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Mon, 11/02/2009 - 01:47
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MARIB GAS-POWERED PLANT TO BE OPERATED NEXT SATURDAY



SANA'A, Nov.01 (Saba) - In its meeting on Sunday chaired by Prime
Minister Ali Mujawar, the Ministerial Committee in charge of
following up operating Marib gas-powered plant approved the
executive plane for operating the plant.

According to the plan, presented by the joint technical team from
Ministers of Electricity and Oil and Minerals, the plant's
experimental operation is scheduled to start next Saturday.

The plan included a set of measures accompanying the operation to
avail from the periods of plant's experimental operation in
installing the strategic line with valves and the strategic line of
12 inches in the liquefied natural gas project currently existed.

Furthermore, the plan also included a number of technical works
related to the generating units operation at the station which will
continue till delivering the plant to the Electricity Corporation
and achieving the full utilization from its total capacity of 341 MW
through the national grid before completion the aptitude test of the
third generation unit.

The premier stressed the full commitment by the corporation and
Safer Company to the steps stated in the executive plans and the
specific periods, affirming that the cabinet and the ministerial
committee would follow up constantly the level of implementation for
the first steps.

Marib gas-powered station operating has been delayed several times.

An experimental operation of the Marib gas-powered plant was
supposed to start on August 29th, but it was delayed.

In 2005, an agreement was signed between the Yemeni government and
companies to implement the first phase of the station in order to
begin the operation in January 2009.

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