UK: hydropower project
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has announced that a subsidiary company has received a contract to provide a range of services on a new hydroelectric power project in the Scottish highlands.
Chile: gas discovery
Chile´s President Mr Ricardo Lagos has declared that the country´s state-owned petroleum company, ENAP discovered a large gas field in the Lago Mercedes basin.
Malaysia: biodiesel plants
Malaysia hopes to claim 10% of the global market for biodiesel fuel through 2010 by launching two production plants that are expected to generate a combined capacity of 200,000 tons of methyl esters for biodiesel and glycerin by-product per annum.
Canada: sulphur recovery unit
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has announced that their Canadian subsidiary company has received a contract from North West Upgrading Inc. to prepare a process design package for a sulphur recovery unit at North West Upgrading’s proposed upgrader.
India: coal-based thermal plant
Texas-based Texas Power Generation is planning to set up a 1,320 MW coal-based thermal plant in Chhattisgarh, India.