Sign of the Times: South Houston Green Power LP 570MW Cogen Unit Construction Underway in Texas, in an Advisory by Industrialinfo.com.Business/Energy Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2001 The following is an advisory by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. , Inc.; Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the ). In what is becoming an increasingly common sight at petrochemical complexes across the nation, construction on yet another large cogeneration unit began in September 2001 at BP's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BP) (London, United Kingdom) Texas City, Texas plant site. The estimated $275 million facility will be owned and operated by South Houston South Houston, city (1990 pop. 14,207), Harris co., SE Tex., an industrial suburb of Houston; inc. 1911. Manufactures include transportation equipment, machinery, and asphalt. Green Power LP (Houston, Texas), formed by a 50/50 joint venture between BP Global Power, the power development division of BP, and Cinergy Solutions, an affiliate of Cinergy Corporation (NYSE:CIN CIN cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) A term used to categorize degrees of dysplasia arising in the epithelium, or outer layer, of the cervix. ) (Cincinnati, Ohio). S&B Engineering and Constructors, Ltd. (Houston, Texas) are handling the engineering, planning, and construction of the plant, which is expected to be complete in June 2004. 570 mega-watts (MW) of electricity and 2.7 million pounds per hour of medium pressure steam will be provided to BP's chemical and refinery operations in Texas City, Texas. Fueled by natural gas and the fuel gas by-product by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. by-product Noun 1. from BP's process units, with three General Electric Frame F7A gas turbines, the new facility will replace some of the existing older, less efficient power units at the site, reducing nitrogen oxide emissions by 53%. BP is one of the world's largest petroleum and petrochemical companies with chemical sales in 2000 of $11.2 billion. The company has operations in Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, Australia, and parts of Africa. Cinergy Solutions is an affiliate of Cinergy Corporation, a diversified energy company with a total capitalization Total capitalization The total long-term debt and all types of equity of a company that constitutes its capital structure. total capitalization See capitalization. of $7.4 billion and assets of $10 billion. Cinergy owns or operates more than 16,500MW of electrical and combined heat plant generation that is either operational or under development. Industrialinfo.com provides daily news related to the industrial market place including industry alerts and databases for the energy and industrial markets. For more information on trends and upcoming construction activities for the Energy and Power markets as well as other industrial sectors send inquiries to powergroup@industrialinfo.com or visit us at www.industrialinfo.com and www.iirenergy.com. |
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