IRAQ | Mainstream Electricity Sector

[IraqiPlan_et]

Iraq signs $349 mln power deal with Greece's Metka
23 nov. 2011


Iraq signed a $349 million contract with Greek power plant builder Metka on Wednesday for a gas-fired, 1,250-megawatt power plant in southern Iraq.

The plant, to be built in southern Basra province, includes 10 gas units of 125 megawatts each. The units were purchased from General Electric in a contract signed in 2008.

Deputy Electricity Minister Salam Qazaz said the ministry plans to add 22,000 megawatts of production capacity across Iraq over the next three years.

"Twenty-two thousand megawatts means to rebuild Iraq. It is three times what exists now," Qazaz said.

Iraq is trying to ramp up power production as it rebuilds after years of war and international sanctions. Intermittent power is a chief complaint of Iraqis and demand far exceeds supply.

Iraq signed contracts worth $396 million with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering to build two power plants on Tuesday.

It finalised a $1.08 billion contract with China's CMEC last week to build a 1,260-megawatt thermal power plant.

[IraqiPlan_et]

Alstom wins €400m Iraq power station
Dec. 12 2011


Alstom has won a contract worth some €400m (£340m) to build the 728MW Al Mansuriya gas-fired power plant in the Diyala Governorate, northeast of Baghdad.

The plant will consist of four units and will be constructed under a turnkey contract, covering delivery of equipment and civil works.

The plant will provide enough electricity to the entire Diyala Governorate and a part of Baghdad, located 80km away from the plant. The first unit of the plant is scheduled to be operational in early 2013.

“Alstom is proud to be participating in the reconstruction of Iraq’s energy infrastructure,” said senior vice president of Alstom’s gas business said Mark Coxon. “I am positive that our superior gas turbine technology, offering outstanding availability and reliability, will support the country in building up secure electricity supplies for the future.”

In July 2010, Alstom chairman and CEO Patrick Kron signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Electricity for the development and modernisation of Iraq’s electricity infrastructure. Under this MoU, Alstom is currently rehabilitating a unit of the Najaf gas-fired power station, 160 km south of Baghdad. The unit was out of operation for five years.

[IraqiPlan_et]

China’s CMEC Wins $1.2bn Power Project
20 dec. 2011


China Machinery Engineering Corp (CMEC) signed a $1.19 billion contract to build a 1,260-megawatt power station in Iraq, according to Gulf News.

The Beijing-based company will install the natural-gas-fired plant in the Salahuddin governorate north of the Iraqi capital within 45 months, Mussab Serri, an Electricity Ministry spokesman, said in an interview during the signing ceremony in Baghdad.

[alshawi1234]

* Contract for two 320 MW units

* Units to be installed in 14 months

BAGHDAD, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Iraq signed a $72 million electricity deal with Iranian power development firm Sunir to expand a plant in northern Iraq by 320 megawatts to help feed the power-starved nation, an electricity ministry official said on Monday.

The Iranian company will install two gas units, each with a production capacity of 160 megawatts, at Dibis power plant in northern Kirkuk province, Musab al-Mudarres, a spokesman at the electricity ministry, said.

He said the units, which were purchased from Siemens in 2008, would be installed in just over 14 months.

Dibis currently produces 150 MW.

Iraq is trying to ramp up electricity production as it rebuilds after years of war and international sanctions.

The electricity ministry signed a series of power deals this year to boost the national grid. It plans to add 22,000 megawatts of production capacity across Iraq over the next three years, Deputy Electricity Minister Salam Qazaz said in November.

The deal with Sunir is the second contract awarded to the company. It has already built a $150 million gas power plant in Baghdad, consisting of two units with a total capacity of 320 MW. The first unit became operational this year.

Power disruptions are a chief complaint among Iraqis, with demand far exceeding supply estimated at around 7,000 MW. (Reporting by Aseel Kami; editing by Serena Chaudhry)

[IraqiPlan_et]

Iraq signs a contract with Turkish company to build a power station in Basra
January 16

The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity Monday a contract with the Turkish Enka to build a power station in Basra, at a cost of $ 235 million.

The Ministry of Electricity signed a series of transactions over the past year to strengthen the national network. And plans to add 22 thousand MW in parts of Iraq over the next three years.

The Iraqi Minister of Electricity Karim Aftan on the sidelines of the signing of the contract in Baghdad said the agreement provides for the installation of power plant capacity of 500 MW in Basra.

The minister added that INKA Technik will install four gas turbine capacity of 125 MW each in the neighborhood of Najibiyah in Basra, the southern oil port of export.

Funded by the Government of the province of Basra, which the project is committed to environmental standards and allocates production of Basra only.

He said that the turbines purchased by Iraq from General Electric will be installed within 16 months.

He Aftan "After completion of installation of this station will be linked to the national grid is then controlled by the national control."

After nearly nine years of US-led invasion, is still without electricity complaint as President of the Iraqis and the volume of supplies exceed demand by an estimated seven thousand megawatts.

[Chounz]

Iraq approves $363 million power deal with Egypt's Orascom
Reuters, Tuesday 28 Feb 2012

Iraq's cabinet approved a $363 million contract on Tuesday with Egypt's Orascom Construction to build a 1,014 megawatt gas power plant in the north of the country, it said on Tuesday.

The contract involves building a plant in Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, to install six gas units, each with a capacity of 169 MW, which Iraq had bought from Siemens in 2008 but which never came online.

The project is expected to be completed within 21 months, Musab Al-Mudarres, a spokesman at the electricity ministry, told Reuters.

Nearly nine years since the US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, Iraq's national grid still supplies only a few hours of power each day. Intermittent electricity is one of the public's top complaints.

