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| E.ON Plans One of UK's Largest Wind Farms off Yorkshire Coast | 29/08/2007 |
E.ON UK announces plans to build a multi-million pound offshore wind farm over 8km off the coast of East Yorkshire, just north of the Humber estuary. The proposed Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm would have up to 83 turbines and produce up to 300MW of clean, green energy, enough to power up to 195,000 homes - more than one and a half times the number of homes in Hull.  |
| Jacobs Receives Framework Contract From Magnox Electric | 23/08/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group receives 2-year contract to provide a wide range of project delivery services to Magnox Electric's reactor sites located throughout the United Kingdom (UK). Magnox Electric holds contracts with the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for the management, operation, and decommissioning of ten of the UK's Magnox Reactor sites, at a budgeted cost of approximately $1 billion annually. |
| Jacobs Receives Contract for Dye Project in Scotland | 23/08/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. awarded contract to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management services to FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants Limited (FFIC) for a new manufacturing facility located at Grangemouth, Scotland. FFIC is a world leader in the development and supply of innovative, high-performance colorants for the global digital printing market. |
| Jacobs Receives British Energy Asset Improvement Contract | 22/08/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract from British Energy Generation (BE) The 5-year contract is extendable by 2 years and will help BE deliver its asset improvement program. BE owns and operates eight of the U.K.'s nuclear and one coal-fired power stations. It is the U.K.'s largest producer of electricity, generating around one-fifth of the nation's needs. Acting as a strategic partner to British Energy Projects Division, Jacobs will take responsibility for asset improvement works at five of these sites: Hunterston B, Torness, Hinkley Point B, and Dungeness B which utilize Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor technology and at Sizewell B where BE operates the U.K.'s only pressurized water reactor. |
| Jacobs Consultancy Receives Contract for Refinery Upgrade Project | 22/08/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. subsidiary, Jacobs Consultancy UK Ltd., has received a contract from Slavneft-Yanos to provide consulting support for a strategic development program at a 300,000 barrels per stream day refinery in Yaroslavl, Russia. Slavneft-Yanos, co-owned by TNK-BP and "Gazpromneft," plans to upgrade this major refining facility by converting the residue into high-value products that meet European specifications. |
| E.ON UK Gets Ball Rolling on Biomass Power Station | 06/08/2007 |
| E.ON UK submits scoping statement to build a £60m biomass power station in Sheffield, bringing new jobs and investment to the area. Rated at 25MW, the new renewable energy plant would produce enough power for around 40,000 homes by burning a combination of recycled wood and specially grown crops such as willow and elephant grass. The plant would also displace the emission of around 80,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year - the equivalent of taking more than 20,000 cars off the UK's roads each year - and is expected to create 20 full-time jobs. |
| AMEC Wins Major Nuclear Power Plant Services Contract | 06/08/2007 |
| AMEC wins major contract from British Energy for engineering and project management services on three of its fleet of nuclear power plants in the UK. The five-year contract, the value of which is not being disclosed, carries an option for a further two years and will see AMEC provide project management and engineering services at the two sites at Heysham in the north west of England and at Hartlepool on Teesside. |
| Total to Build Two New Units at the Lindsey Oil Refinery | 05/07/2007 |
| Total begins construction of two new units at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, near Immingham, in the United Kingdom: a hydrodesulphurization (HDS) unit with a capacity of 1 million metric tonnes per year; and a hydrogen production unit (SMR - Steam Methane Reformer) necessary for the desulphurisation process. Representing an investment of around €300 million, the project will at peak employ 600 people at the refinery. Commissioning is scheduled for 2009. |
| Aker Kvaerner Wins Project at Northumbrian Water's Bran Sands | 03/07/2007 |
| Northumbrian Water Ltd (NWL) awards Aker Kvaerner a GBP 28 million contract to design, construct, install and commission a facility to extend the treatment capabilities of the existing regional sludge treatment centre (RSTC) at Bran Sands on Teesside, in the UK. All engineering work including civil design will be carried out by Aker Kvaerner's Engineering Services' business in Stockton-on-Tees. Scope of services also includes supply of specialist advanced digestion thermal hydrolysis equipment and performance testing after commissioning. |
| New Ormen Lange Contract to Saipem UK | 03/07/2007 |
