California, US-based engineering giant Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced on April 20 that it has received a contract from Indian steel giant Tata Steel's subsidiary European steelmaker Corus Staal BV (Corus) to provide basic engineering services to support Corus' new ‘TRUST' investment in a 525 MW cogeneration plant in IJmuiden, The Netherlands.
Jacob's scope of work is part of the overall ‘TRUST' project, which is intended to redirect increased production gases to provide electricity for the onsite steel plant and to the national grid. Jacobs will perform engineering for all media utilities connections between the offsite and onsite portions of the new plant area. Work will be executed by Jacobs' staff in Leiden, The Netherlands.