Projects

Roberto Felipe has been appointed General Manager of the engineering and construction company SENER in Mexico; he will succeed Jose Manuel Belmonte. In his new role, his main role will be to take advantage of opportunities to participate in the development of the country's infrastructure, both in the Civil and Architecture and as in the Power, Oil and Gas fields, as well as in other opportunities in the Aerospace and Marine sectors.

ABB has won a long-term service contract from Carnival Corporation to maintain and upgrade ABB’s Azipod equipment over the next 15 years for 20 ships in their fleet, cutting costs by as much as USD 1 million a year per ship.

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won orders worth approximately USD 45 million from leading US utility Oncor, to provide electrical solutions that will increase transmission capacity, ensure grid stability and facilitate the integration of renewable power in Texas.

Technip was awarded a lump sum contract by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the development of the Lucius field, located in the Keathley Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of approximately 7000ft.

Oneok Partners LP will spend between USD 1.5 billion to USD 1.8 billion to build a 1300mi crude-oil pipeline between the Bakken Shale in North Dakota and the Cushing, Okla. crude-oil market hub. This will mark the company's entry into the crude-oil transportation business.

Lebanon's ministry of energy and water has invited eligible companies involved in the liquefied natural gas import and re-gasification industries to express their interest in a planned local project. The project includes operating a floating plant for LNG re-gasification starting from early 2015 and setting up an offshore floating terminal for receiving LNG vessels, the ministry said, according to the news agency.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. will build the world's largest plant, by capacity, for making 1-hexene, a key component of plastic resin. The plant, which Chevron Phillips will begin building this year, is scheduled to begin operations in the first quarter of 2014 and have an annual production capacity of 250,000 metric tons, or 551 million pounds, according to a company announcement.

USEC Inc. is continuing to support the American Centrifuge project pending further efforts to obtain federal funding for a centrifuge Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) program proposed by the U.S.

Willbros Group, Inc. announced that a unit of its Oil & Gas segment has been awarded a contract by Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.

Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract for the Petrocarabobo upgrader, that will include the basic, front-end engineering design and the first phase of project management consultancy services.