Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured a contract of US$270 million for two power projects on turnkey basis in Sultanate of Oman.
The order has been won in the face of stiff international competition on the basis of online internet bidding, from Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), a company majority owned by the Government of Oman with the balance shareholding by Royal Dutch Shell, Partex and Total.
These are the largest unit rating gas turbines being installed by PDO. With this order, BHEL supplied generating sets will account for over 40% of PDO’s installed generating capacity, demonstrating the confidence that PDO has in BHEL’s capabilities. Apart from this, BHEL is presently executing three orders for their compressors projects in Oman.
This is the third order for BHEL for gas turbines based power projects from PDO and comes after successful completion of the 140 MW gas turbine based Qarn Alam power project in 2004 and 90 MW gas turbine based Hubara power project for PDO Oman in the year 2000.
BHEL is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in India in the energy-related/infrastructure sector. BHEL was established more than 40 years ago.
