Wärtsilä wins 160 MW power plant order
from Pakistan
Wärtsilä received in June an order to supply and install a 160 MW power
plant at the Attock Refinery Ltd site near Rawalpindi in Pakistan.
The total value of the project is in excess of EUR 100 million.
Wärtsilä’s subsidiary in Pakistan will carry out the local
construction, the value of which is approx EUR 15 million out of the
total project value.
The project will take 15 months to complete and commercial operations
are expected to commence during the 3rd quarter of 2008.
The customer is Attock Gen Ltd, a company with the specific purpose of
owning and operating the power plant. The main owners within the Attock
Oil Group include Attock Refinery Ltd and Attock Oil Company.
Prior to this order, Wärtsilä has supplied a total of 860 MW of
electrical power generation to Pakistan. “This latest order will mean
that we have supplied power plants which produce more than 1000 MW of
electricity to Pakistan. Our strong local presence and successful track
record in Pakistan combined with efficiency and flexibility of our
solution were amongst the reasons we were awarded this contract,” says
Mr Christoph Vitzthum, Group Vice President Wärtsilä Power Plants.
Wärtsilä is also negotiating a contract for operation and maintenance
of the plant.
"This new power plant will enable smooth refinery operations as sale of
heavy fuel will be ensured and will provide relief to the common man
and boost the economy of energy starved Pakistan. We also wanted the
highest possible power plant efficiency during a lifetime cycle of 25
years, which we believe Wärtsilä's combined cycle concept will be able
to provide," says Mr M. Adil Khattak, Chief Executive Officer of Attock
Gen Ltd.
For more information please call Mrs Eeva Kainulainen, VP, Corporate
Communications, tel +358 40 568 0591.
