Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS; Yokohama, Japan; www.mhps.com) has received an order for two sets of its natural gas-fired H-25 gas turbine and generator to be installed at a fertilizer production plant, which Turkmenhimiya, a state-owned chemical company in Turkmenistan, is building in the city of Garabogaz. The power generation system is scheduled to go on-stream in June 2018. The order marks the first H-25 gas turbine to be supplied to Turkmenistan.
The fertilizer plant is currently being constructed in the northwest region of Turkmenistan, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), jointly with GAP Insaat Yatirim ve Dis Tiscaret A.S., a Turkish construction company, and Mitsubishi Corp. The plant will be one of the largest urea fertilizer production plants in the country. The two sets of gas turbine and generator on order, with a combined power output of 50 MW, will serve as the core equipment of an in-house co-generation (combined heat and power supply) system to operate in the plant.
In recent years Turkmenistan has undergone steady economic growth sustained by its abundant reserves of natural gas, ranked 4th in volume worldwide. Today the Turkmenistan government is aggressively promoting development of high-value-added natural gas products as well as diversification of the country’s gas exports and sales channels, and construction of the new fertilizer plant in Garabogaz is an integral component of these initiatives.