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CONFERENCES NEW PROJECT ACQUISITIONS Hydropower Expertise at HYDRO 2019 Dam Break Analysis in Asia
The HYDRO 2019 international conference was held in Porto, Tractebel is performing two dam break analyses for private Portugal, from 14 – 16 October. Our hydropower experts met investors in Lao PDR to allow them complying with new customers and partners from over 80 countries, to get up-to-date requirements from the authorities. Tractebel experts from Thailand about the latest new trends and technologies and present key and France joined their forces to issue Nam Lik and Nam Che HPP findings from current hydropower projects. dam break analysis. Those two projects, in which Tractebel was respectively involved as Firas Belhaj Jrad and Dr. Ralf Bucher from the Business Entity Owner Engineer and Lender Engineer, are run-off-river projects for Germany took part in the expert session on “Innovations in which the impact of a “sunny day” failure is limited in comparison to hydropower – market readiness of AI applications and digital the design floods considered in the projects. The next step, for the solutions for hydropower”. Vincent Boinay and Sergio Camilletti from future projects, is to train engineers in Thailand to allow performing the Tractebel Business Entity France took part in the session on a higher part of the scope locally, using the support of French “Reservoir operation – development of the Gibe-Omo cascade experts, to be competitive in addressing the market of the small- hydropower projects”. scale hydro in the region. The event offered excellent opportunities to make valuable new contacts. We would like to thank all the visitors to our stand and look Contacts: Yanis OUKID & Matthieu BERAUD forward to meeting up again at the HYDRO 2020 in Strasbourg!
Contact: Bernhard STABEL, Jean TEYSSIEUX
Nam Che HPP - Risk map for the Nam Lik - Numerical Elevation model sunny day failure scenario
CONTRACT AWARDS comprise basic, detailed designs and studies for the water supply
Tractebel is announced as winner of a contract for sanitation and sewerage systems of the municipalities under BRK design with BRK Ambiental (Brookfield Group) concession. Expansion and improvement of existing systems will be carried out, always aiming to offer a better quality of life to the Providing the population with a proper sanitary sewerage system, population. quality water, with measures to prevent shortage of supply is one of the projects recently achieved by Tractebel. In addition to bringing According to Gustavo Curi, head of WSS – “basic sanitation is a benefit to the population, this project is also aligned with the matter of national interest, since it is related to the life of citizens. commitment defined by Brazil with UN of providing sanitation The present contract of Tractebel will be the first with a private services to the whole country up to 2033. sanitation company. Thus, the expertise of Tractebel professionals BRK Ambiental is the largest private sanitation company in Brazil, will be of great value for BRK”, he says. controlled by Brookfield, a Canadian company. The services Contact: Gustavo CURI
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NEW PROJECT ACQUISITIONS CONTRACT AWARDS
The Mega-Yachts 6000 t platform project Tractebel wins work managing agreement and strengths its operation in the mining industry The proposed Mega-Yachts 6000 t platform aims at creating a mega yacht maintenance and refit center in the Mirabeau harbor sector of Tractebel in Brazil has just won an important mining contract, thus the Port of Marseille Fos. The yard, which is set to open in 2022, will strengthening its operations in this market segment. The company be specifically dedicated to larger superyachts of up to 130 meters. was contracted to carry out a Work Management Agreement from This unique facility will include a 50,000sqm platform, a self- Samarco, a Brazilian company operating in the mining segment generating iron ore pellets that are traded in the steel industry in the propelled trolley on rails and a yacht lift, which will enable the yard to work on four superyachts weighing up to 6000-tonne each at any one Americas, Middle East, Asia and Europe. time. In November 2015, occurred the first collapse of Fundão Dam, and, The Tractebel team gathering experts from France and Belgium has from this moment, the productive activities of Germano Complex, been appointed for the complete civil engineering project property of Samarco, were fully suspended. Since then, several management of all facilities and project management assistance for actions have been implemented by the company to control the all electromechanical equipment. This project reinforces the position social and environmental impacts resulting from the accident, in of Tractebel as a key player in the field of port and maritime works. order be able to resume its operations. The Work Managing Agreement shall remain effective for twenty- The program is ambitious and the challenge exciting for the French four months and covers the necessary works to resume the and Belgian teams of Tractebel for the next four years! operation of Samarco, from Germano Complex, in Mariana, State of Minas Gerais, to the pelletizing plant, located at the Maritime Port Ponta Ubu, in the City of Anchieta, State of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
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important agreement, a consortium formed by Tractebel (65%) and MCA
(35%) was organized, which is Contact: Xavier BANCAL a company specialized in auditing and management of works, with outstanding CONFERENCE S performance in the mining Tractebel at EXIM Bank industry.
