Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for 4 sets of a 700 MW class supercritical pressure steam turbine and generator, plus supercritical boiler components, to be installed at a large-scale, heavy oil-fired power generation plant that will be built by Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), a state-owned power company in Saudi Arabia. MHI received the order from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor of the power plant. MHI is slated to complete deliveries of the products on order between September 2014 and March 2015.
The 2,800 MW class (collective power generation capacity) power plant, which is to be first heavy oil-fired supercritical power generation plant in Saudi Arabia, will be built at a site south of Jeddah, a city on the country's western coast facing the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producing country, has for the first time chosen to adopt a supercritical pressure power generation system capable of efficiently using heavy oil, in order to meet the country's increasing electricity demand.
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