Power generation machine maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won power cycle piping package contract for revival of NTPC's 3x660 MW Barh Super Thermal Power Project, Stage-I. This project is located at Barh in Patna district of Bihar.

NTPC awarded this contract to BHEL after terminating deal with a foreign company.

The foreign company had been awarded the contract for the supercritical boiler, including power cycle piping, in 2005. However, it has not yet been completed. After that, NTPC announced international competitive bidding in which BHEL emerged the winner.

BHEL’s scope in the order includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of the complete power cycle piping package of the project. The design, manufacture and supply of power cycle piping equipment will be taken care of by the piping centre and Trichy-valves division of the company, while the company’s power sector eastern region will be responsible for the erection and commissioning of the power cycle piping.

This is not the first time that BHEL has been entrusted the responsibility of revival of a project, initially ordered on a foreign company. Earlier, BHEL had received an order from Ratnagiri Gas & Power Private Limited (RGPPL) for restarting the 1,967 MW Gas Turbine based Combined Cycle Project at Ratnagiri.

Notably the two units of the Stage-II (2x660 MW) of Barh STPP, for which supply and installation of supercritical boilers and turbines was awarded to BHEL in 2008, have already been commissioned.

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