Arabian Construction Company (ACC) were awarded the first Solar Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) and Operation and Maintenance (O&M) contract to build the Baynouna Solar Energy Project, 40 km northeast the capital Amman, Jordan, in Joint Venture with Enviromena Power Systems LLC.
The 200MW Project (photovoltaic power station) is now proudly the largest single solar energy project completed in Jordan.
The project generates 563.3 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity each year and covers the annual supply needs of approximately 160,000 homes while saving upwards of 360,000 CO2 each year.
The Strategic Water Storage Recovery Project in Liwa, Abu Dhabi was one of the largest projects of its kind in the world.
The objective of the project is to infiltrate and store 27 million cubic metres of desalinated water in natural underground aquifers to form a strategic reserve that can be recovered and used in emergency conditions.
ACC’s role in the project included design, supply, construction and commissioning of 200 water wells, 160 km of interconnecting piping and transfer pipeline (48″ and 36″ diameter), five pumping stations, MV and LV substations, 500 km of electrical and instrumentation cables with DCS and SCADA control systems.
The NGL Pipeline Pumps & Allied Works project at Asab-0 involved installation of NGL pumps with associated civil, piping, electrical, instrumentation, telecom and tie-ins works. It also included testing, pre-commissioning and assistance to the company for commissioning and the start-up of new facilities.
The purpose of the project was to replace existing NGL pipeline pumps with new ones of bigger capacity to cater for increased production and to carry out de-bottlenecking of the existing plant to facilitate the operation of the new pumps.
ACC’s scope included construction of pump sheds to accommodate new NGL pumps and VSD motors; a new substation building with 11kV and LV power system for operation and control of the new facilities; piping fabrication installation and testing; modification of existing electrical panels and DCS system; executing tie-in works under a major shutdown to integrate the new facilities with the existing plant; removing the old pumps and demolishing existing facilities after successful operation of new installations.
The purpose of the Beaat 2 facility is to safely retrieve, manage, treat and dispose of hazardous waste at the Ruwais Refinery in Abu Dhabi Emirate, and ensure that human health and the environment are adequately protected.
ACC’s scope of work for this project included site preparation, design, construction and supply of civil, structural and architectural works.
It also involved supply, installation and testing of piping systems, assembly and installation of mechanical equipment, supply and installation of tank works & equipment and piping insulation.
The Fujairah F2 Plant is a Greenfield power generation and seawater desalination plant with 2,000 MW of net power capacity and 130 MIGD of net water capacity.
It is located at Al-Qidfa in the Emirate of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman.
The project is comprised of 5 gas turbines and 3 steam turbines (2000 MW) with all the necessary facilities (transformers, boilers, gas compressor, control building, stores, fuel unloading station, steel structures etc), 4 fuel tanks, outfall water intake, shore protection of 1km with all the marine works and soil filling.
A new fourth NGL Train at Ruwais was installed under this project to process a portion of the NGL products from AGD-0, BAB, Bu Hasa and Habshan (excluding OGD-III).
The fourth NGL fractionation plant produces four products: raw ethane, propane, butane and paraffinic naphta hydrocarbons, and liquid sulphur. The capacity of Train 4 is approximately 27,000 TPD of NGL/LPG. A new 30 PD sulphur recovery unit was installed to handle acid gas flows from Train 4 and acid gas from Trains 1, 2 or 3 and vice versa to meet ADNOC’s environmental policy.
The project includes a main processing plant fractionation refrigeration, mole sieves treating, DEO treating, sulphur recovery unit and storage area civil works.
The Shuweihat S1 1500 MW combined cycle power plant is currently one of the world’s largest combined power and water plant complexes, delivering 1500 MW of power to the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The plant consists of five Siemens v94.3A gas turbines, two 251 MW steam turbines, seven electrical generators and all the ancillary systems. It is linked to a seawater desalination facility which is supplied with steam from the turbines.
This project was an Independent Water and Power Project commissioned on a Build Operate transfer (BOT) basis.
ACC was the civil works and structural steel contractor on this 750MW power plant, completed in August 2001.
The project was unique in nature since it was the first Build Operate Transfer (BOT) project in the UAE and was executed on a fast-track basis due to the commitment made by Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority to increase power output.
The project is now a benchmark for Independent Power and Water Projects (IWPP) projects in the Gulf.
The scope included civil works for the covered and cladded power island (gas & steam turbine building), transformers, boilers, heat recovery steam generators, control building, liquid fuel tank and other related structures.
ACC was subcontracted for the civil, structural, building and external works and the outfall channel for both the power and desalination elements at the Umm al Nar Independent Water and Power Plant.
The IWPP involved decommissioning the existing 850MW of generating capacity at the site and installing 1550MW of new build to be constructed by Toshiba and based on Frame 9 gas turbines from the US’ General Electric Power Systems (GE). In addition, 25 million gallons a day of new multi-stage flash capacity was added by Japan’s Hitachi Zosen Corporation to the plant’s 70 million gallons a day of recently installed capacity.
This project was one of the sections for the transfer scheme of water from the Shuweihat Independent Power and Water Plant to the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi.
The project consisted of 6 water tanks, a pumping station building, a switchgear building, a chlorination building and all other relevant infrastructures and facilities such as underground piping, truss blocks, roads, cable trenches, concrete fence and security building.
