Georgia Pacific Receives Permit Approval for Cogen Expansion at Louisiana Mill-Set to Award General Contractor

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Researched by Industriaslinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Georgia-Pacific Corporation (NYSE:GP) (Atlanta, Georgia) has received an air permit that will allow the company to proceed with a $150 million cogeneration expansion project on the site of a pulp and paper mill in Port Hudson, Louisiana. GP plans to start up a new fluidized bed boiler and steam turbine generator by the end of 2006. The new boiler will reduce the mill’s consumption of natural gas, estimated to be upwards of 20MMscfd, by burning petroleum coke, wood waste, and sludge. The steam turbine, a 58MW unit, will push the mills generating capacity to around 110MW and enable the company to sell excess electricity to the grid.

Industrialinfo.com first reported on the company’s plan to expand the Port Hudson power plant in a project report released April 2004 and related news article dated --July 6, 2004-- Georgia-Pacific Sees Petroleum Coke as Potential Fuel of the Future. Presently, site preparation is underway and pilings for the new boiler are going in. GP is reviewing a short list of general contractors and expects to make an award before the end of the month. Jacobs Engineering Group (Greenville, South Carolina) is the engineering firm of record.

Operations at the Port Hudson mill began in 1968. Today, more than 1,000 workers run the mills kraft pulping operations, two tissue machines and freesheet paper machine and power plant.

Headquartered at Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, packaging, paper, building products, pulp, and related chemicals. With annual sales of more than $25 billion, the company employs approximately 71,000 people at 600 locations in North America and Europe. Georgia-Pacific's building products distribution segment has long been among the nation's leading wholesale suppliers of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers.

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