Electricity-Driven ICL Units Offer Lower Emissions, Operating Benefits
FLORENCE, ITALY, LE CREUSOT, FRANCE ---July 15, 2009---GE Oil & Gas has been selected by OMV Gas GmbH of Vienna, Austria to supply integrated compressor line (ICL) technology for OMV's Neustift compression station, which is part of the extension of the Penta West Gas Pipeline, a key supplier of natural gas for Austria and bordering states. With this construction, the capacity of the Penta West Gas Pipeline will be doubled.
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ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT---July 15, 2009---Egyptian Liquified Natural Gas (ELNG), Egypt's largest LNG partnership sponsored by EGAS, EGPC, BG Group, Petronas and Gaz de France, has today announced its completion of the first ever Health and Safety (H&S) Partnership Program delivered with GE Oil & Gas Global Services.
Built on ELNG and GE's strong record of health and safety performance, the H&S program has been delivered as a pilot---the first ever such project to be delivered by GE Oil & Gas at a customer site.
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Onsite Power Project Showcases GE Energy's Jenbacher Technology to Reduce Emissions and Cost
TORONTO--10 July 2009-- Canadian government and business leaders today gathered near Lake Erie in southern Ontario for the grand opening of North America's first GE-designed greenhouse cogeneration plant installed to generate more reliable onsite power and heat for commercial greenhouses and help the country reduce its emissions from energy production.
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GE's New Gas Engine-ORC Technology to Boost Efficiency of Onsite Power Projects Worldwide
MUNICH, GERMANY---July 6, 2009---GE Energy and energy developer ECOS Ltd. have announced they plan to demonstrate an innovative, industrial waste-heat recovery system that will dramatically increase the efficiency and output of a 7.2 megawatt (MW) biogas power plant in the eastern Slovenia town of Lendava, near the border with Hungary.
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Project Provides Bay Area with Enough Renewable Power to Support 7,500 to 10,000 U.S. Homes
HALF MOON BAY, Calif.--01 July 2009-- One of California's most powerful landfill gas-to-energy projects to open in the last five years has started supplying renewable electricity to the San Francisco Bay region as the state continues implementing new anti-greenhouse gas initiatives.
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Third-Generation Technology Would Increase Production of Enriched Fuel for U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
WILMINGTON, N.C.--30 June 2009-- Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), a business venture of GE, Hitachi Ltd. and Cameco, today announced a landmark in the deployment of its proposed, next-generation enrichment facility designed to increase the United States' supply of enriched uranium to fuel its nuclear power plants.
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HOUSTON--25 June 2009-- GE Oil & Gas, a world leading company in oil and gas advanced technology equipment and services, has been awarded a contract worth more than $70 million by StatoilHydro to upgrade a suite of subsea control systems for StatoilHydro's Tordis Vigdis Controls Modification (TVCM) project. The solution will incorporate GE's award-winning next-generation subsea electronics module---the VetcoGray SemStar5.
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BELFORT, France--23 June 2009-- GE Energy today opened a new Technology Center in Belfort, the company's European headquarters for the past 10 years and its international center of excellence for the manufacturing of medium-sized gas turbines. The new Technology Center will house up to 400 engineers from 15 different countries, who will work to develop the most advanced technology to help customers address environmental and energy challenges.
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Technology to Help Meet Increasing Efficiency and Performance Requirements
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--23 June 2009-- GE Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) have signed final agreements to co-develop a "next generation" steam turbine for use in gas turbine combined-cycle power plants. The co-development effort will focus on the design of a new, advanced steam turbine, leaving each of the parties to separately manufacture and sell the co-developed steam turbine in support of its natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power generation products.