Siemens' North Carolina Plant Starts Shipping Steam Generators to Saudi Power Project

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Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--As part of a $1 billion contract awarded to Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) (Munich, Germany) by a Saudi consortium in early 2011, Siemens has developed the first major components at its plant in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is ready to deliver them to the 2,400-megawatt (MW) Ras Al-Khair (formerly Ras Az Zawr) power project, which is 75 kilometers west of Al Jubail. The consortium includes Al-Arrab Contracting Company (Alfalah, Saudi Arabia) and Sepco III Electric Power Construction Company (Qingdao, China).

Siemens total contract for the project covers 12 gas turbines, 10 heat-recovery steam generators, five steam turbines, and the associated and ancillary systems, including all the electrical, instrumentation and control equipment. The heat-recovery steam generators for the first two units of the combined-cycle power plant are now ready, on schedule, for shipping.

The gas turbines for the power plant were manufactured in Germany at a Siemens in plant in Berlin, and the company's manufacturing plant in Mulheim a.d. Ruhr is supplying the steam turbines.

The water desalination plant, which will run in conjunction with the power plant, will use a combination of thermal and membrane technologies and will produce about 1 billion liters of potable water a day. It will begin supplying the capital, Riyadh, with water by 2014.

The power plant is sited at the new city of Razmic (Ras Al Zawr Mineral Industrial City), which will be the power base to exploit mineral resources of phosphate and bauxite. A di-ammonium phosphate plant, an aluminum smelter, an ammonia plant, an alumina refinery, and a plant to produce phosphoric and sulfuric acid are planned for Razmic. The smelter is scheduled for completion by 2014.

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