Power News

Share |

Shaw Awarded Contract to Erect Five HRSG Boilers for the UK's Largest Combined-Cycle Power Plant Project

Shaw Group awarded contract to erect five heat recovery steam generator boilers for Alstom Power, the main engineering, procurement and construction contractor to RWE npower for the 2,160-MW Pembroke power plant, the largest and most efficient combined-cycle gas-fired power station in the U.K.
03/09/2010 More »

Mott MacDonald's Role on Arzanah Island Progressing

Mott MacDonald's commission by Zakum Development Company Abu Dhabi as Front End Engineering and Design consultant to replace diesel generators at Arzanah Island is under way.
25/08/2010 More »

Mott MacDonald's Role on Arzanah Island Progressing

Mott MacDonald's commission by Zakum Development Company Abu Dhabi as Front End Engineering and Design consultant to replace diesel generators at Arzanah Island is under way.
25/08/2010 More »

SNC-Lavalin Awarded Contract in Alberta's Oil Sands

SNC-Lavalin awarded engineering and procurement contract by Grizzly Oil Sands ULC for its new Algar Lake Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage facility located near Fort McMurray in north-eastern Alberta. Work has begun out of SNC-Lavalin's Calgary office.
19/08/2010 More »

KBR SA Announces BBBEE Transaction

Kellogg Brown and Root South Africa (Proprietary) Limited enters into Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment transaction that is another step in KBR's continuing commitment to the transformation of South Africa's economy.
10/08/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Two Circulating Fluidized-Bed Steam Generators in Indonesia

Foster Wheeler awarded contract by Daewoo Engineering Company for the design and supply of two circulating fluidized-bed steam generators for PT Merak Energi. Project located in Banten Province on the western part of Java Island in Indonesia.
10/08/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Wins Feed from E.ON UK plc for CO2 Capture and Compression Plant

Foster Wheeler announced a consortium, including its Global Engineering and Construction Group, received an order from E.ON UK plc to support the front-end engineering design for a post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and compression plant proposed as part of E.ON's planned new supercritical coal-fired power station in Kent, England, UK.
04/08/2010 More »

Petrofac Awarded Pipeline Project with Kuwait Oil Company

Petrofac awarded KD116.39 million (approximately US$ 400 million) contract by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). The project, with an anticipated duration of 23.5 months, is for engineering, procurement and construction services for the installation of fuel gas and gas oil pipelines.
29/07/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler to Supply CFB Boiler Island in Poland

Foster Wheeler awarded contract by Polimex-Mostostal S.A. for the design, supply and erection of circulating fluidized-bed boiler island for Bielsko-BiaIa Heat and Power Station in Poland owned by PoIudniowy Koncern Energetyczny.
16/07/2010 More »

SNC-Lavalin Awarded Contract for Thermal Power Plant in Alaska

SNC-Lavalin awarded contract by Chugach Electric to design and build the Southcentral Power Project in Anchorage Alaska.
12/07/2010 More »

Cape UK Wins RWE npower Contracts

Cape awarded multiple contract awards from RWE npower for provision of industrial services at four of its UK power stations over 3-4 years. The contracts have a potential total lifecycle value of £16 million.
08/07/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded EPCm Contract for New Cogeneration Plant by Dow in Germany

Foster Wheeler awarded engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Dow Deutschland Anlagengesellschaft mbH for new cogeneration facility to be installed within Dow's existing chemical complex at Stade, Germany.
06/07/2010 More »

Shaw Awarded Contract for Development of Warm Syngas Cleaning Technology

Shaw Group awarded contract by RTI International to support the development of the company's new technology for synthesis gas (syngas) cleaning at elevated temperatures.
06/07/2010 More »

Maersk Tankers, HHI & DNV Joint CO2 Ship Design

Maersk Tankers, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Det Norske Veritas agree to collaborate on the design and risk assessment of tankers for shipping CO2.
05/07/2010 More »

AMEC Awarded Contract on Next-generation Geothermal Project in California

AMEC awarded US$6.8 million contract by EnergySource LLC, to provide engineering services for a 49-megawatt, $350 million geothermal power generating facility at Salton Sea, California.
28/06/2010 More »

Mott MacDonald is Owner's Engineer on Thai National Power Project

Mott MacDonald appointed by Thai National Power (known as TNP and owned by International Power PLC) as Owner's Engineer for TNP2, a new 110MW gas-fired cogeneration project in Rayong, Thailand.
24/06/2010 More »

