Turbomachinery News Network: Baker Hughes, Doosan Enerbility, Rolls-Royce, and more

Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the Turbomachinery News Network. I’m James Cook, associate editor at Turbomachinery International.

Fervo Energy contracted Baker Hughes to design and deliver geothermal equipment for five Organic Rankine Cycle power plants near Milford, UT. The company will deliver five 60-MWe ORC units and engineer, manufacture, and supply turboexpanders and BRUSH generators. The power generation project, dubbed Cape Phase II, will generate approximately 300 MW of clean power for the grid, or the equivalent power needed for about 180,000 homes.

The Korea Gas Corp. awarded Doosan Enerbility KRW 560 billion to build three LNG storage tanks and ancillary facilities, each with 270,000-kiloleter capacity, for the Dangjin LNG Terminal Phase 2 project in South Chungcheong, South Korea. Construction will begin in September 2025, with completion anticipated by December 2029.

Rolls-Royce Power Systems and Microsoft published a position paper evaluating hydrotreated vegetable oil as a sustainable, alternative backup fuel for data centers in Singapore. The paper identifies and outlines several steps to full HVO adoption, in addition to other low-carbon fuels as replacements for fossil diesel in digital infrastructure. Compared to fossil diesel, HVO can reduce lifecycle CO₂ emissions by up to 90%, adhering to Singapore’s Green Data Center Roadmap.

The ORLEN Group awarded Doosan Škoda Power €125 million to supply two 55-MW back-pressure steam turbines, a two-pole generator, and conduct project execution for its heat-and-power plant in Plock, Poland. The project’s civil works phase will modernize two turbine sets, units TG4 and TG5, with full completion scheduled for 2029.