BUNJI HYDROPOWER PROJECT

Location

The project is located on Indus River near Gilit. Power House and Dam sites are 560 km & 610 km, respectively from Islamabad.

Scope of Work
Feasibility Study, Detailed Engineering Design and Preparation of Tender Documents.
Objectives/Benefits
To Design a 7100 MW Hydropower Project to produce mean annual hydroelectricity of 24088 GWh. 
Date of Commencement 
 May 2007
Date of Completion
 August 2010
Project Cost As Per PC-II
PC-II approved by ECNEC on 14-12-2005 for  Rs.832.716 Million with FEC of Rs.232.733 Million. 
Revised PC-II covering the updated expenditures of Consultancy and investigations was approved ECNEC for an amount of Rs. 2091.406 Million with FEC of Rs. 33.965 million on 26.05.2011.
SALIENT FEATURES
Installed Capacity MW 7100
Mean Annual Energy (GWh) 24088
Design Discharge m3/sec 1900
Gross Head  M 445
Tunnel Length KM 8.0 each 5-Nos
Type of Dam Gravity RCC
Height of Dam M 190
No. & Type of Turbine 20 Francis Type
Project Base cost US$ 6838.0 Million
PROJECT CONSULTANTS

JV of M/s Mott MacDonald Ltd (Lead Partner) M/s Sogreah M/s Nippon Koei Co Ltd M/s MM Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd and M/s DMC.

PRESENT STATUS / PROGRESS
        

·        Revised PC-II covering the updated expenditures of Consultancy and investigations was approved by ECNEC for an amount of Rs. 2089.036 million with FEC of Rs. 31.595 million on 26.05.2011.

·        Feasibility report was submitted by the Consultants on March  31, 2009.

.       Draft detailed design report and Tender Documents of different lots have been submitted by the Consultants, The comments by different formations were sent to consultants. The consultants have been asked to submit design report of incorporating the comments and the results upto date investigations.

.       Suspended sediment sampling as recommended by POE  have been completed by ISRIP, WAPDA.

.        Drilling in dam and powerhouse areas has been completed. Total drilling carried out by DID WAPDA, is 11614.00 m. The peizometers and inclinometers in some of the boreholes at Shengus area are installed.

.        Model studies for four models: Sectional Model of spillway, Comprehensive Model of Dam Area, Low and Mid Level outlet and Tailrace outlet models have been constructed. All tests proposed by Consultants and POE have been performed. Three models are retained for a period of one year upto June, 2013.

.       4 No. Exploratory Adits at dam area were completed. CMTL WAPDA has performed plate load tests in the right bank adits, while tests in the left bank adits are in progress.

.        Exploratory Adit to Fault Zone (Package-2) would be taken up as advance Package to main construction contract and its cost would be covered in the PC-I.

.        The work for excavation of Exploratory Adit for under ground Power house (Package-3) was awarded to M/s High Technology Engineering Company, Islamabad, and contract agreement signed on 07.07.2011. The work for excavation of adit has been progressed to 416 m out of 600 m, upto December 2012.

.        A number of technical issues like seepage in adits non responsiveness of foreign firms to perform over curing tests etc. and slow progress of work due to steep downward slopes had led to conclude the Adit-3 works.

.       The work for excavation of Exploratory Adit for power shaft (Package-4) was awarded through retendering process to M/s High Technology Engineering Company, Islamabad and Contract Agreement signed on 16.11.2011. Contractor mobilized and the work for construction of Adit progressed upto 133.5 m upto 2nd October, 2012.

.       An overburden material encountered at RD 133.50 m in adit-4. The excavation works at adit-4 has to be concluded as the contractor could not progress beyond 135.0 m as excavation need costly support system with slow progress.

.       Bunji Consultants (JV) is to complete the design report, preparation of tender documents and PC-I considering the completed and ongoing investigations upto December, 2012. The contract for consultancy services was extended to March 31, 2013 and the Consultants have finalized the reports and are in the process of submission.

Incharge of the Project
Engr. Hasnain Afzal
General Manager (Hydro) Planning
WAPDA Sunny View Lahore.
Contact No. 0092-42-99202717
Mobile No.   0300-8411244

Updated 15.04.2013