Irish firm wins Namibia contract for power plant

IRISH company, Electricity Supply Board International (ESBI) has won a major contact to provide engineering services for the development and construction of Namibia’s first gas fired combined cycle power station.

The contract was signed in Dublin on Thursday. ESBI is an engineering, consultancy, contracting and investment company with operations and projects in 42 countries.NamPower – the Namibian power utility company – will work with ESBI to develop an 800 megawatt power station at Oranjemund.The power station will use gas from the offshore Kudu field to produce electricity mainly for the Namibian and the South African electricity market.The plant will be the first combined cycle power station in the southern tip of the African continent and is scheduled to be fully commercially operational in 2009.ESBI will be responsible for the supervision of the design, engineering, construction of the new power station.A joint development agreement for the development of the Kudu gas field, which has enough gas reserves to supply the power station for more than 20 years, was recently concluded by Energy Africa, a subsidiary company of Tullow Oil and the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor).ESBI recently entered into a contract with Statoil to provide engineering advice in the development of Norway’s first gas fired combined cycle power station.It has also signed a major deal with Gas and Power Investment Company, in which the company joins ESBI as an equal partner in a 500 million euro electricity power station near Bilbao in Spain.ESBI is an engineering, consultancy, contracting and investment company with operations and projects in 42 countries.NamPower – the Namibian power utility company – will work with ESBI to develop an 800 megawatt power station at Oranjemund.The power station will use gas from the offshore Kudu field to produce electricity mainly for the Namibian and the South African electricity market.The plant will be the first combined cycle power station in the southern tip of the African continent and is scheduled to be fully commercially operational in 2009.ESBI will be responsible for the supervision of the design, engineering, construction of the new power station.A joint development agreement for the development of the Kudu gas field, which has enough gas reserves to supply the power station for more than 20 years, was recently concluded by Energy Africa, a subsidiary company of Tullow Oil and the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor).ESBI recently entered into a contract with Statoil to provide engineering advice in the development of Norway’s first gas fired combined cycle power station.It has also signed a major deal with Gas and Power Investment Company, in which the company joins ESBI as an equal partner in a 500 million euro electricity power station near Bilbao in Spain.