*Designates projects listed for the first time in the Journal.
UNITED STATES
AMCOAL (MW Kellogg and Bechtel development). Quemahoning Indus. Park, Johnstown, Somerset County, Pa. Coal gasification plant processing 485 t/d high sulfur coal. When completed the plant will generate 60 mg electricity. Completion: 1991.
*MANITOWOC, WIS., PUBLIC UTILITIES. 200,000 lb/hr bituminous coal and petroleum coke fired circulating fluidized bed steam generator. Contr: Foster Wheeler. $12 MM. Completion: March 1991.
OHIO ONTARIO CLEAN FUELS INC. Warren, Ohio. 12,280 b/d coal to liquid fuel (using catalytic process to liquefy crushed and ground coal). Design: HRI. Eng: Stone & Webster. $225 MM. Completion: 1995.
OLD DOMINION ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE. Richmond, Va. 393,000 kw pulverized coal fired power plant. Contr: Westinghouse, Combustion Engineering, H.B. Zachry, Black & Veatch. Completion: 1993.
*PACIFIC ENERGY. Mammoth Lakes, Calif. 22 mw geothermal power plant in the engineering stage. $50 million. Contr: Ben Holt Co. Completion: Dec. 1990.
*SALT CITY ENERGY VENTURE. Solvay, N.Y. Conversion of a direct coal fired power plant. 80,000 kw of electricity and 40,000 lb/hr of process steam. Engr: Duke/Fluor Daniel. $78 MM.
TENNESSEE EASTMAN. Kingsport. Coal gasification expansion in engineering stage. Contr: Bechtel. Completion: 1991.
10 MMscfd acid gas removal & cryogenic separation expansion in the engineering stage. Process Design: Linde. Completion: 1991.
TEXACO R&M. Anacortes, Wash. (partnership with Mission Energy) 80 mw cogeneration plant. Completion: Nov. 1991.
UNOCAL & EARTH ENERGY. Calipatria, Calif. Expansion of 18 mw geothermal power plant. Engr. & Contr: Fluor Daniel. Completion: 1990.
BRAZIL
PETROBRAS. SAO MATEUS DO SUL, PR. 2,500 b/cd shale oil extraction. Petrosix process. Contr: Staff. Completion: 1990.
CANADA
BP CANADA and PETROCANADA. Wolf Lake, Alta. 15,000 b/d bitumen expansion from tar sands. Completion: 1990-91.
ESSO RESOURCES CANADA LTD. (OSLO project). Fort McMurray, Alta. (Consortium members: Esso (25%); Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. (20%); Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. (20%); Petro-Canada (15%); PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. (10%); and Alberta Oil Sands Equity (10%). 77,000 b/d from oil sands. Basic engineering and site preparation studies proceeding. $3.5 billion. Construction to begin in 1991. Completion: 1996.
HUSKY OIL OPERATIONS LTD. Lloydminster, Sask. 46,000 b/d heavy oil upgrader under construction. $1.2 billion. Hydrocracker (HRI); delayed coker and hydrogen plant (FW/SNC); primary upgrader plant (PCL/Braun/Simons); sulfur recovery (Monenco); crude plant and secondary upgrader (Bantrel). Completion: 1992.
SUNCOR. Fort McMurray. 75,000 b/d expansion (125,000 b/d total cap.) from oil sands. $2 billion. Seeking investors.
18,000 b/d crude expansion from oil sands (71,000 b/d total capacity). $50 MM. Completion: 1991.
CHINA
SHOUGANG. Beijing. 1,000 t/d coal gasification plant in engineering stage. Contr: CTIP. Completion: 1991.
IRAQ
*Khor al-Zubair. Fertilizer complex including two 1,000 metric t/d ammonia trains and two 1,750 t/d urea trains. $350 MM. Contr: Snamprogetti SpA.
THE NETHERLANDS
DEMKOLEC. Buggenum. 250 mw power-from-coal-gas demo project in the engineering stage. Design: Comprimo. Completion: 1993.
*GE PLASTICS. Bergen op Zoom. 40 mw cogeneration plant under construction. Contr: Comprimo. Completion: 1990.
TANZANIA.
TANZANIA PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT CORP. Dar-Es-Salaam. 30,000 t/y bitumen plant under construction. Contr: Snamprogetti. Completion: 1990.
UNITED KINGDOM
BRITISH GAS PLC. Westfield, Scotland. New coal briquetting plant under construction. Contr: Babcock.
BRITISH COAL. Point of Ayr, North Wales. 25 t/d coal liquefaction pilot plant under construction. Contr: Simon-Carves. Completion: 1990.
U.S.S.R.
MACHINOIMPORTS. Tenguiz. 3,000 t/y gas/oil separation primary treatment sulfur recovery plant under construction. Contr: Partec Lavalin. Completion: 1990.
V/O TECHMASHIMPORT. Belovo. 3 million t/y high concentration coal slurry reocarb under construction. Contr: Snamprogetti. Completion: 1990.
ZAMBIA
NITROGEN CHEMICALS OF ZAMBIA. Kafue. 300 mt revamp. Coal gasification for ammonia, under construction. Contr: Krupp Koppers/Klockner. Completion: 1990.
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