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India: ultra-mega power transmission project
India's first ultra-mega transmission project (UMTP) has been kicked off with state-run Power Finance Corp. Ltd (PFC) awarding a letter of intent for the East-North interconnection system to Sterlite Technologies Ltd, a provider of transmission solutions for the power and telecom industries, and the Indian cable-manufacturing arm of Vedanta Resources plc. The overall scheme entails an estimated investment of USD 5.4 billion. The projects, when first announced, were to be implemented by the end of the ongoing 11th five-year plan period, 2007-12. |
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Ethylene production cracker
Taiwan government-owned refiner CPC Corp. is planning to set up a USD 300 million chemicals joint venture with Taiwanese synthetic rubber maker TSRC Corp. The venture, which will start production in the second or third quarter of 2013, will produce 20,000 metric tons a year of styrene isoprene styrene (SIS). The joint venture will also have a third, as yet undecided partner, but CPC will be the largest shareholder. CPC plans to spend a total TWD 46.9 billion on the No. 3 cracker through the end of 2012. The project will increase the cracker's annual ethylene production capacity to 720,000 metric tons from 230,000tns, and bring CPC's total annual ethylene output to 1.57 million tons. The SIS joint venture will use C5, a feedstock, from the CPC's revamped No. 3 cracker. |
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Turbine bypass system replacement completed
Dresser Masoneilan® has completed the turbine bypass system replacement for the Crystal River 3 Nuclear Power Plant in Crystal River, Florida. Crystal River, an 860MWE pressurized water nuclear reactor in operation since 1977, is undergoing an extended power upgrade that includes a 20% power increase and 180MWE of additional capacity. After a detailed technical comparison and evaluation, Dresser Masoneilan was selected to provide its valves for the turbine bypass system. The Dresser Masoneilan 41000 series valve and downstream sparger helped disperse steam evenly into the condenser, reducing overall noise and ensuring uninterrupted diversion of steam to the condenser for continued operation of the generator. |
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Emerson supplies control valves
US-based Emerson Process Management has won a deal to provide control valves worth USD 2 million for Westinghouse Electric Co.'s new generation of AP1000 nuclear power plants. The contract also includes additional USD 3 million agreements for more power plants scheduled to be built in the US. The Fisher SS84 valves will be used in the pressuriser spray system to maintain reactor coolant temperature in the plant. The valves will firstly be fitted to the nuclear plant in development in China, comprising of two reactors each in the Sanmen Nuclear and Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant. Sanmen is due to start operations in 2013 while Haiyang will be brought online in 2014. |
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Egypt: thermal power plant
The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Energy will bid a build own and operate (BOO) a 1500MW thermal power plant. Under BOO project criteria, Egyptian Electricity Transmission Co. will purchase the energy produced by the project for 20 years. The power plant will be built in the Dirout village of Beharah County. The establishment of the power plant is part of a comprehensive program to attract local and foreign investment to contribute to secure power supply for all development projects, industrial, agricultural, commercial and residential, all over the republic to cope with growing energy demand. Dr Hassan Yunis, the minister of electricity, said that the electricity sector is working on future planning to meet the requirements of future generations, and is developing three projects in Egypt with a capacity of 2000MW, incorporating build-own-operate-transfer contracts for up to 25 years. |
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Subsea contract in the Mediterranean Sea
Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract by Repsol Investigaciones Petroliferas SA for the development of two fields located 50km off the east coast of Spain. Technip’s scope includes engineering, supply, installation and pre-commissioning of the 11km flexible pipeline system that will connect two production wells to the Casablanca platform. This pipeline system will include a riser, a flowline and two jumpers. Technip will also install a pumping manifold, umbilicals and flying leads provided by the client. The project is located in a fishing area. To protect fishing lines, the flexible pipelines and umbilicals will therefore be trenched. Technip’s operating center in Paris, France, will execute this contract. All flexible pipelines will be fabricated at the Group's plant in Le Trait, France. Offshore installation is scheduled to be carried out in the first half of 2011, using the Deep Constructor, one of Technip's deepwater construction vessels. |
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Nuclear actuator training
Sipos Aktorik has reported growing demand for its nuclear sector training program. The company's role providing training and revisions is expanding and current work includes support for five large nuclear power plants. Sipos Aktorik has developed a rotary actuator range specifically to meet the demands of the extreme conditions of nuclear applications. The Sipos safety relevant SIWI series is available in standard duty 10-3,000Nm and modulating duty 20-2000Nm. A corresponding SIWI-AS product range offers safety relevant and designed-fault resistant (LOCA) features. |
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Solar power contract in Spain
Fluor Corp. has announced that Elecnor S.A. has awarded the company an engineering services contract for a new 50MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Badajoz, Spain. Fluor will provide detailed engineering and other associated services for the project. When complete, the 50MW CSP generating facility will capture solar energy using parabolic trough mirrors and will ultimately convert the energy into electricity through a steam turbine generator. The project is underway with engineering expected to be complete by the second quarter of 2011. Fluor's Asturias and Madrid, Spain, operations will lead the engineering effort with support from its southern California operations center. Fluor has been providing front-end support work to Elecnor for this project since early in 2009. |
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Australia: Surat LNG pipeline
The Queensland state government has issued the first licence for a gas pipeline from the Surat Basin to Gladstone in central Queensland. Arrow Energy is planning to build a LNG facility on Curtis Island near Gladstone and hopes to start exporting in 2012. The government has approved a 470km long pipeline from Dalby which will cost USD 550 million. Mr Gareth Quinn spokesman of Arrow Energy said that the company is also planning to build a pipeline from Moranbah to Gladstone. |
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Romania to ink gas pipeline deal
Mr Tudor Serban, state secretary with the Romanian Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Business Milieu, said that Romania will conclude a tripartite partnership with Azerbaijan and Georgia this March to conduct a project called AGIR that will allow natural gas to be transmitted from Azerbaijan to Romania, via Georgia. The cost will be between EUR 4 and EUR 6 billion. The project will also include two terminals for liquefied gas petrol, one in Georgia and the other in Romania. Carrying out the project will be the national gas corporations of the three countries Romgaz of Romania, Socar of Azerbaijan and Georgia's national natural gas corporation. They will join together in a business consortium to which another international company will be welcomed, possibly made up of more than one partner. The whole consortium will have to cover 90% of the project value. |
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