Contracts & Projects: September 2011

Shell UK Ltd has extended a gas turbine maintenance contract held by Aberdeen-based Rolls Wood Group (RWG) to 2015. The five-year extension includes maintenance, repair and overhaul of 27 Rolls-Royce Avon and RB211 gas turbines operating on seven offshore platforms in the UK North Sea. It retains the same work scope as the original 1999 agreement for maintaining gas turbine drivers for electrical power generation and gas compressor sets. Over the life of the contract, reliability of the gas turbines has increased with time between overhauls being extended. RWG also provides overhaul services to other Shell companies, including Shell Sarawak, Shell Malampaya, and Shell Brunei.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded the second phase of the Ras Tanura Refinery Clean Fuels and Aromatics project.This award is under the Saudi Aramco general engineering and project management services (GES+) contract. Jacobs is executing the project from its office in al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The scope of work includes FEED services for both inside battery limits and outside battery limits. In addition, the project includes modifications to the refinery to comply with expected future environmental regulations.

Hima-Sella has supplied high integrity pressure protection systems for use on five of Oil & Natural Gas Corp.’s unmanned wellhead platforms; as part of the operator’s B-193 cluster development off western India. (More on Process Engineering)

Asset Guardian Solutions Ltd, a Livingston-based firm has signed up its first major pharmaceutical customer - Macfarlan Smith - to its proprietary software management platform. The Asset Guardian tool set enables process and manufacturing organisations to minimise the risks associated with process-critical safety software and related functions. For Macfarlan Smith, Asset Guardian will enable the pharmaceutical firm to control any changes and securely store all of its process-critical software.

FH Tank Storage AB is using Emerson’s Rosemount wireless level and pressure transmitters to provide overspill protection at its Kalmar storage terminal on the east coast of Sweden. The company has installed a plant-wide Smart Wireless network, DeltaV digital automation system, and AMS Suite predictive maintenance software to automate tank storage level monitoring. (More on Process Engineering)

Hima-Sella and independent control and automation systems provider Capelrig have entered a teaming agreement to serve the Oil & Gas sector. Under the agreement the companies will design, engineer, install and service integrated control and safety systems.

ABB has recently won a $151m order from Eni Congo to engineer, build and commission a new natural gas compression station and treatment plant in the Republic of Congo.The new plant will be located at the onshore M’Boundi oil field near the Atlantic coast and will provide compressed natural gas to power the turbines at two nearby power plants in Djeno, which currently supply most of the country’s electricity.

Atlas Copco compressors are being employed in a new cryogenic process developed by Highview Power Storage to store off-peak electric energy by liquefying air. Using off-peak electricity, the Highview CryoEnergy System pilot plant operates by extracting ambient air from the surrounding environment: the gas is cleaned, compressed by Atlas Copco compressors, and then cooled until the air undergoes a phase change to a liquid. (More on Process Engineering)

Konecranes has won the order from CNIM to supply two cranes for Lincolnshire’s first energy from waste (EfW) facility to treat household waste. Both cranes use invertor control on all motions and will be fully automated. Working on a 26 metre span, they will be equipped to automatically dampen sway and reduce operator fatigue, stress in structures and mechanical components. The cranes will have waste handling ’orange peel’ grabs and will be delivered by April 2012.

Atlas Copco is to deliver equipment to a turnkey geothermal power plant in Turkey’s Aydin province. Its Euro12m order includes two turbo expander generator trains able to deliver a total 45MW when the plant starts in Q4/12. The customer is Çelikler Jeotermal Elektrik Üretim A? of Turkey. Atlas Copco’s consortium partners are process-design firm Exergy and air-cooled condenser company SPIG. The plant, using Organic Rankine Cycle technology, will be built in the geothermal field at Pamukoren. Compared to natural-gas driven power generation producing the same amount of energy, this project will reduce CO2 emissions by 238ktpa at its peak production

OJSC Omskneftekhimproekt has awarded Foster Wheeler a contract for the basic engineering design of a new hydrogen production unit – based on Foster Wheeler Terrace-Wall steam reforming technology – at the Atyrau Refinery, Atyrau, Kazakhstan – part of KazMunayGas group. OJSC is the project engineering contractor for the revamp/modernisation of the refinery. The project aims to increase the oil conversion rate and production of all types of motor fuels to Euro IV and Euro V standards. The refinery will, as a result of this modernisation, require more high purity hydrogen. The new hydrogen unit, which will use high olefinic LPG as the main feedstock and natural gas as the alternate feedstock, is to produce 24,000 Nm3 /h of pure hydrogen. The basic design package is due for completion during Q3/11.

