KBR has announced it has been selected by PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang, to provide licensing, engineering services and proprietary equipment for a new 2000 MTPD ammonia and 2750 MTPD urea plant located in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia.

The plant will be designed using KBR’s Purifier technology, which has demonstrated higher reliability than conventional designs and offers the lowest proven energy consumption in the industry. Construction of the grassroots facility is part of a consortium between Rekayasa and Toyo Engineering. Rekayasa will be responsible for the Ammonia and Toyo Engineering Corporation will be responsible for Urea.

“We are proud to provide our technology to help PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang meet the rising need of ammonia and urea production,” said John Derbyshire, President, KBR Technology. “KBR’s Purifier technology yields an extremely reliable, robust, low-energy plant, which will enable our customer to operate more efficiently.”

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced that its subsidiary, Yokogawa Electric Korea Co., Ltd., has won an order from Samsung C&T Corporation* to supply control systems for the Dongducheon combined cycle power plant, which is being constructed in the city of Dongducheon, which is located in the northern part of South Korea's Gyeonggi Province.

This power plant will have two 950 MW combined-cycle power units employing state-of-the-art gas turbines, giving it a total capacity of 1,900 MW, and the first of these units is scheduled to start operation in October 2014. The primary contractor for this independent power project is Dongducheon Dream Power Company, Ltd., which was jointly established by Korea Western Power Co., Ltd., Samsung C&T Corporation, and Hyundai Development Company.

Yokogawa will deliver the CENTUM® VP integrated production control system for controlling and operating the facilities of the entire plant including gas turbines, exhaust gas heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), and steam turbines.

Technip has been awarded by JBF Petrochemicals, a wholly–owned subsidiary of JBF Industries Ltd, an important contract(1) for a 1.25 million tons per year latest-generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) unit, to be located in the Special Economic Zone in Mangalore, India. PTA is the primary feedstock for polyesters used in textiles and packaging.

The contract covers the basic engineering, front-end engineering design, detailed engineering and procurement services for the ISBL (Inside Battery Limit) and the OSBL (Outside Battery Limit) of the unit. The scope of work also includes supply of materials and construction management services for the ISBL. The plant will feature BP’s leading-edge proprietary PTA technology.

Technip’s operating centers in Rome, Italy and in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi, India will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed in the first semester of 2015.

Marco Villa, Senior Vice President of Technip Region B(2), commented: “We are very proud to have been selected for this world-scale PTA project. It will bring together the competencies of our operating centers in India and Italy. This contract also reinforces our strong long-lasting collaboration with BP for PTA. We believe that the PTA market growth in Asia will open up further opportunities and we hope to develop a long-term relationship with JBF to support their future developments.”

In April 2012 Gazprom and NOVATEK signed the Memorandum of Cooperationoint for a  joint venture to build up integrated capacities on LNG production in the Yamal Peninsula.. The document envisages studying a possibility of establishing joint ventures to build up integrated capacities on LNG production in the Yamal Peninsula.

Based on the Memorandum of Cooperation, Gazprom and NOVATEK has signed an Agreement on setting up a joint venture for liquefied natural gas (LNG ) production in the Yamal Peninsula. The joint venture will carry out pre-front end engineering and design studies, elaborate project documents, work out a plan for the LNG plant construction and a joint program for development of the fields where the company will act as an operator for the facilities development and arrangement.

Until the end of the year it is scheduled to approve a comprehensive program for project implementation, including the main project features and deadlines, as well as the timescale for the final investment decision-making, the financial scheme and the terms of financing.