ABB wins orders worth $80 million for one of Australia’s largest oil and gas developments

16-Jul-2012 - ABB has won orders worth around $80 million to supply power technologies and medium-voltage drive systems for the new Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project’s processing plant near Darwin, Australia. The equipment will power the plant and control the compressors that liquefy the gas. ...

ABB technologies to power waste incineration plant in Switzerland

13-Oct-2010 - ABB will supply equipment for a new waste incineration facility being constructed by Energie Wasser Bern.The planned facility will be the first of its kind in Europe, integrating a clean biomass-fired power station and combined cycle gas turbine plant. It will replace an existing waste ...

ABB wins marine order worth $20 million

04-Aug-2010 - ABB has won an order worth $20 million to provide complete power systems, drilling drive and propulsion systems for a new deep water drilling rig to be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) at its shipyard in South Korea. The end customer is Brazilian ship owner Petroserv, ...

ABB completes acquisition of K-TEK

Integration of instrumentation maker expected to boost offering for oil and gas, water markets

13-Jul-2010 - ABB announced it has completed its acquisition of Prairieville, Louisiana company K-TEK, which becomes part of the Measurement Products business unit within ABB’s Process Automation division. With over 350,000 installations since its founding in 1975, K-TEK is recognized as a global leader in ...

ABB wins $155 million oil and gas order in Kuwait

14-Jun-2010 - ABB has won a contract worth $155 million from the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) for a turnkey project to design and build a new crude-oil transit line and associated ancillary systems. The project includes the expansion of an existing manifold (a pipeline consolidation installation) at Point A, a ...

ABB wins $110 million order for power link to offshore platform

08-Apr-2010 - ABB has won an order worth $110 million from Eni Norway AS, to build a power link between a new oil and gas platform in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian power grid. The order was booked in the first quarter. The Goliat platform will be partly electrified by a 106 km subsea power cable, which ...

ABB wins $104 million power order in UAE

11-Feb-2010 - ABB has won an order worth $104 million from FEWA (Federal Electricity & Water Authority) in the United Arab Emirates to supply substations that will help increase power supplies in the north to meet a growing demand for electricity. The order was booked in the first quarter of 2010. ABB will ...

ABB wins Oil & Gas order in Oman

26-Nov-2009 - ABB recently won an order to provide electrical equipment and related services for the Kauther Depletion Compressor Project for Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). The contract was awarded by GE Oil & Gas. Located on the northern edge of the major central Oman gas fields, the Kauther gas field ...

ABB wins $120 million order to power Saudi university

12-Nov-2009 - ABB has won an order worth $120 million from the Saudi Electricity Company to provide power to Saudi Arabia’s first university for women, the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University. ABB will deliver three gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) substations. The use of GIS technology will greatly ...

ABB wins $120 million hydropower order in Switzerland

23-Oct-2009 - ABB has won an order worth $120 million from Kraftwerke Linth-Limmern AG (KLL) related to the construction of a new hydropower plant and energy-storage facility in eastern Switzerland. The order was booked in the third quarter. The Linth-Limmern high–capacity, pumped-storage hydropower station ...