CIS Industrial Valve Purchases to Reach $4 Billion/yr By 2015
Next year former Soviet Union countries will spend just under $4 billion for
industrial valves. This is the forecast by the McIlvaine Company in Industrial
Valves: World Market. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Valve Revenues CIS ($ Millions)
Country 2015
Total 3,937
Belarus 114
Kazakhstan 235
Other CIS 204
Russia 2,825
Ukraine 428
Uzbekistan 131
Russia accounts for the majority of the purchases. The Ukraine has significant
purchases. Due to the problems with Russia and concern about Russian gas supply,
Ukraine is building two large coal gasification plants. Each plant will have
more than 10,000 valves.
The other CIS category includes:
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Estonia
• Georgia
• Kyrgyzstan
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Moldova
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
Oil and gas is one of the largest applications for valves in the CIS. Russia is
the second largest producer of dry natural gas and the third largest liquid
fuels producer in the world. Some of the valves for Russian projects are being
specified and/or purchased by U.S. companies.
CB&I has been awarded contracts valued in excess of $90 million by
NefteGazIndustriya, LLC, through project developer MAVEG GmbH, to provide the
technology licenses and front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for the
Afipsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar, Russia.
KBR, Inc. has been awarded a contract for project management consultancy (PMC)
services for the construction of the advanced oil processing complex which is
the part of the major renovation program of the largest operating refinery in
Russia owned by JSC Gazprom Neft. The refinery is located in Omsk, Western
Siberia, Russia. KBR will provide PMC services for three new process units and
offsites and utilities construction beginning with the front-end engineering and
design phase and continuing through EPC, commissioning and start-up.
For more information on Industrial Valves: World Market, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/115-n028.
Headlines for Utility E-Alert –October 31, 2014
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1198 – October 31, 2014
Table of Contents
COAL – US
Activated Carbon Contract for Cabot
Power4Georgians gets 18-month extension on Coal Plant Air Permit
DTE completes Clean Coal Project at Monroe Power Plant in Michigan
CONSOL sells Illinois Coal Reserves to Murray Energy
COAL – WORLD
Government of India unveils Plan for More Equitable Supply of Coal for Power
Plants
Andhra Pradesh, India wants to procure 2400 MW of Power
Tata Power to complete 1,320 MW Long Phu 2 in Vietnam Three Years Early
China Machinery Engineering Corp. to build Power Plant in Punjab, India
Coal-fired Power Plants still being studied in Myanmar
GAS/OIL – US
Wärtsilä to supply Engines to Power Plant on Oahu, Hawaii
Kentucky Utilities Project Need for up to 737 MW of New Power by 2020
New Gas-fired Power Plant approved for Huntington Beach
GAS/OIL – WORLD
General Electric building Power Plants in Egypt
ATCO selected to develop Cogeneration Power Project in Mexico
Lithuania to shut down Elektrenai 1, 2
NUCLEAR
Sendai Nuclear Power Plant to be restarted in Japan
GE Hitachi awarded nearly $300 Million in Outage Services and Fuel Contracts
by Exelon Generation
Proposed Tax Hike in Sweden could shutdown Nuclear Power Plants
BUSINESS
GE & Partners develop Machinery for Gas Turbine Production
A Number of Gas Turbine Projects in Western Africa
Hundreds of Subsea Projects with Thousands of Pumps Moving Forward Despite
Shrinking Oil Prices
HOT TOPIC HOUR
“NOx Reduction Innovations for Coal-fired Power Plants” to be conducted over
the Internet on Thursday, November 6, 2014, at 10 a.m. CST
Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/89-42ei
“Power Plant Cooling” is the “Hot Topic Hour” on November 13, 2014
This webinar will focus on the decisions power plants will make relative to
steam cooling at both new and existing facilities. In the U.S., operators have
to deal with regulation 316B which requires water intake procedures to minimize
harm to aquatic life. Many plants have once-through cooling systems. One option
to meet 316B is to install cooling towers and recirculate water. This is very
expensive. Less costly alternatives such as intake screens which either prevent
entrapment or rejection without harm need to be considered. Flow control with
variable speed pump drives is another option.
New power plants have the option of air cooled condensers, hybrid cooling, or
wet cooling towers. Air cooled condensers consume more energy but do not consume
water. If they are designed based on average ambient air temperatures, there can
also be a generation output problem in hot weather. The ACC has been typically
utilized in arid areas, but recently it has been selected simply because of the
faster permitting track.
If wet cooling towers are chosen, decisions have to be made relative to the
recirculating and bleed rates and the use of side stream filtration. A further
decision has to be made relative to the fate of the bleed stream. A number of
plants are opting for zero liquid discharge.
Another option is to find co-generation uses for the heat. Great Rivers Energy,
which operates ethanol plants on site, is a prime example of the success of this
option.
The webinar will examine all of these options for nuclear, coal and gas turbine
combined cycle power plants.
Panelists will include:
Keith Silverman, Proposal Manager, Research Cottrell Cooling
Nick Schroeder, BSME, PE, Kiewit Power Engineers
Daniel M. Cicero, Senior Industry Development Manager, Power Group, Water &
Process Services Division, Nalco Company
Trent T. Gathright, Business Manager – Intakes & Cooling Water Energy Group –
Americas, Ovivo
Barbara Carney, Chemical Engineer, Department of Energy, National Energy
Technology Laboratory
Click here to view schedule and register
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 Tracking
System. The cost is $300.00 for non-subscribers.
See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours. We welcome your input
relative to suggested additions.
DATE SUBJECT
November
13 Power Plant Cooling
December
18 Boiler Feedwater Treatment
Click here for the Subscriber and Power Plant Owner/Operator Registration Form
Click here for the Non-Subscribers Registration Form
Click here for the Free Hot Topic Hour Registration Form
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Bob McIlvaine
President
847-784-0012 ext 112
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
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