Italian firm will provide power equipment for 3,219MW power plants
Italys Ansaldo has been awarded two contracts worth a total of about 600m ($669.7m) to provide turbines for the Ibri/Sohar 3 independent power project (IPP) in Oman.
For each of the two plants, Ansaldo will provide four gas turbines, four heat recovery steam generators , two steam turbines and six turbo generators to Chinas Sepco 3, which is the EPC contractor for both plants.
MEED recently reported that a consortium led by Japans Mitsui and Saudi Arabias Acwa Power had signed the power purchase agreement (PPA) for the 3,150MW Ibri/Sohar 3 IPP.
The team signed the PPA on 1 March.
MEED reported in January that the project owner, Oman Power & Water Procurement Company (OPWP), had selected the Mitsui/Acwa consortium as preferred bidder for the scheme.
Mitsui has the majority share in the winning consortium, with 50.1 per cent ownership. Acwa Power holds 44.9 per cent and the local Dhofar International Development & Investment Holding the remaining 5 per cent.
Sum of Net Project Value ($m) | Industry | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country Name | Construction | Transport | Gas | Industrial | Power | Water | Grand Total |
UAE | 1287 | 707 | 76 | 14 | 2084 | ||
Kuwait | 10 | 2930 | 2940 | ||||
Qatar | 151 | 151 | |||||
Egypt | 140 | 1156 | 250 | 250 | 1796 | ||
Saudi Arabia | 1515 | 1040 | 110 | 2665 | |||
Oman | 45 | 150 | 195 | ||||
Bahrain | 3 | 3 | |||||
Iran | 3000 | 3000 | |||||
Grand Total | 3148 | 4863 | 3970 | 76 | 513 | 264 | 12834 |
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