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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.

Four firms vie for Chinese gas

General Electric Co, Alstom, Siemens AG and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have been shortlisted to supply power generating equipment for 10 gas-fired power plants across China.

ChevronTexaco to invest in Kazakh oilfield

ChevronTexaco plans to invest USD 3 billion in its projects at the major oil and gas field Tenghiz in Atyrau region in western Kazakhstan, Chevron-Texaco Vice President George L. Kirkland has said.

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.

High-temperature grade tubing

Sterling Tubes, part of the Sandvik Group, has set up a stock facility for Sterling 310, stainless steel, commercial high temperature grade tubing in order to supply its independent distributor customers.

Technip wins Angolan field award

Technip-Coflexip has been awarded a contract, by Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Ltd, which includes the procurement, fabrication and installation of flexible flowlines and risers, connected to an FPSO, and installation of umbilicals, rigid jumpers and associated subsea equipment for the Xikomba field offshore Angola.

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.

Jacobs receives oil sands contract

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has announced that its Canadian subsidiary received a contract to support Canadian Natural Resources Ltd's (CNRL) development of the Horizon Oil Sands Project in Northern Alberta, Canada.

RTI to supply titanium to Inco

RTI International Metals Inc. is to provide the titanium alloy for a USD 1.4 billion nickel-cobalt mining facility being developed by Inco Ltd. at Goro in the French Overseas Territory of New Caledonia.

Marine alloys explained

Columbia Metals Ltd (UK) has produced a new Marine Alloys Catalogue.