Oil shale fired power plant
Attarat Power Company In partnership with local and international partners, Enefit is currently in the process of establishing two parallel oil shale projects in Jordan; an oil shale fired power plant and a shale oil production plant. Enefit's oil shale fired power plant will be located in Attarat um Ghudran deposit in central Jordan. The plant will have two circulating fluidised bed (CFB) units, each with a gross capacity of around 277MW, generating 554MW.The plant will consume approximately 10 million tonnes of oil shale per year. When completed in 2020, it will be one of the largest power plants in Jordan and the largest oil shale fired power plant in the world after Enefit's Power Plant in Estonia.