Bergen Engines AS, trading as
Rolls-Royce Reciprocating
Power Systems, has secured
orders with a combined value over
$70 million to supply 26 Bergen
engines, associated power plant
equipment and design services to
customers in Bangladesh and
Indonesia to increase electrical
power generation.
The orders include $45 million
contract to supply 16 B32:40V16
engines to Energypac Power
Generation Ltd in Bangladesh. The
units will be installed at the
Chittagong power station, generating
108 mw of power to be fed into the
Bangladesh national grid.
The second is a $21-million
contract to supply 6 B35:40V20 gas
engines to Midland Power Co Ltd, an
independent power producer in
Bangladesh, for installation at its
Ashuganj power station. The units
will produce 56 mw of power to be
fed into the Bangladesh national grid.
The third contract from
Bangladesh is to supply a B35:40V12
gas engine to Shun Shing Power Pvt
Ltd of Bangladesh to provide an
additional 5 mw of power to help
expand the capacity of the cement
plant of Shun Shing Group,
Bangladesh where two similar
Bergen engines are already in
operation. The Bangladesh orders
bring to 83 the fleet of engines sold to
customers in the country, which
combined are capable of delivering
500 mw of power.
The Indonesian contract is to
supply PT Medco Power of Indonesia
with three B35:40V20 gas engines to
add 24 mw of power to a power
generation plant on the Indonesian
island of Batam, south of Singapore.
The Batam site already operates four
Rolls-Royce RB211 gas turbines with
a combined cycle output rating of 133
mw of electrical power. Following the
acquisition in 2011 of the German
industrial engines group Tognum by a
50-50 joint venture between Rolls-
Royce and Daimler, in January 2012
the ownership of Bergen Engines
transferred from Rolls-Royce to
Engine Holding GmbH, the joint
venture company.
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