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Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa)

Contacts:

Fahad Rashed al-Kaabi Manager, Water Projects, Tel: +974 4484 5317, Fax: +974 4484 5353

Ahmed al-Nasser, Head of Design, Electricity Projects, Tel: +974 4484 5111, Fax: +974 4484 5496

ABOUT:

Established in 2000, Kahramaa’s mandate is to operate the country’s electricity and water transmission and distribution system. With capital of QR8bn ($2.2bn), it earns income selling electricity and water to residential, commercial and industrial consumers. In 2002, it outsourced the production of electricity and water and Qatar Electricity & Water Company (QEWC)Qatar Petroleum (QP).docx took over some of this responsibility. Issa Hilal al-Kuwari is the president of the corporation.

SECTOR BACKGROUND:

Qatar launched its first independent water and power project ( IWPP), Ras Laffan A, in 2001. Since then, Kahramaa has awarded three more private projects, the Ras Laffan B IWPP, the Mesaieed independent power project (IPP) and the Ras Laffan C IWPP. In total, it has contracted 6,518MW of power and attracted investment of $7.8bn from the developer market. The investment has resulted in a rapid expansion of the transmission network with the number of high-voltage substations more than doubling between 2005 and 2011. As of 2011, Kahramaa’s overall transmission and distribution infrastructure comprised 4,000 kilometres of high-voltage overhead lines, 8,500km of cabling, 247 33-400kV substations and 10,500 11kV substations. The state’s private power programme is based on the single buyer model. Kahramaa purchases all the power and water output of the plants for a period of 25 years on a take-or-pay basis while Qatar Petroleum (QP) supplies the fuel. International developers are invited to tender for the post of foreign partner on new IWPPs, with the winning bidding consortium normally taking a 40 per cent stake in a project company. As of February 2012, IP-GDF Suez was the largest foreign developer in Qatar with equity capacity of 956MW. IP-GDF Suez was formed following a merger between the UK’s International Power (IP) and France’s GDF Suez in early-2011. The company holds a 40 per cent stake in Ras Laffan B through IP and a 20 per cent shareholding in Ras Laffan C through GDF Suez. Its nearest international rival was Japan’s Marubeni Corporation which holds a 40 per cent stake in the Mesaieed IPP. (QEWC) and, in most instances, QP, are automatically granted stakes in the project company. The former, in which the government maintains a minority stake, is the largest power and water generator in the state. Formed in 1990, it now owns 2,243MW of capacity in its own right at the Ras Abu Fontas complex and the Doha satellite stations, and a further 2,493MW of capacity through its interests in the four IWPPs and IPPs. As for QP, it holds equity capacity of 885MW in the private power market.


Qatar has one of the Gulf’s most active power transmission and distribution sectors, with QR30bn ($8.2bn) having been invested in upgrading and expanding infrastructure over the past five years. In the period 2005-11, Kahramaa proceeded with five further phases of the Qatar transmission programme as well as the Rayyan village project as it sought to accommodate increasing demand from the expanding population base. In an unprecedented period of project activity, it placed 53 engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts calling for the construction of 183 substations with total transformer capacity of 56,040MVA at a cost of QR29.5bn ($8.1bn). Overall, Qatar has budgeted for QR15bn ($4.1bn) to be spent over the next three years on electricity and water projects. Having won the bidding for the 2022 Fifa World Cup, Qatar is focused on ensuring that centrepiece infrastructure projects, including power and water, will be completed in time.

The existing and planned water transmission network

Source: Kahramaa


PROJECTS: Qatar's sure-footed IWPP expansion strategy is on course to deliver a sustained increase in desalinated water, with production due to rise from 290 million cubic metres a year (cm/y) in 2011 to 340 million cm/y by 2015. Investment in wastewater treatment facilities should also result in a substantial boost to water availability over the next five years. Treated wastewater output is likely to rise from 57 million cm/y in 2011 to 65 million cm/y by 2015. A further IWPP is said to be under consideration, and the country is also widening its technological horizons. A pilot reverse osmosis desalination plant is due to be built and Qatar is also considering using solar power to desalinate water. Power is required for industrial consumers at Ras Laffan, local domestic consumers and for the national grid using existing transmission lines. The current profile covers the Ras Laffan IWPP expansion, which will generate 4,200MW of electricity and 235 million gallons a day of desalinated water.

Kahramaa is currently planning for the expansion of power transmission systems in the country. At the end of March 2012, it awarded 10 electricity contract packages covering 34 substations, including 24 new stations, double-circuit, high-voltage ground cables nearly 400km long and overhead lines of over 102km it envisages to be completed in 2015.

Kahramaa’s network is set for further significant expansion, with the number of high-voltage substations forecast to rise by almost 50 per cent by 2016. This will be achieved through completion of the under-construction phase 10 programme and implementation of the planned phase 11. On phase 10, Kahramaa awarded 10 EPC substation packages, seven cabling contracts and a single overhead line package in 2011, as well as three consultancy contracts to Germany’s Lahmeyer and PB Power and Mott MacDonald, both of the UK. In total, orders worth QR3.6bn ($1bn) were placed with the substations accounting for two-thirds of the work, and cabling and overhead line contracts for the remainder. The launch of phase 11 this year is to be implemented in two stages. The first calls for the construction of 30 substations and associated cables of 66-220kV. Awards are due in the third quarter of 2012. This will be followed in the fourth quarter with the planned issue of tender documents for the larger stage 2. It involves about 40 substations and cables ranging in size from 66kV to 400kV. This will require an investment of around $4.6bn, including desalination schemes. Kahramaa is also planning to spend another $6bn on water transmission and storage projects over the next 10 years.

