BP Gas Marketing Ltd. is negotiating with Entergy Corp., New Orleans, construction of a combined cycle gas turbine power plant at BP Chemicals' Saltend, U.K., acetic acid plant.
Entergy would own and operate the 300 million ($450 million) power plant, while BP Gas would supply feedstock gas from its portfolio of North Sea gas fields.
The companies plan a three-train power station that would burn as much as 150 MMcfd of gas to generate as much as 1.1 million kw of electric power for the BP Chemicals plant. Surplus power would be sold.
The onsite power station would provide BP Chemicals with low cost electricity, BP noted, strengthening competitiveness and long term future of the Saltend site.
BP Chemicals operates at Saltend Europe's largest acetic acid plant, with capacity of 1.5 million metric tons/ year. It currently uses 100,000 kw of electricity and 120 metric tons/hr of steam.
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