Lots of Opportunities Tabulated In Our Latest Gas Turbine Alert
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Here are the headlines from the latest issue:
U.S. PROJECTS

FLORIDA: Public Service Commission to Consider Need for FPL’s Okeechobee Power Plant
MINNESOTA: Minnesota Power Seeking Bids for Major Gas-fired Power Plant
MINNESOTA: Xcel Energy Selects GE’s 7F.05 Gas Turbine for Black Dog Peaker
OKLAHOMA: TAS Energy to Supply Inlet Chilling System for Grand River Energy Center
PENNSYLVANIA: GE to Provide Technology and Financing for Moxie Freedom Project
RHODE ISLAND: GE’s Enhanced Steam Path (ESP) Upgrade at Entergy Plant Adds 26 MW
Dynegy Awards GE Contract to Upgrade 4 Power Plants with Advanced Gas Path (AGP) Technology
WORLDWIDE PROJECTS
BANGLADESH: Siemens to Supply Key Components for Bibiyana South Power Plant
BENIN: Genesis Energy’s 360 MW Power Project Will Provide 30% of Benin's Electricity
MEXICO: Iberdrola Selects GE Turbines for Two New Cogeneration Power Plants
MEXICO: Amec Foster Wheeler Wins HRSG Contract in Mexico
MYANMAR: Sembcorp Signs Agreement to Build 225 MW Gas-fired Power Plant in Myingyan
UK: Centrica Says Killingholme Gas Fired Power Plant Will Close in March 2016
BUSINESS
Gas Turbine Intake Filter Sales to Exceed $1 Billion By 2021
Charlotte-based SPX Corp. Announces Sale of Dry Cooling Business to Indian Company
KENTUCKY: East Kentucky Power Receives Approval to Buy Bluegrass Generating Station
OEM Networking Directory Has the Contacts at Consulting and Supplier Companies
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Daily Project Posting In McIlvaine Oil, Gas, Refining Supplier Program
McIlvaine posts project information on a daily basis. The purchaser can purchase the complete program N049 Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects or just the Bi-weekly Alert 71EI Oil, Gas, Shale, Refining E-Alert.
PROJECTS
The following projects each will result in millions of dollars of orders for flow control and treatment products. Each project has been rated. The opportunity size is rated from 1-10 with 1 being small and 10 being very large. The timing for flow and treatment orders has been provided by year, e.g. T 16 = timing of order is 2016.
McDermott Wins RasGas EPCI Deal (T16)
McDermott International said it has been awarded a brownfield contract by LNG producer RasGas offshore Qatar. Under the agreement, McDermott will provide engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of a flow assurance and looping project consisting of 74 miles of 6- and 8-inch pipeline and topside modifications, offshore Qatar, according to a company’s statement issued on Monday. Work is scheduled for completion by the end of the third quarter of 2017. The two companies also have an engineering service agreement under which McDermott has executed several concept studies and front end engineering design (FEED) projects, according to the statement. Engineering, procurement and fabrication is expected to be performed by McDermott’s teams based in Dubai, U.A.E.
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Shell to Expand Louisiana Alpha Olefins Complex (T16)
Shell Chemical has made a final investment decision (FID) to increase its alpha olefins (AO) production at its chemical manufacturing site in Geismar, Louisiana, the company announced on November 30. The expansion will make the Geismar site the largest AO producer in the world. The project will include a $717 million capital investment. Shell will construct a fourth AO unit, adding 425,000 tons of annual capacity. The chemical site is used in the production of stronger and lighter polyethylene plastic for packaging and bottles, as well as engine and industrial oils and drilling fluids. Construction of the new unit will begin in the first quarter of 2016 and the unit is expected to begin operations in 2018. The new capacity brings the total AO production at Shell’s Geismar site to more than 1.3 MMtpy. The Geismar site, with a strong track record of reliable and safe performance, also produces alcohols, ethoxylates, ethylene oxide and ethylene glycols.
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Saudi Aramco Has Ambitious Plans to Spend up to $150 Bln Through 2019
PetroRabigh, a JV between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, recently announced the launch of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) tenders for its mega-expansion project. The EPC contracts are for a 220-Mtpy polyether polyols plant, a 17-Mbpd naphtha treating unit and a 106-Mtpy sulfur recovery unit. The EPC contracts are expected to be awarded in 1Q 2016. This project is one among many that Saudi Arabia is developing to build up its refined fuels and petrochemical offerings to the global market. The country will also witness over $60 B in downstream petrochemical investment through the end of the decade.
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Keystone XL and Alberta Oil Sands Go Under While Utah MCW Project Moves Ahead
The decision to kill Keystone XL was an economic one: with the major oil sands projects that were to supply the pipeline going under, it no longer makes sense. Now, some $60 billion of Canadian oil sands projects are in big trouble, unable to withstand high production costs and low oil prices. Shell has moved to scrap its 80,000-barrel/day Carmon Creek project. And earlier this year, three major Canadian companies said they would halt new projects and expansions, and Total and Statoil have also thrown in the towel. Breaking away from this trend, one North American oil sands project is thriving, led by MCW Energy Group. The project debuted in Utah with a breakthrough technology that offers not only low production costs that can withstand price volatility, but also gives us the previously impossible: a clean way to produce oil sands. Once washed with MCW's patented solvent, the sand comes out 99.9 percent clean before it is returned to the Earth. Major Canadian oil sands projects require $80 oil to break even. MCW's clean oil sands extraction plant at Asphalt Ridge, Utah, is producing 250 barrels per day for only $27-$30 per barrel. This is low enough to turn a profit even in today's market. And when the company finishes building its second 5,000/bpd plant, we're looking at costs closer to $20 per barrel. The plant is right in the heart of Utah's Green River Formation at Asphalt Ridge, which alone is believed to hold some 1 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Experts estimate that production using this new technology in Utah is more profitable than any other oil sands project in North America, and more profitable than today's shale production.
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ICA Fluor Awarded $1.1 Bln Miguel Hidalgo Refinery Upgrade Contract in Mexico (08, T16)
ICA Fluor, the industrial construction joint venture of Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. and Fluor Corporation, announced November 18 that they have signed a contract with Pemex Transformacion Industrial to supply detail engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the utilities and offsites that are part of the Tula Refinery upgrade at Hidalgo, Mexico. The total contract value is $1.1 billion. This contract results from the joint efforts of Pemex Transformacion Industrial (formerly Pemex Refinacion) and ICA Fluor to continue with the modernization process of the Tula Refinery.
Utility E-Alert Tracks Billions of Dollars of New Coal-fired Power Plants on a Weekly Basis
Here are some headlines from the Utility E-Alert.
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1253– December 18, 2015
Table of Contents
COAL - US

• AEP Ohio files Settlement Agreement on expanded PPA
• PRC OKs Partial shutdown for San Juan Coal-fired Power Plant
• Duke Energy proposing On-site Coal Ash Landfill at W.S. Lee Station in SC

COAL – WORLD

• BHEL commissions 500 MW Unit at Sagardighi Thermal Power Station in India
• Hearing on injunction to halt Coal-fired Power Plants at Punta Catalina, Bani, Dominican Republic set for January 18
• Environment Ministry instructs IEC to reduce Coal use at Hadera Power Plant
• Chinese State-owned Enterprises want to build Power Plant in Brazil
• China’s emissions pledges are undercut by Boom in Coal Projects Abroad
• China offers Bonus to Coal-fired Power Plants to meet Emissions Rules
• 500 MW Meralco PowerGen Project finally begins construction
• JAKS clears hurdles to carry out US$1.9bil Vietnam Power Project
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