MARKET PROSPECTS

4Pump Industry Analyst September 2013

the Terengganu Gas Terminal Development Project in Malaysia, covering engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) on a lump sum turnkey basis.

The gas pretreatment facility will be built in Kerteh, in the Terengganu region, 260km northeast of Kuala Lumpur. The plant will reduce impurities such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide from natural gas.

ICA Fluor to help reconfigure Mexican refinery

Pemex has awarded ICA Fluor a US$95 million contract to develop

the first phase of the overall project to reconfigure the Miguel Hidalgo Refinery in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico.

ICA Fluor will be responsible for the basic and detailed engineering for the process plants, auxiliary services and integration works required to increase the refinery’s distillate production capacity from 63% to 80%.

This is the first phase of a US$3.5 billion project announced by Pemex to increase national production of higher value distillates through the reprocessing of products such as gasoil (diesel).

Omni’s HIPPO mobile platform treats Texas water

A HIPPO mobile water treatment unit from Omni Water Solutions

Inc is treating flowback and produced water in the Eagle Ford shale of South Texas to reduce boron and enable re-use of the cleaned water for drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Omni’s HIPPO mobile water treatment unit has been used since June 2013 in a Marathon Oil water recycling pilot project to convert produced water into fresh water, clean brine and hydro-carbon streams. The pilot’s objective was to reduce boron levels from 90 parts per million to less than 5 parts per million in the fresh water stream. The HIPPO has successfully treated over 140 000 barrels to date.

POWER GENERATION

Westinghouse, Toshiba and Exelon partner to target Saudi nuclear projects

Westinghouse Electric Co, Toshiba Corp and Exelon Nuclear

Partners have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to create a joint proposal for the construction of nuclear power plants for Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE).

KACARE was established in April 2010 to promote alternative energy sources to oil.

Saudi Arabia has plans to construct up to 16 nuclear power reactors by 2032.

MINING

Veolia Water and Vapor Procesos to recover copper at Chilean mine

Veolia Water and Vapor Procesos have secured a contract with

copper producer Codelco to recover copper from tailings pond water at Codelco’s El Teniente mine, 120 km south of Santiago de Chile.

Joint venture Veolia W Procesos (VWP), which provides metal recovery services to Chile’s mining industry, will design, build and begin operation of a new mining effluent processing facility in 2013 at El Teniente mine, under an initial five-year contract. The mine, which is the world’s largest underground copper mine, has been operating since 1905 and produces approximately 400 000 metric tons of copper annually.

The new facility will treat 3 million cubic metres of water per year and recover 1680 tons of copper over the contract term.

Technip inks offshore frame agreement with Petrobras

Technip has signed a four-year frame agreement with Petrobras

for project modification services for the Rio de Janeiro Operations Unit (UO-RIO), including existing offshore platforms located in the Campos Basin area, Brazil.

The services cover basic and detailed design, documentation update, engineering consulting, planning, control and execution supplies for 13 offshore platforms.

Technip’s operating centre in Rio de Janeiro will carry out the project management, engineering and procurement.

PULP & PAPER

Jacobs awarded chlorine dioxide plant contract in Brazil

CMPC Group’s Celulose Riograndense Ltda has selected

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc to design and supply an integrated chlorine dioxide plant for its pulp expansion project in Guaiba, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

The plant is expected to produce 60 tons of chlorine dioxide per day.

Jacobs will design and engineer the plant, supply key equipment and materials, and provide technical services for plant erection, operator training, commissioning and testing.

FOOD & BEVERAGE

Severn Trent to deliver wastewater treatment plant to UK dairy

Severn Trent Costain is to design, build and operate a new

wastewater treatment plant at UK dairy First Milk’s Haverfordwest Creamery.

When fully operational in early 2014, the new wastewater treatment plant will replace an old system that no longer meets the dairy’s environmental or capacity requirements. The new treatment plant consists of a dissolved air flotation system, which removes suspended solids such as fats or oils, and an advanced membrane bioreactor, which provides both physical and biological treatment to an extremely high standard.

The effluent produced will be suitable for discharge to coastal and surface waters.