What oil is
to the United States, water is to the Gulf States: Siemens has turnkeyed
over 30,000 megawatts for IPP’s and utilities and installed desalination
units with partners FISIA, DOOSAN and other desalination manufacturers.
THE IWPP FORMULA
The IWPP formula for infrastructure
development in the Middle East was launched in Abu Dhabi, UAE at Taweelah
A2 under a turnkey consortium led by Siemens Power Generation (PG). The
Emirates CMS Power Company (ECPC) is a joint venture between the Abu Dhabi
Water & Electricity Authority (ADWEA) with 60% equity and CMS Energy
with 40%. ECPC is a 710 megawatt, combined cycle facility, consisting
of three Siemens V94.3A combustion turbines, three single pressure supplementary
fired HRSG’s, two Siemens Industrial type 111 MW back pressure steam
turbines and 4x12.5 desal units. Construction and commissioning of the
facility was undertaken by a consortium led by Siemens.
Today, Al Taweelah
A2 is capable of producing 710MW of power (net) and 50 million imperial
gallons per day (MIGD) of potable water. A contract was signed with the
Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Company (ADWEC) to supply water and power
under a 20-year agreement. ECPC entered into a $596 million facility agreement
with a syndicate of international banks, headed by Barclays Bank.
THE IWPP MODEL
“The UAE is the model
for the region,” Hans-Dieter Martin, Vice President Middle East
Sales and Service for Siemens PG told World-Generation. “Sales have
almost doubled since 1995, and we expect to have a business volume of
over 30 percent from this region in the long run.” Siemens PG has
600 personnel stationed in the region out of a total 3,000 Siemens employees
in the Middle East.
ISCOSA, a Siemens company headquartered
in Dammam since the 1970’s has a work force of 350 to provide 24/7
service solutions to over 300 power, desalination, cement, oil and petrochemical
industries throughout the Middle East who place more than 1,400 service
orders annually.
NEW ORDER
“Siemens PG
has supplied more than 300 gas turbines and steam turbines to the Middle
East region, for turnkey and IPP solutions,” Martin said. “Two
projects , Shuweihat S1 in UAE and Az Zour in Kuwait underline our strength
as a full turnkey EPC supplier. The 1500 MW and 100 MIGD Shuweihat S1
power and seawater desalination plant received the MEED award for Project
of the Year 2001”.
The project is scheduled to
become commercial in August 2005. The first two gas turbines V94.3 have
successfully undergone full load operation with both fuels. The two steam
turbines are under erection as well as the desalination units.
Az Zour is a 1000
MW gas fired simple cycle gas turbine plant and will reach commercial
operation during the Summer 2004. This plant is designed to be run for
peak load applications but can be converted into a combined cycle plant.
NEW TENDERS
“The countries in the
Middle East will increase their efforts in privatization as can be seen
from the new tenders in the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia,” Martin
said.
Martin also commented on the
new IWPP’s entering the region. Of the 16 bidding on the Request
For Proposals for Mirfa, only four have existing assets in the region.
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