Bangladesh to build 3600MW LNG-run power plant at Payra

[EastBengalPro]

Bangladesh is going to build a 3,600-megawatt power plant at Payra in Patuakhali, the largest in the country and first to be run by imported liquefied natural gas or LNG.



Sate-owned North-West Power Generation Company Limited and Germany-based Siemens will sign a deal to set up the plant on Sunday, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid told bdnews24.com on Saturday.

"We hope the project will be implemented very fast," he said and added the work was expected to start by June 2018.

The estimated cost of the project is $2.5 billion, 80 percent of which is expected to come as the loan, he also said.

He said Siemens would also construct another 3500MW power plant at Maheshkhali in Cox's Bazar.

The Power Development Board or PDB would sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the firm for the Maheshkhali plant soon, he said.

At Payra, North-West Power Generation is already constructing a 1320MW coal-fired power plant with China's help, and 26 percent work of the project is complete.

For the new LNG-run plant, the government has allotted a 100-acre piece of land next to the coal-based plant, according to the company's Managing Director AM Khorshedul Alam.

He said the new plant would comprise of six units with 600MW capacity each.

The North-West managing director said two units would become operational by June 2020, two more in December the same year and the remaining two in the following year.

Khorshedul said an LNG terminal would also be set up at Payra to supply the imported gas to the plant.

The Awami League-led coalition government has initiated large infrastructure projects at Payra, including a port and economic zone for the development of the country's southern districts, with an aim to make Bangladesh a middle-income country by 2021 and developed one by 2041.

The country's capacity to generate electricity is 15,821MW in total. The government has targeted to raise the amount to 24,000MW by 2021 and 40,000MW by 2030.

Since 2009, a total of 87 power plants with a combined capacity to generate 9,254MW have been set up.

Now the government is eyeing larger power plants. The work to build a nuclear power plant at Rooppur in Pabna is under way.

Besides this, some more coal-run power plants at Maheshkhali, in Bagerhat and some other gas-run power plants are being set up.

https://bdnews24.com/economy/2017/11/04/bangladesh-to-build-3600mw-lng-run-power-plant-at-payra

 

[Maxpane]

congrats to our bengali brothers

 

[UKBengali]

Wow, over 7 GW just these two projects!
With 2.4GW Roopur nuclear and 1.32 GW
Payra plants in construction, and 1.2GW
Matarbari soon to start construction BD may
soon produce more electricity than it consumes.

 

[EastBengalPro]

Wow, over 7 GW just these two projects!
With 2.4GW Roopur nuclear and 1.32 GW
Payra plants in construction, and 1.2GW
Matarbari soon to start construction BD may
soon produce more electricity than it consumes.

Indeed...But Idune will deny coz it has happened during AL in power while Nilgiri will deny telling it BBS data

 

[UKBengali]

Indeed...But Idune will deny coz it has happened during AL in power while Nilgiri will deny telling it BBS data

@Nilgiri

Your thoughts bro?

 

[Nilgiri]

@Nilgiri

Your thoughts bro?

High time for BD to make up its abysmally low power, steel, cement and other basic infra consumption. Simply realising and taking up the vast amount of slack means little ...BD has lower consumption per capita than Myanmar for a reason. How BD approaches and does after meeting 6000 PPP per capita means instrumentally more.

I mean by 2030 you are "targetting" 40,000 MW capacity, roughly per capita what India already had in 2010. What will the actual realised differential be? How much actually will matter on the ground (price of a unit to say a small business or private household) even with whats realised given BD stagnant corruption and institutional credibility?

I mean there is reason why studies like this pop up when anyone looks at BD economic trends seriously:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/harvard-research-puts-bd-in-low-growth-category.505795/

Worst part is that BBS fakery in socioeconomics may well pull BD out of its much needed LDC quota buffers well before its ready with the capital, liquidity and sustained know how thats needed for even a semi-serious attempt at mid and high level economic production past what a slim domestic market can itself sustain (just seeing how badly the automobile and transport consumption stats are in BD right now).

 

[mb444]

A nation of 160mn will require huge amount of electricity. Despite the endemic corruption of BAL if what they say is anywhere near the truth the progress has been good. BD needs to raise power generation beyond the current projected levels in my opinion to meet the professed target to become a developed nation.

 

[Bilal9]

Here's a scenario for Turkey (Iskenderun bay) where supercarriers bring in coal for an on-shore coal-based power station. Transshipper platform has been put to work which can unload 50,000 tons of coal per day from Supercarriers, unloading directly to shallow-draft barges.

