WDF Expert Panel on Energy and Water

Preliminary staff notes for purpose of discussion.

1. Scope

• Energy sources
  
• Power generation
  
• Water supply, desalting
  
• Flood control

• Selecting projects most needed
• Developing global power grids
• Obtaining energy with minimum environmental impact
• Wireless energy for remote regions
• Desalting seawater to reclaim deserts

3. Projects of interest **1996 Additions**

1. "South Waters North" canal (China)
2. Al-Shoaiba PH-2 Power and Desalination Project (Saudi Arabia)
3. Alusaf Hillside Smelter Project (South Africa)
4. Bangladesh flood control. (World Bank)
5. Black Point Power Station and gas pipeline (Hong Kong)
6. Bramaputra/Ganges canal (India)
7. California water projects (USA)
8. Central Arizona Project (USA)
9. Coal gas. (project abandoned, Lummus)
10. Desalination plant. (Kuwait) (Mitsubishi)
11. Desalination plant: Santa Barbara, Calif. (USA)
12. Four nuclear energy plants (Czech Republic)
13. Frisse Wind (Netherlands)
14. Southeastern Anatolia Project (Turkey)
15. Great Man-made River Project (Libya)
16. Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program (USA)
17. Hub River Dam (Pakistan)
18. Largest desalination plant: Tijuana. (Mexico)
19. Litarni Project (Jordan): ($2 bn. project funded by World Bank)
20. Med to Dead Sea canal (Israel)
21. Narmada Valley project (India)
22. Nuclear plant rescue (southern Texas)
23. Oil project (Baku, Azerbaijan)
24. Papua New Guinea oil field
25. Parana River Project (Brazil & Argentina)
26. Peace Pipeline (Turkey/Middle East)
27. Philippines coal-fired plant
28. Philippines geothermal
29. Project Moses (Venice flood control) (Italy)
30. Qatar oil field development
31. Red River Project and others (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
32. Sakhalin Island oil field. (Russia)
33. Sanshia Dam (China)
34. Sarawak Dam (Bakun) (Malaysia)
35. Solar energy projects (Calif./Nevada, USA)
36. Southampton cable plant (UK)
37. Submarine cable (Iceland)
38. Synfuel Cold Lake (Canada)
39. Three Gorges Dam. (China)
40. Tritium reactor (Idaho, USA)
41. Underwater cable, OTEC, etc.
42. Yangtze River Channel Project ($4.8 bn) (China)

    Additional Notes for 1996
    

43. Japanese Reactor -- A $4 billion plan to build an advanced thermal reactor has been suspended.
44. Thermal Power Plant -- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand plans one of the world's largest fossil power stations.
45. South Korea Power Engineering is building a $2.5 billion coal-fired plant near Inchon..
46. Nuclear Power Plant -- Taiwan Power's proposed $4.5 billion project in northern Thailand is still delayed by protestors..
47. Mexico Thermoelectric Plant -- Mitsubishi and Japanese Exim Bank are financing $3 billion coal-fired plant at Petacalco near Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas.
48. China Power Station -- A unit of Babcock & Wilcox ( proposes to build a $1 billion power station in Beijing.
49. Macao Power Project -- Black & Vetch is preparing specifications the billion dollar plus Taishan station joint-ventured by the China Union and the Guangdong Power Bureau.
50. Saudi Arabia project -- Raytheon Engineers and GE Power Systems will build a $1.4 billion, oil-fired 1200 Mw power plant near Riyadh.
51. Indonesia project -- Sumitomo and the Hopewell Group are reported to be planning a $1.8 billion plant in Indonesia.
52. Oil and Gas Processing Plant -- Saudi Aramco is planning a $1 billion expansion of its oil export and gas processing facilities at Yanbu on the Red Sea.
53. Malaysia Oil Refinery -- A Chiyoda-Petronas-Mitsui-Dupont groups is planning a $1.4 billion refinery in the state of Malacca.
54. Vietnam refinery -- The government has announced plans for a $1.2 billion refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai.
55. Russian refinery -- Toyo Engineering and JGC is planning to build a $1 billion oil refinery in Syzran near Kuybyshev.
56. Asian Oil Pipeline -- Mitsubishi, Exxon and China National Petroleum are planning a $10 billion pipeline to transport natural gas from Turkmenistan, through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, across the Tarim Basin in China to Xian.
57. Laos Hydro Project -- Construction of the $1.2 billion Nam Thuen 2 hydroelectric dam in Laos may be abandoned.
58. Turkey hydro project -- A German-led consortium has contracted to build a $1.6 billion facility at Birecik 80 kilometers downstream from the Ataturk dam on the Euphrates.
59. California Feeder Project -- Metropolitan Water District in Southern California is building a $1 billion Inland Feeder Project to increase water flow from the state aqueduct.
60. California Embankment Dam -- A team led by Atkinson Construction, Washington Construction and H.B. Zachary plan to build a $1.9 billion embankment dam in Southern California.
61. China -- latest 5 year plan projects 4 new nuclear power plants. sites yet to be selected.
62. China -- Shanxi province. Contract has been let for $2 billion coal-fired plant to be owned by Tong Tech Investment Group, Torrance, California. New plant will serve five provinces.
63. China -- a second 1200mw plant will be built in a coastal province, plan yet to be formulated.
64. South America -- studies are underway to evaluate a proposal to develop a waterway (hidrovia) along the Paraguay and Parana rivers linking the interior of Bolivia, Paraguay and parts of Brazil, with the ocean via the River Platte. Estimated cost is $1.3 billion.
65. South America -- a new $1.8 billion pipeline will deliver natural gas from Bolivian fields to sites in the center of Brazil.

