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NEWSIn brief...Botswana to getfluidised bed boilerplantThe AE&E Group - a leadingsupplier of power generationand environmentalsystems - has secured theengineering contract for thecombustion system of four150 MW circulating fluidisedbed boilers for theMorupule coal-fired powerstation in Botswana.German subsidiary AE&ELentjes won the order,worth almost EUR 10million, from generalcontractor China NationalEquipment Corporation. Theengineering design work isdue for completion by theend of 2009, and phaseddelivery of the boilers toend-user Botswana PowerCorporation is scheduled tobegin in 2011. AE&E Lentjeswill provide commissioningsupport services.Dresser-Rand andSamsung Techwinenter strategicallianceThe Dresser-Rand Company,an affiliate of Dresser-RandGroup Inc. and SamsungTechwin Co., Ltd. anaffiliate of Samsung Groupin Korea, have entered astrategic alliance. Thealliance calls for exclusivepackaging of Dresser-RandDATUM centrifugalcompressors and VECTRApower turbines for mechanicaland generator-driveapplications to supplyKorean-based shipyards andengineering companies, aswell as to supply the localKorean market.GEA supplies powerplant cooler to Chinafor 2010GEA received a EUR 22morder to design,manufacture and supply anAir Cooled Condenser forthe 1200 MW Guijao II coalfired power plant in theShanxi province in China. Itwill be delivered by 2010.The Air Cooled Condenserwill be equipped with ALEXAir Cooled Condenserbundles which will bemanufactured at GEA'sfactory in Langfang, China.Wood Group gets Sheringham wind farmWood Group Engineering (NorthSea) Ltd has been awarded thedesign and project managementof two offshore substations byAREVA T&D on the SheringhamShoal Offshore Wind Farm. The88-turbine 315 MW (220,000 homepotential supply) wind farm issited just inside the 12-mileterritorial limit of Sheringham onthe UK's North Norfolk coast.Sheringham Shoal Offshore WindFarm will be developed by SciraOffshore Energy Ltd which isjointly owned by the Norwegiancompanies StatoilHydro andStatkraft.Power from the 88 wind turbineswill be captured by the twooffshore substations before beingsent to shore. Capturing energyvia unmanned offshoreJordan’s 65m€ gas turbinesIt's been 5 months since theFinmeccanica subsidiary AnsaldoEnergia, a leading provider ofcomponents and services forpower plants, signed two majorinternational contracts worth atotal of more than 65M€ withJordan. AE has already shippedsome systems to the Middle Eastas part of the deal.The agreement in Jordan wasoriginally reached with the Koreancompany Doosan. This involvesproviding two V94.2 gas turbinesin 2+1 configuration for thecombined cycle power station(450 MW in total) atAmman East.substations at source, prior tosending it to shore, is moreenergy efficient than usingonshore substations."Wood Group's move into therenewable energy sector is anatural progression from theservices it provides to the oil &gas and power sector," said LesThomas, Group Director forProduction Facilities."With 30 year's experience workingwith oil & gas operators in theEastern Hemisphere, WGENS iswell placed to apply its technicalexpertise to offshore wind farmdevelopments."In a recently announced paralleldevelopment, Wood Group's GasTurbine Services division has setup Wood Group Renewable EnergyServices, with offices in HoustonA long-term service agreementhas also been secured directlywith the AES/Mitsui consortium,which is acting as developer forthe project and is also responsiblefor the plant's operation andmaintenance.As a corollary to this order,Ansaldo Energia will supply a 280MW steam turbine and a 330 MVAair-cooled generator to theKorean company Posco, theworld's third-largest steel group,which will be acting asEPC contractor for theconstruction of a coal-fired plantat Nueva Ventanas, Chile, ownedby the US power company, AES.and Aberdeen, to provide a fullrange of asset managementsolutions for all industrial windturbines.Siemens expands gasturbine capacitySiemens is expandingproduction capacity at its gasturbine manufacturing plant inBerlin. Last month, thecompany opened a productionfacility in the Moabit districtin the presence of Karl-Theodor Freiherr zuGuttenberg, Federal Ministerof Economics and Technology,and Peter Löscher, Presidentand CEO of Siemens AG. Thisexpansion of productioncapacity will create 200 jobs,says Siemens.Almost one-third of the totalinvestment of EUR42 millionwas channelled into the newproduction facility. In thefuture it will be possible toeasily produce approximately14,000 gas turbine blades andvanes there every year. Its gasturbines are then sold topower plants around the globefor eco-friendly powergeneration."We are pleased that Siemensis sticking with the Berlin locationand not only securing jobsbut also creating new oneseven in these turbulent times,"Karl-Theodor Freiherr zuGuttenberg told WIP. Siemensis the major employer in theindustrial sector in Berlin.8JULY 2009 • WORLDWIDE I NDEPENDENT P OWER