HRS Heat Exchangers has signed a Euro1.3m contract with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to deliver a scraped surface vacuum evaporator, for its Barkip anaerobic digestion plant in North Ayrshire. The HRS evaporator system is designed to overcome fouling issues associated with the evaporation of organic digestate. The Barkip plant will be the first of its kind to incorporate a novel digestate processing stage: Waste heat from the CHP engines is used to concentrate the liquid fraction of the digestate into a nutrient rich liquid fertiliser. The HRS technology will enable the Barkip plant to process 75ktpa of waste, in a plant setup that produces around 2.5MW of renewable electricity. (More on Process Engineering)

A Chronos BTH bottom-up filling system is to pack whey permeate powder at a facility being installed at the Milk Link Taw Valley Creamery in Devon. Operating in a clean-room environment the system will pack 25kg weighments of whey permeate powder into PE-lined pinch-top paper bags. Coarse filling will be carried out by the bottom-up filler prior to product de-aeration using in-built de-aeration probes, with fine feed top up taking place at a second filling position. A secondary de-aeration system will eliminate any trapped air from the filled bag prior to sealing.

Eurotech has netted a $1.7m follow-on order to supply its ZyWAN cellular router to a regional power company serving more than 2 million customers. The order, to be delivered by the end of 2011, will support the company’s Smart Grid initiatives to wirelessly connect smart meters for residential and business clients and enable SCADA operations. The cellular router wirelessly transmits real-time data about the power grid, and gives the utility a network access point for a comprehensive view of their grid.

Fluor Corp. has started work on an EPC contract by SAPCo – a Saudi Acrylic Acid Co./Evonik Industries JV – for its super absorbent polymer project (SAP) in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The work is to be completed and commissioned by Q4/13. Nearly 200 professional staff in Fluor’s Haarlem,The Netherlands; Manila and Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia are being engaged on the project, plus a construction staff of nearly 700 workers at peak.

E.ON UK has awarded Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. a framework contract to provide engineering services and construction management support as part of its ongoing plant life extension program at the 2000MW coal-fired Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station near Nottingham, UK. The scope includes the appraisal of system upgrade requirements; compilation of user-requirement specs; condition surveys; design of system upgrade and replacement projects, and support to procurement and construction management services.

GE Oil & Gas is planning to build a new oil refinery on Teesside in the north east of England, according to a Reuters report. The US major is working on a feasibility study for the project with UK firm Tenergis, said the news agency - quoting a spokesman for GE Oil and Gas. The reported project appears to be linked to a pre-planning application for a 200-250MW gas-fired power station and harbour facilities submitted by developer Tees Refining Ltd to the UK’s Infrastructure Planning Commission. (More on Process Engineering)

BP has engaged JBF RAK LLC to build and operate a new 390ktpa polyethylene terephthalate (PET) production unit at BP’s petrochemicals complex in Geel, Belgium, subject to required approvals. The PET unit will be adjacent to BP’s purified terephthalic acid (PTA) facility. BP will in return supply PTA directly to this new PET manufacturing unit. Startup is scheduled for 2014.

Emirates Aluminium Co. Ltd (EMAL) has awarded SNC-Lavalin an engineering, procurement, and construction management services contract for phase ll of its smelter in Al Taweelah, in Abu Dhabi. The new aluminium smelter includes a 1,000MW power plant and a 1.7km potline, the longest ever built. The EMAL phase ll smelter will produce 525ktpa of aluminium using an improved version of DUBAL DX technology. It is due to be fully operational in 2014.

Alfa Laval has received an order to supply its Packinox heat exchangers to a petrochemical plant in Singapore. The order value is about SEK110m and delivery is scheduled for 2012. The heat exchangers will be used in a catalytic processing section for production of mixed xylenes.

A consortium comprising CB&I, Chiyoda Corp. and Saipem SpA, has won the contract for the preparation and supply of the project specification for the Arrow LNG Plant Project in Australia. Arrow Energy Pty Ltd, the project operator, is a 50/50 JV between Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina. The project, which will be designed with a production capacity of 8,000 ktpa (two 4,000ktpa trains), is planned to be constructed on Curtis Island, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia. The project plans to expand its capacity up to 16,000ktpa in the future. The LNG plant will be supplied with coal seam gas from the Surat and Bowen basins in Queensland and will process, treat and liquefy the gas for export.

