Alba’s $265m PS5 Block 4 Expansion Project is on the right track

Alba’s $265m PS5 Block 4 Expansion Project is on the right track

Manama: Mahmood Rafique, Editor: Alba’s PS5 Block 4 Expansion project is progressing according to the tentative completion timeframe.

“We are very excited to witness first-hand the JAC Advanced Gas Turbine (GT), the first of its kind in the world GT manufactured for a primary aluminium smelter, ready to be shipped to Bahrain for Alba’s Power Station 5 (PS5) Block 4 Project,” Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa during his recent field-tour to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)’s Takasago Machinery Works and Hydrogen Park, in Hyogo Prefecture Japan, Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba)’s Chairman of the Board, said.

Alba’s Chairman of the Board led Alba’s delegation, comprising the Chief Executive Officer Ali Al Baqali and Chief Power Officer Amin Sultan, in this visit to Japan, which also included a stopover to MHI’s Headquarters in Tokyo to discuss matters of mutual interest to include Block 4 of Power Station 5 as well as potential areas of collaboration such as sustainable technologies that are currently part of MHI’s portfolios and its power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Power.

Alba’s delegation met with Toshiyuki Hashi, Executive Vice President, President and CEO, Energy Systems, Takashi Tozawa, Senior Fellow, Senior General Manager, GTCC Business Division of Energy