Siemens to supply compressors, turbines for Sengkang LNG, power plant

German firm Siemens AG has got an order to supply four motor-driven main refrigant compressors for four liquefaction trains to be installed in an LNG plant owned by Energy World Corporation (EWC)in Sengkang, South Sulawesi.

The order was placed by U.S. Firm Chart Energy & Chemicals, Inc, the firm said in a statement.

Siemens will supply 27-megawatt (MW) electric-motor-driven in-line centrifugal compressors along with a Siemens Robicon frequency converter to be used for motor startup, it said.

Furthermore, Siemens will supply two 65-MW gas turbines and generators to the power plant, one unit to support the grid through EWC's subsidiary company PT Energi Sengkang, and the other unit to deliver power to the LNG plant. The volume of the orders is over 50 million euros.

According to Siemens, the four 500,000-ton-per-year liquefaction trains will provide LNG to meet the growing demand in Southeast Asia, primarily in Indonesia and the Philippines. The first two trains are scheduled to come on stream in the second quarter of 2009.

EWC has reportedly planned to build a 4x500,000 TPA LNG plant in Sengkang PSC in South Sulawesi, where it has 100 percent interest.

The company also operates the Sengkang 135-MW combined cycle power plant. It is expanding the power plant's capacity to 315 MW. (denny)