Planned desalination projects

Project End client

Proposed

capacity (cm/d)

Date of

planned

commissionin

g Status

Desalination plant

expansion Kahramaa 318,000-410,000 2013/14

Developer selection

awaited

Facility D Kahramaa 270,000-410,000 2016/17

Expected to go for tender

among developers in

2014/15

na=not available

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Kahramaa’s 2012 transmission plans

Project

Contract

type

Planned

date of

tendering

Planned

date of

awards Scope

Phase 11, stage 1 Construction Q1 2012 Q3 2012

Thirty substations and

associated cables of 66-220kV

Power supply to QSTEC

polysilicon plant Construction Q1 2012 Q2 2012 Substation and cabling

DCC programme Consultancy Q1 2012 Q2 2012

New DCC centre and extension

to existing one

Third-party investigation Consultancy Q1 2012 Q2 2012

Third-party investigation

services

Phase 11, stage 2 Construction Q4 2012 Q2 2013

About 40 substations and

associated cables of 66-400kV

Source: Kahramaa

PROJECTS UNDER EXECUTION AND PLANNED

Project name Estimated budget ($m) Status Consultant Main contractor

Main contract

award

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 8, six substations 700 Execution

Mott MacDonald, Lahmeyer International, Energoprojekt Areva T&D 2008

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 8, cables, packages C-1-1 and C-1-2 200 Execution

Mott MacDonald, Energoprojekt, Lahmeyer International

National Contracting Company (NCC), National Contracting Company (NCC) 2008

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 8, cables, packages C-1-3, C-2-2 and C-3-4 227 Execution

Mott MacDonald, Energoprojekt, Lahmeyer International ETA Star 2008

Kahramaa, Musaimeer RPS and associated pipelines 126 Execution MZ & Partners

Hamad Bin Khaled Contracting Company 2008

Kahramaa, South Doha reservoirs and associated pipelines 104 Execution

KEO International Consultants

Al-Waha Establishment for Contracting & Trading 2009

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission phase 9, overhead lines 225 Execution Energoprojekt

National Contracting Company (NCC) 2009

Kahramaa, Duhail and Umm Qarn water stations 210 Execution GHD Global

Habtoor Leighton Group 2009

Kahramaa, Gharrafa, West Bay, Salwa industrial and Bani Hajar, reservoirs and pipelines 85 Execution

Parsons International

Qatar Building Company 2009

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 9, substation package 800 Execution Energoprojekt

Siemens, Hyosung Ebara 2009


Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 9, cables package 130 Execution Energoprojekt

Siemens, Mitsubishi Corporation 2009

Kahramaa, Al-Wukair RPS and associated pipelines 100 Execution

KEO International Consultants

Qatar Building Company 2010

Kahramaa, replacement of primary and distribution networks at Doha, phase 3 125 Execution

Gulf Engineering & Industrial Consultancy

Boom Construction Company 2010

Kahramaa, 66/11kV new Hitmi and Rayyan village substations 50 Execution Energoprojekt Entel ABB 2010

Kahramaa, 66/11kV new Rayyan village cable package 70 Execution Energoprojekt Entel


Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 10, power cables, packages C2, C6 and C7 106 Execution

Lahmeyer International, Energoprojekt Entel


Kahramaa, Qatar transmission phase 10, power cables, package C3 130 Execution

Parsons Brinckerhoff, Energoprojekt Entel

Larsen & Toubro Limited 2011

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 10, overhead lines package 200 Execution

Mott MacDonald, Energoprojekt Entel

Kalpataru Power Transmission 2011

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 10, substation, packages S1, S2 and S6 350 Execution

Mott MacDonald, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Energoprojekt Entel Larsen & Toubro 2011

Kahramaa, extension of distribution network at Rawdat al-Hamam 32 Execution

Gulf House For Trade & Contracting Company 2011

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 10, substation packages S5 and S8 280 Execution

Lahmeyer International, Energoprojekt Entel Hyosung Group 2011

Kahramaa, Kahramaa Awareness Park 75 Execution

James Cubitt & Partners

Sinohydro Corporation 2012

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 10, substation, packages S3, S4, S9 and S10 230 Execution

Lahmeyer International, Energoprojekt Entel Siemens 2012

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 10, power cables, packages C1 and C5 120 Execution

Mott MacDonald, Lahmeyer International, Energoprojekt Entel

El-Sewedy (formerly Egytech Cables) 2012

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 10, power cables, packages C4 73 Execution Energoprojekt Entel LS Cables 2012

Kahramaa, Ras Laffan IWPP expansion 3,000

Main contract bid 2012

QEWC, Ras Abu Fontas A2 (RAF A2) desalination plant 350


Kahramaa, extension of water distribution mains and service connections 30


Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 11, stage 1 411 Study 2012 Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 11, stage 2 411 Study 2013 Kahramaa, water security mega-reservoirs 2,000 Design

Artelia Group, Hyder Consulting 2013

Kahramaa, facility D IWPP 2,000 Study 2015


Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 9 2,000 Execution Energoprojekt

Kahramaa, Qatar transmission, phase 8 2,800 Execution

Mott MacDonald, Energoprojekt, Lahmeyer International

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