Thousands of Projects Worth Hundreds of $ Billions in Booming Oil and Gas Industry
Depending on the definition, the number of opportunities in the oil and gas sector ranges from a few thousand to over one million. At the top end, there are single projects where the investment will exceed $10 billion. This is the conclusion reached in Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Segment Number
Operating gas and oil wells 1,000,000
Well completions in 2012 105,000
Rigs in operation 3,500
LNG trains in operation 100
Current LNG projects 20
Current operating large gas-to-liquids plants 10
Large gas-to-liquids projects 10
Smaller gas-to-liquids projects 100
Liquid separation from natural gas projects 200
Coal to chemical new projects 50
Refineries in operation 700
New refineries in planning and construction 40
Refinery upgrades and environmental projects 1,000
Tar sands expansion and new projects 15
Existing gas and oil wells need pumps, valves, compressors, instrumentation and control equipment. Accuracy is needed due to the custody transfer and value of the products. Despite the large number of existing wells, the major capital investment is in a relatively small number of large projects.









Some of the investments in the oil gas industry are even larger than the investment in a new supercritical coal-fired power plant. The gas-to-liquids plant now underway in Louisiana is estimated to cost between $11 billion and $14 billion. New refineries, LNG and tars sands plants are all multibillion dollar expenditures. Much of this is for liquid and gas flow and treatment equipment. In addition, the tar sands plants have big investments in material handling.
With the shale gas and liquids boom there are many projects to separate liquids from gas. Conversion of coal to chemicals is attracting billions of dollars of investment. China is the leader with both direct and indirect gasification processes.
McIlvaine tracks the projects and provides market forecasts in Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects.
For more information on Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=72#n049.
Air & Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets Headlines for March 2013
AIR & WATER
MONITORING NEWSLETTER
March 2013
No. 401
HOT TOPICS HOURS
 “NOx Control for Gas Turbines” was Hot Topic Hour on Thursday, February 14, 2013
 “Monitoring and Controlling Boiler Water/Steam Cycle Chemistry” Hot Topic Hour, February 21, 2013
MARKETS
 NOx Control Market Will Be $5.5 Billion in 2014
 Coal-fired Power Plant Retirements will be Significant but Not a Dominant Factor in Future Capital Expenditures
 The U.S. and Europe are Embarked on Hundreds of Projects to Automate and Control Coal-fired Power Plant
 U.S. Water Utilities Are Embarked on Thousands of Capital Projects
 Instrument and Control Market for Ultrapure Water Will Exceed $468 Million This Year
 Sales of New Precipitator Systems Will Exceed $5.6 Billion in Asia in 2013
 Smart Pumps Will Help Drive Pump Revenues to $46 Billion in 2017
 U.S. Cement Industry Will Spend $685 Million/yr. for Air Pollution Control in 2013-15
 Boosting Air Pollution Export Sales
 Gas Turbine Inlet Filter Market to Exceed $400 Million This Year
 East Asia Will Spend $4.8 Billion on FGD This Year
 Desalination Flow Control and Treatment Revenues to Exceed $9 Billion by 2020
INDUSTRY NEWS
 Automation and Instrumentation at the North East Ohio Regional Sewer District
 BP to Spend More Than $300 Million to Reduce Emissions from Flares, Heaters, and Boilers
 EUEC Was an Active Show for McIlvaine
 Instrumentation Limited of India Orders an Automation System Upgrade from Metso
 Doosan Develops Integrated Monitoring & Control System for Taean Thermal Power Plant
 Xylem Has $617,000-Contract for Climate Change Monitoring and Ecological Forecasting in the Caribbean
 TRC Picks Up GE’s Air Testing Business
 An Independent Supplier is an Option for Gas Turbine Control Retrofits
 Siemens Process Control System Expanded for Cement, Mining and Related Industries
 ON Line, Composite or Grab Samples for Natural Gas
 Interned Hosted SCADA an Answer for Water and Wastewater Utilities
 Ultrasonic Flow Meters Now More Popular in Oil and Gas
 Wireless Sensor Networks Enhance Remote Condition Monitoring
 Pipelines Turn Toward Automation Through Intelligent Technology
 Cone DP Meters Are Popular But Have Calibration Issues
 Coriolis Mass Flow Meters Have Advantages for Bulk Measurement
OptoAcoustic Has Advantages in Gas Measurement
For more information on Air & Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets: click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106extsup1.asp
INDUSTRIAL BOILER UPDATE APRIL 2013
Here are the headlines to our April updates of Industrial Boilers. This is part of U.S. Industrial Emitters, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93extsup1.asp

INDUSTRY NEWS
Newmont Experience with 10 Meter Bags Has Been Good
Tri-Mer System Controls Multiple Pollutants
Coverage of Industrial Boilers in the Fabric Filter Newsletter
Coverage of Industrial Boilers in the Scrubber/Adsorber Newsletter
Nationwide has SCR for Industrial Boilers
Council of Industrial Boilers has a Number of Associate Members
Cleaver-Brooks is a Major Supplier of Industrial Boilers
Fluid Bed & Stoker Fired Boiler Operations and Performance Conference - May 20-22, 2013
Detroit Stoker has Lots of Experience with Biomass
PROJECTS
Metso has Order for CHP Plant in Västerås, Sweden
Metso Providing Kuopion Energia in Kuopio, Finland, with Combustor to Burn Pulverized Peat
Metso will supply Jönköping Energi’s Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant in Torsvik, Sweden with Biomass Boiler
Metso will Supply PT Cikarang Listiindo in Indonesia with 2 Power Boilers
Metso will Supply Värnamo Energi AB with a Biomass Power Plant
Metso-supplied World’s Largest Biomass Gasification Plant Inaugurated in Finland
Metso to Supply Biomass Power Plant for Vimmerby Energi & Miljö in Sweden for Green Energy Production
Metso to Supply Biomass Power Plant to Bioenergeticheskaya Kompaniya in Russia
Metso to Supply Biomass-Fired Heating Plant for District Heat Production to Savon Voima in Finland
Metso’s Biomass-fired Heating Plant Delivery will increase the Production of Green Energy in Line with Savon Voima’s Strategy
Waupun Replacing Coal-fired Boilers with Gas Turbines
CNIM Selects Metso’s Automation for Waste-to-Energy Plant in Suffolk, UK
Dow to Build Several New Chemical Plants on the U.S. Gulf Coast
Cambria Cogen is one of 20 CFB Combustors Burning Coal Refuse and which may Remove HCl but Increase Mercury
MARKETS
Comparison of Final and Previous Industrial Boiler MACT
60 Universities are still Operating Coal-fired Boilers
Will Industrial Boiler Owners spend $5 Billion or $12 Billion to meet the New Industrial Boiler MACT? – Hot Topic Hour March 21, 2013
Here are the Headlines for the March 29, 2013 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1118 – March 29, 2013
Table of Contents
COAL – US
 Appeals Court upholds 600 MW Wolverine Power Project Permit
 Gulf Power to close 100 MW Scholz
 Michigan Appeals Court upholds 78 MW James DeYoung Expansion Application
COAL – WORLD
 GN Power Ltd. to construct Additional Power Plants in Bataan, Luzon, Philippines
 Australia Firm to invest in 120 MW Malawi Power Plant
 Marubeni and KEPCO will build 1200 MW Nghi Son Expansion in Vietnam
 Tauron Polska to build Power Plant in Poland; EDF suspends Project in Poland
 Costain to Retrofit Cooling Towers at Fiddlers Ferry in UK
 Bukit Asam wants to build Mine-mouth Power Plant in Myanmar
 NTPC to modernize 2000 MW Singrauli in Uttar Pradesh, India
 AP Genco to expand Ramagundam Power Plant in Andhra Pradesh, India
 Kazakhstan’s Senate ratifies Agreement on Balkhash Power Plant
 TAQA to develop 1,440 MW Power Plant in Afsin-Elbistan Region of Turkey
GAS/OIL - US
 Cayuga Power Plant proposes switch from Coal- to Gas-firing
 NRG presenting Case to Convert Dunkirk to Natural Gas
 300 MW Pio Pico and 100 MW Quail Brush rejected by CA PUC
GAS/OIL – WORLD
 SPX to provide Cooling System for 835 Tzafit Combined Cycle Power Plant in Israel
 Gas-fired Irsching 5 could be closed in Germany
NUCLEAR
 Will Fate of Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Taiwan be decided by Referendum?
 China may be building 1000 MW Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan
 Japan Utility scraps Plan for New Nuclear Power Plant
BUSINESS
 EPA finds South Coast Air Basin (CA) in Attainment for PM10
 Installation of Flowserve Pumps in German Combined Cycle Plant Underway
HOT TOPIC HOUR
 Mercury Measurement and Control Part 1 – Hot Topic Hour March 28, 2013
 Industrial Boiler MACT Impact and Control Options Hot Topic Hour on April 4, 2013
 Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
For more information on the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72
McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration
On Thursday at 10:00 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects. Power webinars are free for subscribers to either Power Plant Air Quality Decisions or Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System. The cost is $125.00 for non-subscribers. Market Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report subscribers and are $400.00 for non-subscribers.
2013
DATE SUBJECT
April 4 Industrial Boiler MACT Impact and Control Options – Part 2 Power
April 11 Mercury Measurement and Control – Part 2 Power
April 18 Mercury Measurement and Control – Part 3 Power
April 25 Control Technologies for Fine Particulate Matter Power
May 2 Flyash Pond and Wastewater Treatment Issues Power
May 9 Clean Coal Technologies Power
May 16 Power Plant Automation and Control Power
May 23 Cooling Towers Power
May 30 Air Pollution Control Markets (geographic trends, regulatory developments, competition, technology developments) Market Intelligence
June 6 Report from Power-Gen Europe (update on regulations, speaker and exhibitor highlights) Power
June 13 Monitoring and Optimizing Fuel Feed, Metering and Combustion in Boilers Power
June 20 Dry Sorbent Injection and Material Handling for APC Power
June 27 Power Generation Forecast for Nuclear, Fossil and Renewables Market Intelligence
July 11 New Developments in Power Plant Air Pollution Control Power
July 18 Measurement and Control of HCl Power
July 25 GHG Compliance Strategies, Reduction Technologies and Measurement Power
August 1 Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards Power
August 8 Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation Power
August 15 Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater Power
August 22 Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Programs and Technology Power
August 29 Pumps for Power Plant Cooling Water and Water Treatment Applications Power
Sept. 5 Fabric Selection for Particulate Control
Power
Sept. 19 Air Pollution Control for Gas Turbines Power
Sept. 26 Multi-Pollutant Control Technology
Power
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