Contracts & Projects: October 2012

Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction for cooperation in the design of a circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) steam generator for the Yeosu Thermal Power Plant 1 Project for Korea South East Power Co. Ltd (KOSEP). Doosan will supply the major equipment, including the CFB boiler and turbine generator for the Yeosu 1 project which will replace an existing heavy-oil fired unit. FW will provide the design review of the 350MWe CFB steam generator for Doosan, licensee for Utility CFB technology in the region.

Shell opened a major new lubricants blending plant, the first built by an international oil company in Russia. The automated plant in Torzhok,north-west of Moscow, is to supply finished consumer, transport and industrial lubricants to customers in Russia. It can blend up to 200m litres of lubricants a year, making it one of the largest in Shell’s current global plant network, and will create 150 local jobs at full capacity.

Qatar Fertilizer Co. (QAFCO) has renewed a contract with Honeywell to provide safety and automation systems for QAFCO’s existing plants, expansion projects and future projects. The agreement - one of the longest duration agreements of its kind to be signed in the Middle East - is for 10 years with an option to extend for an additional four. The agreement covers six ammonia plants, six urea plants and a melamine plant, and will involve DCS and ESD systems as well as applications for plant and laboratory information management, APC and operator training simulators.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract from PETRONAS to develop a basic engineering package for three sulfur recovery units (SRUs). Basic engineering services are being provided from Jacobs’ Leiden office in The Netherlands. Jacobs is licensing its proprietary SUPERCLAUS® technology to PETRONAS for the SRU project. PETRONAS’ new, three-train sulfur plant is part of the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) Project site in the state of Johor, Malaysia.

Aker Solutions has been awarded an NOK100m four-year frame agreement from Statoil for delivering wireline tractor services on the Norwegian continental shelf. It includes services to the platforms that Statoil operates out of Stavanger, Norway, including Statfjord, Volve, Sleipner, Snorre, Gudrun, Dagny and Ermintrude.

Metso has won an order from Technip to supply the latest generation of its automated on-off valves and actuators to the Algiers Refinery, 10 km South of Algiers, in Algeria. Metso will be the main on-off valves supplier of Technip for the Algiers Refinery’s Rehabilitation and Adaptation project which aims at revamping existing facilities to increase capacity of crude oil processing from 2.7 to 3.6 MTPY and adapting to meet Euro - 2009 specifications for gasoline.

AxFlow’s Aberdeen system manufacturing plant has supplied a diesel transfer pump package for new GE dual-fuel powered generators being installed on the Thistle Platform, North Sea. Given just 16 weeks from order receipt to delivery, a time frame that included full testing, AxFlow’s engineers working in conjunction with their pump supplier met the deadline enabling the pumps to enter service on time. AxFlow’s scope was the fabrication and assembly of the system, with the valves and instruments being free-issued by the client, Wood Group PSN.

Metso has won an order from Technip to supply the latest generation of its automated on-off valves and actuators to the Algiers Refinery, 10 km South of Algiers, in Algeria. Metso will be the main on-off valves supplier of Technip for the Algiers Refinery’s Rehabilitation and Adaptation project which aims at revamping existing facilities to increase capacity of crude oil processing from 2.7 to 3.6 MTPY and adapting to meet Euro - 2009 specifications for gasoline.

Atlas Copco has won an order for three centrifugal gas compressors for a natural-gas-fueled power plant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The contractor constructing the plant is a JV between two large EPCs: Arabian Bemco Contracting Co. Ltd and GS Engineering & Construction Corp. The end user is Saudi Electric Co. The facility, known as PP-12, will be one of the biggest combined-cycle power plants. It is to start commercial operation by 2014 with a net output of 2 175 MW. The Atlas Copco compressors will feed gas turbines, which produce electricity, with natural gas at 33 bars.

AUMA has supplied over one hundred modular electric actuators to a major tank farm in Tianjin Nanjiang Port. The company supplied its valve control devices in SAEX and ACEX models with SIMA masterstations - explosion-proof products, backed by redundant Modbus RTU communication. Owned by Sinopec Corp, the Tianjin Port Group and the Zhao Tian Hong Kong Group, the tank farm scheme is a significant chemical storage base providing 950,000m3 of storage capacity.

BP has awarded Emerson a $21m contract to provide integrated control and safety systems for a new FPSO, which will replace the existing Schiehallion vessel – part of the North Sea Quad 204 project that will access the remaining hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, 130km west of Shetland, UK

Aquamatic Ltd have been awarded an exclusive framework agreement to supply Dwr Cymru Welsh Water with their MCERTS Certified Aquacell Automatic Wastewater Samplers during AMP5 and into the AMP6 framework periods. The contract covers wastewater treatment plants across Wales.

Yokogawa has won an order from Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd. to supply a control system for the first IGCC plant in South Korea. It is being constructed in Taean by Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO). Following a commissioning period that will commence in December 2015, the 300MW plant will begin commercial operation. Yokogawa’s Centum VP system will control the gasification section, a core plant facility, while its ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system will be used to shut down the gasification section in the event of an emergency.

Gazprom has awarded Wood Group Kenny company MSi Kenny a contract to provide a modelling subsystem for the Portovaya compressor station (CS Portovaya) on the Russian coast of the Baltic Sea. The compressor station is part of the Gryazovets - Vyborg gas trunkline, which will improve gas supply in Russia’s Northwest region and feed Russian gas to Europe via the Nord Stream pipeline. The modelling subsystem will comprise an engineering and operations simulator (EOS) for offline simulation and a gas management system (GMS) for monitoring and optimizing compressor station operations to meet operational requirements for the Nord Stream pipeline.

BASF and Yamal LNG OAO (shareholders are Novatek OAO and Total) have concluded a license agreement on the use of BASF’s technology for the removal of carbon dioxide from natural gas.

Centinela Solar Energy has awarded Fluor a lump-sum EPC contract, as well as a separate contract for ongoing operations and maintenance services for its new nominal 170-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) facility located in Southern California. Fluor has been awarded both the 125MW phase 1 and the 45MW Phase 2 of the Centinela project and received full notice-to-proceed for phase 1. Phase 2 is expected to be released in Q1/13.

Vopak has awarded Emerson a three-year global framework agreement to provide process automation systems and services for its 83 storage and bulk liquid terminal facilities around the world.The Dutch-based group aims to raise the reliability of its liquid oil, gas, and chemical storage and terminal services. (Read more)

Lewa GmbH and Burckhardt Compression AG are to jointly manufacture systems for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) combined with carbon capture & storage (CCS). A deal, signed 27 Aug, combines Lewa’s capabilities in process diaphragm pumps and metering and mixing packages, with those of Burckhardt as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of reciprocating compressors. (Read more)

Jiutai Energy Group has signed a license agreement with Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology LLC, part of Dow Chemical Co., for a 350 KTA methanol-to-olefin based polypropylene plant. Jiutai will license Unipol polypropylene process technology to produce homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers – the 11th licensee for the technology in China since 2006. Methanol-to-olefin polypropylene production is gaining popularity in China due to the region’s abundant coal reserves. The plant is targeted to start-up in 2015 in Zhungeer Qi, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia.