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Shanghai Company, began on Saturday, the implementation of the Al Zubaydiah thermal power station project north of Kut, at a cost of 924 million dollars.

Director of Information in the province , Majid Al Atabi , said that the project is under the supervision of ten Chinese experts, accompanied by Director General of projects in the Ministry of Electricity and governor of Wasit province, Latif Hamid Tarfa.

He added that the station covers an area of 650 dunums, this major electrical project has four generating units with production capacity of 330 MW each , as well as two more for future expansions.

The foundation stone for Zubaydiah power plant project , was laid on the third of October 2009 in the presence of  the Minister of Electricity Kareem Waheed, The Shanghai Co. started implementing the early stages of the plant in the same month at a cost of 940 million dollars and a capacity of 1320 MW , but work stopped shortly afterwards.

The Board of Wasit province, decided to dismiss the project manager of Zubaydiah thermal station , Raed Kadhim Hassan, and appointed Engineer ,Samer Abd Ali , instead because of delays in completing the project phases

( Iraq Directory )

Iran has agreed to ship 1.5 million liters of fuel to breathe life into some Iraqi power plants made idle due to fuel shortages.

The agreement was struck during a visit by a high level Iraqi delegation to Tehran, a statement by the Ministry of Electricity said.

The agreement comes as power outages have worsened recently with major cities and provinces going without electricity for up to 20 hours a day.

All promises of regularizing power supply have come to nothing.

Billions of dollars have been poured into the sector, but supply has yet to reach what was available prior to the 2003-U.S. invasion.

How much the Iranians are going to reap from their fuel shipments to Iraq is not known but Tehran expects the value of its Iraq-bound exports to hit $8 billion this year.

The ministry blames fuel shortages, maintenance and lack of security for the outages.

The statement said power output could reach 8 500 megawatts. It is far beyond the pre-war level, but the ministry is known to have rarely met its own predictions.

( Azzaman )

Iraq is set to call for bids from energy firms to develop its gas fields, the oil ministry said on Wednesday, as the war-ravaged country seeks new revenue sources to rebuild its battered economy.

"The ministry will announce tomorrow (Thursday) the launch of a tender to develop gas fields and it will invite international companies to participate," ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said.

"The product of these fields will initially be used to supply electricity stations and for other domestic needs, with the rest to be exported. The ministry hopes that Iraq will reach the level of other gas producers in the region."

Iraq produces a negligible quantity of gas compared with the size of its reserves, and currently flares off most of what it produces.

A report last month in the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES), a regional oil and gas newsletter, said Iraq will offer three gas fields with more than 7.5 trillion cubic feet (tcf/210 billion cubic metres) of combined proven non-associated, or free gas reserves.

They are the 4.5 tcf (trillion cubic feet) Akkaz field in the western province of Anbar, the Mansuriya field in Diyala with three tcf and Sibba field in Basra with 60 billion cubic feet, MEES said, adding that 15 firms have been pre-qualified and invitations will be issued soon.

Akkaz and Mansuriya were offered in a round of bidding on oil fields last June but were not awarded.

French oil giant Total has already said it would "definitely" participate in the gas bid round.

Last year, Iraq awarded international oil majors contracts to develop 10 large oil fields in an attempt to ramp up its crude production capacity to 12 million barrels per day by 2017, from around 2.5 million bpd.

Iraq is highly dependent on crude exports for its government revenues, with 85 percent of its income coming from oil sales.

It has launched a major programme to build gas-fired power stations in an effort to triple electricity supply nationwide by 2014, according to the planning ministry.

As part of the expansion plan, the government has signed contracts worth more than five billion dollars with General Electric and Siemens.

( AFP )

A new electricity substation has been opened on Monday in northern Kirkuk city.

“The substation is French made, 33 x 11 KV, with a capacity of 31.5 Mwatt,” a provincial media source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He noted that the total cost of the project was ID4.450 billion.

( Aswat Al Iraq )

Engineer Zeead Ali, electricity commission chairman in Basrah council, confirmed that the Provincial Council will not stand still regarding central intervention to assert national control  and the deprivation of citizens from a fair share of electrical power.

Zeead told Eye Media reporter "The council will take steps concerning workers of electricity departments who overburdened the Iraqi citizen."

He also pointed out that "The council is going to demand Basrah's full share of power, in addition to its stability."

( Eye media company )

A US construction team expected Iraq electricity production to increase to 22000 megawatt by 2014.

Iraq currently needs 9500 megawatt, the same source said adding that by 2016 Iraq would be able to export electricity.

( Al SumariaTV )

The Iraqi Council of Ministers agreed to pay the cost of purchasing 10 electricity transformers for Basra province.

“Each transformer is 400 KVA,” Dr. Ali al-Dabbagh said in a release on Sunday received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He explained that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki promised to pay for the transformers during his visit to Basra in 2008.

( Aswat Al Iraq )

Iraq has asked Iran to continue supplying it with electricity in the future, according to an official statement reported by Azzaman.

Electricity Minster Kareem Wahid held talks with the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad in the hope that Iran would agree to renew a contract regulating the purchase by Iraq of 350 megawatts from neighboring Iran, the statement added.

Iranian electricity is essential for Iraqi towns bordering Iran, particularly in the provinces of Diyala and Basra.

The existing contract is due to expire soon. The statement by the Electricity Ministry did not say how much Iraq pays for the electricity it imports from Iran.

The statement said Wahid also discussed with the Iranian envoy progress regarding the implementation of other bilateral agreements.

These include new Iranian ventures manufacturing electrical appliances in Iraq, as well as the building of new power plants in the south of the country.

(Source: Azzaman )

The Wassit council has allocated 216 donums to set up a gas power station, chairman of the Wassit council said on Tuesday.

“The council decided during its session on Tuesday (April 20) to allocate 216 donums to implement a gas power station project as it represents one of the strategic projects, which is included within the electricity ministry’s plan of 2008,” Mahmoud Mulla Talal told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The decision was approved unanimously in accordance with the Article 122 of the Iraqi constitution,” he added.

( Aswat Al Iraq )

20 April 2010 - Azzaman

The municipal council of the southern Iraqi province of Basra has approved 25 power projects worth $32 million.
 
“The projects will improve the supply of electricity in the province,” Ziyad Fadhil, head of the electricity committee in the council said.
 
He said the projects cover “the three sectors involved in the production, transfer and distribution of electricity.”
 
Part of the money will be used boost the generating capacity of al-Hartha Power Plant, he said.
 
The plant is about 20 km north of Basra city, the provincial capital. The 800-megawatt thermal plant was first commissioned in 1979.
 
With four generation units, the plant is one of the largest in Iraq.
 
It is not clear whether the plant, which was bombed during the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran War, the first Gulf war and looted shortly after the 2003-U.S. invasion, is still running at full capacity.
 
Basra, like other major Iraqi towns, still goes without electricity for the largest part of the day.
 
The rest of the money will be spent on power lines, transformers and new stations, Fadhil said.