4. Experts and expert groups

1. ABB Power Inc.
2. Alusaf (South African electricity utility
3. Bechtel. Leon Awerbuch, desalination and power programs manager
4. Bechtel Power Corp.Fred Marsh, vice president, Hong Kong office.
5. Bechtel/Technip (Qatar oil field development)
6. Black & Veatch. Charles W. Keller Jr., director of marketing, planning and development, (USA)
7. Blaw-Knox Construction Equipment Corp. Leonard Decker, VP, Pittsburgh, Pa. (USA)
8. Boston Reliable Water Co. (USA) (desalination process)
9. Brown & Root Overseas Ltd. (Great Man-made River Project, Libya) (UK)
10. Brown and Root (USA)
11. Castle Peak Power Company (CAPCO) (Hong Kong). Black Point plant
12. Chevron. (Papua New Guinea oil field; Tenghiz oil field)
13. China Light & Power Company. (Black Point Power Plant, Hong Kong)
    Peter Littlewood, generation project manager
    Nick Lee, senior civil engineer for construction
14. Chiyoda (Japan)
15. Columbia Basin Power, Mark N. Hall, Washington (USA)
16. Enegas (Spain) (leading Spanish gas utility)
17. Energy, Telecommunications and Posts Ministry. (Malaysia)
    Minister Samy Vellu (Bakun hydroelectric project)
    Ali Abu Hassan, economic planning unit director
18. Eskom. Allen Morgan, Chief Executive Officer (South Africa)
19. Exxon/C.Itoh (Sakhalin Island oil field,Russia)
20. GE Capital and Quantum Industrial Holdings. Gary Wendt, CEO. (New venture to raise $2.5 bn for power projects in developing world.)
21. GEC Alsthom. Douglas Gadd, Chairman (UK/England)
22. Global Strategy Council. Global Water Policy and Technology Summits: Dr. Joyce Starr (USA)
23. GME. James Ball, director of gas matters (Maghreb Europe Pipeline)
24. Hawaii Electric Co. (USA) (OTEC, etc.)
25. Hitachi Zosen (Japan) (desalination)
26. Hopewell Holdings (Hong Kong) (Philippines coal-fired plant)
27. Hydro Quebec (Canada) (exporting hydro power via ship)
28. Iceland National Power Co. Agnar Olsen, chief engineer (submarine cable project)
29. International Desalination Association
    Pat Burke, Secretary General
    Chairman Leon Awerbuch (manager, desalination and power, Bechtel)
    First vice president: Jamil al-Alawi. (Asst. Undersecretary for Power & Water Affairs, Bahrain)
    Director: Dr. Fatma al-Awadi, (Director, Water Resources Development Center, Ministry of Electricity & Water, Kuwait)
30. JGC Corp. (Japan)
31. Kellogg Co. (USA)
32. Korea Heavy Industries & Construction Co. (South Korea)
33. Korean Ministry of Energy & Resources (Minister Lee Hee II)
34. Law Environmental, Dr. Hilburn Hilstead, VP (USA)
35. Louis Berger Int'l. (USA)
36. Lunar Power Coalition. Dan Greenwood (USA)
37. Luz Engineering. (Calif./Nevada solar plants)
38. Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Douglas B. MacDonald, executive director (USA)
39. Ministry of Energy. Minister Shi Dazhen (China)
40. Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) (Japan)
41. Ministry of Water Resources. (China)
42. Mitsubishi (Kuwait. desalination plant)
43. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan)
44. National Grid Company (UK)
    David Jefferies, chairman (assembling expert teams from around the world)
    
