August 200(1 Pump Industry Analyst

grades can be produced in one pass. The upgrading will also increase the speed of the paper machine.

VALMET DELIVERS

FLOTATION SYSTEM

Valmet and Kerayskuitu Oy have signed a delivery con- tract covering a new flotation system for the Kerayskuitu deinking plant in Kotka, Finland.

The start-up of the new system is scheduled for the end of this year. The new system is designed to use old newspa- pers and magazines as the main raw malerials for produc- ing pulp for newsprint and magazine paper producer:<. The heart of the new Ker- ayskuitu flotation system is the new Valmct tlotation cell. The new system includes two inno- vative primary MuSTCell 105 units with one secondary MuSTCell 30 unit. The MUST- Cell uses the specific weight difference of the pulp in inter- nal flops instead of pumping

COMPANIES COMBINE TO

BUILD MILL IN BC Louisiana-Pacific Corpora- tion and Slocan Forest Prod- ucts Ltd have formed a 50:50 joint venture to build and operate a low unit cost 700 million square feet oriented strand board (OSB) mill in British Columbia.

Slocan and Louisiana.- Pacific originally planned to each build a separate OSB facility but instead, the compa- nies are combining thei] resources to build a single plant. ‘The new mill will br located in the Fort St John area and supply market distributiori channels already in place in North Atnerica and Asia. The two compames will invesl CS200 million in the strand board mill.

STORA ENS0 INVESTS IN

KOTKA MILL Stora Enso’s subsidiary, Laminating Papers Oy, is investing in its Kotka Mill.

The saturating base kraft capacity of PM1 and the pulp mill will both be increased from 135 000 t/a to 160 000 t/a at a cost of E27 million. The project will be completed by October 200 1.

AMMONIA PLANT PLANNED FOR

TRINIDAD Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) has recently been awarded multiple contracts by Ferrostaal AG of Ger- many and Caribbean Nitro- gen Company Ltd of Trinidad and Tobago (CNC) to provide technology licens- es, basic engineering design and other related services for a grassroots KBR advanced ammonia process (KAAP) plant in Point Lisas. Trinidad.

KBR will begin engineer- ing design work immediately while Ferrostaal performs sup- plemental detailed engineer- ing, equipment design and construction for the project. The 2040 short ton per day ammonia production facility is scheduled to begin producing ammonia for commercial oper- ation during 2002.

CONSORTIUM TO DEVELOP

MEXICAN PIPELINE

Sempra Energy Internation- al, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, PG&E Corp and Mexico’s Proxima Gas, are to build the proposed North

Baja Pipeline, a USS230 mil- lion, 212-mile natural gas transportation pipeline to serve growing energy demand in Baja California, Mexico.

The three companies have signed an interim agreement to jointly develop, design, con- struct and operate the proposed pipeline. The PG&E National Energy Group will direct development of the 77-mile US leg of the pipeline. while Sempra Energy International will direct development of the 13%mite Mexican leg. It approved, the proposed pipeline could be in senice as early as January 2003.

KVAERNER SUPPLIES SUBSEA

EQUIPMENT Kvaerner, the Anglo-Norwe- gian engineering and con- struction group, has secured contracts worth approxi- mately US$29 million for subsea equipment for Norsk Hydro’s Visund North and Troll subsea field develop- ments, in the Norwegian sec- tor of the North Sea.

Under the Visund North contract. K\ aemer will supply a manifold centre, X-mas trees, a production control system and tie-in equipment. The con- tract also includes an option for the supply ot‘subsea equipment to an additional three-well sub- sea field, also tied back to the Visund platform For the Troll development. Kvaemer is to supply Xmas trees, a produc- tion control system. and tie-in equipment for the further extension of the field. All equipment IS scheduled delivery in mid-200 1.

CONTRACTS SIGNED FOR BRAZIL OIL

FIELDS

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Halliburton Company and Petrobras are to develop the Barracuda and the Caratinga offshore oil fields in Brazil.

The contracts are valued at more than US$2.5 billion and will be performed by Hal- liburton’s Brown & Root Energy Services (BRES) and Halliburton Energy Services (HES) business units, togeth- er with Petrobras’ Exploration and Production unit. The main agreement is a lump- sum engineering. procurc- ment and construction (EPC) contract between BREWS and the Barracuda & Caratinga Leasing Company BV Petro- bras for the development of the two fields. Petrobras is the concessionaire of the fields and work will commence in July 2000.

The EPC‘ contracts will be on a full engineering. procure- ment, installation and con- struction basis, including work related to the construction of 5 I wells , fabrication and installation of flowlines and risers, constructlon and instal- lation of two floating produc- tion, storage and offloading vessels ( FPSOs). and the com- missioning. start-up and opera- tions support for both fields. Each orthe FPSOs will ha1.e a storage capacity of 7 million barrels and a production capacity of I50 000 barrels of oil per da!.

BP AMOCO REVIEWS WORLD ENERGY DEMAND World demand for energy remained essentially flat in 1999, growing only 0.2%, well below the average increase for the past IO years of 0.9%.

If the significant fall in Chinese energy use is exclud- ed, global consumption rose by 1.4%. The n-cakness m growth was concentrated in the emerg- ing and developing economies ,lccording tc) the RP .4nlfjc~j stLlti.~tl~Yll K~~l’lc~lc~ of CIbfM Ef?o-gl~ .?ooo.

While 011 prices recovered strongly from the Iows ot 1998. OPEC’ production fell