Client:

Arab Contractors (Osman Ahmed Osman)

Location:

Alexandria, Egypt

Abu Qir Thermal Power Plant Intake structure

STEAM TURBINE GENERATORS 1,300 megawatt

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Expanding the capacity of the existing Abu Qir Power Plant involved the development of the Abu Qir Thermal Power Plant. Situated on the Mediterranean coast, 20 km east of Alexandria and to the east of the existing Abu Qir Power Plant, it comprised two 650-MW two indoor condensing steam turbine generating units; two outdoor, dual fuel fired, pressurized furnace steam generators and necessary auxiliary equipment including onsite storage, a natural gas reducing and handling facility, desalination plant for plant make-up water, off-shore structures for plant cooling water intake and discharge, water and wastewater treatment and GIS 500 kV indoor switchyard buildings. While the main fuel will be natural gas, the plant will also be designed to run on heavy fuel (Mazout) oil as a backup fuel.

ECG is awarded the quality control for this project which includes, quality control for the ready mix concert plant, preparing the quality control plan for the civil works, managing the quality control plan with the auditing boards, correction actions for the NCR and supervises all the works to be sure it matches with the quality control plan. The infrastructure scope undertaken by ECG include, fire protection network, potable water network, circulating water network, service water network, raw water network, service water system, wastewater drainage network and sanitary drainage network.