Siemens Energy has received a $1.7 billion contract to build two turnkey combined cycle power plants (CCPPs) in Oman from a consortium led by the French utility GDF Suez.
The 750 MW plants will be built as Barka III and Sohar II by Siemens as consortium leader with its South Korean partner GS E&C. Both units will go into operation in simple cycle mode in May 2012 and later be extended to combined cycle by April 2013.
“Barka III and Sohar II will be the first turnkey plants built by Siemens in Oman,” said Michael Suess, CEO of the Fossil Power Generation Division of Siemens Energy. “Thanks to state-of-the-art technology our plants will set new benchmarks in terms of environmental compatibility and efficiency.” In 2008 Siemens built for GDF Suez Shuweihat S2 a CCPP with integrated seawater desalination in Abu Dhabi.
Barka III will be erected in the immediate vicinity of Barka city. Sohar II will be built in the Sohar industrial park, approximately 200 km west of the capital Muscat. In addition to turnkey construction, Siemens will supply for each of these plants the main components comprising two SGT5-4000F gas turbines, one SST5-5000 steam turbine, three SGen5-2000H generators, electrical equipment and SPPA-T3000 instrumentation and control system. The project includes also a long-term service agreement for the gas turbines.
The consortium partner GS E&C will supply the heat-recovery steam generators and will also be responsible for items including the civil works, transformers and ancillary systems as well as equipment installation.
