables accurate design integration, while AVEVA Review enables equipment installation, overhaul and replacement tasks to be simulated and analysed.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Sojitz Corp. of Japan and China National Chemical Engineering Corp. (CNCEC), have won an order from Joint Stock Company Ammoni of Tatarstan to construct a urea fertiliser plant capable of producing ammonia and methanol. The $1bn-plus contract will be the first large-scale fertiliser plant construction project in Russia in 20 years. Located in Mendeleevsk, Tatarstan, about 1,000km east of Moscow, it will be one of the world’s largest plants capable of concurrently producing ammonia and methanol from natural gas. Read more
PZ Cussons (PZC) has recently installed Precia-Molen process weighing systems at its manufacturing plant in Agecroft, Salford. Precia-Molen supplied 30 vessel weighing systems, which were all integrated into the PZC system. The units ranged from raw material bulk storage vessels, mixing vessels and small capacity vessels used to check weigh small quantities of expensive additives. Read more
Scottish and Southern Energy Plc (SSE) has awarded KBR a contract by to provide project management services for its capital investment programme over the next five years. KBR is to help maintain the processes, systems and skills needed to deliver large capital projects, working alongside SSE’s in-house major projects team. SSE’s programme includes new power generation, modification of existing power stations and construction of transmission assets.
Anglian Water has turned to ITT Water & Wastewater to resolve problems that were creating continuous blockages at its Basildon Sewage Treatment Works’ pumping system. Read more
Amarinth has secured a $300K contract from Larsen & Toubro, through Padmasri Engineers its new agent in India. four API 610 A-Series pumps met Larsen & Toubro’s requirement for a low-shear pumping solution that did not emulsify the water and oil as it passes through the pump but it must keep the particles separate. Amarinth used computational fluid dynamics to show how the pumps would treat the oily water.
The UK government has opened its carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration ’competition’ to projects on gas-fired power plants as well as coal-fired power plants. The government has promised £9bn to fund four commercial-scale CCS projects and has earmarked up to £1bn for the first commercial scale demo project. A Scottish Power project at Longannet is now the sole coal-fired project bidding for the CCS funds, following E.ON’s recent withdrawal of its Kingsnorth proposal.
Babcock is highlighting its role in helping EDF Energy to bring Sizewell B power station back online last month. The station, which can generate enough electricity to serve two million homes was halted in March following the failure of some heaters in the pressuriser. Read more
Production Services Network has scooped a five-year contract, worth over $500m, to provide integrated services to eight of Shell UK Ltd’s North Sea assets. PSN will succeed Sigma 3 JV (AMEC, PSN, Wood Group), which will continue its activities until May 2011 when as sole contractor PSN will take over engineering and maintenance services to the Brent field platforms - Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta - and the Shearwater, Gannet, Nelson and Anusuria assets. Over 1000 JV staff on the Brent and central platforms and within Shell facilities in Aberdeen are expected to be retained after the handover to PSN.
CB&I has signed an agreement with SABIC Americas to jointly develop and commercialize toluene methylation technology. Toluene methylation is used to selectively produce paraxylene within an aromatics complex. The technology was developed around a proprietary SABIC catalyst and process.
Helius Energy plc has commenced the formal public consultation process in connection with its proposals for a 100MW biomass fuelled power station within the Port of Southampton’s Western Docks. The electricity produced at the plant will be fed into the local electricity grid. Investigations are underway to establish whether heat from the plant could be provided to adjacent users on a commercial basis.
Wood Group has been awarded a five-year operations and maintenance contract by Sevan Marine to provide asset management services for the FPSO Sevan Voyageur on the Huntington field in the UK central North Sea. As duty holder, appointed by Huntington field operator E.ON Ruhrgas, Wood Group will have complete responsibility for operations management and offshore technical, logistical and supply chain support on the FPSO Sevan Voyageur.
