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ABB Awarded $20 Million System Upgrade Order by Omaha Public Power District
May 29, 2001
ABB announced that it has been awarded a major contract by Omaha Public Power District for a full scope instrumentation and control system, to be installed for four units at the District's North Omaha Power Station. The value of the order is $20,850,000.
Omaha Public Power District serves 280,000 customers in thirteen southeast Nebraska counties. The full-scope, turnkey instrumentation and control systems project will replace the power plant's current pneumatic control system, which has been in service for approximately 40 years. The scope of the project includes the installation of a fully functional open control system, simulator, plant historian, relay protection, burner front instrumentation and field instrumentation. ABB is also responsible for the removal of the existing pneumatic control system.
The goals of the Omaha Public Power District are: increased reliability, improve unit response, and lower O&M (operation and maintenance) costs.
ABB is the world's largest automation supplier; the company's Automation business segment includes major product areas such as control products and systems, manufacturing execution systems, instrumentation, analytical devices, meters, robotics, drives, motors and machines. Major industry markets served are chemicals, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, food and beverage, pulp and paper, metals and minerals, manufacturing industries, marine, and utilities.
The ABB Group serves customers in power transmission and distribution; automation; oil, gas, and petrochemicals; building technologies; and in financial services. With novel IT applications, tailored software solutions, growing eBusiness and a fast expanding knowledge and service base, ABB is building links to the new economy. The ABB Group employs about 160,000 people in more than 100 countries.
