Turkey's Calik Enerji, Iraq Sign $388.5M Gas Plant Deal

Turkeys Calik Enerji, Iraq Sign $388.5M Gas Plant Deal
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Τρι, 29 Μαρτίου 2011 - 18:01
Turkish energy firm Calik Enerji has signed a $388.5 million deal to build a natural gas plant near Mosul, Iraq, the company said Tuesday, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reported.
Turkish energy firm Calik Enerji has signed a $388.5 million deal to build a natural gas plant near Mosul, Iraq, the company said Tuesday, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reported.

In a press statement, the company said a 750-megawatt natural gas plant with six turbines will be completed in 20 months.

The deal was signed in
Baghdad by Iraq 's Electricity Minister Raad Shalal Saeed, Deputy Electricity Minister Salam Kazaz and the company's Chief Executive Ahmet Calik. Deputy Prime Minister and acting Electricity Minister Hussain al-Shahristani was present at the signing, it said.

"Electricity is one of the major problems of Iraq. We plan to reduce electricity shortage considerably until 2012," al-Shahristani said in the press statement.

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