Iraq plans to boost the grid's capacity by about 1,500 megawatts in the next few months and to add 22,000 MW of production capacity across Iraq, except for the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, by the end of 2015, the electricity minister said.

Iraq's power availability has ranged between 7,000 to 8,000 megawatts but is due to increase to 9,000-9,500 MW this summer as some power projects come online and others are upgraded.

Iraqi demand for electricity peaked at 15,000 megawatts last year, but the oil-producing nation managed to supply less than half of that.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCont...ypts-Oras.aspx

[Sinjar]

Iraq hopes to plug power gap before '14: official

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 0:07 am TWN, AFP


BAGHDAD--Iraq hopes to plug its electricity shortage by the end of next year and will supply private generator operators with fuel this summer to address the shortfall, its top energy official said on Sunday. Contracts signed to ramp up electricity supply will increase Iraq's domestic production to around 20,000 megawatts, against expected demand at the end of 2013 of about 15,000 megawatts, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussein al-Shahristani said.

“By the summer, we should be able to supply the network by 9,000 megawatts,” he told AFP in an interview in his office in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. “The demand is about 14,000 megawatts, so there is a shortage of 5,000 megawatts.”
“We hope before the end of 2013, our total production would reach almost 20,000 megawatts ... so we should be able to meet all the demand in the country,” he said.

Shahristani said at that point, Iraq would stop importing electricity.

“On the contrary, we'll be looking for export markets by then,” he said.

The deputy premier noted, however, that Iraq would once again have to supply private generator operators with fuel to force them to sell power at cut-price rates during Iraq's boiling summer, after a US$400 million program to do so last year was “really quite successful.”

“The shortfall would be met by local private generators who are going to be supplied by fuel and expected to produce the difference between the demand and supply, and make it available to the people at a fixed price as we did last year,” Shahristani said.

He said the plan would cost less than last year, but did not give a specific estimate.

Nine years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq still suffers from a severe shortage of electricity.
Iraqis are left with the choice of having only a few hours of electricity per day in a country where temperatures top 50 degrees Celsius in the summer, or getting extra power from private generators.

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[sheytanElKebir]

Today 4x 125MW gas turbine units were delivered to Nassiriya (500MW). I passed them by as I was driving.

I also saw 2x large turbines being taken north from Nassiriya (batha interchange)... destination unknown.

[Ali - Iraq]

Great so the government are actually doing something good

[Ali - Iraq]

Iraq buys 250 MW/day from UAE to boost power supply
Iraq has signed a contract to buy 250 megawatts of electricity per day from United Arab Emirates’ Oilfield Services Co., the electricity ministry said on Sunday, to help reduce power shortages as it heads into the heat of the summer months.

In the nine years since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, successive Iraqi governments have failed to address chronic power disruptions in a country where temperatures can top 50 degrees Celsius in the summer.

Electricity shortages are a major complaint among Iraqis, many of whom face power cuts for up to 20 hours a day during periods of peak demand.

Frustrations mount in summer and often spark street protests.

The ministry said the two-year contract was based on a price of 7.5 cents per kilowatt hour and included two power plants, which will be docked on ships and connected to the national grid.

The ships are expected to reach the port in Iraq’s oil-rich southern city of Basra within a few weeks, and the plants will be connected to the grid by July 31, the ministry said.

There are already three Turkish ships docked at the port in Basra, which supply 270 MW per day to the national grid.

Iraqi demand for electricity peaked at 15,000 MW last year, but the oil-producing nation managed to provide less than half of that.

Its national grid has supplied only a few hours of power a day since its supplies collapsed following the invasion, when power plants were looted or went without maintenance.

Iraq plans to boost the national grid's capacity by about 1,500 MW in the next few months, Salam Qazaz, a deputy electricity minister said in February.

[SumerianKing]

Give me your predictions, when will all of Iraq have 24/7 electricity?

[Ali - Iraq]

I really don't have a clue about that my friend. But i believe in what sahristani said and he estimated that electricity will be completed in 2014. Nevertheless i think that it depends on the governments effort.

[sheytanElKebir]

depends on the gas not the power stations.

power stations should be ready by 2014... gas, not too sure

[Chounz]

Originally Posted by SumerianKing

Give me your predictions, when will all of Iraq have 24/7 electricity?

Hopefully by 2018-2020.

[sheytanElKebir]

Originally Posted by Chounz

Hopefully by 2020.

you've been watching sharqiya again haven't you

[SumerianKing]

They are currently buying gas from iran. Doesnt iraq have enough gas to not rely on imports? Or is their producing rate of gas not sufficient enough atm?

[sheytanElKebir]

we're flaring it. and it took until this year to finally sign the agreement with Shell for the associated gas deal.

[Ali - Iraq]

Originally Posted by SumerianKing

They are currently buying gas from iran. Doesnt iraq have enough gas to not rely on imports? Or is their producing rate of gas not sufficient enough atm?

I don't understand it either. According to Wikipedia we are placed number 11 by natural gas proven reserves so maybe they haven't developed pipelines for the gas ,yet or whatever you do with gas :p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...roven_reserves

[Chounz]

Lol sorry about the edit I thought to myself let me be a bit more optimistic so I added the '2018-'.

Originally Posted by sheytanElKebir

you've been watching sharqiya again haven't you

Haha no but note what Sumerian asked exactly; 'when will ALL OF IRAQ have 24/7 electricity?'

Do you really think the whole country will have 24/7 electricity anytime soon? What's the average amount of hours people get today? In the summer they sometimes get only 4 hours a day right? So by 2015 I reckon we should have a decent amount of electricity; 12 hours a day in the summer, by 2018 it should reach 24 hours a day across the whole country.