Projects

CEO of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Idesa, Mr José Luis Uriegas, ,has provided an upbeat assessment of Mexican and Brazilian petrochemical potential.

Construction at the VC Summer plant in South Carolina has begun. The milestone marks the official start of construction of the USA's first new reactor in 30 years. The basemat provides a foundation for the containment and auxilary buildings that are within the unit's nuclear island.

ADA-ES, Inc. has received awards from three utilities to supply ten Activated Carbon Injection (ACI) systems. Work on the contracts, which collectively are valued at more than $7 million, will begin immediately with deliveries in the fourth quarter of 2013 and in 2014.

AkzoNobel's new Jupiá Chemical Island in Brazil is now operational and has started supplying the Eldorado Brasil Celulose pulp mill, which is the biggest in the world. Operated by the company's Pulp and Performance Chemicals business, the state-of-the-art Jupiá facility represents one of AkzoNobel's largest investments in Latin America.

Rotork Gears reports that international markets have reacted positively to the introduction of its range of 242 Series manual gear operators and orders have been received.

US power plant operator Dominion has announced plans to close and decommission its Kewaunee Power Station in Carlton, Wisconsin after the company was unable to find a buyer for the 556-megawatt nuclear facility.

A spokeswoman for NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG)has said the company is in discussions to find potential buyers for a planned power plant in Carlsbad, California.

FoundOcean has completed the installation and grouting for a clamp repair to an 18in pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.

Petrobras announces that it has confirmed the presence of good quality oil (31 º API) in ultra deep waters in the Santos Basin pre-salt while drilling well 1-SPS-98 (1-BRSA-1063-SPS), informally known as Sagitário. This is the first well to be drilled in the BM-S-50 block and is located 194 km off the coast of the state of São Paulo in 1,871 meters of water.

PPL Electric Utilities will invest nearly USD 1B this year to improve the reliability of the system that delivers power to its nearly 1.4 million customers. The projected investment of USD 968M includes USD 616M for transmission projects which is the largest scale infrastructure investment since the 1970s.