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· World Municipal Wastewater Projects Monthly Update Headlines - February 2014

China's economy grew at a faster pace last year than the government's official target, even as Beijing sought to implement painful economic reforms.

Gross domestic product grew by 7.7% in 2013 over the previous year, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics, a performance that matched the median estimate of a CNN Money survey. Full-year expansion was supported by 7.7% growth in the final quarter of the year, beating the survey forecast of 7.6% by a whisker...remaining text not included.

While the rest of Spain's economy is either stagnant or in decline, a new report shows that the so-called submerged economy is booming and accounted for 24.6% of GDP in 2012, 6.8% higher than in 2008.

The report by Spain's inland revenue department titled The Cost of the Submerged Economy: Increased Fraud During the Crisis claims that the black economy is now worth €253bn (£208bn) – €60bn more than in 2008.

Meanwhile, figures released recently show that Spain's GDP rose by 0.3% in the last quarter of 2013, up from 0.1% in the third quarter. This represents the biggest rise in Spanish GDP since the beginning of 2008…remaining text not included.

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Honeywell UOP Technology Selected to Help Meet Demand for Key Petrochemicals in China, Part 2 (Project Dated: 2/21/2014)

South Korea’s Petrochemical Industry Expected to Rebound in 2014 (Article Dated: 2/6/2014)

Kuwait Shows Interest in Buying Stake in ONGC Petrochemical Plants (Article Dated: 2/6/2014)

Taiwan Approves First Petrochemical Investment Plan in China for $263.62 Mln (Investment Dated: 2/6/2014)

Sasol Expands Sasolburg Ethylene, Polyethylene Capacity by Debottlenecking Cracker (Project Dated: 2/6/2014)

India's ONGC Delays Startup of New Paraxylene Plant to Q3 2014 (Project Dated: 2/6/2014)

Honeywell UOP Technology Selected to Help Meet Demand for Key Petrochemicals in China Part 1 (Project Dated: 2/6/2014)

NOVA Chemicals Announces First Petrochemicals from Marcellus Shale Ethane at its Ontario Cracker (Article Dated: 2/6/2014)

American Chemistry Council Announces New Group to Focus on Plastics-to-Oil Technology (Article Dated: 2/5/2014)

Sadara Chemical Selects Metso Valves for its Saudi Arabia Chemicals Complex (Project Dated: 2/5/2014)

Vietnam’s Vung Ro to Utilize Ineos PP Technology at its Refinery Complex (Project Dated: 2/5/2014)

Saudi's SABIC in Talks to Invest in U.S. Shale Market This Year (Investment Dated: 2/5/2014)

Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Plans $13.25 Bln Overseas Expansion (Article Dated: 2/5/2014)

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This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There are thousands of projects in the database.

Project Title	First Entry Date	Location	Startup date
APR Energy power plant	2/2/2014	Myanmar	Unknown
Bibiyana South power plant-Power Development Board	2/1/2014	Bangladesh	Unknown
Scattergood combinede cycle repower-LADWP	2/1/2014	CA	2015
Vindhyachal V-NTPC	2/1/2014	India	Unknown
Kitakyushu combined cycle power plant-Saibu Gas	2/1/2014	Japan	Unknown
Lonesome Creek 1,2,3 peaking power plant-Basin Electric	2/1/2014	ND	2014
Soma CFB power plant-HIDRO-GEN Energy	2/1/2014	Turkey	2017
Minergy Coal power plant in Balingasag	11/1/2013	Philippines	2015
Cox's Bazar (Matarbari) power plant	5/1/2013	Bangladesh	Unknown
Pioneer 1,2,3 peaking power plant-Basin Electric	6/1/2012	ND	2014
Panay power plant-SMC Global Power	4/1/2012	Philippines	2016
Gardabani power plant-Georgia Partnership Fund	2/1/2012	Georgia	2016
Bibiyana 3 combined cycle-Power Development Board	12/1/2011	Bangladesh	2015
Phividec Industrial Estate CFB power plant-Filinvest Development Corp.	6/1/2011	Philippines	2016
Pio Pico Energy Center peaking-San Diego Gas & Electric	5/1/2011	CA	2015
Krishnapatnam Phase 1-Thermal Powertech Corp. India	5/1/2010	India	Unknown
Jamshoro supercritical -Water and Power Development Authority	5/1/2010	Pakistan	2016
Gadani Power Plant-AES Pakistan	12/1/2009	Pakistan	2016
Barakah 1-4 nuclear power plant	6/1/2009	United Arab Emirates	2020
Rajpura supercritical power plant-Punjab State Electricity Board	11/1/2008	India	2014
Hassyan power plant-Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa)	3/1/2008	United Arab Emirates	2021
Bibiyana 1,2 combined cycle power plant	11/1/2007	Bangladesh	Cancelled
Jebel Ali P (Hassyan)-Dubai Electricity & Water Authority	5/1/2007	United Arab Emirates	Unknown
Kudu combined cycle--NamPower, Energy Africa, National Petroleum	7/1/2004	Namibia	2017
Yermarus 1,2 power plant-Karnataka PCL	2/1/2004	India	Unknown
Elgin peaking plant	4/1/2001	IL	2002
Swanbank combined cycle power plant	11/1/2000	Australia	2002
Grand Tower combined cycle		IL	2001
Gibson City peaking plant		IL	2000

New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World Power Generation Projects has just the project data.