I guess this will be the scenario in Bangladesh too, companies like Oldendorff can operate this service from Supercarriers anchored off of Kutubdia and Sonadia (Outer anchorage where draft is at least fifteen meters), then send the low draft barges to power stations at Kutubdia (nearby) or Payra (at a distance) to be unloaded there.

 

[UKBengali]

High time for BD to make up its abysmally low power, steel, cement and other basic infra consumption. Simply realising and taking up the vast amount of slack means little ...BD has lower consumption per capita than Myanmar for a reason. How BD approaches and does after meeting 6000 PPP per capita means instrumentally more.

I mean by 2030 you are "targetting" 40,000 MW capacity, roughly per capita what India already had in 2010. What will the actual realised differential be? How much actually will matter on the ground (price of a unit to say a small business or private household) even with whats realised given BD stagnant corruption and institutional credibility?

I mean there is reason why studies like this pop up when anyone looks at BD economic trends seriously:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/harvard-research-puts-bd-in-low-growth-category.505795/

Worst part is that BBS fakery in socioeconomics may well pull BD out of its much needed LDC quota buffers well before its ready with the capital, liquidity and sustained know how thats needed for even a semi-serious attempt at mid and high level economic production past what a slim domestic market can itself sustain (just seeing how badly the automobile and transport consumption stats are in BD right now).

Not answered on the topic on the whole.
These plants will all supply electricity at very low prices - far cheaper than the rental plants and will save BD taxpayers money as the rental plants are taken out of the mix.
As one of the major impediments to FDI is poor infrastructure, these power plants along with new roads and railways will greatly help.

 

[Russell]

This is the difference between AL and BNP - as with most political parties in the developing world, AL too engages in corruption, but it also does work.

BNP and Khamba Tareq did NOTHING but steal. Literally nothing, no wait...we were No.1 in corruption repeatedly under them according to Transparency International - so that's something AL will never be able to match

For shame

Glad the contracts have gone to Siemens.

 

[ghost250]

This is the difference between AL and BNP - as with most political parties in the developing world, AL too engages in corruption, but it also does work.

BNP and Khamba Tareq did NOTHING but steal. Literally nothing, no wait...we were No.1 in corruption repeatedly under them according to Transparency International - so that's something AL will never be able to match

For shame

Glad the contracts have gone to Siemens.

but but hasina sold bangladesh to india..

 

[Russell]

but but hasina sold bangladesh to india..

My bad I forgot about that - But, Bangabandhu sold it after '71, Hasina sold it again in '96 and then again this time around.

AL sure is smart - they keep selling the same thing to India time and time again

 

[Bilal9]

Guys lets leave politics out of this thread...

Here is the Rail link to Payra port via Padma Bridge.

British firm DP Rail is working with China Railway Construction Corporation (International) Ltd as its principal civil engineering contractor.

The new railway forms a vital part of the Payra Port project, which is designed to provide a new deep water port at the top end of the Bay of Bengal, capable of handling large container ships of 8,000 containers capacity or 120,000 tonnes of cargo.

DP Rail expects the freight train service to start, prospectively, in 2024 and, in the first full year of operation is projected to handle approximately 2 million TEU with frequent daily trains running at 100 kilometer per hour, and with volumes rising to almost 4 million TEU per year by 2030. Container trains will be around 1km in length. Additional trains will convey coal and other bulk products.

For the ready-made garment sector, the railway will be the high capacity trading route to the sea and its customers around the world.

http://en.bbarta24.net/national/2016/12/20/6667

Here is the location of the LNG port on the other side of the bay (channel) from Payra container terminal. The Coal terminal is further upstream. That's where both the Coal-fired and LNG-based power-plants will be.

http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/deep-sea-port-beckons-1228897

@waz or @WAJsal bhais, can we merge the two threads please,

a) this one and,

b) the other one, https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/nwpgcl-to-build-3600mw-lng-power-plant.525022/

As they deal with the same subject ?

 

[Russell]

British firm DP Rail is working with China Railway Construction Corporation (International) Ltd as its principal civil engineering contractor.

Every time I hear the name 'DP Rail' I get shiver. Until, this year, they didn't even have a website. They were simply registered at Companies House.

Even the website they have now...might as well be a website for the Payra Railway project.

 

[Bilal9]

Every time I hear the name 'DP Rail' I get shiver. Until, this year, they didn't even have a website. They were simply registered at Companies House.

Even the website they have now...might as well be a website for the Payra Railway project.

Please... more details....

You're saying they have no pedigree in rail-related consulting??