Siveco China on the Silk Road!
I had the great pleasure to visit Tunis last month for meeting with our African partners. My main theme was “Siveco China on the Silk Road”, as our EPC business is taking us from Korea in the East to as far as Algeria in the West! Siveco enjoys a very strong presence on the African continent, thanks to a network of local partners built in the past 30 years. At the same time in neighboring Algeria, our ongoing CMMS project at the Boufarik gas turbine power plant built by Turkish EPC GAMA is moving into final delivery phase.
read moreMaintenance preparation support for Indonesia’s Banjarsari power plant with CNEEC
PT Bukit Asam (PTBA) is an Indonesian state-owned coal mining company, partly listed on the Indonesian stock exchange. The second largest coal producer in Indonesia, with mineable reserves of approximately 7.3 billion tons, PTBA strives to become a competitive energy company. The 2x135MW power plant, a total investment of 240M USD, is located in South Sumatra province. China National Electric Equipment Corporation (CNEEC) was selected as the EPC contractor for this project. Construction started in April 2012.
read morePartner meetings with Siveco China in Tunisia
Our Managing Director Bruno was in Tunisia the third week of April for business development meetings with our African partners. The trip started with a visit to the scenic town of Sidi Bou Said for a seafood lunch with colleagues Adel Kalai and Claude Tombu, two of the key people behind the company’s development in Africa. On the way from Tunis to Sidi Bou Said, several Siveco client sites are visible, including power plants operated by the national power company STEG (Societe Tunisienne de l’Electricite et du Gaz).
read moreCMMS training for power plants in Turkey and Korea
Siveco China currently manages nine CMMS projects for gas turbine power plants owned by Algerian power generation group Sonelgaz. As two of the projects (Ain Arnat 1,200MW Combined Cycle Power Plant, built by Hyundai Engineering, and Boufarik 750MW Simple Cycle Power Plant), built by GAMA, are entering final delivery, Siveco conducted training at the EPC locations in Seoul, Korea and Istanbul, Turkey. For the two projects, the next activity is Site Acceptance Test (SAT) in Algeria.
read moreExploring Southeast Asia – refresh training for RPII Power Plant in Malaysia
Siveco Project Director Billy Cai went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to conduct a refresh end-user training for the RPII Power Plant. Further to the project, the group is considering to deploy Coswin system to other plants as the next step action.
read moreSiveco partner network in Africa
As China is gaining importance in the international markets, Chinese construction firms and major equipment suppliers have become involved in many infrastructure and industrial projects all over the world, and more particularly in Africa. Projects won by Chinese firms include roads, bridges, metro systems, refineries, telecommunication networks, pipelines, etc. These projects, perhaps due to the influence of European consulting firms in these regions, often require a CMMS to be implemented from the construction stage.
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