Voltamp Power, Tatung sign technological collaboration agreement  

Voltamp Power and Tatung of Taiwan have recently signed technology collaboration related to 220 kV and 400 kV Class Power Transformers which will involve technical documents, designs documents, software for design and plant design information for power transformers. The agreement has been signed by Eng Ahmed Al Subhi, director of Voltamp Power and Frank Shiue, vice president of Tatung Co. in Taiwan. With this, Voltamp has extended and upgraded its capability for design and manufacture of 220 kV Class and 400 kV Class power transformers. The collaboration enables developing of methods and collaborative work environments based on the latest technology.

Voltamp Power is the first and the only one who have designed, manufactured, tested and supplied 160 MVA, 125 MVA of 132 kV Class power transformers in the GCC region with an annual capacity of 6,500 MVA. Voltamp Power has type tested its 125 MVA 132 kV class and 20 MVA 33 kV class power transformers at KEMA, Netherlands proving its design and manufacturing capability.

Voltamp Power Transformers has already supplied more than one hundred 132 kV class powers transformers which includes about sixty 125 MVA 132/33 kV power transformers for various projects of Oman Electricity Transmission Company (OETC) and 40 various ratings up to 160 MVA to power plants and oil and gas sector viz. Petroleum Development of Oman (PDO), a Shell.

Voltamp Power’s Sohar Factory which was formally inaugurated in October 2011 by HH Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq Al Said and ever since supplied more than 500 power transformers of various ratings up to 160 MVA 132 kV class power transformers across the Sultanate, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Yemen to various customers in utility, oil and gas and industry segments.

Voltamp Power has one of its kind, world-class manufacturing factory which has a built-up area of 14,500 sq m on a total plot of 80,000 sqm. The Technology provided for the plant are the Tatung Company of Taiwan. Tatung is a well-respected and diversified company and its products include heavy electric products such as gas insulated switchgears, transformers up to 1000 MVA 500 kV Class, Wires & Cables, Motors that are exported all over the world including Japan, USA and Australia.