The News Review:
- Pluspetrol LPG Plant Survives and Provides Shelter After 8.0 Magnitude…
- City claims design negligence for sewer plant
- KARACHI: Karachi University botanical garden will open to public next…
- Scandinavian Minerals Starts Infrastructure Construction at Kevitsa…
- Gypsum plant builds hope in Georgetown
- Hearing on MTA fan plant could see some venting
Pluspetrol LPG Plant Survives and Provides Shelter After 8.0 Magnitude…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 20, 2008
0 on the Richter Scale rocked the central coast of Peru for two minutes on August 15 2007 followed by aftershocks measuring up to 6. 5 the city of Pisco was almost shaken to pieces. Remarkably Pluspetrol’s nearby liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) plant and terminal including the subsea cryogenic pipeline that joins them withstood the quake. Contributing to this remarkable success were ITP InTerPipe’s (ITP) pipeline technology and the engineering expertise of AMEC Paragon a subsidiary of AMEC the international engineering and project management company. The plant is part of the Pluspetrol-operated Camisea development which produces and transports natural gas and natural gas liquids originating in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. More than 150 employees and their families found shelter at the Pisco plant after the disaster. Months later 30 people continue to live temporarily at the plant.
City claims design negligence for sewer plant
Main Street Newspapers – Feb 20, 2008
The city filed the lawsuit against Armentrout Roebuck and Matheny Consulting Group on Feb. 6 in Jackson County Superior Court. The firm’s Charlie Armentrout is a former consultant for Hoschton. The suit claims that Armentrout designed a wastewater treatment plant for the city that didn’t work properly and ultimately resulted in Hoschton hiring another engineering firm to fix the problems.
KARACHI: Karachi University botanical garden will open to public next…
Pakistan Dawn – Feb 20, 2008
Inaugurated last year the garden is the first of its kind in Pakistan representing over 2000 exotic and indigenous plant species. The initiative is being taken to educate the public about plant diversity with special reference to Pakistan. The KUBG has also recently become a member of the Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) the world’s largest botanical gardens and plant conservation network. Professor Dr Mohammad Qaiser the Project Director and Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Urdu University of Arts Science and Technology (FUUAST) said that preparations were under way to open the garden for public viewing and it was expected that the plan would materialise shortly. “People have shown a lot of interest in visiting the garden since the project officially took off last September. In fact emulating us other universities have also planned to build botanical gardens which is a good omen not only from the point of view of research but also for plant conservation and public education” he said adding that students from different educational institutions had been regular visitors to the garden while it had also become a repository of research for KU students… hemispherica Convolvulus sindicus Asparagus dumosus (from the dried and arid regions of southern Pakistan) Abutilon sepalum Tamarix salina Ruellia sindica (bukhar booti) and Cadaba heterotricha (some of the rare plants of the Saharo-Sindian region). Endangered speciesThere is also a big collection of different varieties of palms cacti calcium-loving salt-tolerant halophytes and aquatic plants. About endemic plants Haider Abbas Assistant Professor at the Dr A. Khan Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering KU and a horticulturist at the KUBG said that most of these plants were threatened since they existed only in Pakistan and there was hardly any effort for their conservation. ne of the species vanishing from Balochistan and Sindh is Nannorrhops ritchieana (a dwarf palm). Elaborating upon the reasons Abbas said: “A major source of livelihood in rural Balochistan the dwarf palm is extensively cut and used for making a variety of goods such as baskets and mats while Commiphora wightii (gugal) is exported illegally to India where it is used in perfumes medicine and cosmetics.
Scandinavian Minerals Starts Infrastructure Construction at Kevitsa…
sys-con.com – Feb 20, 2008
The Study is being coordinated by St Barbara LLP (formerly St Barbara Consultancy Services) of London UK. The metallurgical process has been developed by the Mineral Processing Laboratory of the Geological Survey of Finland. Plant engineering and design is being performed by utotec yj. The Feasibility Study is expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of calendar 2008. About Scandinavian MineralsScandinavian Minerals Limited is a Canadian public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “SGL” and on the Frankfurt Freiverkehr market under the symbol W3M. The Company’s current focus is the development of its 100%-owned Kevitsa nickel-copper-PGE project in northern Finland. Forward-Looking StatementsSome of the statements contained herein may be forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties.
Gypsum plant builds hope in Georgetown
Myrtle Beach Sun News – Feb 20, 2008
“The goal for this plant is to continue a successful start-up not only from a manufacturing process but to become the preferred product out in the market” he said adding that the real estate market is stressing the company. “It’s definitely still in the downturn and we’re hoping things will pick up but our projections for continued growth aren’t for a few years after 2008. ” The company isn’t losing money by launching a plant amid today’s tough times Wentzel said. Wentzel a husband and father of two received a mining engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin. He’s been with American Gypsum since 1995 and has worked his way up the ranks. American Gypsum is on Santee Cooper land near the Winyah Generating Station. Santee Cooper converts limestone to gypsum which American Gypsum uses to make wallboard used in home construction… “It’s definitely still in the downturn and we’re hoping things will pick up but our projections for continued growth aren’t for a few years after 2008. ” The company isn’t losing money by launching a plant amid today’s tough times Wentzel said. Wentzel a husband and father of two received a mining engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin. He’s been with American Gypsum since 1995 and has worked his way up the ranks. American Gypsum is on Santee Cooper land near the Winyah Generating Station. Santee Cooper converts limestone to gypsum which American Gypsum uses to make wallboard used in home construction. Santee Cooper’s announcement that it had gypsum available led American Gypsum to consider expanding Wentzel said.
Hearing on MTA fan plant could see some venting
The Villager – Feb 20, 2008
stretching east and west of Sixth Ave. was scheduled to take three years but went on for nearly five years and was not completed until early last year. The P1 alternative is the only one of the three preferred options that would require an aboveground structure a 38-foot-tall ventilation tower according to the D. But this alternative also has the potential for public space on part of the triangular property… The plant would operate only during emergencies when ventilation is required in the Eighth Ave. subway segment between the W.