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Carbon Footprint Pilot Programme
Global contributions to education advance local communities
"Sustainable energy production is of increasing international importance..."
Allister Langlands
Chief Executive
News and Information
News in brief
Mustang conducts FEED for Jack & St. Malo
Mustang is performing front-end engineering design for the topsides of Chevron’s Jack & St. Malo floating semi-submersible production facility, to be located in approximately 7,000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico. Jack & St. Malo will have an initial nameplate capacity of 120,000 to 150,000 BOPD, 37.5 MMscf/D gas, and provisions for a future 200,000 BPD water injection.
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Two Australian companies join Wood Group family
Wood Group recently acquired Proteus Global Solutions, an independent Perth-based provider of commissioning, operations support and engineering services, and 51% of RANms, a Darwin-based provider of operations support services to the oil & gas industry. The acquisitions represent further expansion of Wood Group’s footprint in Australia.
GTS to support GE Frame 6B
Gas Turbine Services has been awarded a six-year term maintenance agreement by BASF Schwarzheide to provide parts, repairs, field services and risk management for two GE Frame 6B gas turbine generator packages located in Schwarzheide, Germany.
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Wood Group welcomes new Group head of HSE
Cinzia De Santis joined Wood Group as the new Group head of HSE. Cinzia brings 27 years of experience in the oil & gas business, including serving in all aspects of HSE management with PDVSA and BP, latterly in a global role with BP as director of Safety Culture and Leadership.
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Mustang makes refining complex greener
Mustang successfully completed a low-sulfur gasoline project at Placid Refining Company’s refinery in Port Allen, Louisiana. Mustang provided the engineering, design, procurement and construction management for the grassroots 20,000 BPD FCC gasoline hydrotreater to make low-sulfur gasoline, which will enable the refinery to meet clean fuel standards for its products.
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Logging for deepwater Gulf of Mexico wells
Wood Group Logging Services’ newest deepwater logging skid unit has the capability of servicing wells with depths greater than 35,000 feet and pressure of up to 30,000 psi.
Technical papers & articles 09
Clean Diesel Hydrotreating
Ed Palmer, Stan Polcar, and Anne Wong
Mustang Petroleum Technology Quarterly, Q1 2009
Apply Process Integration to Environmental Impact Assessment
Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi - Texas A&M University;
Eva M. Lovelady - Mustang;
Ahmed Abdel-Wahab, Patrick Linke - Texas A&M University at Qatar;
Hassan E. Alfadala - Qatari Diar Chemical Engineering Progress, February 2009
A Constant Eye on Emissions
Brian Funke, Allen Ware - BP Products North America, Inc.;
Jane Buchanan and Paul Glaves - Mustang Engineering World, March 2009
Where to see us
JUNE
June 28 – July 1 International Right of Way Association (Mustang: booth 203)
Indianapolis Marriott Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana
www.weboom.com/irwaeducationfasttrack
JULY
July 20-22 Southern Gas Association Operating Conference (Mustang: booth 411)
Hyatt Regency Downtown Houston, Texas
www.southerngas.org
SEPTEMBER
September 8-11 Offshore Europe (Wood Group: booth 215) (MCS to present paper)
Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre Aberdeen, Scotland
www.offshore-europe.co.uk
September 14-17 Turbomachinery Symposium (Gas Turbine Services: booth 1331)
George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, Texas
turbolab.tamu.edu/symposia/turbomachinerySymposium/default.aspx
September 22-24 Rio Pipelines (MCS to present papers)
Sulamérica Convention Center Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
www.ibp.org.br
OCTOBER
October 4-7 SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (Wood Group Logging Services: booth 2735)
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center New Orleans, Louisiana
www.spe.org