3. Electricity Project for the Gulf connection of the section in Iraq.
• It consists of two parts:
First Part:
o Extending, wiring, and installing 400 KV towers for a double line.
o It starts from Safwan area in Basrah and ends in Al-Faw 400 KV Substation in south of Basra next to the Arabian Gulf.
o The line (87 Km long) consists of 225 towers and only 27 tower foundations have been implemented so far.
o This line enhances the electrical capacity with 500 MW.

Second Part in Al-Faw 400KV Substation
o Installing two reactors and their accessories of CVT, CT, SA, GIB, as well as other systems of protection, control devices, and wiring AC, DC cables. The aim of installing reactors is to improve the power factor, as long power lines result in voltage increase which changes the power rates.

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Beleza Power Plant

ECG scope of works includes collecting, reviewing, analyzing and commenting on the tender package submitted by the Contractor. Erection of the new 3 engines include the following components:

1. 3x 8 MW medium speed diesel generating sets with the associated mechanical and electrical equipment
2. Site works including site layout, fence, gates, site grading, access roads, and landscape
3. Tie-in with the existing fuel storage facility
4. Tie-in with the existing firefighting facility
5. Cooling water system
6. Lube oil storage facility
7. Control building
8. Switch yard
9. Water treatment system
10. Transformers

Hirgigo Power Plant

ECG prepares a complete set of tender documents with the relevant drawings, data sheets and spare parts to ease the process of issuing an international tender for overhauling 4 generating sets and common facilities.

Works cover:

1. Overhaul of four engines
2. Rehabilitation of common facilities including compressors, boilers, desalination plant, and sea water pumps

ECG scope of work includes project management, and construction supervision, in addition to on-the-job training for qualified counterpart engineers and technicians.

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The study investigates the following:

• The nature of hydrogen-based energy carriers and their suitability for specific applications.
• The goals of greenhouse gas emission reduction and timelines of these off-taker markets and the measures to achieve them.
• The role of hydrogen and PtX in these key markets and the extent to which they can substitute for oil and its derivatives.
• The production and use of Saudi Arabian hydrogen can meet the demands in Asian and European countries.

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The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) constructs and operates a new Combined Cycle power plant at the existing Al-Shabab gas turbines plant.

The power plant will start operation by the year 2016- 2017; the Combined Cycle Power Plant is 1500 MW, with  a nominal electricity generating capacity of 125 MW eight Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) to produce enough steam in order to generate 2×250 MW using two identical steam turbines, which will be known as Al- Shabab combined Cycle Power Plant.

The power output from the proposed plant will be sold to the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC). The new project aims to convert the existing simple cycle to a combined cycle plant, which reduces the gas turbines’ exhaust gas temperature.

The power plant utilizes both natural gas and solar; this “dual-fuel” operability provides security of electricity provision in the event that gas supplies are unavailable for any reason. In addition, a small emergency generator operating on solar will also be provided on-site to operate key equipment within the power plant in the event of power supply failure.

The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report is prepared by ECG, based on many baseline studies undertaken by independent national and international consultants and on the information provided by EEHC, EDEPC and their sub-contractors.

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The simple cycle power plant in Attaqa has 4 × SGT- 2000E Siemens Gas Turbines with a total rated capacity of approximately 650 MW. The simple cycle power plant in Mahmoudia has 2 × AE94.2 Ansaldo Gas Turbines with a total rated capacity of 330 MW.

The project also covers the installation of equipment and units such as transformers; GIS; gas-receiving system and networks; administrative and control buildings; as well as workshops and site utilities (compressed-air system, industrial wastewater system, sewage treatment system, tanks, demineralized water system, storm water drainage, and low-current systems).

