Aggreko completes Middle East’s largest flare gas-to-power project to date
Aggreko has completed commissioning of the largest flare gas to power project in the Middle East to date at 165 MW capacity. The plant is situated nearby the Saqala Field, Garmain block, South East Kurdistan.The 165 MW modular power plant has run at full capacity for 72 hours in the project’s final site acceptance test (SAT), marking successful on-time, on-budget delivery. The plant is run on approximately 40 MM ft2/d of associated petroleum gas (APG) from the Saqala Field, saving 840 tpd of CO2, and cutting flaring by a third.Delivered over the course of 2020-2021 against the back of the pandemic, the project was conceived and executed in close collaboration with Kurdistan’s Ministry of National Resources (MNR) and Ministry of Electricity .....