Al-Ghubrah IWPP

Background

Due to the increased cost of energy in general and natural gas in specific, OPWP had been instructed by the Government for the possibility of converting the Open Cycle Gas Turbine into Combined Cycle Gas Turbine as part of the Fuel Gas conservation initiated by Ministry of Oil and Gas. OPWP appointed PB Power to develop various technically feasible options to increase the potable water and power capacity and to improve the overall fuel efficiency of Al Ghubrah Power and Desalination Plant. Based on the improvement study, OPWP proposes to add additional power and water desalination capacities to Al Ghubrah Power and Desalination Plant in order to meet the future demands. The proposed additional capacities are to be executed by splitting the existing Al Ghubrah Power and Desalination Plant site into two parts; East and West. The East part of the plant will remain as it is with Al Ghubrah Power and Desalination Company whereas the west part along with the existing facilities will be allocated for new IWPP with some sharing facilities with the east part.

The proposed new Al-Ghubrah IWPP capacity in the west part of Al Ghubrah Power and Desalination Plant is 30 MIGD and about 500 MW Power capacities by utilizing the same gas consumption rate of the existing plant, with a minor increase.
 


Location

The project is located in Al-Ghubrah area in Muscat.

Project Time Schedule

Appointment of Advisors	Q2 2009
Issue Request For Proposal RFP	Q1 2010
Proposals Evaluation and Contract Award	Q4 2010
Plant Commercial Operation Date - Water	Q2 2012
Plant Power Commercial Operation Date	Q3 2013

Project Status

 

The Contract for Advisory Services awarded in April 2009 to the following consortium:

 

Ernst & Young                               Financial Advisor

DLA Piper                                      Legal Advisor

British Power International            Technical Advisor

 

·         Strategy report has been by OPWP.