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• Powerhouse building (footprint of 760 m²): ground floor (switchgear & main control center) and mezzanine (control room, battery room, offices, and toilets).
• Transformers building (footprint of 168 m²): four transformers surrounded by a chain-link enclosure with four separate chain-link gates; the transformers are separated by reinforced concrete firewalls, and the building is covered with corrugated steel sheets.
• Auxiliary transformers building (footprint of 60 m²): two auxiliary transformers surrounded by a chain-link enclosure with two separate gates; the building is covered with corrugated steel sheets.
• Workshop & storage building (footprint of 174 m²): enclosed workshop & store, as well as staff changing rooms with lockers and toilets.
• Staff housing building (footprint of 250 m²): ground floor and three typical floors; each floor consists of two apartments, each with a living room, two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom
• Guardhouse (footprint of 25 m²): office, bedroom, and toilet
• Pump room, fire pump room, water treatment room, water tank, and valve room located adjacent to the tank farm
• Open storage (1,000 m²) shaded with corrugated steel sheets
• Perimeter fence (1,000 meters long) with four guard towers at the corners

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The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) constructs and operates a new Combined Cycle power plant at the existing West Damietta gas turbines plant.

The power plant has been operating since 2012; the proposed Combined Cycle Power Plant is 750 MW comprising four existing 125 MW Gas Turbine Generators (GTGs), each with a nominal electricity generating capacity of 125 MW and four Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) utilizing the GTGs to produce enough steam in order to generate 250 MW in a steam turbine, which will be known as West Damietta Combined Cycle Power Plant.

The power output from the proposed plant will be sold to the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC). The new project aims to convert the existing simple cycle to a combined cycle plant, which reduces the gas turbines’ exhaust gas temperature.

The power plant utilizes both natural gas and solar; this “dual-fuel” operability provides security of electricity provision in the event that gas supplies are unavailable for any reason. In addition, a small emergency generator operating on solar oil will also be provided on-site to operate key equipment within the power plant in the event of power supply failure.

The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report is prepared by ECG, based on many baseline studies undertaken by independent national and international consultants and on the information provided by EEHC, EDEPC and their sub-contractors.

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The project involved the addition of four heat recovery boilers to integrate four existing GE frame 5 Gas Turbines, into combined cycle mode of operation. This enabled the powering of 1×50 MW Turbo-Alternators.

The heat recovery boilers were to be arranged to produce superheated steam by extracting heat from the exhaust gases of the gas turbines. This superheated steam was to be used to drive a steam turbine generator. The heat recovery boilers were fitted to the gas turbines on a one- for-one basis. The superheated steam produced by four boilers was delivered to one main steam manifold which was connected to steam turbine generator of 50 MW steam driven nominal capacity.

The total plant consisting of heat recovery boilers, steam turbine generators and auxiliaries; was controlled and operated by a central control room. The plant also included: additional tank farms; cooling water systems fed by irrigation canals connected to the River Nile; electrical control and instrumentation systems; and civil/ structural works.

The project was implemented in four packages, namely:

1. Heat Recovery Boiler Package, including: boilers and related structural steel, foundation works and associated facilities; pipe works; electrical cables and panels; instrumentation and control equipment; and some gas turbine modifications.
2. Steam Turbine Package, including: steam turbines; alternators with necessary accessories; condensing plant and auxiliaries; main cooling water system; water treatment plant; fire protection system; compressed air system; cranes, hoists and handling equipment; electrical equipment; control and instrumentation equipment; and laboratory equipment.
3. Electrical Power Package, including: circuit breakers; transformers; power boards; battery and charger systems; and associated cabling.
4. Civil Works Package, including: turbine/control/ administration building, water treatment building and maintenance building (total area was 1,000 m²)  piled foundations for heat recovery boilers construction; cooling water system (intake structure, pumping station, inlet and outlet culverts, and outfall structure); external works e.g. roads, cable ducts, fencing and gates.

