MARKET PROSPECTS

September 2013 Pump Industry Analyst3

The MMB joint venture has worked with Yorkshire Water over the last 13 years.

Black & Veatch and Ostara to design-build nutrient recovery system

Black & Veatch and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies

will design and build a new nutrient recovery system for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago’s (MWRD) Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, Illinois, USA.

The facility will improve water quality in local rivers, lakes and streams and will also produce commercial fertilizer from recovered resources.

Black & Veatch is providing design, procurement and construction services while Ostara will supply the nutrient recovery system, including equipment. Ostara will also provide operations and maintenance assistance once the project is completed.

The new facility should be completed in 2015.

DESALINATION

Doosan gets go-ahead for its first seawater desalination project in Latin America

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has received a

Notice to Proceed on a US$103 million contract to build a seawater reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant for industrial use at the Escondida copper mine in Chile.

This is the first time that Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has secured a seawater desalination project outside the Middle East. Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction will take charge of the supply and installation of the Chilean plant’s facilities and equipment and supervise erection and commissioning.

The Escondida seawater desalination plant will have a combined daily output

of around 220 000 tons, making it the largest RO type project to be constructed in the Latin American region. The water will be produced at the desalination plant in a coastal area in the state of Antofagasta in northern Chile, and supplied to the Escondida mine via a 180km pipeline. Water production is expected towards the end of 2016.

IDE technology selected for Asian desalination plant expansion

Israel’s IDE Technologies Ltd has secured a US$75 million order to

supply its multi-effect distillation (MED) units to a desalination plant in Asia.

IDE’s MED solution will meet the plant’s increased capacity needs and provide high quality boiler feed water, as well as drinking water for local consumption.

The new MED units will each yield a capacity of 24 000 m3/day (6 million gallons) of highly pure processed water, increasing the plant’s total desalination capacity to 232 000 m3/day (61 million gallons per day).

“Our MED units prove that eco-awareness, operational innovation and cost savings can go hand in hand,” said Avshalom Felber, CEO of IDE Technologies. “We look forward to supplying water for one of the largest seawater desalination plants in Asia.”

OIL & GAS

Baker Hughes rig count: August 2013

The Baker Hughes Inc worldwide rig count for August 2013 was

3416, up 54 on the 3362 counted in July 2013, and down 55 on the 3471 reported in August 2012.

The average US rig count for August 2013 was 1781, up 15 on July 2013’s 1766, and down 113 on August 2012. The average August 2013 Canadian rig count was 368, up 77 on the 291 counted in July 2013, and up 52 on the 316 recorded in August 2012.

August 2013’s international rig count was 1267, compared with 1305 in July 2013 and 1261 in August 2012.

The international offshore rig count for August 2013 was 309, down 11 on July 2013, and up 9 on August 2012.

Fluor bags gas-to-methanol engineering and design project

Fluor Corp has secured an engineering and design services

contract from South Louisiana Methanol LP for a potential 5000 metric tons-per-day methanol project in St James Parish, Louisiana, USA.

South Louisiana Methanol LP is a gas-to-methanol project being developed by the Todd Corp and ZEEP Management US.

The project will be located at a site near the Mississippi River. Fluor is working to finalise the process design and complete preliminary design for the facility. The project is being led by Fluor’s Southern California office with assistance from its New Delhi, India office.

TOYO wins Canadian oil sands SAGD work

Toyo Engineering Canada Ltd is to provide engineering, procurement

and construction (EPC) services to Japan Canada Oil Sands Ltd (JACOS), for their oil sands bitumen production steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) central processing facilities in Hangingstone in Alberta, Canada.

JACOS, a subsidiary of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co Ltd, is currently producing 6000–7000 BPSD bitumen in Hangingstone.

Samsung Engineering to build gas terminal for Petronas Carigali in Malaysia

Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd has awarded Samsung Engineering

a US$770 million contract for