| Hydro awards NOK 120 million contract to Saipem UK Limited for template installation on the Ormen Lange Southern Field Development. Hydro awarded the contract on behalf of the Ormen Lange licensees for the installation of one eight-slot template of approximately 1,150 tonnes. The installation will take place in the second quarter of 2009 at a water depth of approximately 900 meters, with tight installation tolerances. |
| Aker Kvaerner and Praj Win Contract for World-scale Bioethanol Project in the UK | 28/06/2007 |
| Aker Kvaerner selected by BP, Associated British Foods Plc (ABF) and DuPont to execute Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for a planned new world-scale bioethanol plant in the UK. Aker Kvaerner's joint venture partner Praj Industries (Praj) from India will provide the technology and process package. BP and ABF subsidiary British Sugar Plc will each own 45 percent of the new grass roots facility planned for BP's Saltend site, near Hull, with DuPont owning the remaining 10 percent. The world-scale wheat to ethanol plant will produce some 420 million litres of fuel ethanol a year. |
| Petrofac Awarded Karachaganak Phase III Feed | 28/06/2007 |
| Petrofac receives letter of award from Karachaganak Petroleum Operating BV (KPO) for Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study for Phase III of development of the Karachaganak Processing Complex (KPC) in Kazakhstan. This award by KPO follows completion of a FEED study for the KPC fourth stabilisation and sweetening train, and subsequent award of the detailed engineering, procurement, construction management and commissioning support for the train. |
| E.ON UK to Build Carbon Neutral Power Station | 20/06/2007 |
| E.ON UK plans to build carbon neutral power station in Sheffield. The company has revealed that it has put aside a substantial sum to create a new piece of artwork and also hopes to build a 25MW biomass plant on the site of the old Blackburn Meadows power station.
The new station, which could cost £55m to build, would burn a combination of recycled wood and specially grown crops such as willow and elephant grass. |
| Jacobs To Provide Technical Services to U.K. Ministry of Defence | 06/06/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group receives contract to provide specialist technical services to U.K. Ministry of Defence's (MOD) Superintendent Nuclear Works (SNW) at HM Naval Base Devonport, Plymouth. The contract has a base period of 3 years and an option for a 3-year extension. |
KBR Awarded PMC for FEED Phase of Integrated Gas
Development Project | 31/05/2007 |
| KBR awarded two contracts by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) affiliates Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Limited (GASCO) and Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) to provide program management for onshore and offshore portions respectively of the Integrated Gas Development Project located near Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. These services will be provided through KBR's Leatherhead and Houston offices for the onshore and offshore packages respectively. |
| Innovation Wins AMEC Important Waste Contracts | 31/05/2007 |
| AMEC wins contracts to sample, analyse and advise on waste at three nuclear sites owned by British Nuclear Group's Magnox business in the UK. Work has begun at the three reactor sites, which are undergoing decommissioning, at Bradwell in Essex, Trawsfynydd in North Wales and Hunterston A in Scotland with AMEC conducting detailed sampling and analysis of radioactive sludges contained in silos and waste contaminated oils. |
| Jacobs Receives British Nuclear Group Framework Contract | 30/05/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. receives Multi-Disciplinary Design House (MDDH) framework contract from British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd (BNGSL) following a successful rebidding process. Sellafield is the U.K.'s largest nuclear reservation, where spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed and recovered nuclear material is developed into new nuclear fuel. The site is undergoing a concurrent cleanup of legacy wastes and facilities shutdown. Now owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the facility employs more than 12,000 people and is managed by BNGSL. |
| Extension of Gas Storage Development at Aldbrough | 30/05/2007 |
| Scottish and Southern Energy plc ("SSE") and Statoil (UK) Ltd secure consent from East Riding of Yorkshire Council to increase gas storage capacity at the Aldbrough site beyond that currently under development. The companies are already developing nine storage caverns at Aldbrough, with a capacity of 420 million cubic metres (mcm), and commissioning of the first of them is expected to get under way before the end of this year. It will become the UK's largest onshore gas storage facility. |
Aker Kvaerner JV Wins Further Decommissioning Contract
at Sellafield | 22/05/2007 |
| British Nuclear Group awards ACKtiv Nuclear Joint Venture (JV) - consisting of Aker Kvaerner, Atkins and Carillion - further contract to support decommissioning at First Generation Magnox Storage Pond, located at Sellafield nuclear licensed site in the UK. ACKtiv Nuclear is to provide the systems for the removal of radioactive sludge and solid inventory from the facility for subsequent safe treatment and storage. |
