The MV Karadeniz Powership Fatmagül Sultan is a Liberia-flagged Powership, a floating power plant, owned and operated by Karpowership. Built as a barge, she was converted into a Powership in 2013 at Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey. She was commissioned to supply electricity to the power grid in Lebanon.
Ship
The 142.0 m long vessel has a beam of 42.0 m.
Powership
Converted into a power barge by Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul in 2013, she was renamed Fatmagül Sultan after the sister of Karadeniz Holding's chairperson. Equipped with eleven electric generators, four high-voltage transformers and operated by a crew of sixty technicians and engineers, the Powership has an installed generation capacity of 202 MW on dual-fuel (HFO- and gas-fired). The Powership's fuel tanks capacity allows her to generate ten days long uninterrupted power.
According to a power purchase agreement, worth US$370 million, signed on July 13, 2012, in Beirut with the Lebanese Government, the Powership is the first of two to supply a total of 406.2 MW electricity in Lebanon. The Powership left Turkey on February 8, 2013, heading for Lebanon. She arrived at her destination after one week voyage.