Siemens has been given a key contract for the IPP Qurayyah combined cycle power plant (CCGT) in the Saudi Arabia. With an installed capacity of 4 GW, the plant will be one of the world's largest CCGTs, and will supply enough electrical energy to meet approximately one tenth of the country's current power demand for its 28m inhabitants.
Commissioning of the total of six blocks is scheduled for 2014. The project consortium is led by the Saudi company ACWA Power with Samsung C&T and MENA fund as further members. Siemens received the order from Samsung C&T which also acts as EPC contractor. In addition a long-term service and maintenance agreement for the power plant was signed with Hajr Project Company (owned by SEC, ACWA, Samsung C&T). The order value for Siemens is over US1bn. The plant, which will be commissioned in 2014, will be operated by Hajr as an Independent Power Producer (IPP).