B&W Subsidiary Awarded Boiler Refurbishment Contract at Indonesia Power Plant

McDermott International, Inc. announced that a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company, has been awarded a contract to refurbish two B&W Radiant Tower-type boilers at the Suralaya Steam Power Plant on Java Island, Indonesia. B&W will redesign and supply superheater and reheater surface, low NOx combustion systems, pulverizer performance enhancements, and other boiler upgrade equipment. The contract was signed with Marubeni Corporation,... Read more..

Composite Technology Expands Conductor Stranding Relationships

Composite Technology Corporation announce that its CTC Cable subsidiary has signed agreements with an overhead conductor manufacturer in Indonesia. In addition to setting out the process for the qualification of the manufacturer of ACCC™ conductor by stranding aluminum wire around ACCC™ core made by CTC Cable, the agreement with PT KMI Wire and Cable governs the commercial aluminum stranding of ACCC™ conductors for the Indonesian market and... Read more..

TGI Solar Power Group Inc. Appoints Advisor for South-East Asia

TGI Solar Power Group Inc., a turnkey supplier of vertically integrated solar systems for a variety of applications ranging from Solar Parks to commercial markets, announces the appointment of Sarmir Ahshrup as a Special Advisor for South-East Asia, including Malaysia, Indonesia and India. A native of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mr. Ahshrup has worked in the engineering departments of Siemens Electronics, Computer Sciences Corporation and Hewlett Packard.... Read more..

Biofuel Plantations on Tropical Forestlands Are Bad for the Climate and Biodiversity, Study Finds

Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds. The study reveals that it would take at least 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost through forest conversion. And if the original habitat was carbon-rich peatland, the carbon balance would take more than 600 years.... Read more..

Energy Management in Oil Refineries – What Is Driving It and Where Do the Opportunities Lie?

Frost & Sullivan’s Energy & Power Systems practice in Asia Pacific will host an analyst briefing via webinar on Energy Management in Oil Refineries on November 18th 2008 at 11:00 hrs (GMT +08:00hrs) Singapore time. 2008 has been the most dramatic and dynamic year for global energy prices. The volatility of oil prices has demanded agonizing re-appraisal by oil refineries forcing them to visit and re-visit their energy management strategies... Read more..

Platts Survey: October OPEC Oil Output Dropped to 32.26 Mil. Barrels Per Day

The 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 32.26 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in October, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials just released. This is a 210,000 b/d decline from the September level of 32.47 million b/d. Excluding Iraq, production from the 12 members hitherto bound by output agreements fell by 220,000 b/d, to 29.96 million b/d from 30.18 million... Read more..

Raser Technologies Inaugurates Utah Geothermal Plant with Advanced Technology That Can Make Geothermal a Major Source of the U.S. Energy Supply

Raser Technologies, Inc., a leader in geothermal power generation, inaugurated late yesterday its first commercial-scale power plant, in Beaver County, Utah, demonstrating the viability of advanced technology that can make geothermal a major price-competitive resource for this country’s energy supply. The plant’s output has already been committed to supply electricity to Anaheim. The company noted that the Beaver County plant, called Thermo, was... Read more..

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Names New President

McDermott International, Inc., parent company of The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), announced that Richard L. Killion has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG). McDermott’s Board of Directors announced Killion would succeed Brandon C. Bethards, who was named President and Chief Executive Officer of B&W. Killion was previously Vice President and General... Read more..

Dutch-Malaysia Cooperation to Reduce CO2 Emmissions

The Netherlands and Malaysia have joined forces to dispel the confusion that has arisen surrounding greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm cultivation in tropical peatland areas. Dutch Minister Cramer (Housing, Regional Development and Environment) and Malaysian Minister Chin (Plantation Industries and Commodities) set up the Joint Committee on Carbon Emissions, which is charged to shed light on this subject in the coming years. The cultivation of... Read more..

Capstone Announces Three Unit C1000 Order from Aquatec-Maxcon

Capstone Turbine Corporation, the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, today announced that it received a follow on order for three C1000 systems from Aquatec-Maxcon Pty Ltd, its distributor for the Australian market. The order is for Capstone C1000 MicroTurbine® systems to be installed by a coal seem gas producer in a reverse osmosis water system application in Australia. “Australia is proving to be a... Read more..