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SIEMENS TO HELP LIBYA EXPAND
POWER GEN CAPACITY
Industry major Siemens has inked deals
with General Electricity Company of INTERNATIONAL
Libya (GECOL), Libyan power generation
company to increase the country’s power
generation capacity by 1.3GW. e deals
which includes EPC contract and long-
service agreements amounting to `700
crore. As per the contract, a 650MW open
cycle power plant will be set up by Siemens
in Misrata. e plant will have two F-class
gas turbines. Another plant with a 690MW
capacity plant in Tripoli West, which will
have four E-class gas turbines.
Around 30 per cent of the power capacity
JSW STEEL PLANS INVESTMENT OF e upstream project will feed into a 23 involved in the country is based on
`50 CRORE IN TEXAS UNIT. million tonnes per annum LNG terminal. Siemens technology. Post completion of
e JSW Group will invest an additional Petronet currently runs a 15 million tonne the construction of the plants in Misrata
sum of `50 crore into its steel pipes and per annum LNG regasi cation site at and Tripoli West, it is expected that the
plates facility in Texas. e investment Dahej in the western state of Gujarat and ongoing challenges caused by frequent
is expected to help the company reach a 5 million tonne re nery at Kochi in and unpredictable power cuts will be
the 1-million tonne installed capacity of southern India. solved. GECOL is responsible for the
the plant. JSW had brought the earlier transformational lines of energy and their
bankrupt Baytown steel asset costing `81 ZENSAR BAGS MULTI-YEAR CONTRACT distribution, the Electric control centres
crore back in Oct 2007. At that time, the FROM CITY OF SAN DIEGO and the management of the operation and
plant was operating at a meager 30 per cent Leading digital solutions and technology servicing of desalination stations in Libya.
or 3 lakh tonne. is investment is expected services company Zensar, has recently been
to create backward integration and also awarded a four-year, multi-million dollar GMR-MEGAWIDE SUBMITS $3B
to create the rst melt and manufacture contract from the City of San Diego for PROPOSAL FOR MANILA AIRPORT
contiguous plates and pipes facility in network services. Reports suggest that there EXPANSION
Texas. e plant has turned around with is an option of extending two additional GMR Megawide, which manages the
cash pro t of $180 million last year and is two-year terms with the total not to Mactan-Cebu international airport
expected to turnaround fully by 2020. e exceed contract value being approximately in Philippines has submitted a `300
plant will serve the oil and gas rich Texas, $79 million. With this partnership, the crore proposal for the decongestion and
which is the second largest American state aim is to make the City of San Diego redevelopment of the Ninoy Aquino
and also the largest exporter from the more transparent and accountable while international airport in Manila. e
world's largest economy. enhancing security-all at a lower cost for revamp proposal includes increasing the
taxpayers. Zensar with its multiple projects capital city's airport's capacity to 950-1,000
LNG AIMS TO PARTNER WITH ONGC will help modernize and improve the City’s aircra movements a day from the present
VIDESH FOR QATAR PROJECT network with new digital infrastructure to 730 movements and take the overall
India’s petronet LNG Ltd is keen to join better serve the residents. passenger handling capacity to 72 million
hands with the overseas arm of India’s per annum.
biggest explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp BHEL SIGNS TECH PACT WITH HLB e second largest airport in the
Ltd— ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) for POWER, REPUBLIC OF KOREA Paci c island nation— Mactan-Cebu
picking up the stakes in the exploration and State owned company Bharat Heavy international airport is operated by GMR
lique ed natural gas project that is coming Electricals Ltd has under a Technology Group. GMR is also developing the
up in Qatar. Reports suggest that this will Collaboration Agreement (TCA) tied up upcoming green eld Goa international
be the rst time Petronet would foray into with Korean based HLB Power to have airport at Mopa through a public-private
exploration and production business and an in-house design and manufacture of partnership model but is fully owned by
overseas LNG terminals. Only a non- large size gates and dampers for use in the group. A er the operations are taken
con dentiality agreement would allow coal red plants to be commissioned or over, there are plans to expand the existing
QatarGas to speak with other interested retro tted with high capacity emission terminals to double the space which will
parties about the project in addition to control equipment. e agreement will provide with an area of 7 lakh sqm for the
Petronet. rough this project, Petronet bring in the capability for in-house design, terminal. Post completion, the terminal is
LNG will get access to the data rooms of manufacture and testing of every large size expected to handle 72 million passengers
Qatar Gas for the evaluation of the project. gates and dampers. annually.

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