Agility lands $350,000 Australia plant contract

Logistics group Agility has won a $350,000 (Dh1.28 million) contract to provide services to engineering firm CH2M Hill Brisbane for a power plant in Australia.

Kuwait-based Agility, the largest logistics provider in the Gulf by market value, will be responsible for transporting equipment and supplies to the worksite in the Darling Downs region of Queensland.

"This is a great global success for our project logistics team and we are extremely pleased to secure this first contract with CH2M Hill in Australia," said John Beattie, Agility Project Logistics' Australasian general manager.

CH2M Hill's Atlanta and Brisbane offices will undertake the engineering, procurement and construction work on the $750m, 630MW gas fired power station for Origin Energy. GE will supply three Frame 9E gas turbines, boilers and steam turbine and CH2M Hill will supply the remainder of the equipment.

Agility Project Logistics will be responsible for all global air, ocean and inland transportation and related logistics services from the delivery points – primarily in Asia, Europe and the US – through to the safe arrival at the site. The plant will be the biggest combined cycle power station in Australia and will run on coal seam methane gas. It will emit about half the greenhouse gas emissions of a coal-fired power station using current technology. This will save 2.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gases a year – equivalent to removing 600,000 cars annually from the roads.

Full commercial operation is expected in the first quarter of 2010 and the plant will produce enough power to supply 400,000 Queensland homes. The air-cooled power station will use less than three per cent of the cooling water required by a conventional coal-fired plant.

Agility Project Logistics is part of Agility, $6bn global logistics provider with more than 32,000 employees and over 550 offices in 100 countries around the world.