founded 1891 headquarters crawley england renfrew scotland key people ceo andy hunt number of employees 5 414 2008 parent doosan group subsidiaries doosan babcock energy germany doosan babcock energy polska website http www.doosanbabcock.com doosan babcock ltd is part of doosan power systems s.a. a subsidiary of doosan heavy industries & construction . it is a power sector oem construction upgrade and after market services company that offers specialist services and technologies to the fossil fired power generation nuclear power generation and oil gas and petrochemical industries . doosan babcock s main headquarters are in crawley england . european headquarters are in renfrew scotland . the company has manufacturing facilities in the uk germany india vietnam and south korea and 17 offices around the world . 1 contents 1 company products and services 1.1 thermal 1.2 nuclear 1.3 oil gas and petrochemical 1.4 technologies 2 safety record and awards 3 history 4 references 5 external links company products and services edit thermal edit doosan babcock provides a range of through life services to the thermal power industry including project design and construction plant maintenance asset integrity shutdown turnaround management plant life extension and upgrades . the company provides oem boilers to power plants burning traditional and renewable fuels plus a range of firing technologies subcritical or supercritical systems and unit sizes from 100mw to 660mw and above . it has a license agreement with harbin boiler the largest boiler maker in china . doosan babcock is the developer of the thermal oxycoaltm oxy fuel boiler used at the vattenfall oxyfuel pilot plant in schwarze pumpe in germany . oxy fuel boilers use pure oxygen rather than air as the primary oxidant to reduce fuel consumption and emissions . 2 the company is active in the carbon capture and storage sector and was responsible for designing building and commissioning the uk s largest carbon capture pilot plant in ferrybridge west yorkshire which began operations in november 2011 . the project which uses the company s advanced amine scrubbing technology is a collaboration between sse doosan babcock and vattenfall and is the first of its size to be integrated into a live power plant in the uk . 3 nuclear edit doosan babcock has been a major supplier of specialist services to the nuclear industry for around 60 years since it built the steam raising plant for the world s first commercial nuclear power station calder hall uk in 1956 . 4 approximately 3500 suitably qualified and experienced personnel sqep offer engineering procurement and construction epc plant maintenance and decommissioning services to the nuclear power industry in the form of specialist support teams bespoke projects and turnkey solutions . the company has a presence at every nuclear power generating site in the uk . 5 as a specialist provider of nuclear decommissioning services doosan babcock has managed decommissioning projects at sites around the uk including sellafield 6 faslane 7 and bradwell . 8 the company offers techniques and processes for the removal of radioactive waste and the remediation of nuclear facilities . it is at the forefront of waste encapsulation technologies . 9 oil gas and petrochemical edit doosan babcock provides project design and construction plant maintenance asset integrity assessment shutdown turnaround management plant life extension and upgrade services to the global oil gas and petrochemical industry . the company s oil gas and petrochemical clients include bp statoil shell essar total conocophillips exxonmobil sabic and nippon gohsei . 1 technologies edit doosan babcock develops and manufactures proprietary safety assessment tools such as the pipe vibration meter 10 a hazardous area logger and a pipe reeling test rig and can repair and replace plant components in large workshops in europe and asia . 1 the company also deploys a range of asset integrity assessment technologies which include non destructive testing laser 3d scanning and remote visual inspection . safety record and awards edit doosan babcock achieved eight million man hours without a lost time incident lti at ineos grangemouth in scotland and 10 million man hours without an lti on an emissions reduction project at castle peak power station in hong kong . 1 in 2013 the company was presented with the exxonmobil fawley site contractor safety award and the british safety council s sword of honour 11 for best practices in health and safety . in 2012 doosan babcock completed over 36 000 field welds with a 99.88 % success rate . 1 history edit babcock & wilcox limited works renfrew circa 1919 the us babcock & wilcox company opened an office in glasgow scotland in 1881 . commences boiler making and singer manufacturing company works at clydebank initially using components shipped from the us . in 1891 babcock & wilcox formed a british company named babcock & wilcox ltd. 12 the board members include renowned scottish structural engineer sir william arrol and andrew stewart of the lanarkshire based steel tubemakers a & j stewart and menzies subsequently stewarts & lloyds . a manufacturing facility at renfrew scotland based on the existing porterfield foundry was established in 1895 in 1956 babcock & wilcox supplied the steam raising plant for the world s first commercial nuclear power station calder hall in the uk . 5 babcock power ltd established in 1979 ; later renamed babcock energy ltd. babcock energy ltd was floated on the stock exchange in 1982 becoming babcock international plc. in 1987 babcock international entered a short lived merger with fki electricals forming fki babcock plc. in 1989 fki babcock plc demerged to form babcock international group plc and fki plc. 13 in 1995 a 75 % stake in babcock s boiler manufacturing and energy services activities known as babcock energy ltd was sold to mitsui engineering & shipbuilding of japan to become mitsui babcock energy ltd. 14 babcock energy ltd provides the steam generators for the british sizewell b nuclear power station . mitsui sold babcock energy ltd to doosan heavy industries & construction a subsidiary company of the doosan group of south korea in 2006 . the uk company is renamed doosan babcock energy ltd. 15 in 2010 doosan babcock energy ltd renamed doosan power systems ltd then in 2012 renamed doosan power systems uk ltd. in 2013 doosan power systems uk ltd renamed as doosan babcock ltd. the same year doosan babcock ltd invested 20 million in uk test facility and research and development activities . new offices opened in europe the middle east and asia . 1 references edit a b c d e f doosan babcock oil gas and petrochemical pdf . doosan power systems . doosan babcock limited . 2013 . retrieved 18 november 2013 . power plant combustion method . power plant css . 2010 . retrieved 18 november 2013 . cc pilot100 pdf . sse . sse . 2013 . retrieved 18 november 2013 . calder hall power station no. 1 pdf . the engineer . 31 august 1998 . pp. 464 467 . a b nuclear . new build and operational support pdf . doosan power systems . doosan power systems . 2011 . retrieved 18 november 2013 . suppliers . sellafield . 2013 . retrieved 18 november 2013 . fisher paul 23 march 2011 . doosan babcock overview of two decommissioning projects pdf . scottish enterprise . doosan power systems . retrieved 18 november 2013 . doosan babcock achieves early milestone in bradwell deplanting . doosan power systems . 14 august 2013 . retrieved 18 november 2013 . polymeric encapsulation for radioactive waste immobilisation . engineer live . retrieved 18 november 2013 . the pipe vibration meter pvm . pipe vibration meter . retrieved 18 november 2013 . sword of honour winners 2013 pdf . british safety council . retrieved 18 november 2013 . records of babcock international group plc . nahste . retrieved 18 november 2013 . records of babcock industrial & electrical products ltd . university of glasgow archive services . retrieved 18 november 2013 . uk activity report babcock . uk business park . retrieved 18 november 2013 . mitsui to sell mitsui babcock to south korean firm . antara . archived from the original on august 19 2012 . retrieved 18 november 2013 . external links edit doosan power systems doosan lentjes doosan babcock energy germany doosan babcock energy polska v t e doosan subsidiaries doosan babcock doosan bears doosan corporation doosan engineering & construction doosan fuel cell america doosan handball club doosan heavy industries & construction oriental brewery sold to anheuser busch inbev products doosan encyclopedia retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title doosan babcock & oldid 738750875 categories engineering companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in crawley navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main 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