Contracts & Projects Tracker - July

Published: 18 August 2008  12:00 AM
Article Type: Business News
Source: Process Engineering Online

Contracts & Projects Tracker - August

This section will be updated in the next edition of the PE newsletter

ABB wins $28-million contract in Turkey

ABB has won a $28-million contract for equipment to provide a new steel plant in Turkey, which will have the capacity to produce 2.5 million tonnes of hot flat-rolled products and 1.2 million tons of cold rolled products. The plant will also produce galvanizing steel, dyed sheet steel and rolled steel. ABB will supply technology including a Static Var Compensator (SVC), which compensates for fluctuations in the voltage and current of power supplies that can harm production quality in industrial plants. The contract was awarded by MMK-ATAKAS, a joint partnership between Atakas Metallurgy and Port Management Inc. (Turkey) and Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), a Russian company. The order includes transformers, high- and medium-voltage switchgear, a substation SCADA system, and FACTS (flexible AC transmission system).

Gazprom opts for Yokogawa

Yokogawa Electric Corp. is to supply four JSC Gazprom Neft oil refineries, under a strategic partnership agreement betwen the companies . The deal covers integrated production control systems and operation support software for efficiency improvement and event analysis. Yokogawa said it will also support a Gazprom programme for reducing total cost of ownership by offering technical support with the design, delivery, service, operation, and engineering of control systems. Gazprom's four refineries include the Omsk refinery, Russia's largest such facility with an annual throughput of around 16 million tonnes. According to the Japanese vendor, its deal with Gazprom is linked to an evaluation of its technologies at Sibur, Russia's largest petrochemical and chemicals group, which entered a similar arrangement with Yokogawa In 2006.

Air Liquide hydrogen plant to supply Neste Oil

Air Liquide has won a long-term contract to supply hydrogen to Neste Oil’s Renewable Diesel plant In Rotterdam and is investing Euro160m in a new 130,000 m3/hour hydrogen production unit (Steam Methane Reformer - SMR), which is due to start up in 2011. The SMR unit, to be designed and built by Lurgi, will also be connected to Air Liquide’s Northern European hydrogen network which currently includes eight hydrogen units in operation and more than 900 km of pipeline. Air Liquide has increased its worldwide production capacity of hydrogen by over 50% over the past three years and now operates 200 hydrogen units worldwide, of which 40 are large units.

Nuclear inspection hoist

Nuclear Engineering Services Limited (NESL) said it is currently completing a contract to build a seventh core inspection hoist commissioned by British Energy for its Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGR). Destined for service at the seven British Energy AGR Nuclear Power Stations, the steel framed (3 metres x 1 metre x 2 metres high) hoist, with its polycarbonate containment box, will be used to deploy a series of tools via two duplex chains, to undertake various inspection duties within the reactor cores. A typical inspection duty is to drill out samples from the moderator (the graphite core bricks) and retrieve them to the containment box to allow analysis of the sample to be undertaken. An integral camera at the top of the chains monitors the tools as they are lowered and relays images back to a screen mounted on the control console. Strategically positioned glove ports on the containment box will assist working with the inspection tools.

Yorkshire Water awards £8.3m contract

Engineering company Earth Tech Morrison has been awarded an £8.3m contract from Yorkshire Water to improve the Eccup water treatment works in Leeds. The aim of the Eccup project is to construct a new treatment stage to remove manganese and carry out base maintenance work on the plant to maintain water quality. Civils work will include installing a new filter block and shaft for a pumping station and increasing wall heights from inlet channels to flocculators to allow throughput of 60 million litres. The project is due for completion in November 2009 and work will start on site in August this year.

Over 100 flowmeters for Africa oil platform

Litre Meter has supplied over 100 VFF positive displacement flowmeters for Integrated Flow Systems (IFS) in a deal worth almost $350,000. The meters form part of a chemical injection metering skid system to be installed in Chevron's Tombua Landana Drilling and Production Platform located offshore Angola, Block 14. In order to fulfil the order for the injection rate control device (IRCD) skid Litre Meter had to undergo a rigorous accreditation process to attain Underwriters Laboratories (UL) explosion proof certification for equipment used in hazardous locations. The meters supplied are low flow meters designed to measure a range of chemicals including demulsifier, defoamer, scale inhibitor, water clarifier, corrosion inhibitors and methanol.

Spectrum in offshore acquisition contact with GX Technology

Spectrum has signed a long term contract with GX Technology (GXT), a subsidiary of ION Geophysical Corp., for the12-month charter of the GGS Atlantic seismic vessel. The GGS-Atlantic will acquire long offset 2D seismic data for ION GXT's BasinSPAN program, a portfolio of global, ultra-deep seismic data libraries that enable geoscientists to better understand petroleum systems, from source rocks to the reservoir traps.  The contract includes an option for a further 12 month charter period and allows for the vessel to complete a Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) contract off the east coast of India which is a contractual obligation of Spectrum's former parent company GGS ASA.

Bectel nets $200m Rio Tinto EPC deal

Bechtel has signed a $200m engineering, procurement, and construction management agreement with Rio Tinto Alcan for the Kitimat Smelter modernization project in Kitimat, British Columbia. The proposed $2.5bn project would increase production capacity at the smelter by 40%, taking it up to 400ktpa and increase Rio Tinto annual global primary aluminum production capacity by more than 3%. This will make Kitimat not only one of Rio Tinto largest wholly-owned smelters, but also one of the three largest in North America. Kitimat's aluminum production capacity will increase by 125 ktpa using clean and renewable hydroelectric power from the Kemano power station and also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 40% per year. First metal from the modernised smelter is expected in 2011.

Jacobs deals with Lanxess

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.is to provide Front End Loading services for a Lanxess butyl rubber manufacturing plant project located on Jurong Island in Singapore. Officials estimate the project's total installed cost at around $700m. Construction is expected to start early next year and be completed by the end of 2010. Once built, the 20,000-square-meter facility will produce 100,000 tons of butyl rubber annually to serve Asia's markets. Jacobs has also signed a deal with Lanxess Deutschland GmbH to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management services under an Engineering Services Agreement (ESA) for LANXESS' operations in Germany. As one of the leading companies in specialty chemicals, LANXESS had sales in 2007 of 6.61 billion Euros and currently has 14,620 employees in 21 countries.

Jacobs Receives EPC Contract From Suncor Energy

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract to provide detailed engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for Suncor Energy's Voyageur Upgrader near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Jacobs will provide EPC services for the sulfur complex of the Suncor Voyageur Upgrader, which is a key component of Suncor's plan to achieve a targeted production capacity of 550,000 barrels of oil per day by 2012. The Voyageur Upgrader will upgrade bitumen primarily from the Firebag in-situ site. The new sulfur complex includes two sour water stripper units, one amine unit, three sulfur recovery trains, sulfur degassing, an LT SCOT tail gas treating unit, and a sulfur truck loading terminal. Jacobs will also perform the pipe fabrication and module assembly work at their Edmonton, Alberta, facilities.

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