Wood and KBR Win Crux FEED Project Offshore Western Australia
HOUSTON – Wood and KBR,Inc. (NYSE: KBR) have secured a new multimillion dollar contract to deliver integrated front-end engineering design (FEED) for Shell Australia’s Crux project to build a not normally manned (NNM) platform and gas export pipeline located approximately 600km north of Broome, offshore Western Australia (WA). The Crux facilities will be an important source of backfill gas supply to the Shell-operated Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility. The remotely operate...
Bentley Systems Announces OpenUtilities™ Solutions for DER - Planning and Design Assessment Solutions for Grid Modernization
Bentley Systems announces the availability of OpenUtilities™ DER Planning & Design Assessment Solutions, the latest of Bentley’s electric utility software offerings that provide decision support and cost-based models and simulations for Distributed Energy Resources (DER) integration. In partnership with Siemens’ Digital Grid business unit, OpenUtilities Solutions for DER empowers electric utilities, electricity suppliers, and distribution network operators (DSO) with software applications to ana...
Snow Leads Gannett Fleming’s Expanded Southeast Region
(Harrisburg, Pa.) Gannett Fleming has named Terry Snow, PE, to the roles of Southeast Region director and senior vice president. He is now responsible for the overall financial, operational, management, and administrative performance of eight Southeast Region offices from North Carolina to Florida. “Terry offers tremendous experience in delivering best-in-class solutions, and we are looking forward to his role on our senior management team,” stated Paul Nowicki, PE, Gannett Fleming president...
Bruce A. Webber Joins Stantec’s California Transportation Team to Grow Practice in Central Valley
Bruce A. Webber has joined Stantec—a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm—as a Senior Project Manager in its growing transportation team in Fresno, California. Webber will provide leadership and focus on growing Stantec’s transportation practice in the Central Valley. Webber has more than 34 years of experience working across a wide variety of projects in both the public and private sectors as well as with Valley counties and Caltrans. He has worked on a number of major trans...
Stantec Strengthens Transportation Team with Two Senior Strategic Hires
Stantec is pleased to announce that Barbara Moffat has joined the firm as vice president, transportation in the US West, and Dr. Suhail Albhaisi has joined the firm as regional bridge leader and senior principal in the US Northeast. As strategic hires they will further strengthen Stantec’s rapidly expanding transportation practice. Barbara Moffat “We are always striving to attract the best in the business to deliver projects for our clients, and I’m pleased to say that both Barbara and Suh...
Highview Power Taps GE’s Alexander Silin to Head Eastern European and Middle Eastern Sales of its Cryogenic Energy Storage Systems
LONDON and NEW YORK – Highview Power, the global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, announced today that it has tapped Alexander Silin as Sales Director of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Silin, a former General Manager of Sales for Western Europe at GE Gas Power Systems, brings over 25 years of sales experience in the energy industry across diverse global markets. Silin is a recognized global leader in combined-cycle gas plants and has a proven growth record with $5 billion i...
Pettibone Enters 12,000-Pound Capacity Market With Traverse T1258X Telehandler
BARAGA, Mich. — Marking its entry into the 12,000-pound capacity market, Pettibone introduces the Traverse T1258X telehandler. The new Traverse model becomes part of the industry’s only new telehandler product line with a traversing boom carriage that can move loads by traveling horizontally. By providing up to 70 inches of horizontal boom transfer, the Traverse allows operators to safely place loads at full lift height without needing to coordinate multiple boom functions. The T1258X ha...
Statement by ARTBA President & CEO Dave Bauer on President Trump’s State of the Union Address
WASHINGTON - American Road & Transportation Builders Association President & CEO Dave Bauer issued the following statement relating to President Trump’s State of the Union address: “Good public policy is most often achieved when there is common ground. “New public opinion research finds that 90 percent of the American people want the Democratic leadership in Congress and President Trump to work together during 2019 to pass legislation to improve roads, bridges and transit systems. “Whe...
Four Students Take Top Honors in Annual Video Contest on America’s Transportation Infrastructure
(WASHINGTON) - High school students from Arizona and Nebraska, a graduate student from Texas Southern University in Houston and a post-graduate student at Regis University in Boston are the 2018 winners of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) 8th Annual “Student Transportation Video Contest.” They will each receive a $500 cash prize. The association received 21 submissions from students across the country, representing 14 states, in two categories: general transp...
NEXT Renewable Fuels and Shell Trading (US) Company enter Renewable Diesel Purchase and Sale Agreement
(Houston) NEXT Renewable Fuels, Inc (NEXT) and Shell Trading (US) Company (Shell) have entered a long-term Purchase and Sale Agreement for the purchase of renewable diesel from NEXT’s planned Port Westward, Oregon facility. Representing an investment of more than $1 billion (USD), NEXT continues to develop its Oregon renewable diesel facility with an expected annual processing capacity of 13.3 million barrels (600 million gallons). Scheduled to open in 2021, NEXT will supply Shell and other par...