Técnicas Reunidas, a Spanish general contractor that provides EPC services, has been awarded a contract by Fort Hills Energy L.P. for a cogeneration plant located at the Fort Hills oil sands mining project in Alberta’s Athabasca region (approximately 90 km north of Fort McMurray.)
Fort Hills Energy is actually a partnership between Suncor Energy, Total E & P Canada and Teck Resources Limited. It is developing Fort Hills oil sands mining project with a planned production of 180,000 barrels per day of bitumen.
Técnicas Reunidas will run the project on a turnkey basis and is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor. The project will have two 85 MW gas turbines, two steam production heat recovery steam generators and all the related auxiliary systems for its interconnection with the utilities system of the Fort Hills oil sands mine.
The entire project is expected to cost an estimated CAD $250 million and the cogeneration unit is to be completed in approximately 31 months.