Siemens secures the contract for the Ca Mau II Power Plant

Order valued at about USD210 million

On December 26, 2005 the Siemens Power Generation Group (PG) was awarded an order from Vietnam for the construction of the second combined cycle power plant with a capacity of 750 MW shortly after receiving the contract for the first one in end of September. These two power plants will be located in Ca Mau Province, approximately 300 kilometers south of Ho Chi Minh City. It is the first time in the history of Siemens Vietnam to be awarded with two power plants in such a short period.

These combined cycle power plants are the biggest thermal power complex to be built in the Mekong Delta in order to meet the rapidly growing power demand of the country and to boost the social economic development of this key economic region. They are aimed to meet the increased energy demand since beginning of the dry season of 2008. The EPC contractor of the power plant project is Lilama Corporation, a major company in Vietnam industrial sector and the owner is Petro Vietnam, the state owned corporation in oil and gas sector. For the Ca Mau II Power Plant Siemens will supply two advanced large scale gas turbines, one steam turbine and three generators, 250 MW output each. The company will also supply the power island’s electrical and plant‘s I&C systems. This repeated order demonstrates the customers’ confidence in the quality and technology which Siemens offers. With this order Siemens Power Generation becomes the supplier of the largest gas turbine fleet (in MW) installed in Vietnam and is proud to be a major partner of Vietnam, who is in the process of building up its modern infrastructure and development toward prosperity.

Vietnam has an installed power plant capacity of 11Gigawatt and a double digit growth rate of industry. The Government has a power master plan which anticipates a total capacity of 41 Gigawatt toward 2020. Vietnam has found abundant natural gas resources on the southern continental shelf, which can be served as the raw material for power generation and other industries.