45. Dr. Tony White, head of corporate strategy
    Clare Phelan, head of business development
46. Parsons, Pirelli (Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program)
47. Raytheon Engineers & Constructors, Inc. David A. Raymond, Int'l VP, Lexington, Mass. (USA)
48. Riess Foundation, Dr. Morad Eghbal
49. Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) Saudia Arabia
50. Sanyo Electro Co. Ltd (Japan)
51. Sargent & Lundy Engineers (USA)
52. SASOL (South Africa)
53. Sea Solar Power Co. (USA). Robert Nicholson, VP.
54. Sonatrach. State oil and gas company (Algeria)
55. Southern California Edison & Bechtel. (Tijuana, Mexico, desalination plant)
56. State Planning Cmsn. (China) (Yangtze River Channel Project)
57. Taiwan Power Company: (Will increase installed power capacity by about 12,000 mw by 2002)
58. UK Department of Trade and Industry, Overseas Project Board. David Jefferies, chairman
59. Water Studies Group/UNC. Edwin Brown, Professor (USA).
60. World Bank
    East Asia and Pacific infrastructure div.: Sigfus O. Sigfusson, principal highway engineer
    Guy Le Moigne, senior agriculture and water resources advisor
61. Worldwatch Institute. Sandra Postel, VP for research & author of Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity (1992)

5. Previous presentations and available documents

Inherently Safe Reactors and the Renewal of the Earth
Dr. Ichiro Sugawara
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
New types of nuclear reactors overcome the risks of core meltdown and the release of high levels of radioactivity.

Libya's Great Man-made River
World Development Council, September 1994
One of the world's most significant water projects, the Great Man-made River involves taking water from aquifers under the Sahara desert and delivering it through pipelines to reservoirs hundreds of miles to the north.

OTEC and Biomass Energy
Adm. Ronald J. Hays USN (Ret.)
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
There are two ongoing renewable energy super projects in Hawaii: One is ocean thermal energy conversion and the other is biomass gasification.

Hawaii's Deep Water Energy Cable Project
William A. Bonnet, Hawaii Electric Company
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
Analysis of the deep water energy cable project which will deploy a submarine cable to a depth of 6,300 feet off the island of Hawaii to carry geothermal energy to the island of Oahu.

Southeastern Anatolia Project
World Development Council, 1994
Turkey's $20 billion Southeastern Anatolia Project is a massive irrigation and hydropower generation project that includes the world's ninth largest dam, Ataturk, and the world's longest irrigation tunnel, Sanliurfa.

Tumen River Area Development Program
World Development Council, 1994
Developers of the $30 billion Tumen River Area Development Program intend to create a "northeast Asian Hong Kong" in the area where the borders of China, Russia and North Korea meet.

6. 1996 San Francisco Global Super Projects Conference

Energy and Water Session: Tentative Program

Section D: Energy and Water
Water and Energy Projects to Meet Global Demands
Moderator: Mel Brown, V.P., Systems Engineering Div., Ralph M. Parsons Corp. (USA) (tentatively accepted)
1. Southeastern Anatolia Project (Turkey). Dr. Olcay Ünver (accepted)
2. Domenigoni Reservoir (USA). John R. "Woody" Wodraska, Gen. Mgr., Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (accepted)
3. Southern Nevada Water Project. (invited)
4. Med-Dead Canal. (invited)

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