Independent Power Producer
Silver Crescent awarded on 04 January 2023 an investment license number 460 to develop an industrial city over an area of 5,000,000M2. The industrial development includes a Power Station to feed Al-Muthana Province Grid with a capacity of 250 MW. The site works started on February 2023. Silver Crescent aims to develop the Power Plant through three phases, to reach total production of 1500 MW. Samawa station is the first investment station for Silver Crescent in Iraq.
The station located south of Samawa city, 20 km from the city center.
The first phase of the station (250MW) that is currently under construction will provide power to 250,000 homes in Samawa and will cover 50% of the current power shortage in the city.
The work was carried out in three phases. In the first phase, 250MW will be built with two gas turbines. The second phase 750 MW by another 6 gas turbines, and the third phase 500 MW by two steam turbines with combined cycle system (Power production without fuel depending on waste gases heat).
Samawa Gas Power Station will be among the the first gas station in the south of Iraq to add combined cycle which reduce the CO2 emissions.
Once fully developed the power station will consists of 8 gas generating units of the type (F-9E) manufactured by GE- American Company and operates on gas fuel mainly and on liquid fuel as an alternative fuel, with a production capacity of 125 MW per generating unit, and two steam generating units of the type (C-7) from the GE Company also with a capacity of 250 MW per steam turbine. All other equipment are from famous European origins and companies. In the combined cycle system, the high heat emitted from the waste gases coming out of the gas generation units is exploited to be passed on 8 (HRSG) steam boilers (one boiler for each gas unit) that heats the treated water produced in the water treatment unit inside the Station, to obtain high temperature and pressure steam and inserted into the steam units for the purpose of producing electric energy. The method of exploiting the exhaust heat is considered an aid in reducing thermal and carbon emissions, protecting the environment and producing electrical energy without using any additional fuel.
The Station will be developed by adding an evaporative cooling system to the gas units to cool the air entering the gas turbine to increase its efficiency and produce more electric power in summer season.
The power station adopts the application of international standards for occupational health, safety and the environment that are followed globally within
The power generation stations and considers it a priority to maintain the safety of employees and equipment and pay attention to green areas and afforestation and increase their areas inside the station.
- Silver Crescent received the official approval from the Technical Directorate at the Ministry of Electricity to connect its 250MW power plant in Samawah to the National Grid
- Silver Crescent received the official approval from South Gas Company, Ministry of Oil to supply 75MMCF of dry gas to its power plant in Samawah
- All Major Equipment for Samawah Power Plant have arrived in Um Qasar Port, Basra, Iraq which includes two frame 9 gas turbines, 2 generators, 2 auxiliary units and 2 transformers to produce 250MW of Electricity
- SC received the official approval from State Commission on Operation of Irrigation and Drainage Project Department, Ministry of Water Resources to supply 0.56M3/Sec of water from the Euphrates River to its power plant in Samawah