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Gazprom installs turbines at Serbian gas plant
Gazprom and Shanghai Electric representatives take place in a groundbreaking ceremony in March 2019. Source: Gazprom.
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RUSSIA’S state-owned gas giant Gazprom has installed two gas turbines at a state-of-the-art 200-MW combined-cycle gas-turbine (CCGT) it is building in Pancevo, northern Serbia.
e GTU-65 turbine models were provided by Italy’s Ansaldo, Gazprom’s electricity arm Gazprom Energoholding said in a statement on August 5. eir supply comes under a €40mn ($44.6mn) agreement signed with the Italian engineer in March last year for the Pancevo sta- tion’s core and auxiliary equipment.
Ansaldo was selected as a supplier because of the “high e ciency and reliability” of its tur- bines, Gazprom Energoholding’s director in Serbia, Alexander Varnavsky, explained, noting that the model had been deployed at its plants in Russia.
e next key hardware to be delivered will be two waste heat boilers, a steam turbine and a generator.
Gazprom broke ground on the Pancevo station back in March and aims to bring it into operation in 2020. It will be Gazprom Energo- holding’s rst CCGT station outside Russia, and will produce power for the nearby Pancevo oil re nery, owned by Gazprom’s majority-owned
local subsidiary NIS, as well as other customers in Serbia and overseas.
Gazprom’s operations in Serbia are extensive, re ecting the close political ties between Mos- cow and Belgrade. rough NIS it runs a second oil re nery in Novi Sad, while also owning a minority share in Serbia’s HIP Petrohemija pet- rochemical producer.
Gazprom revealed plans earlier this year to have as many as four CCGT stations up and run- ning in Serbia. Its goal is to create gas demand in the coal-reliant country for its planned Turk- Stream project, with the plants likely to be placed along the pipeline’s future route.
TurkStream’s rst 15.75bn cubic metre per year string designed to supply the Turkish mar- ket was reported as 90% complete last month, and Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary are currently making preparations to extend the pipeline’s sec- ond string into the heart of Europe.
China’s Shanghai Electric Group is serving as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the Pancevo project, the cost of which is assessed at €180mn. Gazprom’s financial unit Gazprombank has pledged to cover most of this investment with a loan.™
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