Operations-Maintenance News
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The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW) today announced it has signed a new contract with Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation to provide maintenance and other support services to its nuclear power plant northeast of Burlington, Kan. The Wolf Creek Generating Station provides energy for approximately 800,000 residences in Kansas and Missouri. |
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The EDF group saw a record fall in its CO2 emissions in 2011, with 99.6g of CO2 per kWh produced, equivalent to a reduction of 11% compared to 2010. For the first time, the Group has fallen below the threshold of 100g/kWh for all of its electricity production facilities combined. |
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German utility E.ON AG intends to shut down for good three large gas-fired power plants in southern Germany, because the plants don't operate profitably, the Financial Times Deutschland reports Monday, without identifying its sources. |
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Songa Venus achieved an operating efficiency of 100% during the month. The rig continues to operate for Petronas Carigali in Malaysia. |
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BP today reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2012. Underlying replacement cost profit, adjusted for non-operating items and fair value accounting effects, was $4.8 billion for the quarter, compared to $5.0 billion in the previous quarter. |
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A fire at the Fessenheim nuclear plant in Eastern France broke out in the building of the second reactor, but was rapidly put out, had no impact on the nuclear reactor's safety, the surrounding environment, or power output, French power group Electricite de France SA said Wednesday. |
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Edison International's southern California utility said Friday that a fire at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, which has been shut for months over equipment problems, was extinguished. |
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President Ollanta Humala said Friday that Minera Yanacocha will have to carry out a series of measures to improve the stalled Minas Conga copper and gold project before it can proceed. |
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Rio Tinto PLC has no interest in seeing the Alaskan copper and gold Pebble project developed as an open pit mine given the concerns about its environmental impact, although it thinks it would be worth exploring the project as an underground mine. |
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Total SA Saturday said that all operations currently being conducted to end a gas leak at its North Sea Elgin platform are progressing asplanned. |