Wärtsilä to supply a 52 MW gas power plant to Russia
Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 29 November 2006
Wärtsilä Corporation has been awarded a contract to supply a 52 MW
gas-fired power plant to Western Siberia. The combined heat and power
(CHP) plant will be built at the Tarasovskoye oil field in the
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District of the Tyumen region. The contract
is Wärtsilä's first CHP project of over 50 MW in Russia and the
first-ever power plant for the Russian state-owned oil company
Rosneft, one of the top ten oil producers in the world.
The contract was signed in November with Energotech, a turnkey
contractor to Rosneft-Purneftegaz, a 100%-owned subsidiary of
Rosneft. The power plant will comprise six Wärtsilä 34SG engines
running on associated gas from the oil well. In addition, Wärtsilä
will deliver the power plant building.
The power plant equipment will be delivered between October and
December 2007 and the gas power plant will be fully operational in
the spring of 2008 supplying heat and power to the oil field's
production facilities.
Rosneft selected a Wärtsilä gas engine-based power plant over a
conventional gas turbine arrangement due to its flexible load and
operational characteristics. The gas engines also tolerate fuel
quality variations and therefore are suitable for oil field power
generation.
Other advantages which the Wärtsilä CHP plant will bring to the
customer include high efficiency, low emissions and the ability to
reduce flaring because the associated gas will be used for the
generation of power and heat instead. Wärtsilä's extensive experience
in Arctic areas also played an important part in the customer's
decision.
For further information, please contact Eeva Kainulainen, Vice
President, Corporate Communications and IR, tel. +358 40 568 0591.
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