Foster Wheeler in Qatar GTL project
Foster Wheeler Ltd's UK subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd (FWEL), has won a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for an estimated USD 800 million gas-to-liquids (GTL) project, based in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.
NZ company to build plant in Australia
New Zealand energy company Contact Energy Ltd and its cornerstone shareholder, Edison Mission, have given the go-ahead to a ASD 164 million peaking power plant in Victoria.
Nigeria plans gas-to-liquid plant
Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, along with Alhaji Sa’adina Dantata, chairman and CEO of Danba Energy Ltd (Nigeria) and Mr William Morris of Dresser Engineering and Constructors Inc. (USA), have signed agreements for a 10,000 barrels per day (bpd) gas-to-liquid plant, to be located in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, at a cost of USD 450 million.
Waste into watts
The City of Fort Worth's Village Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant uses a combination of technologies to conserve electricity, generate power, reduce costs and use fuel and heat
efficiently.
Outokumpu to acquire superconductor business in US
Outokumpu Copper Products Oy of Finland has signed an agreement to acquire the assets and business of Advanced Superconductors (IGC-AS), a division of Intermagnetics General Corporation of the USA.
Sandvik develops new filler material for 13Cr pipe
Sandvik Steel has developed a super duplex filler metal which matches the properties of 13% chromium super martensitic stainless steel used for pipelines in the oil and gas industries.
Lincoln appoints chief of automation division
Lincoln Electric recently announced the appointment of Christopher A. Bailey as General Manager of its Automation Division.
Phillips invests in Nigeria Power project
Phillips Petroleum Company has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Phillips Oil Company (Nigeria) Ltd, will invest USD 85 million for a 20% share of a new independent power project to be built near Kwale, Nigeria, in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 60.
Spectrometers for metal analysis brought to UK
Spektrometrie Opto-Elektronik (Germany) has appointed Alrad Instruments as its UK distributor for its range of spectrometers for metal analysis.
Lincoln’s new brochure
Lincoln Electric highlights has introduced a new brochure.
