GE wins contract for new power plants in Middle East GE Energy has received contracts totaling more than $1.8 billion to supply 32 gas turbines and additional equipment for power plant projects in Kuwait and Qatar that will add more than five gigawatts of capacity to help meet the Middle East’s rapidly growing demand for electricity.
GE Expands Middle East Power Project Capabilities
GE Energy is establishing new power generation projects offices in the Middle East to coordinate project management activities for the region, where the company has project commitments of more than $4 billion.
Within a period of less than two months in late 2006 and early 2007, GE announced commitments for major power plant projects in Saudi Arabia totaling nearly $2 billion. In total, GE expects to supply 47 F-class and E-class gas turbines that would add 6.3 gigawatts of power to the Kingdom’s electricity grid.
Mitsubishi Heavy to build power, desalination plant in Saudi Arabia
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd has won a full-turnkey order worth $1.9 billion, with other contractors, to build an oil-fired thermal power generation and desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.
The new plant is to be constructed on the Red Sea coast at Shuqaiq in the southwest of Saudi Arabia and begin operations in 2010.
