Mitsui gets contract from PLN

JAKARTA (JP): Japan's Mitsui & Co. Ltd and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding have secured a contract worth US$70.48 million from the state electricity firm PLN to build steam generators and auxiliaries for two power units in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan.

"We put the power project under a multipackage contract. Tonight we signed the package agreement for building the steam generators and auxiliaries," PLN's president, Djiteng Marsudi, said after the signing ceremony on Monday evening.

He said that the other packages include plant design, insurance, equipment and machinery shipping, plant testing and site development. Site development is now being conducted by PT Triperkasa Amin Indah.

According to Djiteng, the two coal-fired steam power units will be designed with a generation capacity of 65 megawatts of electricity each. They will be operational by 1999.

He said that the development of the power plant is the first stage of the Banjarmasin power project which will have a total generation capacity of about 660 megawatts.

Hisayoshi Toda, director of Mitsui Co. Ltd, said that the coal-fired units will be environmentally friendly. Their sulfur dioxide emission will be quite low, he told The Jakarta Post.

"I think with our clean-coal technology, we can reduce the pollutive emissions from the plant's coal firing," he said. (13)