ABB Wins $450Mn Substation Order From Kahrama
ABB said on 18 December it had won a $450mn contract from Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahrama) to support the country’s rapid growth by expanding the power transmission system. The contract scope includes three substations and a telecommunication package for Qatar’s Phase 7 grid expansion project, which will increase power in areas of high growth where electricity demand is greatest. ABB is scheduled to energize the substations in the first half of 2008. In November 2005, ABB won a $170mn contract from Kahramaa for 12 substations and power cables for the Phase 6 grid expansion project and a $220mn contract for Phase 1 of the Gulf Grid project, linking the electrical grids of the six GCC states, including Qatar. For the latest project, ABB will engineer, procure, construct and commission three substations, and supply 37 bays of 400kV gas-insulated switchgear (GIS); 66 bays 220kV GIS; 36 bays 132kV GIS; and 41 bays 66kV GIS. ABB will also supply 25 transformers, rated from 40 to 800 megavolt amperes (MVA).
