MARKET PROSPECTS

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refinery will, as a result of this modernisa-tion, require additional volumes of high purity hydrogen.

The new hydrogen unit, which will use high olefinic LPG as the main feedstock and natural gas as the alternate feedstock, will be designed to produce 24 000 normal cubic meters per hour of pure hydrogen. The basic design package is scheduled for completion this year.

Osum Oil Sands to use Veolia produced water treatment system

Osum Oil Sands Corp has selected water treatment technolo-

gies from Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies to process produced water from its Taiga Project at Cold Lake in Alberta, Canada.

Osum will produce bitumen using a Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process beginning production in 2013.

The Veolia Water produced water treat-ment system consists of AutoFlot Induced Gas Flotation (IGF) and Power Clean Oil Removal Filter (ORF) technologies for the secondary deoiling process. HPD evapora-tors will then process the de-oiled pro-duced water to provide high-quality water to the Once-Through Steam Generators (OTSG) as well as treat the resulting blow-down.

GE evaporation technology to recycle oil sands water

Grizzly Oil Sands ULC will use GE’s produced water evapora-

tion technology for its Algar Lake project near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

The GE produced water evaporation proc-ess will recycle up to 97% of the produced water at Phase 1 of the Algar Lake Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) project which will produce 5000–6000 barrels per day of bitumen.

GE is also providing the Algar Lake SAGD project with system design, equipment, instruments and controls, training and site support. GE will deliver equipment to the

site in the first half of 2012, with installation and commissioning scheduled for the second half of 2012.

VWS Westgarth to supply SRP system for Angolan FPSO

SBM Inc has awarded a multi-million dollar contract to VWS

Westgarth to provide a single lift module seawater sulphate reduc-tion package (SRP) system for the Xikomba FPSO (Floating Production, Storage & Offloading) vessel off-shore Angola.

The Xikomba FPSO was previously oper-ating in Block 15 offshore Angola and is planned for relocation to new moorings in an adjacent area of the block.

VWS Westgarth will design, procure and supply equipment and provide construction technical assistance for a single lift module seawater SRP system with a capacity of 117 455 BPD and an integrated seawater reverse osmosis system with a capacity of 12 075 BPD.

The SRP is designed to remove sulphates and other divalent ions from injection water to enhance oil recovery using Dow Filmtec membranes.

CARBON CAPTURE

Alstom, Datang to collaborate on CCS demonstration projects in China

China Datang Corp and Alstom are forming a long-term strategic

partnership to jointly develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) demon-stration projects in China.

Alstom, together with Datang, will devel-op two CCS demonstration projects located in China’s two biggest oilfields Daqing in Heilongjiang province and Dongying in Shandong province.

Alstom currently offers three tech-nologies for carbon capture: oxy-firing, chilled ammonia and advanced amines. The 350 MW coal-fired power plant at Daqing will be equipped with Alstom’s

oxy-firing technology and the 1000 MWe Dongying coal-fired power plant will also adopt one of Alstom’s carbon capture technologies.

Both CCS projects are scheduled for operation in 2015. Once completed, the two CCS demonstration projects will each be able to capture above 1 million metric tonnes of CO

2 annually.

ETI launches UK carbon capture and storage project

A £3 million Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) project will help

support the future design, operation and roll-out of cost effective carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems in the UK.

The two-and-a-half year long project will create a modelling tool-kit capable of simulating the operation of all aspects of the CCS chain, from capture and transport to storage.

It will involve modelling technology provider Process System Enterprise, energy consultancy E4tech, and industrial part-ners EDF Energy, E.ON, Rolls-Royce and Petrofac, who expect to be involved in capturing, compressing, transporting and storing CO

2 in the future.

This latest ETI project is intended to result in a commercial modelling environ-ment built on PSE’s gPROMS modelling platform.

POWER GENERATION

Fluor works with GE Hitachi on nuclear new-builds in Poland

Fluor Corp has teamed up with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) as

an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partner to pur-sue nuclear new-build projects in Poland.

Poland’s power utility Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (PGE) has targeted 2020 as the commercial date of operation for its first nuclear power plant, and is expected to complete its vendor selection in mid-2013.