Cap des Biches

Enabling Continuous Learning: Cap des Biches

At ContourGlobal Cap des Biches we expect, embrace and enable excellence in Power Plant operation; we compel ourselves and our colleagues to it. Often excellence sounds as a tired and worn out buzzword: to learn the ContourGlobal Cap de Biches way.

Cap des Biches (CdB) is an 86 MW combined cycle facility consisting five HFO fired diesel engines and a steam turbine, located on the Atlantic coast in proximity to Dakar. This Power Plant is constructed under a third-party EPC contract, financed by DFC and IFC.

At CdB we expect to find in each colleague a teacher and learning partner, as to achieve excellence we need hard work; to strive for excellence in our business and lives, we made of CdB our permanent learning facility, in an incessant quest for learning.

The first lesson that we understood is that to learn we need to fail, and by failing we accumulate precious experiences. To handle failure, we need to recognize the failure you need humility, to learn from failure, we still need this virtue. In front of a huge scope as running a Power Plant we feel annihilated, but we own the key of understanding: humility. We start our days knowing that we will fail but also that when we do, we will learn.