BHP Billiton and Eskom Sign Amended Agreement for Mozal Smelter In Mozambique - Discussions on South African Smelter Contracts Continue

Eskom and BHP Billiton reach agreement on amended power supply contract for Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique. Discussions relating to the contracts for the supply of electricity to the Hillside and Bayside smelters in South Africa will continue over the coming months with the intention of concluding binding agreements before the end of Eskom's 2010/11 financial year.
24/06/2010 More »

SNC-Lavalin Polska Signs Preliminary Agreement with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to Collaborate on New Nuclear Power Projects in Poland

SNC-Lavalin Polska SP. Zo.o. signs preliminary agreement with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to work together to evaluate new nuclear power plant opportunities in Poland. Poland plans to build up to four new nuclear power plants at two sites to help diversify its energy production, which relies heavily on coal-based technologies.
24/06/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Three Circulating Fluidized-Bed Steam Generators in China

Foster Wheeler awarded contract by Sinopec Wuhan Company for design and supply of three circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generators for the Sinopec Wuhan Cogeneration Plant for the 800,000 ton/year Ethylene Project in central China's Wuhan city.
21/06/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract to Supply Solar Steam Generator Equipment in Spain

Foster Wheeler awarded contract to design, supply and provide site advisory services for two sets of solar steam generators (preheaters, kettle type evaporators, superheaters and reheaters) as well as low pressure and high pressure feedwater heaters.
15/06/2010 More »

Wood Group GTS Signs US$ multi-million Operations & Maintenance Agreement with Mass Global

Wood Group GTS sign multi-year agreement with Mass Global Investment Company (Mass Global) for operations & maintenance of the Solymaniah Power Facility, located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
08/06/2010 More »

SNC-Lavalin Awarded District Cooling Project in Saudi Arabia

SNC-Lavalin Construction awarded engineering, procurement and construction contract by Saudi Tabreed for district cooling facilities in Dhahran in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Engineering work on the project is already underway, with construction of the main civil works scheduled to commence in the third quarter of 2010.
25/05/2010 More »

TNK-BP Plans to Commission Three Power Plants in 2010

TNK-BP will commission three gas turbine power plants in 2010 with a total capacity over 80 MW. The new power plants will be built in 2010 at the Ust-Tegusskoye field of the Uvat project in the Tyumen region (first stage), the Van-Eganskoye field in the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous district (two stages) and the Verkhnechonskoye field in the Irkutsk region (second stage).
24/05/2010 More »

California Moves to Ban Once-through Cooling

Californian regulators adopt policy requiring coastal power plants - including the state's two nuclear power plants - to phase out the use of once-through cooling systems. Most plants will have until at least 2015 to phase out their once-through cooling systems.
11/05/2010 More »

Fluor Performing Site Services for PG&E's Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Fluor announces that Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) awarded the firm a three-year site services contract for its Diablo Canyon Power Plant Units 1 & 2 in Avila Beach, Calif. Fluor will provide ongoing maintenance, modification and outage craft services for PG&E's nuclear generating units.
05/05/2010 More »

Petrofac Acquires CO2 Storage Business

Petrofac acquires CO2DeepStore Limited (CO2DeepStore) a UK-based CO2 storage company. Established in 2007 in Aberdeen, Scotland CO2DeepStore is focussed on the CO2 geological storage sector of the carbon capture and storage (CCS) market.
27/04/2010 More »

Shaw Awarded Multi-Phase Contract with Saudi Electricity Company

Shaw Group awarded multi-phase contract with Saudi Electricity Company. Under the contract, Shaw will perform a three-phase study to define and recommend operational improvements at 53 power plants throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
22/04/2010 More »

Jacobs Receives Contract from Corus to Support New Investment at European Steelworks

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. receives contract from Corus Staal BV (Corus) to provide basic engineering services to support Corus' new "TRUST" investment in a 525 MWe cogeneration plant in IJmuiden, The Netherlands.
21/04/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Wins Condenser Project for Power Plant in Turkey

Foster Wheeler AG subsidiary of its Global Power Group awarded contract for design and supply of two axial deaerating surface condensers for the Samsun Power Plant in Turkey. Foster Wheeler Energia, S.L. in Madrid will supply the condensers to METKA, S.A. (Athens, Greece), which is acting as EPC contractor for the project.
12/04/2010 More »

TNK-BP to Invest in Excess of 700 Million Dollars in Power Generation Upgrades in 2010-12

TNK-BP plans to invest in excess of 700 million dollars to construct, upgrade and reconstruct its captive power generation facilities in the forthcoming three years. The funds will be mostly spent to construct and upgrade gas turbine power plants and power grids.
09/04/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for World's Largest 100% Biomass Boiler

