Projects

ThyssenKrupp AG has reduced planned capacity at a unit of its Alabama, US stainless project by more than two-thirds to help curb costs.

Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract by Marathon Oil Co. for the Ozona field development in the Gulf of Mexico.

A proposal to has been but forth to US federal regulators for the expansion of the Point Beach nuclear power plant in Wisconsin, Michigan, US.

Central Valley Gas Storage L.L.C., a subsidiary of Nicor Inc. of Naperville, Illinois, has filed an application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) requesting authorization to construct and operate an underground natural gas storage facility.

EnergySolutions Inc. has been awarded two sub-contracts at the Hanford site waste treatment plant for the support of waste mix testing in Washington.

A regional water agency has received the go-ahead to build a temporary facility in Redondo Beach, California, US that will turn seawater into drinking-quality water.

AREVA and its US consortium partner Bechtel Power Corp. have signed a term sheet with Baltimore-based UniStar Nuclear Energy outlining the terms and conditions for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for UniStar’s proposed Calvert Cliffs 3 nuclear energy facility project in Maryland.

Technip SA has received two lump sum contracts from Anadarko Petroleum Corp. as Unit Operator for the Caesar/Tonga oil field development in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fluor Corp. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for infrastructure and offlease facilities for the first phase of Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands project, a surface mining and bitumen extraction operation located 70km NE of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

On 23 June 2009, the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) launched its Climate Action recognition program.