GENERAL ELECTRIC SIGN POWER GENERATION DEAL IN NIGERIA

General Electric sign deal to provide power generation at Port Harcourt Refining in Nigeria.

Multinational conglomerate company General Electric has sign a power generation deal that will help power generation in Nigeria. This deal will help support the power generation requirements of the Port-Harcourt Refining Company in Nigeria.

The 12-years deal will include the provision of parts, spares and repairs. It will also include  services for over two major inspection cycles for three units of GE’s TM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines earlier installed at the plant site in March 2015.

Meanwhile, the deal is to encourage uninterrupted power supply to the Port Harcourt Refining Company. It will also  improve plant efficiency and help ensure long-term, reliable operation of the facility’s GE’s TM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines.

Chairman, Genesis Energy Holding, Akinwole Omoboriowo said The company is focus on commitment for greater efficiency in our investments. It will also reduce our costs without compromising the safety and production goals of our customers. He also said they are working to ensure optimum performance of the power generation assets installed at our various plants”.

The Port Harcourt Refining Company specialise in refining of crude oil into petroleum products. Meanwhile, this will help the plant as optimum supply of the power it needs to run its plant reliably and efficiently.

Narendra Asnani, the Executive Sales Director for GE Power Services, Sub-Saharan Africa said “sustaining gas turbine performance in these present times is difficult challenge. He said this is due to the ever-shrinking budgets.”

The deal will improve power supply for the constant production of one of the nation’s leading facilities.

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