Alstom's $96 Million Contract to Add Power Steam-Tails to Boost Jordan Plant Capacity

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Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Two contract orders that are worth about $96 million have been awarded by Metka S.A. (Athens, Greece) to Alstom S.A. (Paris, France) for key projects that Metka is executing for the Samra Electric Power Company (Amman, Jordan). Metka is a contractor for large-scale energy projects.

The first contract involves the delivery of a GT13E2 gas turbine and associated spares for a new fast-track, simple-cycle power plant being constructed in the Zarqa region of Jordan. Alstom will design, deliver and supervise the installation of the gas turbine, generator and auxiliaries for the new unit. The supply of equipment will take place in a fast-track mode, with commercial operations scheduled for June 2013. The power plant will add 146 megawatts (MW) to the Jordanian grid and assist in bridging the power gap in the peak summer months.

The second contract involves the supply of Alston's steam-tail add-on technology to convert the existing 285-MW Samar 111 simple-cycle, gas-fired plant into a combined-cycle plant. The add-on of this technology will increase the power generation capacity of the unit by an additional 143 MW. The project will begin commercial operations in 2015.

A steam-tail consists of adding steam power generation equipment to an existing gas power plant to increase its efficiency and cut emissions per MW produced. Stream-tails are an efficient solution to increase capacity in the Middle East region, which has numerous simple-cycle, gas-fired plants in operation. Alstom has wide experience in adding steam-tails to suit any class of gas turbine from any original equipment manufacturer.

Recent Alstom projects include the steam-tail contract for the Riyadh PP12 gas-fired power plant being constructed for the Saudi Electric Company, and the steam tail for the As-Zour gas-fired project in Kuwait, which will add another 400 MW to the existing plant capacity.

In 2009, Alstom supplied two GT13E2 gas turbines for the 285-MW Samra simple-cycle plant in Jordan.

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