Siemens expands Kuwait open cycle power with steam turbine

• 7 years ago (2017-04-20)
• David Flin

Gas 379 Middle East 317

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Siemens has received an order to deliver an industrial steam turbine package to expand the Az Zour South 3 open cycle gas turbine power plant to combined cycle. The plant is located in Kuwait, and is operated by the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW). Siemens’ customer is the Chinese EPC contractor SEPCOIII. The expansion will increase the total installed capacity of the plant by 263 MW. The combined cycle power plant is scheduled to go into operation in mid-2019.

Az Zour South 3 began operating as an open cycle power plant with two SGT4-5000F gas turbines in 2015. Siemens is now supplying an SST-800 high pressure steam turbine, and SSt-500 low pressure steam turbine, and an SGen1200A generator.