BHEL outbids Alstom to bag Rs 2,200 crore order from ONGC Tripura Power

10 September 2008

India's biggest power-equipment maker, Bharat Heavy Electricals along with GE, has won a contract worth Rs2,200 crore from ONGC Tripura Power Co. outbidding French giant Alstom's Indian subsidiary, in an global competitive bid for setting up a combined-cycle power plant on turnkey basis.

ONGC Tripura Power Co. Ltd. is a joint venture between ONGC, IL&FS and the government of Tripura, which has undertaken the construction of two combined cycle modules of 363.3 MW each, with a gross plant output of 726.6 MW at Pallatana in the Udaipur district of Tripura.ONGC has 50-per cent equity in the company with the remaing being with the other two project promoters.

Earlier in July BHEL had outbid the joint venture of Larsen & Toubro and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the Rs2,500-crore order from Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Ltd to provide boilers for its 1,600 MW Krishnapatnam power project.

ONGC owns significant natural gas reserves in the North Eastern state of Tripura, which are yet to be commercially developed due to the low industrial demand in the north eastern region.

Since the complexities of logistics and attendant costs limit the economic viability of transportation of gas to other parts of the country where gas is in short supply, ONGC proposes to develop the 726.6 MW combined cycle gas turbine thermal power plant at Pallatana close to its gas fields in Tripura and supply power to the power deficit areas of the north east, thus optimally utilising the gas from Tripura.

The scope of the order entails, design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of two frame 9FA Gas Turbine Generator sets, two steam turbine generator sets and two heat recovery steam generators.