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Sunday, February 18, 2018
GE Power Services signed a multi-year service agreement (MYA) with Shell’s unit in Nigeria, SPDC, for its for its 650-MW Afam VI combined cycle power plant. The plant generates enough electricity equal to power over million Nigerian homes at peak performance.
The agreement will cover planned maintenance for the three existing GE GT13E2 gas turbines as well as one GE steam turbine. In addition, the order includes GE’s MXL2 upgrades to help increase the plant capacity by up to 30 MW while increasing its efficiency.
SPDC and its partners in the JV it operates, built the plant to significantly contribute to meeting Nigeria’s electricity needs.
“At optimal performance, the Afam VI plant can provide up to 15% of the total national grid-connected electricity, this agreement will ensure we reach this performance objective and deliver much needed power to the national grid, said Dr. Philip Mshelbila, General Manager, Gas of SPDC. “Since its commissioning in 2008, Afam VI Power Plant has delivered more than 25.97 million megawatt-hours of electricity into the Nigerian market and won an award by the United Nations for reducing carbon emissions through environment-friendly operations” he added.
“We have a long history of collaboration with Shell Petroleum, which has the largest footprint of all the international oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria, having supported the plant operations on power generation since its inception in 2008,” said Elisee Sezan, general manager, GE’s Power Services business for Sub-Saharan Africa. “With this latest agreement, we are working to bring improved performance and enhanced efficiency to their operations.”
In addition to increasing power output by up to 30MW, upgrades on the turbines are expected to deliver a combined-cycle efficiency increase, resulting in significant fuel savings and reduced CO2 emissions. GE’s solutions will also extend inspection intervals for the gas turbines reducing maintenance and repair expenses—which, in turn, will reduce overall plant costs and result in improving profitability.
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