Project
Power Study for Powerhouse at Ras Shukeir
Client
Gulf Of Suez Petroleum Company - GUPCO
Location
Ras Shukeir in the East of Egypt
Scope
GUPCO (Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company) is a joint venture shared by Dragon Oil and EGPC (Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation)
R/SH Power House is an onshore gas turbine power generation plant located at Ras Shukeir in the East of Egypt near to the Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO)
It has nine turbine-generators sets provided with PMS
R/SH power house had electro-mechanical protection relays, circuit breakers, transformers, conventional control, the mostly existing
Components were obsolete and no longer available by the original manufacturer, so it was necessary to upgrade the power house.
Required upgrades were implemented but several trip incidents occurred causing un-stability to the powerhouse operation