GE’s Distributed Power business has received orders for eight aeroderivative gas turbine-generators and the first 1 MW Jenbacher gas engine in Algeria. It has also won a separate order for three aeroderivative gas turbine-generators in Nigeria.
Under a $161 million deal, GE is supplying Algeria’s national electricity and gas company Sonelgaz with a fleet of eight TM2500+ aeroderivative gas turbine-generators. The units, which can operate on either gas or liquid fuel, are being installed in multiple locations near existing electrical substations and are due to begin commercial operation this month.
The contract also includes services, which will be supplied in partnership with Power Projects Limited, the Turkish subsidiary of METKA.
In Nigeria, GE is supplying three 25 MW TM2500+ units to power Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) state oil refinery at Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The units are being supplied to GEL Utility Limited and are also due to enter operation in August.
In Algeria, GE has received an additional order for gas engines for an industrial plastic goods factory in the city of Oran. Plastpaper is installing the Jenbacher J320 natural gas engine to ensure the factory has a more reliable supply of electricity and to prevent grid disturbances from affecting the facility’s plastics extrusion production process.
GE says the project marks the first Algerian on-site power project with gas engines in the country.
