The Top 200 Purchasers Buy More Than 50 Percent Of The World’s Industrial Air and Water Monitoring Equipment

The largest users of industrial air and water monitoring equipment are also the industries which are most concentrated.  A few oil and gas companies produce most of the oil and gas.  Large power companies produce most of the electricity.  A few large electronics companies produce most of the semiconductors and flat panel displays.  In fact, Samsung is a leader in both products.

Due to the government ownership of wastewater plants in many countries and the growth of third party operators such as Veolia and Suez, the water and wastewater industry is also relatively concentrated in terms of decision makers.

Monitoring equipment suppliers sell directly to some large users and sell through distributors to others.  The percentage purchased by the large users is rising and calls for more focus on this segment by the suppliers.  This is the conclusion reached by McIlvaine Company in N031 Air and Water Monitoring: World Market.

The 2015 industrial air and water monitoring  sales will exceed $10 billion.  Municipal water plants will be the largest purchasing sector followed by municipal wastewater and then power.

 

The McIlvaine Company has created a program for suppliers to maximize sales to the largest purchasers.  It combines the air and water monitoring report with tracking of prospects and projects. Detailed Forecasting of Markets, Prospects and Projects.

For more information click on:  N031 Air and Water Monitoring: World Market

Other support services for the program include:

42EI Utility Tracking System

59EI Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program

N049 Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects,

80A World Cleanroom Projects

Industrial Water: Plants and Projects http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/27-water/883-n033

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

The 41F Utility E-Alert is issued weekly and covers the coal-fired projects, regulations and other information important to the suppliers. It is $950/yr. but is included in the $3020 42EI Utility Tracking System which has data on every plant and project plus networking directories and many other features.

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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.


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.


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.


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.


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.

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