Ecuador’s state-owned Petroecuador has let a contract to Germany’s Siemens AG to deliver gas-turbine equipment for the 20,000-b/d Shushufindi refinery in the northeastern Ecuadorian province of Sucumbios.
As part of the order, Siemens will supply one of its proprietary 8-Mw SGT-300 gas turbine for power generation at the refinery, the service provider said.
The new industrial gas turbine will replace an existing gas turbine installed at the refinery in 1984 manufactured by the Ruston Gas Turbines Co., which Siemens acquired in 2003 as part of a related transaction.
Scheduled for commissioning by yearend, the SGT-300 turbine will be manufactured in Siemens’ Lincoln, UK, factory and packaged and tested at the company’s Houston complex, Siemens said.
A value of the contract was not disclosed.
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