The UK has given the go-ahead for the Drax Biomass (Selby) Ltd 299MW biomass-fuelled power station on land at the existing 4,000 MW Drax Power Station site in Selby, North Yorkshire, and the Drax Biomass (Immingham) Ltd 299MW biomass-fuelled power station at South Killingholme near Immingham.

InterGen has the go-ahead to construct a new 900MW gas power plant at the London Gateway Logistics Park, Coryton, Essex.The planned £600 million power station is to comprise of up to two CCGT generating units, each around 450MW in capacity. This brings the total new capacity consented by the Government since May 2010 to 5,456MW - enough to power more than seven million homes if developed. The proposed combined cycle gas turbine plant would take about three years to build, generating around 600 jobs during construction.

Metso has won a Euro20-million order to supply Heizkraftwerk Zwickau Süd GmbH & Co. KG with a modularised biomass power plant for combined heat and power production (CHP) in the municipality of Zwickau. The CHP plant will be delivered by the Metso-Wärtsilä joint venture MW Power. (More on Process Engineering)

Air Products has secured planning permission from Stockton on Tees Borough Council for its Tees Valley Renewable Energy Facility. The facility is the first of a number of energy from waste plants that Air Products will be looking to develop in the UK over the next few years. (More on Process Engineering)

Shell and Emerson have signed a five-year enterprise framework agreement that makes Emerson the single-source supplier of on/off valve actuators to Shell and its affiliates. Emerson will provide products from its range of valve automation technologies, including Bettis pneumatic and hydraulic actuators and EIM electric and electro-hydraulic actuators. Emerson will also provide ongoing support of Shell’s previously installed actuators. Shell has previously appointed Emerson as a main automation contractor for its capital projects and as a global strategic supplier of pressure, temperature and flow field instruments.

ICGB AD has awarded the Consortium Penspen Ltd - C&M Engineering SA a contract for the FEED and environmental impact assessment (EIA) on the Interconnector Greece - Bulgaria (IGB) project, connectign Komotini, Greece, and Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. Provision of FEED and EIA services will commence at the end of August for completion in Q4/12. The interconnector IGB is a 170km long pipeline. The transit capacity is of 3bn cubic metres per annum (bcma) which could be increased to 5 bcma, with reverse flow capability.

ABB control systems are helping Tata Steel to cut the cost of iron production at its Scunthorpe plant in the UK by allowing it to use medium-pressure oxygen in the blast furnaces. The company, in partnership with BOC, has built a medium-pressure oxygen plant on the site, together with a 4.5km pipeline to serve the three blast furnaces. Each furnace can take up to 20,000 m³ per hour of oxygen to enrich its air supply at up to 11% by volume. (More on Process Engineering)

CB&I has been awarded a contract by Ningbo Haiyue New Material Co. Ltd for the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane dehydrogenation unit to be built in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China. The unit will use the Catofin dehydrogenation process to produce 600ktpa of propylene and is expected to start up in 2014.

Foster Wheeler is to perform the second phase scope for an existing contract with Ecopetrol SA for the project for the modernisation of the refinery in Barrancabermeja (PMRB) in Colombia. This includes additional project management consultancy and FEED, detailed engineering for the crude unit revamps, assisting Ecopetrol in the selection process for EPC contracts, and control and supervision of the EPC and construction contractors. The PRMB will add heavy crude processing capability to take advantage of the available domestic heavy sour crudes, and provide a processing configuration to meet the Colombian clean fuels product specifications.

Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical Co. have awarded Fluor Corp. a reimbursable engineering, procurement and construction management contract for all of the utilities and offsites at the al-Jubail chemicals complex, Saudi Arabia. The complex will be owned and operated by the Sadara Chemical Co. – a Dow/Aramco JV. The complex is expected to be the largest single-phase development in the world, with a planned investment of $20bn. Ensuring timely utilities, offsites, infrastructure and pipework arrangements is important for the project.

