{"id":9089,"date":"2020-10-22T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2020-10-22T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:42:37","slug":"prime-minister-abdelaziz-djerad-inaugurates-geat-africas-first-of-its-kind-manufacturing-assembly-digital-service-repair-center-for-the-power-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2020\/10\/22\/prime-minister-abdelaziz-djerad-inaugurates-geat-africas-first-of-its-kind-manufacturing-assembly-digital-service-repair-center-for-the-power-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s First-Of-Its-Kind Manufacturing, Assembly, Digital, Service & Repair Center For The Power Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"
H.E. Abdelaziz Djerad, Prime Minister of Algeria, accompanied by other senior officials, inaugurated General Electric Algeria Turbines (GEAT), a joint venture between Sonelgaz and GE located in the Ain Yagout area of the city of Batna in Algeria. Established to manufacture skids and turbine auxiliaries, assemble gas and steam turbines and control systems, create digital solutions, and service and repair power generation equipment, GEAT is the only facility of its kind in the African continent.The delegation also celebrated the completion of the first locallyassembled gas turbine, a 9F.04 unit that is planned to be installed at the Oumach III power plant at Biskra in mid-2021.<\/p>
H.E. Abdelmadjid Attar, Minister of Energy, said, \u201cGEAT is the only facility in Africa equipped to assemble gas and steam turbines. The inauguration of the facility and the completion of the first gas turbine at GEAT isa moment of great pride for all Algerians and shows Sonelgaz and GE\u2019s commitment to power Algeria forward. GEAT is contributing towards further strengthening Algeria\u2019s energy ecosystem and supporting our national socio-economic development efforts.\u201d<\/p>
GEAT is part of a US$ 168 million (approx. DZD 22 billion) investment. The facility has already started manufacturing components such as gas turbine piping and skids, assembling turbines and control systems, and servicingpower generation equipment.It is also expected to start creating digital solutions for the power sector by 2021 and tobegin providing repair services for GE\u2019s 9FA gas turbinesfor the first time in Africa in 2024, enabling Algeria\u2019s fleet of over30 9FA units to be repaired domestically, thus saving considerable foreign exchange reserves. GEAT has already created 140 jobs for Algerian nationals and is expected to create up to another 200 jobs by 2024. The staff at GEAT, comprising engineers, operators, logistics experts, and others, has already receivedover 30,000 hours of training, both in local institutes and at GE\u2019s facilities in France, Hungary and India.<\/p>
\u201cGEAT is the outcome of a strong, long-term partnership between Sonelgaz and GE. Together, we have achieved a great milestone that is enabling technology and skills transfer, building local capabilities, and helping us to secure the country\u2019s energy future,\u201d stated Mr. Chaher Boulakhras, President & CEO at Sonelgaz.\u201cI am particularly pleased to see the intense focus ontraining our people; theseefforts will bring value to the local community and our country for decades to come.\u201d<\/p>
\u201cGEhas been honored to support the development of Algeria\u2019s power sector for over 40 years. The inauguration of GEAT reflects our long-term commitment to not just strengthen the country\u2019s energy ecosystem but more importantly, to power growth and prosperity for the Algerian people,\u201d said Joseph Anis, President and CEO of GE Gas Power, Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.\u201cI am proud of and thankful to the teams at the Ministry of Energy, Sonelgaz, and GE who have contributed to this incredible achievement.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
H.E. Abdelaziz Djerad, Prime Minister of Algeria, accompanied by other senior officials, inaugurated General Electric Algeria Turbines (GEAT), a joint venture between Sonelgaz and GE located in the Ain Yagout area of the city of Batna in Algeria. Established to manufacture skids and turbine auxiliaries, assemble gas and steam turbines and control systems, create digital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9092,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions\/9092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}