Power engineering firm Burns & McDonnell has been awarded by energy supplier SaskPower a contract to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for a new 350 MW gas-fired power facility to be located in Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada.
The Chinook power station will be built on a greenfield site in a rural area near Swift Current, Saskatchewan, about 100 miles north of the Canada/U.S. border, the company said in a statement, adding that pending environmental approval, construction is expected to begin as early as late 2016, with the plant being commissioned and in service in late 2019.
The combined-cycle facility will feature a Siemens F-Class gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) and a Siemens steam turbine to boost power output and maximize energy efficiency while reducing the overall emissions footprint.
The “highly efficient combined-cycle operation will use exhaust heat that would otherwise be lost in a simple-cycle configuration” the company said.
The combined-cycle unit will also significantly reduce water use thanks to a plant design that will incorporate advanced air cooling, it added.
Natural gas for the plant will be supplied under a long-term contract with TransGas via a large-capacity pipeline that runs in close proximity to the plant site. TransGas is a subsidiary of SaskEnergy and serves producers and end users in Saskatchewan and other western Canada provinces.
Burns & McDonnell provided engineering, procurement and construction management services to SaskPower for its recently completed 204-MW expansion of the Queen Elizabeth Power Station near Saskatoon. The project required a conversion of simple-cycle to combined-cycle technology for improved efficiency.