Foster Wheeler has selected Emerson technology to control a new biomass boiler at the Polaniec Power Station in Poland. When operational in 2012, this will be the world’s largest 100% biomass-fired boiler. FW is building the 190 MWe biomass-fired circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) boiler island for plant owner GDF Suez. Poland has been investing in biomass power generation to achieve a target of producing 15% of its total energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020. (More on Process Engineering)

Capula has commissioned control systems – based on Siemens S7 PLCs and WinCC SCADA – at Global Renewables Lancashire’s two mechanical/biological waste-processing facilities in Farington and Thornton. As well as providing a graphical overview of the whole waste treatment process, all plant data is logged and stored for retrieval and analysis.”This is a real flagship waste management project for Europe,” said Capula business development director Simon Coombs, “Our control system … enables effective control of the plant whilst facilitating ease of maintenance.” Capula is also providing support to ensure the effective running of the plant.

Paksi Atomer?m? (PAKS) nuclear power plant, in Hungary, has selected Emerson’s CSI 6500 Machinery Health Monitor for real-time machinery protection and predictive monitoring of eight turbine-generator machine trains. The PAKS plant is the only operating nuclear power station in Hungary, producing approximately 40% of the electrical power generated in the country. Each of the 32 supplied CSI 6500 monitors will be integrated with the PAKS plant’s existing distributed control system, allowing the operations and maintenance teams to see real-time protection and prediction monitoring indicators so the effect of process adjustments on machinery health can be evaluated.

SMF Delivery Team, a Babcock and Balfour Beatty JV, has been awarded a contract by Sellafield Ltd for the early contractor engagement phase of the silos maintenance facility (SMF) at the Sellafield site in west Cumbria, UK. The SMF is to support the operations and maintenance of machinery which will be used to retrieve hazardous wastes from various facilities at Sellafield.  The scheme has a total value of around £150m. (More on Process Engineeering)

BASF has started an ’operational excellence’ programme with Reliable Manufacturing, a Warrington, UK-based change-management consultancy - to help increase asset utilisation and capacity at its Antwerp plant. (More on Process Engineering)

Shandong Bohui Paper Industry Co. Ltd has selected Siemens to provide drive technology for its new board paper mill at Dafeng, Yancheng city, in Jiangsu province, east China. The new mill is to produce 750ktpa of wood-pulp-based board paper based. With the new ill, Bohui Paper will become China’s biggest board paper mill. The project has a total volume of around Euro3.8m and is due for completion by end of 2012.

Capula has recently completed delivery on phase two of a Yorkshire Water programme to improve its data storage, retrieval and analysis capabilities.Under its Times Series Values (TSV) project, the water utility aims to enhance its operational information flow to help improve business performance. via improved efficiencies and end-to-end visibility of data. (More on Process Engineering)

KSB is to supply 20 pump sets for one of Mexico’s largest infrastructure projects. The pumps are the largest submersible motor units in KSB’s history with a power output of 1,150KW and a total weight of 15 tonnes. Each pump can handle 2,000 litres/second at a head of almost 44 metres. They will be used at a wastewater / stormwater pumping station, for completion in 2012, in Mexico City at an elevation of 2,200 metres. Overuse of groundwater reserves has led to major subsidence of the ground on which the city stands. Many sewers now lack the required gradient, while the city is also suffering flooding due to poor drainage and heavy rainfalls.

Litre Meter has shipped VFF positive displacement flowmeters to Dutch oil and gas package supplier Geveke. The meters will be used in a monoethylene glycol injection skid for Wintershall’s new Wingate natural gas platform in the North Sea. The VFF flowmeter is suitable for measuring liquids at pressure ratings up to 4,000 bar and flow rates from 0.0004 l/m to over 270 l/min, and designed to operate at temperatures ranging from -40 to 100°C.

China National Coal Group Corp. has awarded KBR a contract to provide ammonia technology, process design package and technical services for two 1660 t/day ammonia synloop units at China Coal Erdos Energy and Chemical Co. Ltd in Erdos, Inner Mongolia. In the next five years, China’s no. 2 coal company is to build five coal production bases in Shanxi, Jiangsu, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang Uyghur.

Cameron has posted a 72% hike in H2/11 orders to $2.39bn, versus the prior-year second quarter. Record bookings, it said, were established for the drilling, engineered and process valves and the process businesses, including nine deepwater stack and five jackup awards for the drilling business. The process business received two large awards for MEG reclamation units to support deepwater developments.

