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BHEL bags EPC contract from Reliance Industries
New Delhi, January 23, 2008
In the face of stiff competition from Indian and multinational
companies, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won an
order for setting up a captive power plant in Maharashtra on
Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) basis,
involving supply and commissioning of an Advanced-class Fr.9FA
Gas Turbine.
Valued at Rs.866 Crore, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has
placed the order for a 345 MW Gas Turbine-based Combined Cycle
Power Plant (CCPP) to be installed at Nagothane in district
Raigad of in Maharashtra.
Significantly, this is the first commercial order on BHEL for
an Advanced-class Fr.9FA Gas Turbine and will open up a new
line of business for the company.
The project is being set up to meet the power requirement of
Reliance Retail and other RIL ventures and is expandable up to
1,000 MW in future. The project is slated for completion in a
tight schedule of 26 months by BHEL.
For RIL, BHEL has already supplied and commissioned several
STG sets of various capacities, which have been operating
successfully and meeting the captive power needs of the
customer, efficiently.
BHEL's scope of work in the current project envisages design,
engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning
of one Frame 9FA Gas Turbine Generator set, one Steam Turbine
Generator set and one Heat Recovery Steam Generator with
state-of-the-art Controls and Instrumentation (C&I),
associated auxiliaries and balance of plant, in addition to
complete civil works and select spares.
While the Gas Turbine Generator will be manufactured at BHEL's
Hyderabad plant, the HRSG and state-of-the-art control system
will be manufactured at the company's Trichy plant and
Electronics Division, Bangalore, respectively.
BHEL has emerged as the market leader in co-generation and
captive power plants, offering units from 10 MW onwards for
both steam turbine-based and gas-based combined cycle power
projects for total power and process steam requirements of
various industries. So far, the company has supplied and
commissioned more than 700 Steam Turbine and Gas Turbine-based
plants for a host of industries like metal, paper, sugar,
cement and process industries like refineries, petrochemicals,
fertilizer etc, in India and abroad.
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