Foster Wheeler awarded contract by GDF SUEZ for the design, supply and erection of a 190 MWe (gross megawatt electric) 100% biomass-fired circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boiler island for the Polaniec Power Station in Poland.
09/04/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for World's Largest 100% Biomass Boiler

ABB Wins $110 Million Order for Power Link to Offshore Platform

ABB wins order worth $110 million from Eni Norway AS to build power link between new oil and gas platform in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian power grid. The Goliat platform will be partly electrified by a 106 km subsea power cable, which can lower Goliat's carbon dioxide emissions up to 50 percent by reducing the need for electricity produced by the platform's gas turbines.
06/04/2010 More »

Helius Energy Granted Consent for Avonmouth Biomass Power Plant

Helius Energy plc, the company established to develop, install and operate biomass fired renewable electricity generation plants, welcomes today's consent, under Section 36 of The Electricity Act 1989, by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, for the construction of a 100MWe biomass-fuelled electricity generating station located at Avonmouth Dock, on the Bristol Channel.
26/03/2010 More »

Shaw Awarded Fossil Power Maintenance Contract by Exelon Corporation

Shaw Group awarded three-year contract with Exelon Corporation to provide maintenance services to the Handley and Mountain Creek natural gas/oil power generating stations in Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. The fossil maintenance contract is in addition to Shaw's contract with Exelon to provide fleetwide nuclear power maintenance and modification services.
26/03/2010 More »

B&W to Acquire GE Energy's Electrostatic Precipitator and Emissions Monitoring Businesses

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) signs contract with GE Energy, a division of General Electric Company, to acquire its electrostatic precipitator (ESP) and emissions monitoring business units. B&W PGG is an operating unit of The Babcock & Wilcox Company.
16/03/2010 More »

Funding for Design Studies in Clean Coal Competition

Funding awarded to E.ON and ScottishPower for design and development studies as part of the competition to build one of the world's first commercial scale carbon capture and storage demonstration plants. The funding will support Front End Engineering and Design studies, which will enable the bidders to further their designs for the projects at Kingsnorth and Longannet respectively.
15/03/2010 More »

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group and Thermax to Form Indian Joint Venture

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) and Indian energy-environment solutions provider Thermax Ltd. form joint venture to build highly efficient subcritical and supercritical boilers and pulverizers for the Indian utility boiler market. B&W PGG is an operating unit of The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W).
10/03/2010 More »

Fluor & B&W Form Alliance to Market Carbon Capture Technology

Fluor and Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. form strategic alliance with Fluor's Power Group to market and sell carbon dioxide (CO2) capture systems for existing coal-fired power plants in the United States and Canada.
09/03/2010 More »

Jacobs Receives Project Management Contract From Marafiq in Saudi Arabia

Jacobs Engineering receives contract from Marafiq to serve as project management contractor (PMC) for Marafiq's ongoing investment program in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Jacobs is performing the work from its Reading, England, office with support from its personnel in Mumbai, India.
09/03/2010 More »

GE Oil & Gas Power Generation and Subsea Equipment Wins Bring Gorgon Project Awards to Over $1.1 Billion

GE Oil & Gas technology again selected to support the development of Gorgon, one of the world's largest untapped natural gas fields, which also features one of the world's largest ever carbon-dioxide (CO2) sequestration technology projects.
08/03/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded CFB Boiler Contract for CO2 Capture Development Plant in Spain

Foster Wheeler subsidiary awarded contract by Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN), an institution created by the Spanish Government, for the design and supply of a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) unit for testing Foster Wheeler's Flexi-BurnTM carbon capturing CFB technology.
08/03/2010 More »

SNC-Lavalin Awarded Carbon Capture project in Saskatchewan

SNC-Lavalin awarded contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for SaskPower's Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Demonstration Project. Project involves transforming an aging unit at the coal-fired Boundary Dam Power Station near Estevan, Saskatchewan, into a source of clean electricity.
04/03/2010 More »

Kazakhstan Signs Cooperation Deal with Japan

Japan and Kazakhstan sign an agreement to cooperate in the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Meanwhile, Romania's president has said the country is open to cooperation with Kazakhstan, including in nuclear energy.
03/03/2010 More »

Russian's Construction of New Nuclear Power

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin announces the allocation of 53 billion roubles ($1.77 billion) of federal money towards the construction of new nuclear power in 2010. Putin announced the funding for domestic new build in a meeting on investment in the Russian power industry.
02/03/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Two Circulating Fluidized-Bed Steam Generators in China

