Four gas turbines have been installed in AFPC's al-Thayyem
oilfield near the town of Deir ez-Zor in north-eastern Syria. The first
started up at the end of February 1990 and the other two followed at
two-month intervals. The installed capacity of each turbine is 30 MW.
Their annual requirements are estimated at about 233 MCM. The fourth
power plant at al-Thayyem field was completed in late 2001.
The Tishreen steam-powered station, just south of Damascus, was
built in the late 1980s by the Soviets and started up in 1991. It has
two 200 MW units, with a yield ratio of 34-37%. It is designed to
operate on natural gas or fuel oil. Consumption of fuel oil has fallen
to a negligible volume, from 2,356 kcal/kilowatt-hour.
The plant has been converted and expanded to a 250 MW combined
cycle unit. Additional gas to the power station is coming from the Omar
and Palmyra processing plants.
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