Valued at approximately $2.75m, the contract will be fulfilled by GTS on a turnkey basis, integrating its control systems skills and expertise, together with its gas turbine package refurbishment capabilities.
Alex Dron, Regional Sales Director, Middle East for GTS, said: "We are delighted to provide a solution to SEWA that will improve the reliability and availability of their generator sets, which is of critical importance since the units provide a black start facility in the event of a main generating grid failure."
Eng. Al Waleed Khalid bin Khadem, Director General of SEWA, said: "Wood Group's long established track record supporting FT4 gas turbines, together with their proven control systems technical excellence, make them our ideal partner for this contract."
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Wood Group wins gas turbine control systems contract with Sharjah Electricity and Water
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, May 27 - 2008 at 14:55
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The Gas Turbine Services division ("GTS") of international energy services company, John Wood Group PLC ("Wood Group"), has been awarded a contract by Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority ("SEWA") to perform control system retrofits on two Pratt & Whitney FT4 gas turbine generator sets operated at the Layyah Power Station in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
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Wood Group is an international energy services company with $4.4bn sales, employing 25,000 people worldwide and operating in 46 countries. The Group has three businesses - Engineering & Production Facilities, Well Support, and Gas Turbine Services - providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance management and industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil & gas, and power generation industries worldwide.Wood Group Gas Turbine Services is the world-leading independent provider of integrated maintenance solutions, and repair and overhaul services for industrial gas turbines, used for power generation, compression and transmission in the oil & gas and power generation industries.
A black start is the process of restoring a power station to operation without relying on external energy sources.
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Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, Senior News EditorTuesday, May 27 - 2008 at 14:55 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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