Yokogawa Wins Power Plant Contract in Trinidad and Tobago

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its subsidiary, Yokogawa Deutschland GmbH, has received an order from MAN Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH to supply an automation and control system for the La Brea Combined Cycle Power Plant that is being built by MAN Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH and Eisenbau Essen GmbH for Trinidad Generation Unlimited (TGU).

This new power plant will have six gas turbines, six exhaust gas heat recovery steam generators, two steam turbines, and auxiliary facilities. Yokogawa will provide a range of systems and products including a CENTUM series integrated production control system to control all of these facilities, the ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System for detecting abnormal conditions and safely initiating emergency shutdowns, the Exaquantum Plant Information Management System for recording and retrieving historical data, and the PRM integrated device management software package, as well as engineering and commissioning services.

According to Yokogawa, it was able to win this project for MAN Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH because it demonstrated an extensive track record with combined cycle power plants, including MAN Ferrostaal's control system order in 2005 for the Termozulia Combined Cycle Power Plant (total capacity 500 MW) in Venezuela, and a project approach that utilises the combined strengths of the Yokogawa Group to provide optimal solutions to customers. Encouraged by the success in winning this order, Yokogawa aims in fiscal year 2010 to achieve sales of 30 billion yen in the global power plant control system market.