OREANDA-NEWS. On Thursday (7/11) at 2:30 pm the Parnaiba Complex will be inaugurated by ENEVA. The Parnaiba Complex is one of the largest natural gas-fuelled thermoelectric power generation complexes in the country. This is a unique venture for integrating gas production to power generation and it is already in operation with 845 MW installed capacity.

The inaugural ceremony will be held at the venture itself, in the municipality of Santo Antonio dos Lopes (MA), and will be attended by governor Roseana Sarney, federal, state and municipal authorities and company top ranking officers.

The complex comprises the thermoelectric plants Parnaiba I, Parnaiba II, Parnaiba III and Parnaiba IV. Two plants are currently in operation namely, Parnaiba I (676 MW) and Parnaiba III (169 MW), which are supplying power to the National Interconnected System (SIN). In the next few months, as the operation of the remaining plants is started, the Parnaiba Complex will be reaching over 1.400 MW in operation.

The natural gas supplied to the plants of the Parnaiba Complex comes from the production wells in the Parnaiba Basin, and represent approximately 40% of the Brazilian onshore production. Today, Complex plants are consuming about 5.5 million cubic meters per day.

Just 18 months have elapsed from the beginning of the works to the start-up of the first of Complex turbines, in February of 2013. As much as 3,700 direct jobs were generated during the peak period the construction works. The Parnaiba Complex has licensed capacity to go up to 3,722 MW.

About ENEVAENEVA does business in the power generating and trade segments and has supplementary natural gas exploration and production businesses. Today the Company has 2.3 MW gross installed capacity and is engaged in the construction of 580 MW more, being thus among the largest private sector power generation companies in Brazil. ENEVA also owns stakes in onshore natural gas blocks in the Parnaiba Basin, which are integrated to own power plants, with an average contracted production of up to 8.4 million cubic meters per day.