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South Pars enters final bidding stage

Iran will hold its last negotiating session with the two final bidders for phases 9 and 10 of the South Pars gas field in Tehran later this week.

Thailand power plant

ITE Electric Co Ltd has said its associate Industrial Power Technology Pte Ltd has secured a contract worth about USD 3 million from Buo Sommai Rice Mill Company Ltd for the construction of a rice husk-fired power plant in Thailand. It gave no other details.

HHI to build Israeli power plant

South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (HHI) has been awarded a construction order from Israel's Noga Paz Omega to build power plant facilities worth about USD 20 million.

Subsea production system for Statoil

FMC Technologies Inc. has announced that a unit of its FMC Energy Systems business has been awarded a contract to provide a complete subsea production system for a Statoil project in the North Sea.

Praxair and Air Liquide in Chinese venture

Industrial gas suppliers Air Liquide and Praxair plan to invest USD 100 million by 2005 in a venture supplying gas to a mammoth Shanghai chemical industry park.

Lurgi to supply Austrian plant

Lurgi Energie und Entsorgung GmbH (Ratingen, Germany) has won the order for the supply and construction of the combustion part of a residue processing and sewage sludge incineration plant designed to produce district heat for Vienna, Fernwärme Wien/WSO4.

Vietnam signs oil deal with Algeria

Vietnam has signed a contract worth USD 21 million to explore and exploit oil and gas offshore Touggourt, some 700km from Algiers.

W. Australian co-generation plants

Western Australia-based utility AlintaGas has signed a memorandum of understanding with Alcoa Australia to jointly develop co-generation power plants at Alcoa's alumina refineries in Western Australia.

South Pars 9 & 10 contract imminent

Iran's oil ministry is close to awarding a USD 1.6 billion contract for phases 9 and 10 of its giant South Pars gas field to a consortium headed either by Korea's LG Construction Co. or France's Technip-Coflexip SA (TKP), head of the Pars Oil and Gas Company said.

Biopharma plant for Canada

Dutch chemicals company DSM NV will invest EUR 7 million in a new biopharmaceutical plant in Canada.