Foster Wheeler AG Awarded Contract to Improve Air Quality System
at Natural Gas Plant in Maidsville
The State Journal
24 September 2014
By Mandi Cardosi, Government Reporter
Note: UMRA generally does not correct or
comment on news items, but we note in this case that the
Longview plant burns coal and this is about waste-gas
cleaning.
Foster Wheeler AG, a Pittsburgh-based company, has received a
contract to improve the air quality system of its natural
gas-fired power plant located in Maidsville, West Virginia.
Announced Sept. 24, the contract was awarded by Longview Power,
LLC to rehabilitate and optimize the wet flue gas desulfurization
system at the existing Longview Power facility in Maidsville —
near Morgantown, along the West Virginia-Pennsylvania line. The
company, Foster Wheeler, is based in Switzerland.
According to the company, Foster Wheeler received a full-notice to
proceed on this contract. The terms of the agreement were not
disclosed, and the contract value will be included in the
company's third-quarter 2014 bookings.
“Our recent acquisition of the former Wheelabrator Air Pollution
Control technology has allowed us to consolidate all our air
pollution control equipment within our Clean Air Technology Center
located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to provide cost effective
solutions for reducing air emissions from power plants and
industrial facilities,” Byron Roth, Chief Executive Officer of
Foster Wheeler's Environmental and Industrial Group, said in a
news release. “We engineer systems that are custom designed to
meet increasingly more stringent air quality control regulations.”
Foster Wheeler said the company plans to provide new components as
well as engineering and installation services to optimize the
performance of the existing dewatering and forced oxidation
systems with the fuel currently being used by Longview. Foster
Wheeler says they are also adding a dual flow tray in the absorber
to increase the overall SO2 reduction capacity of the existing
system to handle higher sulfur fuels that Longview anticipates
receiving in the future. The outage work is expected to take place
in the spring of 2015.
Foster Wheeler AG is a global engineering and construction company
and power equipment supplier delivering technically advanced,
reliable facilities and equipment. The company employs about
13,000 talented professionals with specialized expertise dedicated
to serving its clients through one of its two primary business
groups. The company's Global Engineering and Construction Group
designs and constructs leading-edge processing facilities for the
upstream oil and gas, LNG and gas-to-liquids, refining, chemicals
and petrochemicals, power, minerals and metals, environmental,
pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and healthcare industries. The
company's Global Power Group is a world leader in combustion and
steam generation technology that designs, manufactures and erects
steam generating and auxiliary equipment for power stations and
industrial facilities and also provides a wide range of
aftermarket services. The company is based in Zug, Switzerland,
and its operational headquarters office is in Reading, United
Kingdom. For more information about Foster Wheeler, visit
www.fwc.com.