Marib gas-powered plant to be operated next Saturday
The Source: www.sabanews.net - : 01/11/2009
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In its meeting on Sunday chaired by Prime Minister Ali Mujawar, the Ministerial Committee in charge of following up operating Marib gas-powered plant approved the executive plane for operating the plant.
According to the plan, presented by the joint technical team from Ministers of Electricity and Oil and Minerals, the plant's experimental operation is scheduled to start next Saturday. The plan included a set of measures accompanying the operation to avail from the periods of plant's experimental operation in installing the strategic line with valves and the strategic line of 12 inches in the liquefied natural gas project currently existed. Furthermore, the plan also included a number of technical works related to the generating units operation at the station which will continue till delivering the plant to the Electricity Corporation and achieving the full utilization from its total capacity of 341 MW through the national grid before completion the aptitude test of the third generation unit. The premier stressed the full commitment by the corporation and Safer Company to the steps stated in the executive plans and the specific periods, affirming that the cabinet and the ministerial committee would follow up constantly the level of implementation for the first steps. Marib gas-powered station operating has been delayed several times. An experimental operation of the Marib gas-powered plant was supposed to start on August 29th, but it was delayed. In 2005, an agreement was signed between the Yemeni government and companies to implement the first phase of the station in order to begin the operation in January 2009.
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