France’s Alstom has been awarded an estimated $227m contract by South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to supply four 720MW steam turbine generator sets for the Shuqaiq power plant project in Saudi Arabia.

Alstom’s contract includes the engineering, manufacturing, supply and field services for all four steam turbines and generators, and will also include all direct control and auxiliary systems.

Hyundai won the $3.3bn contract from the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) to build the 2,640MW Shuqaiq power plant in Saudi Arabia in August.

The South Korean contractor will build the steam plant on a turnkey basis, which will include engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), testing and commissioning. The plant will be located on the Red Sea coast, about 580 kilometres south of Jeddah, and is scheduled to be commissioned in 2017.