MAN Engines to Power Diamond Project

Russian mining group orders Holeby gensets.

9 September 2011

The Russian NG-Energo concern has won the bidding round for the construction of a turnkey 24-MW power plant for the JSC Severalmaz group in the north of European Russia. NG-Energo subsequently selected MAN Diesel & Turbo as provider of the plant’s main generators that will comprise 6 × MAN 18V28/32S Holeby-designed four-stroke gensets powered by diesel oil.

The contract with JSC Severalmaz requires that NG-Energo delivers a turnkey product, and covers construction, purchase and installation as well as logistics. The project will be executed within a relatively short time period – in the course of a single year in close cooperation between the customer and Order Project Management at MAN Diesel & Turbo in Holeby, Denmark.

The project will be carried out in two phases, the first of which is planned to commence in May 2012. MAN Diesel & Turbo is contracted to deliver the gensets in two batches of three engines with the first scheduled for December 2011 and the second for October 2012.

About JSC Severalmaz
JSC Severalmaz is an ore and diamond mining company that was originally established in 1992 and is one of the newer players in Russian mining. The new power plant will provide electricity to aid the exploitation of what is one of Europe’s largest diamond deposits. Located in the Primorsky district in the Arkhangelsk region, some 100 km north of the city of Arkhangelsk, the mine has an estimated lifetime of over 50 years with a potential value of 8.4 billion Euro – some 60% of the raw diamonds are of gem quality.

MAN Diesel & Turbo, Press Release