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5 April 2004 - Vietnam's Prime Minister Phan Van Khai on Saturday pressed an electric button to start the operation of Phu My gas-fuelled power plant in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
The 720 MW Phu My 3 was built by German firm Siemens and includes two gas turbines and two heat recovery systems.
The project was built under the BOT (build-operate-transfer) form with funds worth $450m coming from BP Holdings PV of the British Petroleum, SempCorp Utilities of Singapore, Japan's Kyushu Electric Power Co., and the Nisshio Iwai Corp.
The Phu My 3 combined-cycle plant, located about 70 kilometers southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, constitutes a significant milestone in Vietnam's power supply. It will make a major contribution toward alleviating the country's power shortage, contributing 10 per cent of Vietnam's total electricity output.. As of January 2004, Phu My 3 will under the terms of a long-term supply agreement feed around 720 MW into the power grid operated by the state-owned power supplier Electricity of Vietnam (EVN). The combined-cycle power plant, which will be fired with local natural gas from two newly developed offshore gas fields, is to be operated in base-load duty.
The Siemens PG scope of supply includes two V94.3A gas turbines with associated auxiliary systems from the PG manufacturing plant in Berlin, one steam turbine and three generators from Mülheim, the entire electrical equipment and a Teleperm XP instrumentation and control system. At present, there are around 800 persons working on completion of the combined-cycle plant.
At the same location Siemens PG had already built the gas turbine power plant Phu My 2.1 Extension for EVN. This plant, which is also fired with indigenous natural gas, is equipped with two V94.2 gas turbines and two air-cooled generators. This unit has been feeding around 300 MW into the Vietnamese grid since early 1999. The total installed power plant capacity in Vietnam currently amounts to around 8250 MW.
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