(EnergyAsia, August 10 2012, Friday) — US engineering firm Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) said a China-based joint venture has secured a contract worth more than $300 million to design and manufacture two coal-fired boilers, boiler auxiliaries and two wet flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) units for a power plant in Vietnam

The North Carolina company said Babcock & Wilcox Beijing Co Ltd (BWBC), an unconsolidated Chinese joint venture within its power generation segment, was awarded the contract by PetroVietnam for its 1,200MW Thai Binh II power plant.

South Korean engineering and construction firm Daelim Industrial Co Ltd, the project’s lead contractor, selected BWBC to engineer and manufacture the two 600-MW subcritical downshot boilers according to a B&W design.

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

B&W said its Chinese licensee, Zhejiang Tiandi Environmental Protection Engineering Co Ltd, will supply both wet FGD units.

BWBC general manager Paul Li, said:

“We value our strong relationships with PetroVietnam and Daelim and thank both companies for selecting BWBC for this project. We look forward to delivering reliable equipment using B&W’s technology and doing our part to make the Thai Binh project a success.”

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc President and chief operating officer, J. Randall Data, said:

“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.”