Alba Chairman pays his first field visit to the Alba Power Station 3 & 5 control room

On 30^th September, Shaikh Daij Bin Salman Bin Daij Al Khalifa, the Chairman of Board of Directors at Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) went for a field visit to the Alba Power Station 3 and 5 control rooms. It was his first visit to the Alba Power Station 3 and 5 control room since the dawn of Covid-19 pandemic. He was accompanied by other notable officials from the company including Ali Al Baqali the Chief Executive Officer and Amin Sultan the Chief Power Officer.

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. is one of the largest aluminium smelter in the work and is capable of producing more than 1.548 million tonnes of aluminium smelter per annum (mtpa) (2020).  The company is listed both on the Bahrain Bourse and London Stock Exchange.  Out of the 3,665 MW build-in-capacity of the Alba power plant, it uses around 2,560 MW.

On his first visit, Shaikh Daij Bin Salman Bin Daij Al Khalifa said, “It is good to be back on site and see our workforce in person and in action since the start of this pandemic. And this field trip is one of the many visits I am planning to do inside Alba within this year.  I chose to start with our Power Stations as without seamless captive power, we can’t produce Aluminium metal. I take the opportunity to thank the Power Operations and Power Maintenance teams for their efforts in ensuring our operations are running at full capacity.” 

“It is worth noting that our Power Station 5 (PS5), hosting 3 Gas Turbines, 3 Steam Turbines and 3 heat recovery steam generators, is the biggest and most efficient Power Plant in Bahrain. PS5 has been a game-changer for us as it has scaled-up our operational efficiency especially in terms of lower production cost, lower Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and lower gas consumption – all of which has made PS5 one of the most efficient combined cycle power plant in the Gulf region, “ added the Chairman of Board of Directors.