Siemens Energy has won a contract from a consortium led by the French utility GDF Suez to build two turnkey combined cycle power plants in Oman.

As per the contract, Siemens Energy will build two 750-MW plants - Barka III and Sohar II as consortium leader together with its South Korean partner GS E&C, the company said in a statement.
 
In May 2012, both units are planned to go on in operation in simple-cycle mode, with the extension to combined cycle to follow by April 2013. The overall investment volume is approximately $1.7 billion, said a top official.

“Barka III and Sohar II will be the first turnkey plants built by Siemens in Oman,” explained 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,” he added.

Back in 2008, Siemens had 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 the coastal city of the same name in northern Oman. 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 and is consortium leader for the turn key project.

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, the statement said.

According to Suess, the projects were awarded by OPWP (Oman Power and Water Purchasing) to the lead developer GDF SUEZ and its co-developers Multitech LLC (Suhail Bahwan Group), Sojitz Corporation, Shikoku Electric Power Co, and Public Authority for Social Insurance.-TradeArabia News Service