Design

The Williams Companies announced Friday that it has restored the Cameron Meadows natural gas processing plant in southern Louisiana to its full design capacity of 500 MMcf/d.

Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. (CB&I) said Tuesday it was awarded a contract valued at more than $100 million for the design and construction of storage tanks for Canada’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal.

Tidelands Oil & Gas Corp. has signed a consulting services agreement with CenterPoint Energy Pipeline Services, which will provide expertise in the design and development of Tideland’s ambitious gas infrastructure project in Northeastern Mexico. The project, which will be the first of its kind in the country, will involve construction of two large diameter border crossing pipelines, a gas storage and pipeline hub, another pipeline to industrial customers in Monterrey and an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal.

ChevronTexaco Corp. said partners in the Angola liquefied natural gas (LNG) project have awarded front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts for a five million-tonne-per-year onshore LNG plant near Soyo in northern Angola. The FEED contract were awarded to Overseas Bechtel Inc. and a joint consortium of Kellogg Brown & Root Inc., JGC Corporation, and Technip U.S.A. Corp. A 15-month program is set to begin immediately. Following the completion of FEED and a final investment decision, it is expected that one of the two contractor groups will be selected to perform engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) activities for the project. “Angola LNG is one of several current ChevronTexaco-led projects to commercialize natural gas resources in Africa and other parts of the world and is integral to the company’s strategy to grow an integrated natural gas business,” said John Watson, president of ChevronTexaco Overseas Petroleum. The project is set to be a joint development between the state oil company of Angola, Sonangol (22.8%), and local affiliates of ChevronTexaco (36.4%), ExxonMobil (13.6%), Total (13.6%) and BP (13.6%).

ChevronTexaco Corp. said partners in the Angola liquefied natural gas (LNG) project have awarded front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts for a five million-tonne-per-year onshore LNG plant near Soyo in northern Angola. The FEED contract were awarded to Overseas Bechtel Inc. and a joint consortium of Kellogg Brown & Root Inc., JGC Corporation, and Technip U.S.A. Corp. A 15-month program is set to begin immediately. Following the completion of FEED and a final investment decision, it is expected that one of the two contractor groups will be selected to perform engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) activities for the project. “Angola LNG is one of several current ChevronTexaco-led projects to commercialize natural gas resources in Africa and other parts of the world and is integral to the company’s strategy to grow an integrated natural gas business,” said John Watson, president of ChevronTexaco Overseas Petroleum. The project is set to be a joint development between the state oil company of Angola, Sonangol (22.8%), and local affiliates of ChevronTexaco (36.4%), ExxonMobil (13.6%), Total (13.6%) and BP (13.6%).

KeySpan apparently had a grand design in mind when it purchased the Algonquin LNG peak shaving facility in Rhode Island from Duke Energy last December. The company has announced an agreement with BG LNG Services to upgrade the facility and turn it into an LNG import terminal that could be ready to take deliveries in 2005.

KeySpan apparently had a grand design in mind when it purchased the Algonquin LNG peak shaving facility in Rhode Island from Duke Energy last December (see Daily GPI, Dec. 16). The company has announced an agreement with BG LNG Services to upgrade the facility and turn it into an LNG import terminal that could be ready to take deliveries in 2005.

The net benefit for all consumers if FERC’s proposed standard market design (SMD) is implemented is about $1 billion per year over the first six years it is in place after factoring in the estimated $760 million per year in regional transmission organization (RTO) costs, a new study issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) concludes.

Significant majorities of state regulators believe FERC’s standard market design (SMD) proposal for U.S. wholesale power markets is “fatally flawed” and will only lead to wide inequities between high and low-cost electricity regions, according to the results of a new survey unveiled last Wednesday by RKS Research & Consulting and Standard & Poor’s (S&P).