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. BA