Black & Veatch awarded consultancy role in Cirebon 2 project
Tuesday, August 23 2016 - 06:00 AM WIB
Global engineering, consulting and construction company Black & Veatch announced that it has been awarded a consultancy contract to oversee the scheduling, design, quality control of equipment supplied, and construction activity for the 1,000 megawatt (MW) Cirebon 2 power plant project in Cirebon, West Java.
Black & Veatch said in a statement Tuesday that it has been appointed as the Owner?s Engineer by PT Cirebon Energi Prasarana to help deliver an operationally efficient and much needed coal power plant on time.
?We are playing a critical role in helping the Owner prepare the project for construction and are focusing on overseeing the contractors? performance as well as the quality of equipment supplied. Our role includes review of the engineering design documents, carrying out shop inspections in person and monitoring the delivery of key components throughout the supply chain,? said Tariq Aziz, Director, South Asia, Power Generation Services, Black & Veatch.
The expansion of the existing facility with a 1,000 MW coal-fired ultra-supercritical (USC) unit will serve as a key base-load generation asset for Indonesia?s power grid as part of the government?s 35,000 MW expansion plan.
The Owner?s consortium consists of Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni), PT. Indika Energy Tbk (Indika), Samtan Co., Ltd. (Samtan), Korea Midland Power Co., Ltd. (KOMIPO), and JERA Co., Inc.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak