Gas- and Oil-Fired Plants in Saudi Arabia

 

Al-Khobar-2
Location: Ash Sharqiyah
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: Ash Sharqiyah
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

 

RAWEC
Location: Ar Riyad
Operator: Rabigh Arabian Water and Electricity Co (Rawec)
Configuration: 5 X 120 MW CHP
Operation: 2009
Fuel: natural gas
Boiler supplier: MHI
T/G supplier: MHI, Melco
EPC: MHI, Mott Macdonald, Soluziona, MTMM
Quick facts: This power station and co-located RO plant was handed over on 1 Jan 2009. Rawec is a consortium of Marubeni (30%), JGC Corp (25%), ACWA Power (23.9%) and Itochu (20.1%. Rawec has a 25yr supply agreement with Petro Rabigh for 380 MW of electricity, 7,405 tph of water and 1,655 tph of steam.

Photograph courtesy of ACWA Power International
Posted 24 Jul 2010

 

Al-Shuaibah
Location: Makkah
Operator: Saudi Electricity Co
Configuration: 11 X 393 MW
Operation: 2001-2006
Fuel: crude oil
Boiler supplier: Alstom
T/G supplier: Alstom
EPC: PB Power, Saudconsult, Sadelmi, Archirodon, Gama, Alstom
Quick facts: This is one of the largest power stations in the Middle East and is being extended with three additional 400-MW sets. The site is about mid-way down the Red Sea coast.

Photograph courtesy of Alstom
Posted 29 Sep 2010 

 

Shubaibah IWPP
Location: Makkah
Operator: ACWA Power
Configuration: 3 X 340 MW CHP
Operation: 2010
Fuel: crude oil
Boiler supplier: Ansaldo
T/G supplier: Siemens
EPC: Siemens, Doosan
Quick facts: In June 2005, a Saudi-Malaysian consortium comprised of ACWA Power Projects, PIF, Tenaga Nasional Bhd, Malakoff Bhd, and Khazanah Bhd was selected to build this plant.

Photograph courtesy of ACWA Power International
Posted 24 Jul 2010

Abbreviations

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

Updated 10/06/10

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