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ple. This comes only one year after the company won two other management contracts for wastewater treatment plants in Hiroshima and Saitama, near Tokyo.

The �17.8 million three-year contract was awarded by Chiba prefecture through a tender. The plant originally came into operation in 1994. Treatment includes prolonged aeration, denitrification and rapid filtration, thickening and sludge dehydration, and sludge incineration.

SKANSKA TO CONSTRUCT

DRINKING WATER PLANT IN NY

Skanska has secured its largest order in the US to date - a US$1.04 billion contract for work on the US$1.3 billion upgrade of the Croton Water Filtration Plant in New York for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

The Croton plant, with a capacity to treat 1.2 mil-lion cubic meters of water per day (320 MGD), is one of the facilities that supplies the City of New York with drinking water. Skanska’s assignment includes installation of machin-ery and piping as well as con-trol equipment. The project is a turnkey delivery and Skanska will also be responsible for start-up and commissioning but not for meeting projected design criteria of the treated water.

The project is being car-ried out in a joint venture with Tully Construction, which has the remaining 20% of the contract.

The project starts later this summer. Construction work is scheduled to be completed in 50 months and the start-up phase is expected to take an additional six months.

Skanska is currently build-ing and upgrading six water treatment plants in New York.

The total order value of the projects under way is about US$1 billion, excluding the new contract.

CH2M HILL TO DESIGN

CALIFORNIAN AWPF

CH2M HILL is to manage the design of an advanced water purification facil-ity (AWPF) for the City of Oxnard in California. The plant will provide the city with reclaimed water that can be used for landscape and agricultural irrigation, industrial process water and groundwater recharge.

The APWF project is part of Oxnard’s Groundwater Recovery Enhancement and Treatment (GREAT) program, whose focus is to use exist-ing water resources more effi-ciently. A major component of the GREAT program is the use of recycled water for multiple beneficial uses including irri-gation of edible food crops, landscape irrigation, injection into the groundwater basin that forms a barrier to seawater intrusion and other possible industrial uses.

The recycled water for reuse will be generated by the new AWPF. The source of the recycled water will be the existing city water pol-lution control facility which has a capacity of 32.5 million gallons per day. The AWPF will treat the secondary water from the city water pollution control facility using a mul-tiple-barrier treatment train consisting of microfiltration/ultrafiltration, reverse osmo-sis and ultraviolet-light-based advanced oxidation processes.

The project will be con-structed in two phases, with capacity of the initial phase at 6.25 million gallons per day. The capacity during the build-out phase is expected to reach 25 million gallons per day.

The initial phase is expect-ed to be fully operational by the end of 2009.

OIL & GAS

JACOBS RECEIVES CANADIAN OIL

SANDS BITUMEN CONTRACT

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc is to provide engineer-ing design and procurement services for the Utilities and Off-sites (U&O) component of the bitumen production scope of Fort Hills Energy LP’s Fort Hills project. The mine is located in Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands area, approximately 90 km north of Fort McMurray, Canada.

The U&O scope includes key systems such as cogenera-tion of power and steam, water, utilities, underground systems, and the tank farm. The bitu-men production facility will extract the recoverable bitu-men found in the area’s oil sands deposits.

The work will start imme-diately with confirmation of the completed Design Basis Memorandum and associ-ated cost estimate, and will be undertaken from Jacobs’ Calgary, Alberta, office, with support provided by Jacobs’ Raleigh, North Carolina office for the cogeneration scope of the work.

FW TO EXPAND ITALIAN GAS

COMPLEXFoster Wheeler Italiana SpA has been awarded a contract by ERG Raffinerie Mediterranee (ERGMED) for engineering, procurement assistance and construction management services for the expansion of the inte-grated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) complex at ERGMED’s Priolo refinery in Sicily.

Foster Wheeler, in a joint venture, designed and built the original IGCC plant, which transforms refinery residues into synthesis gas, which is burned to produce more than 550 MW of electricity. Completed in 2000, this was the first IGCC plant in the world to use asphalt as a feed-stock.

As part of the expansion of the IGCC complex, a third gasifier will be added. The new gasifier will use gasifi-cation technology licensed by General Electric.

Associated facilities will be added to the existing gasifiers and new pressure swing absorption and mem-brane packages will be installed in order to produce 20 000 nominal cubic meters per hour of hydrogen. With the addition of the third train, the total gasification capac-ity will be 146.5 tonnes per hour. The project is expected to reach mechanical comple-tion by the second quarter of 2009.

PETRO-CHEMICALS

AMEC WINS 2ND PETROCHINA

DUSHANZI CONTRACT

Petrochina Dushanzi Petrochemical Co has appointed AMEC as the Integrated Project Management Team (IPMT) contractor for the manage-ment of safety, health and environmental and qual-ity assurance and control on the Dushanzi Refinery and Ethylene Technical Reformation project in west-ern China.

The multi-million dol-lar contract begins imme-diately and will run for two years.

This is AMEC’s second major contract on the US$3.5