Owner’s Engineer for Aluminium Bahrain
ESB International offers world-class consultancy services across thermal and renewable power generation. We have worked as Owner’s Engineer for Aluminium Bahrain in the Kingdom of Bahrain for over seven years.
The extension of ALBA’s latest aluminium smelter, Potline 6, resulted in the need for a new 1800 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power plant, in addition to an upgrade and expansion of their existing distribution network.
The new ISO rated 1833 MW power plant used 3 GE 9HA.01 gas turbines, the first application of H-class technology in a smelter. This high-efficiency technology will help ALBA to deliver low life cycle costs per megawatt, as well as to reduce the environmental footprint of its activities.
We worked across the full project lifecycle providing Design Review, Project & Construction Management and Safety & Commissioning Supervision.
- Successfully met stringent timelines, delivering start-up power to the $2 billion Potline.
- First application of 9HA gas turbine technology in the Middle East.
- Delivered new power distribution systems: a new 220kV GIS substation with 44 bays and a new 33kV GIS substation.
- Delivered extensions of existing 220kV and 132kV GIS substations.
- Delivered nine new power transformers.
- Applied 9HA gas turbine technology in a smelter application.
- Established a new plantwide SCADA control system.
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One Dublin Airport Central,
Dublin Airport Cloghran,
Co Dublin,
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Building 655 Road 3614,
Block 436,
Seef Area,
Bahrain
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2nd Floor, Holiday Inn Al,
Mazoon Street South Al,
Mawaleh, Muscat P.O. Box,
P.C 118 Sultanate of Oman