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The turbine of the plant extension is of a condensing type, seawater cooled and consists of three cylinder reaction turbines. The process is regenerative cycle with high and low-pressure extraction. The turbo-alternator is two-pole 50 Hz, with 420 MVA rated output, 21 kV rated voltage and directly cooled by hydrogen. The steam generating plant has a controlled circulation boiler with a pressurized firebox and it contains a steam reheating system. The burners are designed for tangential firing and are of tilting type. The production of steam at MCR is 1,032 tons per hour of 54^oc.

The boiler is capable of burning heavy fuel, light fuel and natural gas. The feed water plant is composed of one steam turbine-driven pump with 110% rated capacity  and two electric motor pumps each with 60% rated capacity. The main cooling water for the power plant is sea water led from the Gulf of Suez into an underground intake culvert then to an intake structure containing inlet screening racks with scraper, fine bank screens and the cooling water pumps.

The plant also contains a closed water system using demineralized water as coolant, which in turn is cooled by seawater. The auxiliary plants consist of:

• Two train demineralization plants for the preparation of make-up water from utility raw water.
• Two train condensate polishing plants consisting of an ionic and a mixed bed exchanger for removal of dissolved solids entering into the condensate main steam.
• A chlorination plant to produce active chlorine from hypochlorite solution.
• A hydrogen generating plant to produce the hydrogen required for cooling the generator.
• A storage farm complete with pumping facilities and a heating plant for the storage of heavy and light fuel oil.
• Facilities for the supply of natural gas at the required pressure are included.
• A wastewater treatment plant to treat all industrial wastewater produced from Ataka Station is provided as an environmental feature meeting the standards required for the effluent, before the release into the Gulf of Suez.
• A sewage treatment is also provided with Unit IV extension for the sanitary sewer of the whole station.

Out of generated power 300 MW is stepped up from 21 kV to 220 kV with the generator transformer and fed into the national grid through a switchyard provided for Unit IV extension. This switchyard consists of two main busbards of 2,000 A each connected by a coupler. These busbars are also connected to the existing two busbars via a longitudinal coupler. The transfer busbar composed of four feeders is linked to the national grid.

The switchyard includes pantograph isolators, SF-6 circuit breaker, rotating isolators, current transformers, potential transformers, surge arresters and insulators.

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Phase II involved two-250 MW gas turbine generators,  two heat recovery steam generators, and one-250 MW steam turbine generator and condenser. Auxiliary facilities undertaken comprised a tank farm, water and wastewater treatment plants, a water intake/discharge, lift stations, a foam house, transformers, and a fuel oil unloading station.

Ancillary buildings developed included an administration building, a warehouse/work shop, a mosque, and a construction office building. Moving forward, phase III of the project comprised two-250 MW gas turbine generators, two heat recovery steam generators, and one-250 MW steam turbine generator and condenser. The power plant cooling water is withdrawn from the Nile River. When fully operated, the project will provide 750 MW generation capacity to Egypt’s Unified Power System, representing 6% of the country’s total electricity generation expansion during the period 2004/05-2011/12.

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ECG was awarded the quality control for this project which included, quality control for the ready mix concert plant, preparing the quality control plan for the civil works, managing the quality control plan with the auditing boards, correction actions for the NCR and supervised all the works to be sure it matches with the quality control plan. The structure scope of work included the intake structure, intake operation building and discharge to seal well structure.

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With a construction cost of 875 million euro for this state funded project, the objective was to increase the generation capacity of the Unified Power System (UPS) by about 4% in the year 2012 to meet the electricity demand on the UPS in the short-to-medium term. The project, when completed, would contribute to making available sufficient and reliable power to the various consumers including the households, agriculture, business and industries.

ECG has completed the detailed designs of the underground utility networks (water, sewage, and irrigation); asphalt-paved roads (3,100 m long, with carriageway width of 7 m); and landscaping; alongside the electrical detailed designs of all site buildings.

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The first gas turbine unit was planned to start commercial operation on July, 2012 for Damietta GTGP. Subsequently, ECG set its fast track methodology to fully complete the design services in a period satisfying KN proposed schedule requirements.

