SibCOTES Celebrated Its 15th Anniversary
OREANDA-NEWS. There was a celebration in Novosibirsk club “Otdykh” dedicated to the 15th anniversary of SibCOTES (a member of E4 Group). The numerous staff of the Company gathered for the celebration of the anniversary - 600 employees from Novosibirsk, and the Offices in Tomsk, Barnaul, Irkutsk, Ural, and Kransnoyarsk. The representatives of the Novosibirsk Regional Administration and partners from different regions of Russia and overseas have come to congratulate the Company. Many words of gratitude were said to the specialists of the Company on the day of its 15th anniversary. Special Diplomas and valuable gifts were handed over to them.
The Novosibirsk Regional Administration handed over a Special Diploma to the staff of SibCOTES and personally to Mr. Felix Serant, Deputy General Director for Development and the founder of the Company, for the valuable contribution to power industry development in the region, for engineering, commissioning and testing of equipment at large power facilities.
Mr. Victor Dobrelya, Director for Construction, said warm words addressed to the jubilee company on behalf of the General Director of Novosibirskenergo. Since 2006 SibCOTES has been the General Designer for Novosibirskenergo. In his complimentary speech Mr. Victor Dobrelya noted that the investment program of Novosibirskenergo is successfully implemented today thanks to the efficient work of the Company, which allows them to be optimistic about the future of power industry in Russia.
The Company was awarded a Letter of gratitude for its professional work in the Seversk Project for Plutonium Production Elimination. In Seversk specialists from SibCOTES together with its foreign partners fulfill start-up and commissioning works for power equipment at CHP plant owned by Siberian Chemical Association. Responding to this, the specialists of the Company handed over souvenir-steles to their partners.
Closed joint-stock company SibCOTES was founded in 1992. “It was the time when industrial companies and power utilities of the country were actually left idle. Professional people went into trade where salaries were several times higher,” recalls the founder of SibCOTES Feliks Serant, “But the Western countries continued their active modernization of energy facilities and there was a great demand for design and commissioning works. However, foreign Customers were interested into turn-key works. So we have taken a decision to unite process engineers from Podolsk Machine-Building Plant and Novosibirsk specialists into one multi-discipline engineering company SibCOTES. Since then to keep up with the time is one of the main principles of the Company.”
Initially, the Company specialized in commissioning of large energy equipment. Later SibCOTES significantly enlarged the range of its works. The reconstruction of two power units 150 MW each at thermal power plant Tunchbilek in Turkey became the first significant project implemented by SibCOTES. SibCOTES implemented the works acting as a Subcontractor to Ansaldo, Italy, together with the representatives of companies from eight countries. Mr. Dmitry Serant, General Director of SibCOTES, as a direct participant of the project, has shared his memories with us: “It was the first project management school for us”, he told the audience, “We learned many things from our own experience, the things, which today the specialists can learn using special books or attending the workshops. Being there, for the first time we came to know about bidding and tenders, and how they work. The result of our work was positive. Everyone was awarded a diploma and a medal. It was the first time when Ansaldo worked with Russian specialists. Previously, engineering in our country was considered to be backward compared to engineering in Germany, Italy or the USA. But the successful implementation of the work allowed our Company to get invaluable experience and establish a reputation as a highly-qualified engineering company. Later, foreign Customers again and again invited us to implement projects in Chile, Mongolia, India, and other countries.”
The specialists of the Company have developed a number of technological innovations, the most important and impressive of which is the circular furnace boiler. Design works were conducted within the framework of the Construction of a Complex of Electric Power Stations in the Krasnoyarsk Region. To build large 800 MW power units for thermal power plants it was required to develop new solutions, which would make the dimensions of energy equipment less. Based on the designs prepared by the specialists from SibCOTES a pilot boiler was built, which successfully passed all the tests required. In 1988 the circular furnace boiler with 820 t/h steaming capacity went online at Novo-Irkutskaya CHP plant (Irkutsk). Since then it has been successfully operating there. The boiler’s dimensions are not large and it is designed to fire Kansko-Achinsky and Kuznetsky coals widely used all over the world, which opens up broad possibilities for its further application. In 2001 the Technical Committee of RAO UES of Russia recommended to use the boiler for Russian power stations.
Today the Company fulfills the projects in different regions of Russia; in many projects foreign companies being our partners. We implement the project for the construction of two power units, 225 MW each, with CFB boilers at Cherepetskaya power plant together with Pцyry Energy Oy, Finland. At present the Company designs the fuel handling system and the steam boilers within the Program for the Plutonium Production Elimination at reactor ADE-2 and the construction of substitute sources at CHP in Zheleznogorsk. The works are conducted within the framework of the intergovernmental Agreement between the Russian Ministry of Nuclear Energy and the US Department of Energy.
Several projects are carried out under the Investment Program of RAO UES of Russia. The Development Strategy for Kolymaenergo and Magadanenergo utilities is elaborated. In September we started the works on the projects for the power industry development in the South of Prymorsky Krai. We are making several Pre-Feasibility Studies for the construction of new generating sources within the Mechanism of Guaranteed Investments. We have completed similar works for Severskaya power plant and Kuznetskaya CHP plant.
We have signed the EPC contract with TGK-2 for switching Arkhangelskaya CHP plant from oil firing to coal firing. The possibility to build several combined-cycle plants with a higher efficiency compared to conventional gas boilers is under consideration.
According to Mr. Dmitry Serant, the Company is constantly striving for development. World innovations and in-house engineering innovations are actively applied, which allows us to improve efficiency and make electricity production more environmentally friendly. It is a necessary condition if you want to be a step ahead of your competitors in the quality of services and the level of technologies.
The next ten years will definitely be revolutionary for the power industry in Russia and overseas. The specialists from SibCOTES are prepared to take up the challenge. Vast experience, knowledge and technologies have been accumulated. In 2006 the Company became a member of E4 Group, the largest Russian EPC Contractor, which unites engineering companies in Russia and overseas. Nowadays more than 17 000 people work in the Holding, which implements projects for large power constructions on a turn-key basis.
In 2007, according to a well-know publication Engineering News-Record, SibCOTES is the only Russian company included in Top 200 International Design Firm Listing for foreign markets.
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