Thames Water has installed automatic filtration technology from Bollfilter at its sewage treatment works in Beckton, east London as part of a major expansion programme at the works - one of the largest in Europe, serving 3.4 million people. Read more
Pneumatic conveying and air filtration company Clyde Process Solutions plc has announced a £2m contract to supply the coal injection technology for three coal-to-methanol plants in Henan Province in China. The contract is to be signed 10 Nov by the client, which is a state-owned energy company, and Jim McColl, chairman of CPS, at a ceremony in Beijing as part of the UK trade delegation visit to China.
Total and the Chinese energy group China Power Investment Corp. plan to build a coal-based petrochemical plant in coal-rich Inner Mongolia. Total will bring its expertise in the methanol-to-olefins and the olefin cracking process technology to the venture. Subsidiary Total Petrochemicals has tested the technology at a purpose-built semi-commercial plant in Belgium. Read more
ExxonMobil Canada Properties has awarded Kiewit-Aker Contractors, a 50/50 JV between Peter Kiewit Infrastructure and Aker Solutions a contract for the Hebron Project gravity based structure. The contract is for the FEED and site preparation, with the option at ExxonMobil’s discretion to subsequently provide detailed EPC services. The contract value for Aker Solutions’ share of the FEED and site preparation is $70m. The Hebron Field is an oil and gas development in the Atlantic Ocean located 350km offshore from St. John’s, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by Indonesian state-owned Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) for the provision of project management consultancy (PMC) services for the new Medan Floating LNG Terminal facility to be built in Medan, North Sumatra. The scope includes technical assistance through the initial phase of the development of the project, conceptual design of the terminal, basic design of the subsea and onshore pipeline as well as the preparation and issue of an invitation to bid for the EPC, bid evaluations, preparation of the EPC contract and support to PGN in EPC contract negotiation.
CB&I has won a contract, worth over $40m, with Daewoo Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd for a storage tank project in Abu Dhabi. Takreer, a subsidiary of ADNOC, is the project owner. This was a third quarter award. CB&I will supply and install various storage tanks for the Mussafah terminal, part of Takreer’s Inter Refinery Pipeline Expansion project (IRP Phase II), which will enhance jet fuel distribution to airports in the UAE via a pipeline from Takreer’s Ruwais Refinery.
Wood Group has been reappointed for three years as the prime contractor by Hess Ltd and co-venturers to provide operations & maintenance services to the Triton FPSO operating in the Bittern, and Greater Guillemot Area, located 140 miles east of Aberdeen. The contract also has three further one-year extension options and is estimated to be worth up to £50m per year. Wood Group is also providing operations and maintenance support to Hess’s operations offshore in Equatorial Guinea.
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract from Porton Fine Chemicals Ltd, a China-based custom manufacturing organisation. Jacobs, who earlier performed basic engineering services for this project, is expected to provide detailed engineering services for a new multi-purpose GMP manufacturing facility at Chongqing Changshou Chemical Industrial Park, located in Changshou District, Chongqing, China.
Petrofac has won a contract worth over £500m with Total E&P UK Ltd for the development of a 500 million standard cubic feet per day gas processing plant on the Shetland Islands. First gas expected from the project in Q2/14. The project comprises engineering and procurement, supply, construction, commissioning and start-up. The plant, at Sullom Voe, will facilitate the transportation of gas from Total’s Laggan and Tormore fields to the Total-operated St Fergus Gas Terminal.
Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd has awarded Emerson’s METCO Services a contract to provide measurement engineering support for its UK North Sea offshore operations for the next three years. It will provide total metering management services on Maersk’s Gryphon and GP III FPSO units and Janice FPU floating production unit. As part of the £1.95M service agreement, Emerson field technicians will be stationed full-time on the offshore installations. Read more
CB&I has been awarded two contracts valued in excess of $50m by Woodside for additional work on the Pluto LNG Project in Western Australia. This is a third quarter award. Earlier this year, CB&I completed two full containment LNG tanks and three condensate tanks on the project.
Alfa Laval is to supply its Packinox heat exchangers to an Indian refinery. The units will be used in a catalytic chemical process for mixed xylene which, among other things, can be used for production of PET bottles. The order value is about SEK110m, with delivery to be finalised during 2011.