Weir Group PLC has agreed to sell its former Weir Pumps site at Cathcart, Glasgow to Clyde Union for £25m. The property has been leased from the Weir Group by Clyde Union since it acquired the Weir Pumps, Glasgow business in May 2007 for around £45m. Completion of the site sale is scheduled before 31 Dec.

BASF SE and Purac, part of CSM nv, are seeking to form a JV for the production of bio-based succinic acid. The companies have been jointly researching bio-based succinic acid since 2009. This work in fermentation and downstream processing led to the development of a manufacturing process based on a proprietary microorganism. Demand for succinic acid is expected to grow strongly in the next few years, with applications in bioplastics, chemical intermediates, solvents, polyurethanes and plasticisers.

Westinghouse Electric Co., its consortium team member the Shaw Group Inc., China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corp.(SNPTC) and Sanmen Nuclear Power Co. Ltd, today announced that the first AP1000 nuclear reactor vessel successfully arrived at the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China’s Zhejiang province. Doosan Heavy Industries Construction manufactured the reactor vessel at its Changwon Plant in the Republic of Korea. It weighs about 340 tons and measures 4.5 meters in diameter by 12.2 meters in length.  When installed in the Sanmen Unit 1 AP1000 plant, it will undergo installation and operational testing before starting commercial operation in late 2013.

Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC (GST) is to acquire the ONE-UP pump diaphragm business from WL Gore & Associates Inc. (Gore). This acquisition allows GST to expand its footprint in the diaphragm pump market. Currently located in Elkton, Maryland, the ONE-UP business will be relocated to GST’s facility in Palmyra, New York state, and will continue to use Gore’s PTFE material for the ONE-UP pump diaphragm products, which will complement GST’s current diaphragm offerings

Clyde Union Pumps has recently won an order for more than $15m from China. The contract is for six advanced main feed water pumps and associated equipment for the Fuqing 3 & 4 nuclear power plant in Fujian Province in South West China. The order for advanced pumps is the first to benefit from a new UK government scheme, which helps banks to support UK exporters.

Invensys is to supply automation systems and services to TNK-BP’s Saratov oil refinery in western Russia. The 7,000-ktpa unit supplies products, including gasoline, low-sulphur diesel, naphtha, vacuum gas oil, fuel oil and bitumen. Invensys will supply its Foxboro I/A Series DCS and Triconex emergency shutdown and critical control systems, plus measurement, instrumentation and control devices for the hydrofining and isomerisation units. It will also provide project management, documentation, engineering, delivery, installation, testing and start-up services, as well as training for the systems, covering development, commissioning and maintenance.

Hudson Oil, a Canadian downstream energy company, has acquired the historic Glimar refinery in Gorlice, southern Poland. It aims to restart the 3,500 barrels per day refinery, originally built in the 19th century. Wojciech Janowski, executive chairman, said: “The refinery has recently been retrofitted with Chevron-licensed all hydro-processing technology, installed by Lurgi GmbH. This creates possibilities for gasification and production of ultra-pure synthetic fuels.”

Lafarge is set to save $1.5 million a year through the use of Mobil SHC 600 lubricants and related application expertise, from ExxonMobil Lubricants, at two of its cement plants, the lubricants maker claims. (More on Process Engineering)

Two new Essent – part of RWE – power plants that are currently under construction, Claus C and Moerdijk 2. have undergone their ’first fire’. This means that the power plant’s gas turbine is put into operation for the first time - a step towards final completion of the power plants later this year (Moerdijk 2) and in mid-2012 (Claus C). (More on Process Engineering)

Merck Serono has implemented Werum Software & Systems’ PAS-X manufacturing execution system for the manufacture of solids and liquids at Merck Serono’s pharma plant in Mexico – a step towards it being the standard MES system for its global pharma operations. The new MES at the Naucalpan plant near Mexico City replaces a former paper-based production control procedures with an electronically-based process. A new weighing system replaces the current weighing system. The MES also interfaces with Merck Serono’s global SAP ERP system.

Linde Group is to build and operate two air separation plants to supply gases on site to Yantai Wanhua in Shandong, east China. The contract involves investment of about Euro130m. Each plant will have a capacity of 55,000 normal cubic metres of oxygen per hour. They are due on stream between Q4/13 and Q1/14, supplying oxygen and nitrogen to Yantai Wanhua – China’s only major producer of MDI, a polyurethane feedstock. Linde will also produce liquefied products for the open market. The project includes a new 20km pipeline in the Yantai Economic and Technology Park.

