Gazprom unit CEO says Russia cannot make own gas turbines in 3 yrs

GROZNY, Dec 19 (PRIME) -- Russian companies will not create large-capacity gas turbine in three years, Denis Fyodorov, CEO of Gazprom Energoholding, which manages gas giant Gazprom’s power assets, told reporters on Wednesday.

“Local production is a good and right move, we can do it. We must not abandon the idea of developing our own gas turbine but this is not an issue of three years and we cannot set this turbine in the mode of capacity supply agreements,” he said.

The official said that Russian companies need a foreign partner to fulfill the task.

Siemens said in July 2017 that all the four turbines meant to be used on a Russian power plant on the Taman Peninsula were illegally shipped to Crimea, forcing the company to cancel its licensing agreements to sell power equipment to Russian firms and suspend then-current agreements with state-run companies.

The Russian Industry and Trade Ministry developed a roadmap for three years to launch gas turbines with 110–170 megawatt capacity earlier in 2018.

CEO of Russian power engineering company Power Machines Timur Lipatov said in October that the company plans to develop its own high-capacity gas turbines, probably, in cooperation with Siemens.

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