Siemens has been awarded a contract worth US$967m to supply the key components for a 4,000 MW CCGT power project in Saudi Arabia. The power plant is designed to deliver electricity to the Jazan Industrial city area in the southwest of the country and to the refinery of Jazan, which will additionally be supplied with process steam. The plant will be fueled with gasified refinery residues, which contributes greatly to the preservation of the country's energy resources. Siemens' scope of supply includes 10 SGT6-5000F gas turbines - specially designed for synthesis gas (syngas) and diesel fuel, of which six will be manufactured in Saudi Arabia, five steam turbines, 15 generators and 10 heat recovery steam generators. With an installed capacity of 4,000 MW, Jazan will be the largest gasification-based power plant site in the world. The Jazan power plant will consist of five units. Commissioning of the first two blocks is scheduled for spring of 2016. The next block will follow in spring 2017. The other units will go online successively after this at intervals of a few months each.
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