Contracts for key Saudi projects have been awarded to instrumentation and control giant Emerson Process Management and Kentz Corp, a global engineering specialist solutions provider.
Emerson received a $10 million order to supply 670 Fisher control valves to be used in Saudi Electricity Co’s (SEC) Rabigh Power Plant No 2 project. The contract was awarded by Doosan Heavy Industries of Korea, the project’s EPC contractor.
The 2,800 MW (700 MW X 4) power plant with an investment of $3.4 billion is one of the major initiatives by SEC to meet the growing energy demand in Saudi Arabia. It is scheduled to be operational by 2014.
The valves are for boiler, turbine gas, multi-stage flash desalination, and selective catalytic reduction applications as well as for the balance of plant. The work will also include valve engineering, project management, site start-up and commissioning support.
Eight NPS24 EH valves will be used in high-pressure feedwater control to the economiser, one of the key applications in a power plant. The project will also take advantage of Emerson’s Fisher Fieldvue DVC6200 digital valve controller with integral position transmitter, making it one of the first power plants to use the linkage-less feedback technology that helps improve reliability under harsh environments and high-cycle applications.
Kentz contract
The other contract, which was awarded to Kentz, came from the Maaden Alcoa aluminum joint venture and relates to electrical and instrumentation work worth $32.7 million.
Kentz’s scope includes the installation of 30 km of power cable, low voltage and control cables, lighting fixtures, small power distribution system, instrument field devices and control equipment.
The work also includes pre-commissioning testing through to mechanical completion, procurement of electrical and instrumentation equipment and bulk materials.
Maaden Alcoa aluminum joint venture awarded the deal to Kentz Corporation Limited, the holding company of the Kentz Engineering and Construction Group, through its operating unit Saudi Arabian Kentz Co Ltd.
A company statement said the contract will commence immediately and is scheduled to be completed in November 2013.
It is anticipated to be in the order of 500,000 direct man-hours. Kentz has been operating in the kingdom since the late 1970s.