Taweelah A1 Power and Desalination Plant, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Key Data:
Contract signed
July 2001
Output
385 million litres per day of clean water and 1,430MW electrical power
Plant type
Combined cycle gas turbine
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Estimated investment
$1.5bn
Commissioning
1 May 2003
Expansion
Completed 2006, further expansion planned for 2009 to take plant to 1,592MW
Key Players:
Owners
Gulf Total Tractebel (60% Gulf Power Company; 20% Tractebel, 20% TotalFinaElf)
Major contractors
TotalFinaElf, Tractebel
Turbines and boilers, piping, etc.
Babcock Borsig Power (BPP) through subsidiaries NEM, BBP Services, Oberhausen
Financing
BNP Paribas and Citibank NA via intermediary, Norton Rose
Consultants
SCFB, Fichtner, White and Case, Al Tamini
Transmission lines
Halliburton Brown and Root
Desalination and power block equipment revisions
Sargent and Lundy
Further expansion
Doosan Heavy Industries
Plant Details:
Fuel
Natural gas
Turbines and HRSGs
Three GE 9E and five combined cycle 9E gas turbines, eight HRSGs
Desalination units
Three 202.7MW back pressure steam turbines
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