B&W Joint Venture Awarded Boiler And Environmental Contract In Vietnam

Charlotte N.C - The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) announced recently that Babcock & Wilcox Beijing Co. Ltd. (BWBC), an unconsolidated Chinese joint venture within B&W's Power Generation segment, has been awarded a contract worth more than $300M to design and manufacture two coal-fired boilers, boiler auxiliaries and two wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) units for PetroVietnam's Thai Binh II power plant in Vietnam.

South Korean engineering and construction firm Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., the project's lead contractor, selected BWBC to engineer and manufacture the two 600 megawatt, subcritical downshot boilers according to a B&W design. B&W's licensee, Zhejiang Tiandi Environmental Protection Engineering Co., Ltd., will supply both wet FGD units.

"We value our strong relationships with PetroVietnam and Daelim and thank both companies for selecting BWBC for this project," said BWBC General Manager Paul Li. "We look forward to delivering reliable equipment using B&W's technology and doing our part to make the Thai Binh project a success."

"This project is another great example of B&W's growth in Asia and of BWBC's ability to deliver B&W's unmatched power generation technology to our Vietnamese customers," said Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer J. Randall Data.

Engineering is currently underway at BWBC's facility in Beijing. Both units are scheduled to be completed and operational in 2016.