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| Siemens wins order worth 700 million euros in Qatar  Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD), headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, has been awarded an order worth over 700 million euros by Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa). The order comprises the delivery of 25 turnkey substations of the voltage levels 220 kV, 132 kV and 66 kV and 11 kV, including transformers as well as station control and protection systems. In addition, it includes the expansion of 14 existing substations and the modification of ten more stations. All in all Siemens is delivering gas-insulated switchgear systems (GIS) with 54 switchbays for 220 kV and 200 switchbays for 132 kV/66 kV from its production plants in Berlin and Grenoble. The project is scheduled for completion by February 2009.Siemens is implementing the order as part of the "Qatar Power Transmission System Expansion – Phase VII" project currently running in Qatar. The substations are to be built in the cities of Doha, Ras Laffan, Maesaeed and spread all over the country. This is not the first major order that Siemens PTD has received from Qatar in the course of the country's ambitious project to expand its power supply system. Since November 2005, the company received several orders to a value of about 600 million euros for the delivery of turnkey transformer substations. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |