Mitsui gets contract from PLN

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)