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

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