The Comité France Chine (CFC) and Chambre de Commerce et The TRACTEBEL-MCA consortium, committed to the necessary actions for priority resumption of the operations of Samarco, will d’Industrie de Chine en France (CCICF) have organized the Purple Meeting at the site of EXPORT IMPORT BANK (“EXIM Bank”) of China support the company's team with the provision of technical and
Paris Branch on 25th November 2019. specialized labor for the management of the resumption works management activities. The meeting subject is “Financing as a catalyst for Franco-Chinese cooperation in the third markets”. Mr Yifeng LIN et Mr Peng ZHOU According to Sérgio Drumond, Engineering Director of Tractebel, have represented Tractebel, and have demonstrated several “this is a very important agreement for the Water Business Line, examples of cooperation between Tractebel and Chinese companies since it consolidates the purpose of the company to expand its in the third markets. operation in the mining segment”. Contact: Sergio DRUMOND Contact: Yifeng LIN
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CONFERENCES CONFERENCES Optimistic Outlook for Kazakhstan Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg Despite difficult external conditions in Central Asia, the On November 11th, the Consortium of Advisors OLT (Orrick, Lazard economy of Kazakhstan is on the right path. What we can do and Tractebel) for Inga 3 was invited by the African Development for the further development of the country was discussed by Bank to attend the 2nd Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg, Country Manager of the Water Division BE Germany, Dr. South Africa. The Inga 3 Development status as well as the pros and Roman Vorobyev, at the German-Kazakh Business Forum in cons of two alternatives: 4800 MW without damming the Congo River Berlin. and 11 000 MW (with a dam on the Congo River) was presented Shaping the future with new energies and “Green Industry” is a during a dedicated Boardroom Session. topic which is widely discussed in both Germany and Several Ministers from the DRC government as well as the President Kazakhstan. Representatives from politics and business from of African Development Bank Group attended the meeting. Jean the two countries met up on 7 October 2019 in Berlin at the Teyssieux, Executive Vice-President Water in Tractebel France, German-Kazakh Business and Economic Forum to exchange made the presentation on behalf of Tractebel. views on the topic. Also addressed were New Technologies and Industry 4.0, along with German-Kazakh Cooperation in the Contact: Jean TEYSSIEUX Field of Food Security. Being responsible for the market in
Kazakhstan, Dr. Roman Vorobyev, made the most of the event to make new contacts, as he was able to meet influential CONFERENCES government and private sector decision-makers there. Nepal-German Business Forum The forum was opened by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Representatives of German and Nepalese companies and Republic of Kazakhstan, Zhenis Kassymbek, and the Secretary organizations gathered together for the first time in Kathmandu on 2 of State of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and October 2019 to make contacts and strengthen networks. The Energy, Ulrich Nußbaum. The speakers included executive director of the water division of Tractebel Germany representatives of the Kazakh Ministry for the Environment, Bernhard Stabel and Kathmandu Branch Manager. Geology and Natural Resources, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan, Carsten Guntermann gladly accepted the invitation. Financial Settlement Center of Renewable Energy, National The organizers of the 1st Business Forum were the German Holding "KazAgro", Sovereign Fund “Samruk-Kazyna” as well Embassy, the German-Nepalese Chamber of Industry and Commerce as the Astana International Financial Centre. and the Investment Board Nepal. The aim of the initiative is to promote Contact: Bernhard STABEL Nepal as a business location in order to create jobs and encourage investment.
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