Siemens to Supply Power Plant Components to Saudi Arabia


Siemens Energy has secured an order to supply gas turbine packages to Saudi Arabia. The components are to be installed in the Hail Extension II and Al Qurayat Expansion II power plants. Purchaser is the Alfanar Construction Company and Saudi Services for Electromechanic Works (SSEM) respectively. These two companies will perform the project on turnkey basis for the Saudi Electric Company (SEC) utility. Delivery of the components is scheduled for 2010 and 2011, with an order volume of approximately EUR100 million.

The Hail Extension II gas turbine power plant is located in central Saudi Arabia and is made of two units, with a total capacity of 160MW. The demand for power in the Hail region is increasing by ten percent annually. To meet these rising demands the plant will come on line as a fast track project as early as summer of 2011. The new Al Qurayat Expansion II gas turbine plant is located in the north west of Saudi Arabia. Consisting of two power plant units, the plant will have a total installed capacity of 136 megawatts (MW). Siemens will supply a total of four of the powerful and reliable SGT6-2000E gas turbines for the two plants, along with four generators and the auxiliary equipment.

"Siemens and Saudi Arabia can look back upon 75 years of excellent cooperation, during which we successfully contributed to the build-up of the country's infrastructure with our local partners," states Lutz Kahlbau, CEO and President of Siemens Ltd. Saudi Arabia. "We are very proud of this, and there still remains much work to be done in the future. Siemens is in an excellent position to contribute with its technology to the rapid growth in Saudi Arabia." At the beginning of this year, Siemens handed over the Shuaibah IWPP, with the integrated seawater desalination facility, to Shuaibah Water and Electricity Company (SWEC). Siemens Energy built this power plant as a turnkey project together with its consortium partner Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd. The overall plant has an installed capacity of 900 megawatts (MW) and produces approximately 880,000 cubic meters of drinking water daily for the cities of Mecca, Jeddah, Taif and Al Baha.

The Siemens Energy Sector is the world's leading supplier of a complete spectrum of products, services and solutions for the generation, transmission and distribution of power and for the extraction, conversion and transport of oil and gas. In fiscal 2009 (ended September 30), the Energy Sector had revenues of approximately EUR25.8 billion and received new orders totaling approximately EUR30 billion and posted a profit of EUR3.3 billion. On September 30, 2009, the Energy Sector had a work force of more than 85,100. Further information is available at: http://www.siemens.com/energy.

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