Wärtsilä to supply a 52 MW gas power plant to Russia
4 December 2006 -- Wärtsilä Corp. has been awarded a contract to supply a 52 MW gas-fired power plant to Western Siberia. The combined heat and power (CHP) plant will be built at the Tarasovskoye oil field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District of the Tyumen region. The contract is Wärtsilä's first CHP project of over 50 MW in Russia and the first-ever power plant for the Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft, one of the top 10 oil producers in the world.
The contract was signed in November with Energotech, a turnkey contractor to Rosneft-Purneftegaz, a 100 percent-owned subsidiary of Rosneft. The power plant will comprise six Wärtsilä 34SG engines running on associated gas from the oil well. In addition, Wärtsilä will deliver the power plant building.
The power plant equipment will be delivered between October and December 2007 and the gas power plant will be fully operational in the spring of 2008 supplying heat and power to the oil field's production facilities.
Rosneft selected a Wärtsilä gas engine-based power plant over a conventional gas turbine arrangement due to its flexible load and operational characteristics. The gas engines also tolerate fuel quality variations and therefore are suitable for oil field power generation.
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