SNC-Lavalin/Kellogg Brown & Root Joint Venture Awarded Major Petro-Canada Project.Business Editors CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 2000 SNC-Lavalin (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :SNC SNC St Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin) SNC Sistema Nervioso Central SNC Société en Nom Collectif (French: Partnership) SNC Système Nerveux Central (French: central nervous system) .) and Houston-based Kellogg Brown & Root today announced that their joint venture, named "Wild Rose", has been awarded the Managing Contractor's role for the gasoline Sulphur reduction project and the evaluation of a proposed bitumen bitumen (bĭty  `mən) a generic term referring to flammable, brown or black mixtures of tarlike hydrocarbons, derived naturally or by distillation from petroleum. feedstock conversion at Petro-Canada's Edmonton area refinery. "We look forward to offering Petro-Canada our local and worldwide expertise in the petroleum industry, along with such a solid partner as Kellogg Brown & Root," said Krish Krishnamoorthy, Executive Vice-President of SNC-Lavalin. The first approved phase of the project to be awarded to the Wild Rose team is the detailed engineering, procurement and construction  The introduction to this article is vague. To comply with Wikipedia's guidelines, it should be improved. of a gasoline feed desulphurization unit, which Petro-Canada is installing at its refinery in Strathcona county, just outside Edmonton, to meet the new federal regulations on sulphur content in gasoline. The new unit will be on stream in 2004 and would form an integral part of any future bitumen feedstock conversion at the refinery. Work on the Sulphur reduction project is expected to peak during 2001/2002. The Edmonton refinery currently processes light crude feedstock into gasoline, diesel and a wide range of other products. With assistance from Wild Rose, Petro-Canada is assessing the economic potential for reconfiguring the refinery to use between 80,000 and 150,000 barrels of bitumen per day from the Athabasca region of northeastern Alberta. SNC-Lavalin Group is one of the leading engineering and construction firms in the world, and a key player in the ownership and management of infrastructure. The group and its companies have offices across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. and in 30 other countries, and are currently working in some 100 countries. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. (symbol: SNC). Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Kellogg Brown & Root is an international, technology-based engineering and construction company providing a full spectrum of industry-leading services to the hydrocarbon, chemical, energy, forest products, and mining and minerals industries. Kellogg Brown & Root is a business unit of Halliburton Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : HAL Hal: see Halle, Belgium. hal In Sufism, a state of mind reached from time to time by mystics during their journey toward God. The ahwal (plural of hal) are God-given graces that appear when a soul is purified of its attachments to the material world. ), the world's leading diversified energy services, engineering, construction, maintenance and energy equipment company. The company's World Wide Web site can be accessed at http://www.halliburton.com. SNC-Lavalin press releases are available on the Internet at: www.snc-lavalin.com |
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