martes, 21 de diciembre de 2010

Qatar Petroleum, Shell to develop petchem project in Qatar

HOUSTON, Dec. 21 -- Qatar Petroleum and Shell have signed a memorandum of understanding to study development of a large petrochemicals complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.

The agreement was signed Dec. 21 in Doha by Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, deputy prime minister and minister of energy and industry for Qatar, and Shell CEO Peter Voser.


Under consideration is a monoethylene glycol plant of up to 1.5 million tonnes/year using Shell’s proprietary OMEGA (Only MEG Advantaged) technology and other olefin derivatives to yield more than 2 million tpy of finished products.

In Qatar, Qatar Petroleum and Shell are jointly building the Pearl gas-to-liquids project and Qatargas LNG Train 4 in Ras Laffan.

API 614 LUBE OIL SYSTEMS for Petrochemical Market: KBR Subsidiary Awarded Contract by Kawasaki Plant Systems, Ltd. for Grassroots Ammonia and Urea Plants

KBR  announced in the begining of 2010 its M.W. Kellogg Ltd. (MWKL) subsidiary has entered into a license agreement and basic engineering design (BED) agreement with Kawasaki Plant Systems, Ltd. (K-Plant) for the Mary Project, anticipated grassroots ammonia and urea plants to be located in Turkmenistan.

MWKL's services include the development of a basic engineering design package and the provision of an ammonia license in order for K-Plant to engineer, procure and construct the ammonia and urea plants of the Mary Project.

"With a long history of operating in Central Asia, this contract award provides MWKL the opportunity to strengthen our credentials in the region," said Stewart Watson, Managing Director, MWKL. "We are proud to be part of such an important project in Turkmenistan, and I am confident our services can add value to this venture."


A state-owned enterprise of the Republic of Turkmenistan, Turkmenhimya is commissioning the Mary Project effort, with support from Sojitz Corporation.

MWKL, a majority owned subsidiary of KBR Inc. is a full service contractor serving the energy and petrochemicals industries. MWKL, headquartered in London, executes world-scale international projects from conceptual feasibility studies through fixed price turnkey mega-projects. For more information, visit www.mwkl.co.uk.


KBR is a global engineering, construction and services company supporting the energy, hydrocarbon, government services, minerals, civil infrastructure, power and industrial markets. For more information, visit http://www.kbr.com/.

G.T.RIVI has collaborated in this project with the construction of two LUBE OIL SYSTEMS in accordance with API 614 Chapter 3, for LEAN SOLUTION PUMPS. The units will be supplied on January, 2011.

RIVI LOS for Power Market : Mitsubishi - 478 MW CCGT order for Uzbek plant (MHI)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) received an order from INITEC Energia, a Spanish engineering and construction company, for a 478 MW combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) cogeneration facility in Uzbekistan.



The facility will be built at the SJSC Uzbekenergo’s Navoi power plant, the authority under which the country’s power industry operates. Delivery of the system is scheduled to begin in December 2010 and be completed in March 2011.

The power plant will be built in Navoi City, the capital of Navoi Province, which is in southwestern Uzbekistan and is one of the country’s largest industrial centres.

The economy of the Navoi region is currently enjoying a boom fueled by the production of natural resources, such as oil, natural gas and precious metals, as well as chemical fertilizer and other material manufacturing.


The plant will consist primarily of one M701F gas turbine, one steam turbine, one heat recovery steam generator and two generators. MHI will provide the gas and steam turbines plus the generators

G.T. RIVI will supply two Lube Oil Systems (drop in type) for Boiler Feed Water Pumps, before the end of 2010.