BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction Corporation announced recently that construction of the wall of the No. 2 cooling tower for the Qasim Port emergency power plant in Pakistan was completed ahead of schedule on Dec. 13, 2016.
According to SEPCOIII, the wall of the 162.6-meter-high cooling tower is designed with maximum thickness of 1.25 meters and minimum thickness of 0.27 meter.
The No.1 and 2 boilers, main power house, chimney and No. 1 cooling tower and other key construction projects have already been completed for the coal-fired power plant.
SEPCOIII, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina), is the EPC contractor of the power plant project, which is situated in the Qasim Port industrial zone 37 kilometers southeast of Karachi.
As a prioritized program under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the power plant will have two 660 MW supercritical units, with total investment involved amounting to 2.085 billion U.S. dollars. Construction of the project was scheduled for completion in 32 months, and power generation will begin at the end of 2017. The plant is expected to generate 9.5 billion kWh of electricity a year.
Currently, the Qasim Port power plant is operated by a project company set up as a joint venture between Qasim Energy (Hong Kong) Investment Co., Ltd., wholly-owned by PowerChina Resources Limited, which is a controlled subsidiary of PowerChina, and Quatar’s Al Mirqab Capital. (Edited by Duan Jing, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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