Wärtsilä to equip 3 Angolan power plants
Wärtsilä has signed a deal to supply the generation equipment for three new power plants being constructed in Angola, the company announced Monday.
China’s Dongfang Electric International Corporation is building the three 23-MW plants in Luena, Benguela and Saurimo on a fast-track basis, with the facilities set to come on line in Q3 2018. The prime movers will be four Wärtsilä 32 engines powered by light fuel oil, and the Finnish company will begin deliveries in Q1 2018. It will also assist in the installation and commissioning.
“We are honoured to be a partner in these projects since they are important to the future development of Angola,” Mark Zoeters, the business development manager, Africa East of Wärtsilä Energy Solutions, said in a press release.
Angola has long suffered from power shortages and power cuts, a direct result of too much demand for a system that cannot cope. The country has major plans for further power generation, some of which include cross-border initiatives with Namibia including the Baynes power project and electricity transmission lines between the countries.
Petrofac Awarded Iraq PMC From PetroChina
Petrofac has been awarded a contract, valued at around US$30 million, to undertake Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services for the Halfaya Contract Area (Halfaya) in southern Iraq.
Working in support of PetroChina International Iraq FZE (PetroChina), as the lead operator of Halfaya, Petrofac’s Engineering and Production Services (EPS) East business will undertake project management services for five years.
Petrofac is responsible for managing and supervising the development and progress of several engineering, procurement and construction work scopes including: the central processing facility, power plant expansion, gas process plant and all associated facilities. For each work scope, activities will include the management of detailed design, procurement, construction and commissioning.
Manivannan Rajapathy, Managing Director, Petrofac EPS East said: “This important award reflects our growing capabilities in a core market. Through the provision of PMC services, we are demonstrating our competence and capabilities to oversee large programmes of work. This builds upon our long track record for in-country execution for existing clients, through the delivery of engineering, operations, maintenance and training activities.
“We are pleased to have the opportunity to support PetroChina and the Halfaya partners in the delivery of this key infrastructure project. Our focus is to support sustained production, through the successful conclusion of each phase, towards the overall production plateau target of around 400,000 barrels per day.”
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Rosneft enters Kurdistan pipeline project
Rosneft has a signed a deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government to enter an infrastructure project concerning the region’s oil export pipeline, the company said early on Friday.
The deal, signed on the sidelines of the Eurasian Economic Forum in Verona, will see Rosneft operate the pipeline project with a 60% stake, while current pipeline operator KAR Group will retain the remaining 40%.
“The entry into this project helps to achieve a number of Rosneft’s strategic objectives and will enable Rosneft to implement an integrated model of development across the entire value chain from production to transportation and export of hydrocarbons to end customers including supplies to the Company’s refineries in Germany,” CEO Igor Sechin said in a press release.
In a previous statement released Wednesday, the company referenced an expected increase of the pipeline system’s capacity from 700,000 bpd to 950,000 bpd. However, plans for the expansion have not yet been confirmed.
In mid-September, Rosneft had announced an investment plan reportedly worth more than USD 1 billion that would see the company build a gas export pipeline in the Kurdistan Region with a capacity of up to 30 bcm (1.06 tcf) per year. The announcement mentioned a second pipeline project in the works, presumably a reference to the Kurdistan Crude Export Pipeline expansion.
KAR Group is also the operator of the Bai Hassan and Avana fields, which were taken over by Iraqi federal forces in an operation that began Monday. The new project is a signal that the group will continue to play a key role in the Kurdistan Region’s oil market.
Gazprom addresses ongoing energy projects
The Gazprom Board of Directors appreciated the work being done by the company to implement its major investment projects.
It was highlighted that the company continued to consistently develop the new gas production center in Yamal. Gazprom's resource base in the Peninsula is becoming key for gas supplies to domestic and foreign consumers over a long-term. This year, new gas wells and a booster compressor station will be put onstream at Bovanenkovskoye, Yamal's largest field in terms of gas reserves.
Gazprom is expanding the northern gas transmission corridor meant for gas supplies from Yamal to Russia's central and northwestern regions as well as into the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline for export purposes. In particular, construction continues on the linear part of the Ukhta–Torzhok 2 gas pipeline, with 688 of the 970 km completed, and the compressor stations at the Bovanenkovo–Ukhta 2 gas pipeline. In addition, the Company is retrofitting a number of gas pipelines in the Leningrad Region and this year is going to start building new capacities from the Gryazovets gas transmission hub to the Slavyanskaya compressor station (Nord Stream 2's main compressor station) currently under design on the Baltic Sea coast.
The Nord Stream 2 project is proceeding on schedule. At present, work is underway to obtain national permits from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Russia for the gas pipeline construction.
Construction is in full swing on TurkStream, another new gas pipeline for Russian gas supplies to Europe. At the onshore section, drilling operations have been completed and pipes have been microtunneled. At the offshore section, a total of 373 km of pipes have been laid along the two strings.
As part of its efforts to establish the gas industry in the east of Russia, Gazprom is active in pre-developing Chayandinskoye, the basic oil, gas and condensate field of the Yakutia gas production center. To date, 86 gas wells and eight oil wells have been drilled, and industrial, energy and transport infrastructure is under construction. The Company has started to build a pipeline connecting Chayandinskoye to the Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean oil pipeline system. Preparations are in progress for the pre-development of the Kovyktinskoye gas and condensate field, the backbone of the Irkutsk gas production centre.
Construction is ahead of schedule on the Power of Siberia gas trunkline that will convey gas from Yakutia and the Irkutsk Region to Russia's eastern regions and China. By now, the Company has completed more than 1095 km of the gas pipeline, which is 50.7% of the overall length of its paramount section from Chayandinskoye to Blagoveshchensk.
Gazprom has moved on to the main stage in the construction of the Amur gas processing plant (GPP), which is an essential element in the technological chain of supplies via Power of Siberia. The company has launched construction and installation works at the GPP's key facilities – cryogenic gas separation units. Construction continues on a wharf on the Zeya River and railway communications.
In parallel, work is in progress to develop the gas production center on the shelf of Sakhalin Island. Until the year's end, production drilling is planned to be completed at the Kirinskoye field. Upon the hookup of new wells, the field will be gradually brought to its design capacity of 5.5 billion m3/y of gas. Design works are underway with regard to pre-development infrastructure at the Yuzhno-Kirinskoye field.
The priority activities of Gazprom include improving the reliability of gas supply to the Kaliningrad Region. Two new underground reservoirs are coming onstream at the Kaliningradskoye UGS facility soon. Until the end of 2017, it is planned to finish the construction of a liquefied natural gas receiving, storage and regasification terminal.
The Management Committee was instructed to continue the efforts aimed at implementing the company's major investment projects.
R&C-Globe Team Was Having Fun in a Teambuilding Event in Banya Town, Bulgaria
In October R&C-Globe team was participating in an ATV race, archery competition, rope climbing and many more attractive games in Banya, Bulgaria.