Gas- and Oil-Fired Plants in Saudi Arabia

Al-Khobar-2 Location: Eastern Operator: Saline Water Conversion Corp Configuration: 5 X 150 MW Operation: 1984 Fuel: heavy oil, natural Boiler supplier: B&W T/G supplier: Siemens EPC: Siemens, Hyundai, Modern Arab Construction, Fichtner, SIDEM Quick facts: Al-Khobar  is a combined power and desalination plant which can supply up to 220mn l/day of potable water using the MSF process. Photograph courtesy of Siemens AG Posted 18 Sep 2004		Al-Jubail-1 Location: Eastern Operator: Saline Water Conversion Corp Configuration: 5 X 60 MW Operation: 1982 Fuel: oil Boiler supplier: ?? T/G supplier: Ansaldo, Tosi EPC: Hyundai Quick facts: Al-Jubail  is a combined power and desalination plant. Photograph courtesy of Hyundai Engineering Co Ltd Posted 22 Aug 2004

Abbreviations: B&W = Babcock & Wilcox, MHI = Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, MSF = multi-stage flash, SIDEM = Soc Intl de Dessalement, T/G = turbine generator

Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base

Updated 07/04/09

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