Bhel commissions Sudan's largest power project

NEW DELHI: BHEL executed the 500 MW, oil-fired Kosti thermal power project on an engineering, procurement and construction basis. The company designed, manufactured, supplied and installed the power project with four units of 125 MW each, BHEL said in a statement.

The project uses crude oil from South Sudan as fuel, for which BHEL designed special boilers. The major equipment -- boilers, steam turbines, generators, controls and instrumentation and transformers – were made in-house. BHEL also constructed a canal from the White Nile River to supply water for the project, which is funded by a $350 million loan from India, according to the statement.

The Kosti project is BHEL’s largest outside India and the first for the company in Africa. Overseas projects that BHEL is executing include the 64 MW Grand Katende hydro project in Congo, 18 MW power plant in Comoros, 8x183 MW Keban hydro rehabilitation project in Turkey and three hydro projects in Bhutan with a combined capacity of 2,940 MW.