| CB&I Awarded Contract for LNG Terminal Expansion | 17/05/2007 |
| CB&I awarded contract to add capacity to National Grid's liquefied natural gas import terminal at the Isle of Grain. This new expansion contract, with a value of approximately $500 million, will increase the terminal's capacity by 700 million cubic feet per day to 2.1 billion cubic feet per day. |
| ScottishPower Plans Europe's Biggest Clean Coal Project | 17/05/2007 |
| ScottishPower unveiles feasibility study to convert its two biggest power stations to clean coal technology in what would be the largest project of its type in Europe. Alstom Power and Doosan Babcock will provide design input for the 'supercritical' turbines and boilers that could be fitted at the Longannet and Cockenzie power plants. Carbon emissions would be reduced by 20% at the stations which have a total generation capacity of 3390MW, more than a quarter of Scotland's electricity needs. |
| Jacobs Receives Contract for Biotechnology Project | 16/05/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. receive contract from Biogen Idec to provide engineering, procurement, validation, and site support services for the first cell culture manufacturing facility at the greenfield biotechnology plant in Hillerod, Denmark. The manufacturing facility is expected to produce TYSABRI® (natalizumab), which is used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. |
| Jacobs Receives Contract From British Nuclear Group | 15/05/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. receives contract to provide resource enhancement services to the Nuclear Decommissioning and Major Projects Department (ND&MPD) of British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd (BNGSL) on the delivery of major projects at the Sellafield and Capenhurst sites. ND&MPD currently has over 4,000 staff members executing projects as part of a $26 billion lifetime plan for cleanup. In the next financial year, ND&MPD will oversee $1.2 billion in spending. The new contract takes effect on May 1, 2007. |
| Jacobs Receives Contracts for Clean Fuel Project from Total | 08/05/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group receive two separate contracts from Total France to provide basic and detailed engineering and procurement for a clean fuel facility on Total's site at Immingham, North Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. The project is essential to the refinery's capability to generate low-sulfur fuels for the diesel market. |
| Jacobs Awarded Contract from National Grid | 01/05/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. receives contract from National Grid to upgrade and develop electricity transmission network for South West region of England and Wales as part of National Grid's 2.5 billion British pounds (US$ 5 billion) program over the next five years. Jacobs will work alongside consortia partners Morrison Utility Services and Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV and are one of six consortia selected by National Grid to undertake the work across England and Wales. |
| KBR Joint Venture to Perform FEED Work | 01/05/2007 |
| KBR along with joint venture partners, JGC, Technip and Snamprogetti, recently executed contract with Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) for preparation of project specifications and front end engineering and design for a two 8.5 million metric tons per annum LNG plant expansion by Nigeria LNG termed the "NLNGSevenPlus" Project. The Project is to be constructed at Bonny Island, Nigeria. NLNG Limited is a Company registered in Nigeria whose shareholders are the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Shell, Total and ENI. |
| Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Awarded Shell Contract | 20/04/2007 |
| Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd appointed by Shell U.K. Limited ("Shell") to provide engineering design, maintenance, support and construction management services (EMSC) to Shell's onshore installations at St Fergus Gas Plant, Fife Natural Gas & Liquids Plant at Mossmorran, and Fife Braefoot Bay Loading Terminal plus offshore support for the Goldeneye platform. The onshore facilities process Natural Gas Liquids coming from offshore facilities into higher value components such as Ethane, Propane and Butane. |
| Petrofac Brownfield Concentrates on New Export Pipeline | 19/04/2007 |
| Petrofac Brownfield to work on new topside modifications for North Sea installation. Brownfield is committed to the design, procurement and delivery process on the Kittiwake platform, which is located 100 miles east north east of Aberdeen, to meet the completion target date of 1 October 2007. |
| Jacobs Receives South East Water Contract | 17/04/2007 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that they received a five-year engineering consultancy agreement from South East Water Ltd. Officials estimated the contract value at $1.8 million per year. As one of two framework appointees, Jacobs will provide engineering and related services supporting the company's capital investment program to 2010, as well as assisting business plan development for the 2010 - 2015 period. |
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