The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has awarded Arabian Bemco in October 2009 a S.R 6.8 billion (USD 1.8 billion) contract to expand the Al-Qurayyah Combined Cycle Power Plant (Phase C) located in the Eastern Province. Arabian Bemco will convert the Al-Qurayyah Simple Cycle Power Plant into a Combined Cycle Plant by adding five steam turbines and fifteen (15) Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) to the facility, along with the required civil and marine works, with capacity of 1,300 MW per year. This will bring the capacity of the plant to a total of 3,800 MW when the project is completed by early 2015. Arabian Bemco earlier won the SR2.1 billion (USD 560 million) contract for the construction of the simple cycle plant in June 2007. The plant total area is 1.5 million square meters. project details...