Foster Wheeler AG announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group awarded contract by Sinopec Jiujiang Company for the design and supply of two circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generators for the Sinopec Jiujiang Fuel Alteration Project located in Jiangxi province in south central China.
26/02/2010 More »

Westinghouse is Formally Qualified for the Completion of Temelin

Westinghouse Electric Company notified by CEZ that it has successfully complied with the qualification requirements stipulated in the Qualification Documentation for the public contract "Completion of the Temelin Nuclear Power Plant".
24/02/2010 More »

Merz and McLellan South Africa and Mott MacDonald Join Forces to Strengthen Power Engineering Capability in Africa

Merz and McLellan, the South Africa and Botswana power consultancy, joins Mott MacDonald as part of both companies' plans for expansion in Africa and to strengthen their positions in the African power consultancy market. Merz and McLellan has 45 staff based in Johannesburg and Durban, South Africa and in Gaborone, Botswana.
23/02/2010 More »

Shaw Achieves Substantial Completion of New 660-MW Power Plant in Louisiana

Shaw Group announces achieving substantial completion of the new Rodemacher 3 electric generating facility for Cleco Power LLC, a subsidiary of Cleco Corp. As part of substantial completion, the circulating fluidized bed (CFB) petcoke-fired power plant was operated at its rated capacity and efficiency and has been released to Cleco for commercial operation.
22/02/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler to Supply Condensers to Lilama for Thermal Power Plant in Vietnam

Foster Wheeler AG announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by Lilama Corporation, a Vietnamese EPC contractor, for the design and supply of two steam surface condensers and auxiliary equipment for the Vung Ang Thermal Power Plant in Vietnam.
10/02/2010 More »

Aker Solutions Confirms GBP115M Power Project is Biomass Renewable Plant in Scotland

Aker Solutions confirms award of power plant project in Europe by RWE, is to provide design, supply, installation, construction and commissioning for new 50MW Biomass renewable energy plant at the Tullis Russell Papermakers plant near Fife in Scotland.
03/02/2010 More »

Xcel Energy Retains Burns & McDonnell to Design and Support Construction for Biomass Gasification Power Plant

Burns & McDonnell retained by Xcel Energy to perform engineering services and permitting, procurement and construction support services for design and installation of biomass gasification technology at Xcel's Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland, Wisconsin, USA.
01/02/2010 More »

Aker Solutions Awarded Power Plant Contract in Europe

Aker Solutions awarded contract to provide design, supply, installation, construction and commissioning for a new power plant facility in Europe.
01/02/2010 More »

Emerson Process Management to Digitally Automate Vital Power Plant in Central China

Emerson Process awarded contract from the China Power Investment Corp. to digitally automate new ultra-supercritical power plant in central China. The Pingdingshan Luyang power plant in the Henan Province.
28/01/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler Awarded Low NOx Burner in Spain

Foster Wheeler awarded contract to design and supply Low NOx Burner System for the Spanish utility company ENDESA. The Low NOx Burner System will be integrated in the Compostilla Power Plant, Unit 3 (330 MWe) located in Ponferrada, León, Spain.
27/01/2010 More »

PDVSA and Eni Sign Agreement to Develop Junin 5 Giant Heavy Oil Field in Venezuela

Rafael Ramírez, Venezuela's Minister of Energy and Petroleum and President of PDVSA, and Paolo Scaroni, Eni's CEO, today signed three strategic agreements: an agreement for the development of Junin 5, a Technology Agreement and an MoU for the construction of a power plant.
26/01/2010 More »

ABB Wins $48 million Substation Order for Saudi Power Plant

Foster Wheeler Global Power Group subsidiary awarded contract to design, supply and erect a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) by the Spanish company, REPSOL PETROLEO S.A. The HRSG and auxiliary equipment will be integrated in a cogeneration plant being built at the REPSOL Cartagena Refinery in Murcia, Spain. Foster Wheeler will also provide start-up supervision services.
07/01/2010 More »

Foster Wheeler to Supply Heat Recovery Steam Generator in Spain

Wood Group GTS Awarded $27 Million Operations & Maintenance Contract

Wood Group GTS awarded five-year $27 million contract by Brick Power Holdings for operations and maintenance of the Rumford & Tiverton facilities located in Maine and Rhode Island, USA. The O&M contract includes complete care, custody, control and maintenance of both facilities, from mobilisation/transition stage, which began in October 2009, through to operational phase in 2010.
07/01/2010 More »