ENKA was awarded the contract for the construction of the Bazyan 500 MW Simple Cycle Power Plant on a Turn Key EPC basis by the Qaiwan Group on 28 August 2014. The project occupies a greenfield site in the province of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region of Iraq.

The power capacity of the plant is 500 MW generated by four GE-9E-3 gas turbines, an air insulated switchyard of 132kV, fuel gas conditioning system, three Distillate Fuel Oil tanks, each of 15,000 m³ capacity, a water treatment plant and all Balance of Plant systems, complete with all accessories, including piping, wiring, instrumentation controls and panels and all other facilities and required capabilities.

The facility was designed for base-load operations with an efficient operating life of 25-30 years. It was designed to work with natural gas as the primary fuel source and light fuel oil as back–up fuel. A 15-day supply of fuel oil (47,000 m³ ) could be stored on site.

The main challenge of the project was meeting the 15 month fast-track project schedule. The project mobilization phase took place at the peak of significant civil unrest in the region. Deploying necessary number of employees to the jobsite took longer than originally anticipated in the contract schedule. ENKA with a successful coordination of procurement, logistics and risk management activities managed to bring 1,500 trucks to site in a very short time period and arranged their unloading at an extremely small lay down. In nearly one year, 15 thousand tons of project materials were shipped to the site. Double handling techniques were used during earthworks due to the small size of the job site. Delays to transportation plans due to force majeure events near the Turkish – Iraqi border were handled with no effect on contract schedule.

In the project, ENKA also successfully managed working with previously identified local suppliers and subcontractors without any bidding process.

The works envisaged in the contract encompassed the design and engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and testing of a simple cycle power plant with a capacity of 500 MW. Performance tests, classroom training of operating and maintenance (O&M) personnel and the preparation of integrated O&M manuals were also within ENKA’s scope.

• Utilization of multi-fuel with natural gas as the primary fuel and light fuel oil (i.e. a type of diesel) as the backup fuel, in cases when natural gas is unavailable
• Ability to supply of 15 days (47,000 m³) fuel oil on site
• 3.5 million work hours without a lost time incident.