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  • Wood has worked on more than half of the world’s carbon capture & storage projects

    HOUSTON, March 27, 2023 — Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, has completed carbon capture and transportation studies for more than half of the 300 carbon-capture facilities being planned worldwide1. From the U.S. Gulf Coast of Louisiana and the oil sands of Canada to the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, Wood’s experts are […]

  • Wood launches next generation of hydrogen production technology

    Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, has unveiled its new steam methane reforming (SMR) technology, which can achieve 95% CO2 emissions reduction, compared to a traditional hydrogen production plant. The technology aims to counter inefficiencies in energy, heat production and industrial processes, which together account for more than half of all global greenhouse gas […]

  • Biomass Power: Environmental Benefit or Numbers Game?

    Many bioenergy industry proponents put forth carbon neutrality as a basis for their support. However, the claim may not hold up under scrutiny. By some accounts, biomass power plant emissions including those

  • SCR Design Considerations: Retrofit Challenges and Ratcheting Emissions Level Requirements

    Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) projects often focus on the final NOx emissions levels achieved, but a successful project is about much more than that. Facility owners must consider the complete scope associated with an SCR installation, from supply chain issues and ultra-low NOx emissions levels to customization requirements associated with a given application’s pressure drop […]

  • Modern HRSG Designs Maximize Combined Cycle Plant Efficiency

    Iberdrola SA and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) recently commissioned the El Carmen combined cycle plant, located in Nuevo León, northeast Mexico. Wood supplied the two horizontal heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) for the plant. The 875-MW combined cycle plant is based on two 300-MW MHPS M501J combustion turbines and is the first plant built […]

  • How to Avoid Full Refractory System Failure in Wood Combustion

    Wood-burning facilities have seen a spike in refractory problems due to operating units at higher temperatures and at increased capacities than in the past. Refractory professionals offer three recommendations

  • Wood continues growth in Norway with two new Equinor contracts

    Wood has secured two new contracts from Equinor for onshore and offshore facilities in Norway. The contracts continue Wood’s successful track record of delivering engineering and technical services to Equinor – both in-country and globally – for more than two decades. In the first of the new contracts, Wood will deliver FEED (front-end engineering design) […]

  • Wood awarded construction contract from Siemens

    HOUSTON, 14 March 2019-Wood has secured a contract from Siemens to install a new Siemens HL-class gas turbine at a power generating station in North Carolina. The award will see Wood mobilize a team of around 400 people to the project site to deliver this notable construction project for a period of approximately 11 months. […]

  • Wood wins $66 million Sellafield control systems framework

    Wood has won a contract to supply programmable digital control technologies to the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, UK. The 10-year framework, worth $66 million, covers all stages of system design, manufacture and assembly of equipment, obsolescence management and maintenance support to project work and decommissioning carried out by Sellafield Ltd. The contract will help […]

  • Wood wins UK nuclear waste contract

    Wood has won a major contract from Magnox Ltd to retrieve, process and dispose of radioactive waste from a UK nuclear power station that is being decommissioned. The construction, design and management project will involve the removal of 47m³ of radioactive wet waste stored in tanks at Dungeness A in Kent, which ceased generating in […]

  • Wood and National Nuclear Laboratory win key nuclear research contract

    Wood and National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) have won a three-year contract from the UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to carry out a key research project on fuels for the nuclear reactors of the future. Effective immediately, the two organisations will deliver the research and development necessary to provide a world-leading reactor […]

  • Advanced Boiler and HRSG Designs Offer Improved Performance

    Innovative boiler and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) designs are improving efficiency, reducing emissions, and lowering maintenance costs. Some well-proven technology, such as circulating fluidized bed

  • Wood awarded construction management contract for Europe’s largest single-site onshore wind farm

    Wood has been appointed by GE Energy Financial Services and Green Investment Group Limited as the owner’s engineer on the 650MW Markbygden ETT Onshore Wind Farm located in Swedish Lapland near the town of Piteå. The project, which comprises 179 3.63MW GE wind turbine generators, is set to become Europe’s largest single-site onshore wind farm […]

  • Meet the Beetles

    Bark beetles have discovered the good life in California’s overgrown forests. A combination of extended drought and mild winters has led to an enormous infestation of these pests. They have killed over 66