Siemens to Supply Gas Turbines to Rosneft

German power engineering major Siemens has signed a contract with the Russian oil and gas company Rosneft for the delivery of three SGT-800 gas turbines, with a rated capacity of 45MW each, for use in a gas turbine power plant fueled with associated petroleum gas produced at the Priobskoye oil deposit in Siberia.

The power plant is intended to be the main power source for all Rosneft facilities affiliated with the Priobskoye oil field. The value of the order is more than E40 million.

The project is reportedly part of Rosneft’s strategy to step up the utilization rate of associated gas at the Priobskoye oil deposit. Rosneft intends to construct the Priobskoye power plant in three stages.

Siemens will supply three SGT-800 gas turbine generators for the first stage, which is due to be commissioned in December 2008 with a total capacity of 135MW. The second and third phases of the project are planned to be operational in December 2009 and April 2010, respectively.

Frank Stieler, CEO of the Siemens’s oil and gas division, said: “Our industrial gas turbines are the perfect match for power plant solutions in the oil and gas industry. The Siemens SGT-800 gas turbines have shown extremely high reliability in performance and they are designed to work over a broad spectrum of environments ranging from very cold to very hot climates. Furthermore, the SGT-800 can work with a broad range of fuel qualities.”