KBR has won a contract with Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical Co. Ltd to license its phenol technology for Lihuayi’s grassroots, 220 ktpa) phenol/acetone plant in Lijin County, Shandong Province, China. Phenol licensor KBR says its product and execution teams have been involved in phenol technology for more than 60 years and have completed more than 50 phenol projects worldwide.

ConocoPhillips has announced the approval of investment in the initial train of a two-train LNG 9,000-ktpa project by Australia Pacific LNG in Queensland, Australia. Project sanction includes development of the necessary resources from Australia Pacific LNG’s 24 trillion cubic feet of coal seam gas resources in the Surat and Bowen Basins to supply the first train requirements, installation of a transmission pipeline from the onshore gas fields to the LNG facility on Curtis Island and infrastructure commitments to support a second train.
LNG exports from the first train are due to start in 2015 under a binding sales agreement for 4,300 ktpa with Sinopec Corp.

Bechtel Corp. and Linde AG are to work together to expand and build ethylene cracker plants in North America: combining Bechtel’s engineering, procurement, and direct-hire construction capabilities and Linde’s ethylene technology. The alliance builds on the companies’ previous work together at the Borouge petrochemicals complex in the UAE. Together, they performed EPC, and start-up for the ethylene plant, off-site facilities, and utilities at the complex, which was completed in early 2002. (More on Process Engineering)

GlaxoSmithKline is targeting improvements in its supply chain in the next stage of its strategy to reduce its cost base, the company said alongside first-half results showing operating profits up 42% to £3.8bn, on sales 7.5% lower at £13.3bn. (More on Process Engineering)

Honeywell is working with SAP AG to deliver integrated offerings, initially for the oil & gas market, combining Honeywell Process Solutions’ capabilities in production planning and scheduling with SAP’s know-how in ERP, supply chain logistics and business analytics. They aim to deliver business tools that enable proactive and preventative measures to avoid downtime, while keeping people, the environment and assets safe, by addressing the knowledge gap between business and operations groups.

Dow Chemical Co. is to sell its global polypropylene business to Braskem for around $340m cash purchase by the end of Q3/11. The sale is under a Dow strategy to focus more on “downstream, technology-differentiated” areas. It includes Dow’s PP manufacturing facilities at Schkopau and Wesseling, Germany, and Freeport and Seadrift(2), Texas, but not Dow’s PP licensing & catalyst business and related catalyst facilities. Brasken will however gain inventory, business know-how, certain product and process technology and customer contracts and lists. About 200 Dow employees are expected to transfer to Braskem.

Lafarge is to sell its European and South American gypsum assets to Etex Group for Euro850m and a 20% stake in the new partnership combining the European and South American Gypsum activities of both groups. Lafarge’s European and South American gypsum division manufactures gypsum wallboard and other gypsum-based products such as plaster, joint compounds, and plaster blocks. In 2010, these Lafarge operations generated consolidated sales of Euro895m and EBITDA of Euro115m.

Toyo Engineering Corp. has awarded KBR a contract to provide licensing and engineering services for PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur – the largest urea and ammonia manufacturer in Indonesia. The project will be held at Kaltim-5, Pupuk Kaltim’s grassroots 2,500 tonnes/day ammonia plant located in Bontang, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. KBR will provide the licensing, basic engineering package and related services for Kaltim-5. The fertiliser complex will be based on KBR’s low-energy-consumption Purifier technology which is claimed to offer the lowest proven energy consumption. The plant will eventually replace an existing unit, allowing the client to reduce gas consumption.

Lanemark has completed refurbishment and testing work to ensure ’the world’s largest methanol production plant’ can accommodate increased output.The project was undertaken by the Proman Group, appointed by Methanol Holding Trinidad Ltd to complete an upgrade of its operational facility on the Caribbean island. The plant development programme was based at Lanemark’s Nuneaton, UK plant alongside independent test facilities in the Czech Republic.

KBR has been awarded an EPC) contract by Molycorp to build a new chlor-alkali plant – part of a $781m programme to reactivate the company’s rare earth oxides (REO) mine, and expand and modernise its flagship rare earth facility in Mountain Pass, California. Molycorp is the Western hemisphere’s only producer of REO.

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