SIPOS Aktorik’s variable speed actuators have been selected for an installation at the fourth largest sewage treatment plant in Australia. The technology supports a $150m improvement programme at the North Head STP in Sydney. As part of the upgrade, 40 SIPOS actuators were installed around a sedimentation tank. The products, which replaced existing actuators, feature Profibus DP technology and software programming flexibility to meet requirements of Sydney Water’s SCADA control system.
Scantec Personnel has been awarded a second preferred supplier agreement with Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Ltd (BBES). Scantec will supply BBES with temporary and permanent technical and engineering personnel throughout the UK to its power systems and project divisions in conjunction with other suppliers. This will work alongside its current tier one PSL agreement to supply temporary craft personnel to the firm.
Bechtel and BrightSource Energy have officially started construction of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California’s Mojave Desert. The project, they claim, will usher in a new era of advanced solar power in the US.
National Grid has decided to select the DPI620IS from GE’s Sensing business as the portable instrument calibration and communication device to provide a complete solution to manage its field calibration requirements. The calibration instruments will be used primarily in compressor stations and gas terminals of the company’s gas transmission network to calibrate a wide range of instrumentation.
Clyde Process Solutions has gained a £1.1m order from an existing customer, a US-based subsidiary of a global food and beverage producer. The order is for the supply and installation of a flour unloading, storage and processing system utilising CPS’s proprietary pneumatic conveying technology. This is part of the expansion at a large production facility in the south central US.
ABB has won a $148m order from the Kuwait ministry of electricity and water for the construction/rehabilitation of the Mina Abdullah water pumping plant, which will pump about 1.5m cubic meters of water a day from two desalination plants, more than doubling Kuwait’s fresh water supply. ABB is to engineer, supply, installation, commission and test the electromechanical package for the plant, which is due to be completed by 2013. The deal covers the control and instrumentation system, motors, switchgear, transformers, telecoms and fiber optic equipment, and the integration of 23 water facilities into a new national control center.
Ma’aden, the Saudi Arabian mining company, and Alcoa have poured first concrete for a major new aluminum smelter and food grade can sheet rolling mill, at Raz as Zawr, Saudi Arabia. The construction landmark came just ten months after the two companies signed agreements to establish the “world’s lowest cost, fully integrated aluminum industry” within the country. First production from the smelter and rolling mill is due for early 2013. Initially, the smelter will produce 740ktpa of primary metal. The rolling mill will initially produce 380ktpa of food grade can sheet. Both units are designed for significant expansion.
ExxonMobil has commissioned new units at its Baytown, Texas and Baton Rouge, LA refineries, as part of a plan to increase the supply of ultra low sulfur diesel by over 3 million gallons a day. In late 2008, ExxonMobil announced plans to invest over $1 billion in three refineries to increase supply of ultra low sulfur diesel. The projects, located in the US and Belgium, required construction of new hydrotreater units at each facility, as well as modification to the existing facilities.
Honeywell has won a contract to help increase production capacity for Zorlu Energy, a Turkish energy supplier. Honeywell’s technology solutions - including its Experion Process Knowledge System - will be used to expand the production of energy services at Zorlu’s Lüleburgaz power plant, allowing the company to better meet demand for energy in Turkey.
Chevron Australia Pty Ltd has awarded Pearson-Harper a £6.25m contract to provide engineering information management services for the Australian Gorgon Project, which includes a new 15,000ktpa LNG plant. UK-based P-H is to work with the project’s EPCM teams to collect and manage the engineering data needed to build and operate the project and provide real-time access via its ’dual-hosted’ website/disaster recovery systems. Gorgon is a JV of the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (47%), ExxonMobil (25%), Shell (25%), Osaka Gas (1.25%), Tokyo Gas (1%) and Chubu Electric Power (0.42%).
United Utilities has awarded Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. a framework contractfor the provision of multi-discipline engineering services to undertake the solution identification and design of new water, wastewater and sludge treatment and network facilities, or modifications to existing treatment and network facilities. The contract, which will run for the AMP5 period to 2015, builds on Jacobs’ service delivery to United Utilities over the past three years on projects, including the West-East pipeline between Liverpool and Manchester.
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