Construction Underway in Oklahoma on 1,250MW Kiamichi Energy Facility

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Inc.; Houston, Texas). Tenaska Incorporated (Omaha, Neb.) a privately held company, is the lead project developer with joint venture partner Kiowa Power Partners LLC (KPP) (Lewisville, Texas) and has begun construction of a $400 million 1,250 mega-watt (MW) combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma near the town of Kiowa.

BVZ Power Partners, a joint venture Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor partnership between Black & Veatch (Kansas City, Mo) and Zachry Construction Company Corporation (San Antonio, Texas) began construction in July of this year on the power plant that is expected to be in commercial operation by March of 2003.

The facility, located on a 100-acre site three miles southwest of Kiowa off US Highway 69, will be configured with four General Electric Frame F7A gas turbines and two General Electric steam turbines. Four heat recovery steam generators and two 12 cell-cooling towers will also be installed.

A long-term power sales agreement with Coral Energy (Houston, Texas), an affiliate of Shell Trading, has been reached and Coral will sell electricity produced at the Kiamichi Energy facility to the regional wholesale power market. Shell will also supply the natural gas to fuel the new plant producing enough power to meet the energy needs of more than three million homes.

Tenaska is an experienced developer of power generating facilities and has approximately 6,100MW of environmentally responsible generating stations in operation or under construction with an additional 6,000MW in pre-financing development.

Three companies own KPP: PRG Kiowa, LLC, a subsidiary of Power Resource Group, Inc., and a privately held independent power producer; Longview Generation, also a privately held independent power producer headquartered in Skaneateles, New York; and Donco, LLC, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, business development firm.