ALSTOM signs maintenance and reconditioning contract for Ruwais refinery power plant in Abu Dhabi

ALSTOM has been awarded a contract to supply maintenance and reconditioning services for the 640 MW Ruwais Refinery gas-fired power and desalination plant in Abu Dhabi. The order was placed by Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) - the oil-refining branch of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, one of the world’s largest oil producers.

The scope of the contract, worth around 40 million euros, includes the supply of spare parts, major overhauls of each of the plant’s four GT13E2 gas turbines, and the reconditioning of replaced GT parts. Overhaul work is scheduled for completion in early 2004.

This order is significant for ALSTOM’s Local Service Centre in the Gulf, “ALSTOM Power Service Arabia” (APSA), which has just reinforced its capability to do business locally by completing the construction of a new service workshop and business offices within the Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai. The Ruwais project is the first where APSA is providing and co-ordinating all activities and manpower themselves in co-operation with the GT service centre in Baden, Switzerland.

APSA’s new facility now serves as ALSTOM’s local HQ for all sales of power plant spare parts and related services to the Gulf region and is the base for the Middle East hub of service activities. The attached workshop is primarily set up to recondition gas turbine blades and vanes and to rewind generator rotors. It will also support other ALSTOM company service entities in the Middle East.

The order reflects Takreer’s confidence in ALSTOM and follows the 1998 turnkey order for the Ruwais plant, which is located 230kms west of the capital, Abu Dhabi City.

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ALSTOM is a global leader in energy and transport infrastructure. The Company serves the energy market through its activities in the fields of power generation and power transmission and distribution, and the transport market through its activities in rail and marine. In fiscal year 2002/03, ALSTOM had annual sales in excess of €20 billion and employed around 100,000 people in over 70 countries worldwide. 

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