Projects

Within the framework of a cooperation partnership with Haldor Topsoe, Technip has been awarded a contract for providing basic and front end engineering services on a Petrobras grassroots fertilizer complex to be located in Minas State, Brazil.

Natural gas company Anshutz Exploration has sued the town of Dryden in central New York in an effort to strike down a recent zoning law prohibiting gas drilling there. While New York State is considering whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, more than a dozen municipalities have enacted gas-drilling bans or restrictions.

Metso Corp will supply a biomass boiler to the We Energies/Domtar Biomass Energy Project owned by We Energies. The boiler is a key component of a new biomass-fueled cogeneration power plant which will be located at the Domtar Mill in Rothschild, Wisconsin.

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) has awarded Fluor Corp an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its new 540MW combined cycle Ferguson Replacement Project near Marble Falls, Texas.

The flow control unit of Tyco International Ltd. has been selected by Shell to provide butterfly valves to Shell globally.

Initec Energia has secured a $364 million contract from MPX Energia to construct a 500MW combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in Maranhao, Brazil. The project is expected to begin commercial operations in 2014, reports Bloomberg.

TransCanada Corp announced that the third and Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline has reaffirmed the environmental integrity of the project.

Chinese oil major PetroChina and Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA have signed an agreement to co-develop a refinery in China's Guandong province. The Nanhai refinery is to have a capacity of 500,000 b/d when it begins operations in early 2015.

Brazilian construction company Amafi Comercial e Construtora has been awarded a contract to build a wastewater treatment plant in the city of Franco da Rocha for São Paulo state water utility Sabesp.

Hydratight has opened a new facility in Concord, California as a regional hub for the rental and sale of equipment to service power stations, refineries and other industrial facilities across the western U.