Technical

Three consortia have pre-qualified to bid for construction of a medical and industrial waste treatment plant at the Ghabawi landfill, situated some 25km east of Amman in Jordan.

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has announced that Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA, and Ecuador-based Petroecuador have signed a Memorandum of Intent in order to build a new refinery in the coastal province of Manabi, NE Ecuador.

Mexico state-owned power company, CFE Comision Federal de Electricidad (Federal Electricity Commission), has received three bids for the 750MW La Yesca hydroelectric project to be located on the Santiago River in Jalisco and Nayarit states, Mexico.

The Severn Glocon Group plc, a UK-based manufacturer and service provider for severe service control valves in the oil, gas, petrochemical, power generation and associated industries, has announced the acquisition of Design Paradigm Ltd, a specialist engineering design and analysis consultancy with a strong valve industry pedigree.

SPX Corp. has announced that its process equipment business has received a contract from Westinghouse Electric Co. to design and engineer valves for new nuclear power plants in China.

With regards to an improved service to its clients, Transmark Fcx Italy has announced that presently its new Sicilian stocking facility is now fully operational with its own offices and warehouses close to the Petrochemical Complexes of Siracuse.

A detailed technical overview on WirelessHART(tm) technology, the new wireless communication standard for process measurement and control applications, is now available for viewing at the HART® Communication Foundation (HCF) website (www.hartcomm.org).

Mr Julio Cobos, Governor of the Argentine province of Mendoza, has recently presided over the opening of the economic bid from Argentine-Colombian joint venture Ingetec-Inconas-Jaime Lande to carry out the 90MW Portezuelo Del Viento hydroelectric project studies.

DuPont Engineering Polymers (DEP) (Wilmington, Delaware, USA) has revealed a broad range of development projects for the near future at the K 2007 fair in Prague.

Metso Automation is currently producing a large shipment of Neles control and on-off valves for the new SABIC (formerly Huntsman) 400,000tpa polyethylene plant in Wilton, UK due to come on stream in late 2007.