Yokogawa Middle East E.C., one of the Yokogawa affiliates, has won an order from the state-run Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) for a 40 million Saudi riyal (US$10 million) project to refurbish the control system for the Al-Jubail Phase 1 desalination and power plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The city of Jubail is situated on the Persian Gulf in the country’s Eastern Province.
The Al-Jubail Phase 1 facility consists of a multi-stage flash (MSF) desalination plant and a 360,000 kW (six 60,000 kW units) power plant. The facility provides water and electricity utility lifeline services to the city of Jubail and to the nation's capital, Riyadh. It was built in 1982 with a control system and related products provided by Yokogawa.
The SWCC has identified the need for improvements to the Al-Jubail facility that will increase its efficiency and ensure its safe operation for at least another 20 years. A principal reason for the SWCC’s selection of Yokogawa as the control system vendor for this refurbishment project was the high quality and reliability of Yokogawa's technology and services: the original control system for this plant was provided by Yokogawa and it has performed without a single failure since it first entered operation 20 years ago.
As part of this project, Yokogawa will provide a CENTUM CS 3000 R3 integrated system to control the boilers, turbines, electric generators, and the desalination plant and its peripheral equipment, as well as the field instruments including flowmeters and pressure transmitters. Product delivery will commence in April 2004 and will continue until 2005.
Yokogawa's Global Power Solutions Center (GPSC) played a vital role in securing this order by providing both technical knowledge and solutions expertise. The GPSC was established by Yokogawa in April 2001 to increase the company’s access to the international power generation business. The GPSC Singapore worked with Yokogawa Middle East E.C. to secure the order, and the complete project will be executed from GPSC Singapore.
About SWCC
SWCC was founded in 1974 to produce and supply water by desalinating seawater. It owns 21 plants along the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea coasts which produce a daily total of 2.18 million cubic meters of fresh water. The city of Jubail, where the Al-Jubail Phase 1 plant is located, boasts the world largest production capability of fresh water, with desalination plants that produce 910,000 cubic meters. Jubail's combined power generation facilities have a capacity of 1.65 million kW.
