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NAES Operating W.B. Hall Facility
01/17/2007 - ISSAQUAH, WA - North American Energy Services Company (NAES), a broad-based provider of services to the power generation industry, announces that it began providing operations and maintenance at the Walter B. Hall Resource Recovery Facility on September 1, 2006.
W.B. Hall, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a 16.5 MW municipal waste to energy combustor facility owned by WBH Generating Company, LLC. The facility is fitted with two reciprocating grate combustion units and one modified sloped grate and pulse air combustor, three Zurn boilers, and ancillary support systems and equipment. To meet emissions standards, the facility employs selective catalytic reduction, carbon injection, semi-dry scrubbing, fabric filters and continuous emissions monitoring equipment. W.B. Hall processes 340,000 tons of waste per year, and generates and exports 240,000 tons of steam per day for the Sunoco Refining Company.
When providing steam to Sunoco, the consumption of oil and other fossil fuels is avoided. In addition, the facility provides a clean alternative to landfills for approximately 450,000 Tulsa residents.
NAES, headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, is the largest independent, third-party provider of power plant operations and maintenance services, with an experience base of more than 23,000 MW of generation capacity in a wide range of technologies, fuels, locations, customers and modes of operation. With additional offices in New York City, Pittsburgh, Carneys Point, Portland, and Houston, NAES also provides O&M support, maintenance, construction and repair, gas and steam turbine field maintenance and component repair, and the placement of temporary technical, engineering and management personnel to the generation industry.
NAES is owned by ITOCHU International Inc., the U.S. affiliate of ITOCHU Corporation. With operations in over 80 countries covering a broad range of industries, ITOCHU is among the world's largest corporations.
