BHEL wins prestigious order for Compressor Package from Iraq

5 Apr 2022 , 01:33 AM

Bharat Heavy Electricals has achieved yet another milestone in its international business by bagging a prestigious order for a Compressor Package from Iraq Won in the face of stiff competition the order for the Package for Baiji Refinery in Iraq has been placed by Northern Refineries Company NRC a National Oil refinery company owned by Ministry of Oil Republic of Iraq The order envisages design engineering manufacturing and supply of electric motor driven Recycle Gas Centrifugal compressor and will be executed by BHELs International Operations Division along with its manufacturing units at Hyderabad and Bhopal The new compressor will replace the existing compressor also supplied by BHEL in the year 2000 which was damaged due to the war in Iraq BHEL has a strong presence in Iraq having supplied several Gas Turbine based Power Plants including 4×157 MW Gas Turbine Generator GTG units for Baiji Power Station and 2×125 MW GTG units for Rumailla Power Station BHEL has also executed a turnkey order for construction of 4×125 MW Gas Turbine based Sulaymaniyah Power Project in Iraq