06 May 2014
Spanish energy contractor Tecnicas Reunidas said it had been awarded a contract worth close to $1.7 billion from Saudi Aramco to build a large power complex in Jazan Province.
In a statement, Tecnicas Reunidas (TR) said the Jazan IGCC complex would be the largest gasifier-based power facility in the world and would become operational in 2017.
The facilities will be operational in 2017. This new contract is the second one for the power generation business of TR with Saudi Aramco after the successful completion of the Manifa cogeneration plant.
The complex will convert vacuum residue to be produced in the adjacent Jazan refinery into synthesis gas (syngas).
TR is currently executing two large projects in the 400,000 bpd Jazan Refinery.
The gasification unit will have a capacity of 2,110,000 Nm3/h of syngas that will be evenly used to produce purified hydrogen for the refinery and to fuel a combined cycle facility producing utilities and power for the refinery and export to the national grid.
Total output of the plant will be of approximately 2,400 MW.
The scope of the project awarded to TR includes the development of the utilities and off-sites facilities for the IGCC complex under a Lump Sum Turn Key (LSTK) contract covering the services for engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning support for the facilities.
Spanish energy contractor Tecnicas Reunidas said it had been awarded a contract worth close to $1.7 billion from Saudi Aramco to build a large power complex in Jazan Province.
In a statement, Tecnicas Reunidas (TR) said the Jazan IGCC complex would be the largest gasifier-based power facility in the world and would become operational in 2017.
The facilities will be operational in 2017. This new contract is the second one for the power generation business of TR with Saudi Aramco after the successful completion of the Manifa cogeneration plant.
The complex will convert vacuum residue to be produced in the adjacent Jazan refinery into synthesis gas (syngas).
TR is currently executing two large projects in the 400,000 bpd Jazan Refinery.
The gasification unit will have a capacity of 2,110,000 Nm3/h of syngas that will be evenly used to produce purified hydrogen for the refinery and to fuel a combined cycle facility producing utilities and power for the refinery and export to the national grid.
Total output of the plant will be of approximately 2,400 MW.
The scope of the project awarded to TR includes the development of the utilities and off-sites facilities for the IGCC complex under a Lump Sum Turn Key (LSTK) contract covering the services for engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning support for the facilities.
© Arab News 2014
