Name of the Project
Barra dos Coqueiros combined-cycle power plant.

Location
Barra dos Coqueiros, in the state of Sergipe, Brazil.

Client
Centrais Electricas de Segripe (CELSE), a 50:50 joint venture between EBRASIL Energia and Golar Power.

Project Description
The project involves the construction of a 1 516 MW combined-cycle power plant using three gas turbines with corresponding heat recovery steam generators and one steam turbine. It will be connected to the grid by a 34.2 km double-circuit 500 kV transmission line and an air-insulated connection bay linking to an existing substation, with potential to receive up to 3 000 MW.

The project includes a dedicated chartered floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), with a storage capacity of 170 000 m3 and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification capacity of up to 14-million cubic metres a day, as well as a submerged soft yoke mooring structure.

The FRSU will be located 6.5 km offshore and will connect to the power plant through an offshore and onshore gas pipeline to transfer the regasified LNG (RLNG) from the FSRU to the combined-cycle power plant.

Seawater cooling towers will be used for the condenser cooling. 

The water intake and cooling water discharge are located offshore, and are connected to the power plant with pipelines that follow the route to the RLNG pipeline, with a seawater pumping station located onshore.

Potential Job Creation
Not stated.

Value
$1.8-billion.

Duration
Construction is scheduled to begin in November and the plant is scheduled to start operation by 2020.

Latest Developments
General Electric (GE) signed a multiyear service agreement (MYA) with CELSE for the power in March.

The agreement includes operations, maintenance, repairs and digital solutions, as well as GE’s first order in Latin America for its OpShield cybersecurity solution. The solutions in the agreement will help improve the plant’s performance and availability, and allow for safe operational technology connectivity.

GE was awarded another contract by CELSE in October 2016 for the original-equipment order, valued at more than $900-million. The plant will include three of GE’s 7HA gas turbines and a steam turbine, as well as a heat recovery steam generator and transmission technology.

GE is also supplying the entire power island engineered package and remaining balance of plant, such as cooling towers, foundations, roads and buildings.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
GE (original equipment and MYA).

On Budget and on Time?
Too early to state.

Contact Details for Project Information
CELSE, email contato@celse.com.br.