Nicor Gas Nears Construction Phase of Compressor Station Upgrade in Illinois

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Nicor Gas Incorporated (Nicor) (Naperville, Illinois), a subsidiary of Nicor Incorporated (NYSE:GAS) (Naperville, Illinois), is nearing the construction phase on an upgrade and modernization of its Troy Grove natural gas compressor station near Mendota, Illinois. Nicor will install one new Solar Mars T-100 turbine unit rated at over 15,000 horsepower with Low-NOx Combustor technology at the Troy Grove station, which will enable it to take an existing unit compressor drive unit offline. Nicor will take either the 13,155 horsepower unit CG 28 or the 15,000 horsepower CC29 unit and place it in standby reserve. The older unit will remain onsite, and Nicor will utilize it for a backup unit, in case of breakdown of any of the other existing units. Nicor will realize a substantial reduction in its SOx, NOx, and VOC emissions reduction rate after the project is completed.

Nicor expects to have the new Solar unit onsite in the next month, and installation should be completed by November of 2005. After the project is completed, Nicor will continue on course with its plans to install two additional Solar Mars T-100 turbine units at the Troy Grove site and, in the process, retire a further 20,000 horsepower of aging internal combustion engines to reap further emissions lowering benefits. Although, the full schedule for the additional new turbine replacements is still preliminary, Nicor expects to install the second turbine in 2008 and the third turbine also some time in 2008.

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