Bilfinger, Germany announced in a statement that it has awarded a contract for the Inspection and maintenance services at Ghazlan Power plant and Shuqaiq Power plant in Saudi Arabia.
The project was awarded through its local Subsidiary Bilfinger Babcock Borsig Service Arabia Ltd.,
The Contract was awarded by Saudi Electricity Company (SEC).
The combined value of the contract is around €35 million (USD 41.5million).
Bilfinger is responsible for the inspection and maintenance of various plant components at the power plants.
The scope of services includes, among other things, the repair of deaerators, steam drums, boiler ducts, boiler casings, blowdown and flash tank test and the repair of burners and burner gas valves and actuators, repairs at sea water intake areas, various valves across the plant and other auxiliary equipment.
Bilfinger has been conducting maintenance and repair work at the Ghazlan power plant since 2013. SEC has now extended the contract for this work by three years. Similar work at the power plant in Shuqaiq has now been added.
The natural gas-fired power plant in Ghazlan is located almost 60 kilometers north of Dammam on the east coast of Saudi Arabia. With a capacity of 4,000 megawatts, it is the largest power plant in the Middle East region.
SEC’s Shuqaiq power plant is located on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, about 600 kilometers south of Jeddah. The integrated power plant includes facilities for generating electricity from heavy crude oil as well as seawater desalination plants and has a total capacity of 2,880 megawatts.
***
Read Also: Bilfinger secured Engineering & PMC Contracts of Abu Dhabi Ports
For latest updates, follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter,
