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Article: Qatar to have MHI's 500th turbine.
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- Gulf Industry
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)'s 500th gas turbine built at its Takasago Machinery Works in Hyogo Prefecture, has been shipped to Qatar, the company reported.
The milestone unit will be delivered to a large-scale power generation and desalination project - the Ras Laffan C Independent Water and Power Project - currently under way in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. The milestone comes 46 years after the delivery of MHI's first gas turbine in 1963. The 500th gas turbine is the first unit of eight M701F gas turbines ordered by Ras Girtas Power Company (RGPC), which was formed by companies in Japan, Europe and Qatar. It was shipped together with the identical ...