Tag: USA
USA: supercritical boilers
McDermott International Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W), has signed a MoU to supply eight identical supercritical coal-fired boilers and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems as part of TXU's solid-fuel power generation program in Texas.
USA: NGL pipeline
Overland Pass Pipeline Co. LLC, Tulsa, plans to build a 750mi NGL pipeline from gas processing facilities in the Rocky Mountains to a market hub in Central Kansas.
USA: bio-diesel refinery
Dynoil will build a 100,000bpd bio-diesel refinery in the Houston, Texas, US Gulf Coast.
USA: semi-submersible upgrade
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. has announced initiation of a major upgrade of the Victory-class semi-submersible Garden Banks, which has been renamed Ocean Monarch.
USA: Blind Faith platform installation
Chevron with partner Kerr-McGee has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for marine operations for installation of the Blind Faith platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
USA: nuclear plants
Duke Power has announced that it will prepare a combined construction and operating license (COL) for two Westinghouse AP1000s.
USA: gas field production increase
BP has announced that it will invest up to USD 2.2 billion to double production from its acreage in the Wamsutter gas field in the Rockies region of the USA.
USA: subsea pump stations
Aker Kvaerner Subsea has been awarded a NOK 220 million contract for two subsea pump stations for use at the King field in the Gulf of Mexico.
USA: drinking water treatment plant
Zenon Environmental has received a purchase order for its first drinking water treatment plant in New York State:
Missouri coal plant
Great Plains Power Inc. has selected the engineering firm Burns & McDonnell to assist in the development and design of Weston Bend I, a coal-fired power plant located at a site near Weston, Missouri, with an expected output of 500 to 900 megawatts.
