GAS, STEAM & HYDRO TURBINES ENGINEERING HUB

GE Canada announced it recently extended a contract with Public Services and Procurement Canada to provide maintenance and logistics support services for a 15th year. The contract covers the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) fleet of LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines that power Halifax-class patrol frigates. “We are now in our 15th year and fourth extension on a contract awarded by Public Services and Procurement Canada. In fact, our original five year contract began in 2001, it was renewed in 2006 for five years, in 2011 for three years, and again in 2014 for one year,” said Brien Bolsinger, GE Marine Vice President, Marine Operations. GE Marine manufactures the LM2500 gas turbines at its facility outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. “This demonstrates that the contract provides the RCN with many benefits, most notably the impressive availability of the RCN’s LM2500 fleet over the initial 14 years of the GE contract, which averaged 99.85%,” Bolsinger added. Be...

Malaysian oilfield services provider SapuraKencana has through its joint venture with GE Oil and Gas won a contract to work on Petronas’ Floating units – PFLNG 1 and PFLNG 2. The company named SapuraKencana GE Oil & Gas Services Sdn Bhd will be responsible for a comprehensive maintenance of GE- supplied turbomachinery equipment under a long-term service agreement. Malaysian energy giant Petronas is building two Floating LNG vessels. The first one PFLNG1, is expected to start production in 2016, and will be the first ever such unit to start producing LNG. The vessel, being built in South Korea by Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine & Engineering (DSME), will be deployed at the Kanowit field offshore Sarawak, Malaysia. The PFLNG1 will be 360m long and 60m wide and will be moored 180km from shore. It will produce 1.2 million tonnes a year (mtpa) of LNG. Under the agreement announced by SapuraKencana on Thursday, the company will, together with GE, provide mainte...

Combination of GE and Alstom Technology Proves Powerful: Pakistan Advances with Third High-Efficiency HA Gas Power Plant Combined HA Projects to Fulfill Over 65 Percent of the Power Shortage in Pakistan, Equivalent Power Needed to Supply Nearly 20 Million Pakistani Homes Alstom Acquisition Adding Plant Expertise, Steam Turbine and Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) Technology 33 HA orders in backlog among 82 HA Technical Selections1 Worldwide January 21, 2016 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For years, crippling electricity shortages have plagued Pakistan, creating challenges for residents and businesses alike, and fixing the problem has become a priority for the Federal Government of Pakistan. To address this, GE (NYSE:GE) will provide two high-efficiency 9HA gas turbines, one steam turbine and two heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) to SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of PowerChina, for the new 1.2...