Jebel Ali Free Zone-based Aggreko International has featured in a number of contracts in the Middle East in recent months including one related to Palm Island, Jumeirah, UAE.

The company also worked on the Burullus Gas project in Egypt and on a contract with Zeitco, in the same country.
The contract for Palm Island, a project of the Dubai development company Nakheel, was for the supply of a 4.5 MW temporary power and lighting package during construction of the multi-billion-dollar development project.
 Unable to access the electrical grid during construction of the island, contractors, Keller Grundbau, a leading ground-engineering specialist, and NSCC-SBF JV, a joint venture between UAE-based ground engineering company National Services and Contracting (NSCC) and Soletanche Bachy, required a secure, reliable and portable temporary source of power.
Aggreko supplied a 2.4 MW power package for Keller to operate ground compaction equipment in a technique known as ‘vibro compaction’. To achieve the required bearing capacity within the reclaimed fill, a grid of dense columns was created using a giant vibrating poker.
Another 2.1MW power package was supplied to NSCC - SBF JV to operate a bentonite (a type of clay used in cement) plant as well as power for a number of site offices. Both packages were installed, serviced and maintained by specialist Aggreko engineers available round-the-clock. 
Aggreko completed a series of orders to supply Burullus Gas, a joint venture between BG International, Edison International SpA, and Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, with facility power and turbine testing for their recently constructed gas processing plant located at Idku, near Alexandria, Egypt.
The processing plant receives gas from the largest gasfield development in Egypt, the ‘Scarab and Saffron’ fields located 90 km off the north coast. The onshore processing plant will deliver up to 750 million standard cu ft per day of gas and approximately 3,000 barrels per day of condensate. Treated gas is metered and exported via a new pipeline to the Egyptian National Transmission System.
When the plant completed construction in late 2002, the first domestic delivery of gas was scheduled for the first quarter of 2003. Aggreko was initially contracted to supply a 1 MW temporary power package to help commission the new processing plant in November 2002.
An additional 2 MW was installed four months later, providing a complete main power supply for the facility enabling the first gas production and delivery to the domestic market as planned. Both packages were managed on site by Aggreko staff round the clock.
With a secure and reliable main power supply available from Aggreko, Burullus requested a 5 MVA loadbank package to help commission the newly installed permanent turbines at the facility.
“The excellent performance on both the power and loadbank packages supplied by Aggreko resulted in both contracts extending for many months,” an Aggreko spokesman said.
Aggreko also announced it has secured a nine-month temporary power contract with new client Zeitco (East Zeit Petroleum Company). Zeitco is a joint venture between Egyptian General Petroleum Company and major US petroleum group Devon Energy Corporation. The venture was formed to develop the East Zeit Oil Field, located 10 km offshore Egypt in the central southern Gulf of Suez.
“The Aggreko power package consisted of two 150 kVA generators, a purpose-built distribution panel, 25 metres of associated cables, and a containerised fuel tank, which was mobilised from the UK, Europe and Dubai and delivered to the Red Sea Port in less than 22 days. As the rig is unmanned, reliability and service was paramount to Zeitco. We provided specialised engineers to install, commission, and maintain the package 24/7 for the duration of the project.”
Aggreko supplied a 2 MW temporary power package on board the unmanned oil rig, Platform A, located in the East Zeit Field. During planned maintenance to the permanent power supply on board Platform A, a temporary power supply was required to operate the five ESP pumps and allow oil production to continue.