Project Profile

The Mint Farm Energy Center
Longview, WA

 
JH Kelly was the general contractor for a 311MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Longview, Washington. New owner, Wayzata Investment Partners, acquired the partially completed facility in a bankruptcy sale. The plant was completed in Fall 2007.

The project was approximately 50% complete when mothballed in 2001. JH Kelly's work scope included: 

• Developed a complete Material Inventory for materials and equipment procured by prior owner/contractor
• Completion of civil/structural (Pipe racks, stair towers, Gas Compressor Pad, etc.)
• Erect Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG)
• Installed roughly 20,000 LF of large bore pipe
• Installed roughly 2,000 LF of P91 pipe
• Installed roughly 6,000 LF of small bore pipe
• Managed and coordinated multiple subcontractors including plant electrical, switchyard electrical, pipe insulation, painting, post weld heat treatment, relay testing and programming, and boiler chemical treatment
• Installed steam turbine generator and enclosure
• Installed 60” cooling water lines
• Installed and calibrated roughly 500 instruments
• Installed complete gas compressor station