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By John Lee. The Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) has approved the applications of two Turkish companies, Aksa and Kartet, to export electricity to Iraq. The two companies will have the "equal rights" to export power to the Mosul region of Iraq, using the existing 154 kilovolt (kV) PS3-Zakho power transmission line. They will […]
By John Lee. Iraq's Council of Ministers has ruled that the Ministry of Oil is to supply the owners of private electricity generators with fuel from 1st June to 30th September. Owners will receive 30 litres of gasoil per KVA of generator capacity each month. (Source: AIN)
By John Lee. Azzaman reports that French company Alstom has started work on a new power plant in Diyala. The 730 megawatts plant will be one of he largest in the country, and is being built at a cost of $450 million. Electricity Minister Abdulkarim Aftan, accompanied by representatives from Alston, laid the foundation stone […]
Kartet, a subsidiary of the Turkish conglomerate Karadeniz Holding, has reportedly re-applied for a licence to export 200MW from Turkey to Iraq. According to the report from Argus, such exports ceased in 2011, but Kartet has applied to export power through the 154kV Turkey-Iraq power interconnector. The regulator EPDK will give other firms until 20th […]
AIN reports that Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity has outlined 11 new schemes to expand the electricity network in the Babel province through 2013. The Ministry is reported to have said that it is planning to start five projects that will “extend the sources to feed the minor electricity stations in Babel.” The plans also include […]
A state-owned Russian company is said to be in talks with Iraqi officials on the resumption of work at the Yusifiya power station of southern Baghdad. According to a report from AIN, a company identified as "Ross Tej" (sic) said: "The talks included the cooperation in the electric power sector and the possibility of resuming […]
Iraq's cabinet has approved a $1.05-billion contract with Greek power plant builder Metka, a subsidiary of the Mytilineos Group, for the construction of a combined cycle gas power plant in Anbar. According to Sky News Arabia, the station will have the capacity of 1,642 megawatts, and it is to be completed within 32 months. Reuters […]
The new al-Hayrat [Khayrat] power plant in Karbala was officially opened on Friday. At a ceremony to mark the event, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, Hussein al-Shahristani, thanked the Turkish company Calik Energy for completing the project successfully and on time. Ahmet Calik (pictured), CEO of Calik Holdings, said: "Al Hayrat energy power […]
Avantha Group company CG (Crompton Greaves) has been awarded a $60-million contract for the turnkey construction of four high voltage GIS substations by the Electrical Transmission Project Office of the Ministry of Electricity (MOE) in Iraq. The company will design, manufacture, deliver and install the substations, thus helping upgrade and reinforce the existing 132 kV […]
By John Lee. The Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Javad Oji (Owji, Ouji) (pictured) has announced that the country will start exporting 40 million cubic meters (mcm) a day of natural gas to Iraq by summer 2013. Iran's PressTV reports that an agreement has been reached to supply Iraq via two separate routes. Construction of the “friendship” pipeline […]
By Padraig O'Hannelly. In 1987, management guru and writer Tom Peters wrote that the formula for success was to under-promise and over-deliver -- in other words, to manage expectations. We can only hope that this maxim was in the mind of Iraq's Minister of Electricity, Abdulkarim Aftan [Karrem Aftan al-Jumali]., when he spoke this week about […]
Iraqi press sources claim that the Ministry of Electricity has ceased dealings with the German company Siemens and all its subsidiaries, due to the company not fulfilling its contracts. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Electricity, Musab al-Mudaris, reportedly said that Minister Kareem Aftan gave the instruction during a meeting with the South Korean company Hyundai […]
