Aker Solutions Wins Contract for Gasification and Liquefaction Plant in USA
Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC has awarded Aker Solutions the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) package for its Medicine Bow Industrial Gasification & Liquefaction Plant located near the town of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, USA.
Aker Solutions successfully completed a Pre-FEED study for the project in July 2010. Since then Aker Solutions has worked under a letter of intent to provide services relating to design review, licensor support as well as additional Pre-EPC engineering and design. "We look forward to our continued relationship with Medicine Bow Fuel & Power," said Glyn Rodgers, vice president and general manager, Aker Solutions. "It is exciting to see this project, the first of its kind in the United States and only the second one anywhere in the world, progress to the next stage."
The facility will produce liquid transport fuels and is due to come on line in 2015. When complete, the plant will be capable of converting coal into up to 21,000 barrels per day (BPD) of gasoline and LPG liquid fuels.
"This is a very significant step for the Medicine Bow Project," said Robert Kelly, the Chairman of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC, the owner of the Medicine Bow Project. "The end result of this will be a final design and turn-key estimate which we will use to finance and build the project."
Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC is wholly owned by DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC. DKRW Advanced Fuels is a development-stage hydrocarbon conversion company focused on the commercial development, construction, ownership and operation of facilities designed to convert lower-value hydrocarbons into products that traditionally have been produced by crude oil.
By utilizing proven coal gasification and liquefaction technologies, DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC plans to convert more abundant resources, primarily solid hydrocarbons such as coal, into competitively priced products such as gasoline and diesel.
Aker Solutions' contract party is Aker Solutions Americas Inc. Contract value is undisclosed.
Aker Solutions ASA, through its subsidiaries and affiliates ("Aker Solutions"), is a leading global provider of engineering and construction services, technology products and integrated solutions. Aker Solutions' business serves several industries, including oil & gas, refining & chemicals, mining & metals and power generation. The Aker Solutions group is organised in a number of separate legal entities. Aker Solutions is used as the common brand/trademark for most of these entities.
Aker Solutions' parent company is Aker Solutions ASA. Aker Solutions has aggregated annual revenues of approximately NOK 54 billion and employs approximately 22 000 people in about 30 countries.
Aker Solutions is part of Aker (
www.akerasa.com), a group of premier companies with a focus on energy, maritime and marine resource industries. The Aker companies share a common set of values and a long tradition of industrial innovation. As an industrial owner controlling 40.27 percent of the shares in Aker Solutions through Aker Holding AS, Aker ASA takes an active role in the development of Aker Solutions.
Published 16/12/2010
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