Black & Veatch headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, has been selected as owner’s engineer by Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe for a 1,516 megawatt combined cycle power project in northeastern Brazil.
CELSE, a joint venture between Golar Power and Ebrasil, is developing the Porto de Sergipe plant to meet the growing electricity demand and supplement hydropower supplies during dry weather seasons.
As owner’s engineer, Black & Veatch’s services include monitoring the cost and schedule performance of the engineering, procurement and construction contractor, as well as technical review of design and equipment, the company said in a statement.
The plant will include three of General Electric’s 7 gas turbines fueled by LNG delivered through a new floating natural gas storage and regasification facility being constructed as part of the project.
Qatar Petroleum’s international liquefied natural gas trading arm Ocean LNG will deliver 1.3 million tons of the chilled fuel to Brazil under a long-term deal .
Construction begins in November and the plant is scheduled to be commissioned in late 2019, while LNG deliveries are scheduled to start in 2020.
LNG World News Staff