Tag: project

International Power plc (London) has announced a joint venture partnership agreement with Ansaldo Energia (Italy) to develop up to 4000mw of new generation in five different greenfield sites in southern Italy with each of the five sites consisting of 800mw power units utilising Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) technology.

Germany's Siemens AG has signed a EUR one billion contract to build a power plant in the United Arab Emirates, its largest in the oil-rich Gulf region.

The Stainless Steel Co-operative Development Initiative (SSCDI) is taking its drive across borders as it endeavours to increase consumption of stainless steel throughout southern Africa.

Tata Power Companies Ltd (India) are planning power projects totalling over 1000mw of new generation with an overall capital investment of over USD 1 billion to increase the company’s generation capacity to 3100mw by the year 2005.

The Moroccan ONE (Office National d'Electricité) and ENDESA have signed an agreement for the construction and operation of a CCGT plant to be located in Tahaddart, 30km from Tangiers (northern Morocco).

Sandvik Steel has launched a new range of welding wire, covered and strip electrodes and fluxes for welding nuclear steam generator tubing.

PDVSA is set to begin offshore oil exploration near Venezuela's border with Trinidad and Tobago.

Foster Wheeler Ltd's subsidiary, Foster Wheeler South Africa (Pty) Ltd, is to build an acrylic acid and acrylates complex in Sasolburg, South Africa.

Smedvig Drilling (Stavanger, Norway) has signed a letter of intent with BP Norge for the drilling of production wells at the Valhall Flank Field.

An Algerian tender for the development of five key oil and gas projects has attracted the interest of 14 international firms, including world oil majors such as BP Amoco and TotalElfFina.