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Bechtel and partners to establish unified

power system for WDDM, ELNG in Egypt

EGYPT BECHTEL (US) and two of its Egyptian part- facilities, that will eliminate the gas turbines by
ners in the Coalition for Decarbonisation have a generator, which will accordingly eliminate
signed an agreement with Shell (UK) on the emissions. So we are just reducing emissions for
establishment of a unified electrical power sys- the Idku hub,” El-Dessouky said to the English
tem for the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) edition of Amwal Al Ghad.
natural gas-processing plant and the Egyptian Bechtel and its partners did not reveal the
LNG (ELNG) plant in Idku. value of the contract. They did indicate, though,
According to press reports, the parties final- that the Idku Energy Hub agreement built on the
ised the deal on February 13, on the sidelines of work that the Coalition for Decarbonisation had
the EGYPS 2023 exhibition in Cairo. The agree- already carried out on the project.
ment was reportedly signed by Karim El-Des- Last November, during the COP27 confer-
souky, Bechtel’s country manager for Egypt; ence in Sharm El Sheikh, Egyptian Natural Gas
Khaled Kacem, the vice president and country Holding Co. (EGAS), Shell Egypt and Malaysia’s
chair of Shell Egypt; Mohamed Abdelaziz, the Petronas awarded the coalition a contract for
chairman of Enppi; and Waleed Lotfy, the chair- front-end engineering and design (FEED) ser-
man and managing director of Petrojet. vices related to the hub. That contract also called
The document provides for Bechtel to team for studying plans to introduce a zero-flaring
up with two other members of the coalition – system at the ELNG plant. ™
namely, Enppi and Petrojet, both of which are
state-controlled Egyptian oilfield service pro-
viders (OSPs) – to construct the unified power
system, which will be known as the Idku Energy
Hub. This hub will be able to supply power to
both WDDM, which processes gas from the off-
shore Burullus fields, and ELNG more efficiently
than two separate networks.
The projected increases in efficiency will
stem from optimising the number of gas-tur-
bine generators in operation at any given time,
and this in turn will help bring fuel consump-
tion down and thereby reduce greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions.
“By unifying the power system of the two The Idku Energy Hub is designed to link the ELNG plant and WDDM (Photo: ELNG)

Cannon Artes in SOPC water plant contract

EGYPT THE Italian firm Cannon Artes has been company would “be responsible for all stages of
awarded a contract for the development of a this huge assignment from detailed engineer-
desalination and demineralisation plant asso- ing design, construction and delivery of the
ciated with Egypt’s Suez Oil Processing Co. entire water treatment infrastructure including
(SOPC) refinery. pre-commissioning, commission and start-up.”
The contract, valued at $31mn, comes as part He added: “The scope of this major project
of efforts by SOPC to modernise its 68,000 bar- provides our team unique engineering chal-
rel per day (bpd) Suez refinery and builds upon lenges and calls upon our vast expertise, tech-
a previous campaign to facilitate more sustaina- nology and know-how to realise this milestone
ble practises through reduced energy usage and facility for the Suez Oil Processing Co.”
better energy efficiency. The company received a The 300,000-cubic metre plant will treat
EUR200mn ($214mn) loan from the European water from the Red Sea and supply it for use
Bank for Reconstruction and Development in high-pressure boilers and cooling towers. It
(EBRD) for the project. is expected to be commissioned by the end of
Cannon Artes’ CEO Pasquale Punzo said his 2024.

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