Rehabilitation Program at 700-Megawatt Rifaa Power Station Enters Final Stage

CORDOBA, ARGENTINA--September 17, 2008--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Bahrain's Ministry of Water and Electricity (MWE) announced that the rehabilitation of the last two of six Alstom (EPA:ALO) (Levallois-Perret, France) GT13D2 75-megawatt (MW) gas turbines at the 700-MW Rifaa Power Station will start in October. This is the second phase of a major rehabilitation program for the Rifaa Power Plant, which has an installed capacity that includes five 50-MW Siemens (NYSE:SI) (Munich, Germany) gas turbines in addition to the six 75-MW Alstom gas turbines. The first phase of the project ended in 2002 and consisted of the rehabilitation of the five Siemens turbines.