Inti Karya wins geothermal power contract<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): PT Inti Karya Persada Tehnik, a domestic
\nengineering company, in cooperation with Fluor Daniel Eastern
\nInc. of the United States, won a contract yesterday to construct
\nthree geothermal power units worth US$400 million in West Java.<\/p>\n
The contract was signed here yesterday by Inti Karya's
\npresident, Raysoeli Moeloek, the vice president of Fluor Daniel
\nof the United States, L.S. (Stew) Heaton, and the vice president
\nof Unocal Geothermal of Indonesia Ltd., Arun V. Mandlekar.<\/p>\n
Unocal Geothermal is a subsidiary of Unocal Corporation of the
\nUnited States, which has discovered geothermal energy reserves on
\nMount Salak in West Java, about 120 kilometers south of Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Moeloek told reporters after signing the contract that Inti
\nKarya would construct the fourth, fifth and sixth units of the
\nMount Salak geothermal power station for Unocal Geothermal, which
\nwill sell its electricity to the State Electricity Company (PLN).<\/p>\n
At the Mount Salak power station two power units, each with a
\ngeneration capacity of 55 megawatts, have been operating since
\nlast year and another unit with a similar capacity is currently
\nunder construction and is expected to be completed by the middle
\nof 1997.<\/p>\n
The construction of the first three units, which was financed
\nwith Italian loans, was carried out by Ansaldo Energia of Italy
\nunder a turn-key contract.<\/p>\n
Completion<\/p>\n
Moeloek said Inti Karya would complete the construction of the
\nlast three units by August 1997, giving the power station a total
\ngeneration capacity of 330 megawatts.<\/p>\n
Inti Karya, as a main contractor, will be responsible for all
\nconstruction and engineering work on the units, while Fluor
\nDaniel will provide the basic design services, he said.<\/p>\n
"This is the first time a domestic company has won a
\ngeothermal power project," Moeloek commented.<\/p>\n
He said that all the civil engineering work on the project
\nwould be carried out by domestic sub-contractors.<\/p>\n
"We are also committed to procuring up to 40 percent of
\ncomponents used in the project from domestic suppliers," he said.<\/p>\n
He said that equipment needed for the project would include
\ntanks, vessels, compressors, turbines, generators, cooling
\ntowers, exchangers, compressors and pumps.<\/p>\n
The Salak geothermal reservoir is of the "liquid dominated
\ntype", which means that the geothermal fluid coming up the wells
\nis a mixture of water and steam. The mixture rises under a
\npressure of eight bars, at a temperature of 280 degrees. The gas
\ncontent is minimal, as is the minerals content.<\/p>\n
The wells feeding the mixture of steam and water to the power
\nplant total nine, scattered over a wide area. A network of
\npipelines, the gathering system, conveys the geothermal fluid to
\nthe power plant, where the steam is separated from the water
\nbefore entering the turbines. (32)<\/p>",
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