The new plant has four new gas turbines with a total rated capacity of 500 MW using 4*125 MW gas turbines.

Understanding the importance, sensitivity and urgency for implementing the plant within the time constrain being a national “on spot” project, ECG quickly set a task force from its senior staff to plan and set the project staffing requirements and the immediate mobilization of task forces, fast-track quality control measures, and packaging of deliverables which were tailored to meet KN milestones, enabled the quick start of construction and allowed for a continuous flow of KN construction execution scheme.

ECG Scope of Services covered the following:

• Package 1: Enabling work
• Package 2: Foundation package
• Package 3: Tank farm design
• Package 4: Auxiliary Systems (service water system, compressed air system, solar fuel system, fire protection system, GIS substation, control s/s, LV transformer, control building, etc)
• Package 5: Infrastructure networks
• Package 6: Ancillary building

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The first gas turbine unit started commercial operation on July, 2011 for Damietta GTGP. Subsequently, ECG set its fast track methodology to fully complete the design services in a period satisfying KN proposed schedule requirements.

The new plant has four new gas turbines with a total rated capacity of 500 MW using 4*125 MW gas turbines.

Understanding the importance, sensitivity and urgency for implementing the plant within the time constrain being a national “on spot” project, ECG quickly set a task force from its senior staff to plan and set the project staffing requirements and the immediate mobilization of task forces, fast-track quality control measures, and packaging of deliverables which were tailored to meet KN milestones, enabled the quick start of construction and allowed for a continuous flow of KN construction execution scheme.

ECG Scope of Services covers the following:

• Package 1: Enabling work
• Package 2: Foundation package
• Package 3: Tank farm design
• Package 4: Auxiliary systems (service water system, compressed air system, solar fuel system, fire fighting system, GIS substation, control s/s, LV transformer, control building, etc)
• Package 5: Infrastructure networks
• Package 6: Ancillary buildings

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The first gas turbine unit started commercial operation on June, 2011 for Al-Shabab GTGP. Subsequently, ECG set its fast track methodology to fully complete the design services in a period satisfying KN proposed schedule requirements.

The new plant has eight new gas turbines with a total rated capacity of 1,000 MW using 8*125 MW gas turbines.

Understanding the importance, sensitivity and urgency for implementing the plant within the time constraint being a national “on spot” project, ECG quickly set a task force from its senior staff to plan and set the project staffing requirements and the immediate mobilization of task forces, fast-track quality control measures, and packaging of deliverables which were tailored to meet KN milestones, enabled the quick start of construction and allowed for a continuous flow of KN construction execution scheme.

ECG Scope of Services covered the following:

• Package 1: Enabling work
• Package 2: Foundation package
• Package 3: Tank farm design
• Package 4: Auxiliary systems (service water system, compressed air system, solar fuel system, fire protection system, GIS substation, control s/s, LV transformer, control building, etc)
• Package 5: Infrastructure networks
• Package 6: Ancillary buildings

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The 66/22 kv substation is part of the site wide infrastructure and associated projects for Cairo Festival City located at the 5^th Conglomerate in New Cairo.The said substation is interconnected with New Cairo Station, 12 km apart throughout 630 mm² cables (route no.1) and with Zahraa Madinet Nasr-Police Academy Station, 3.5 km apart throughout 400 mm² cables (route no.2).

The CFC Substation is built on an area of 3,042 m², and consists of five buildings as follows:

• 66 kv building (66 kv switchgears and bus bars): consists of one floor with a footprint area of about 650 m².
• 22 kv building (22 kv switchgear, control hall, AC/DC room, telecommunication room, battery room and auxiliary transformers): consists of basement and two floors with a footprint area of about 385 m².
• Guard room: consists of one floor with a footprint area of about 20 m².
• Fire-fighting room: consists of one floor with a footprint area of about 25 m².
• Store room: consists of one floor with a foot print area of about 28 m².
• Underground water tank and pump room: with a foot print area of about 85 m².

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