Iraq has awarded a US$125mn contract to a Saudi Arabian company to build a power plant with a total capacity of 150 MW in the southern city of Basra.
Energy
SEC awards power plant contracts
Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has awarded contracts to local contractors to reinforce two existing power plants in the kingdom.
Second Yanbu contract for Hanwha
South Koreas Hanwha Engineering & Construction has won a US$1.05 billion order to build power and seawater desalination facilities in Yanbu Industrial City (YIC).
ABB to strengthen Qatari power network
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around US$30mn from the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa), the electricity and water operator in Qatar, to build two underground substations to help meet increasing residential and commercial demand for power in the capital city of Doha.
Solar cell material manufacturing plant for Saudi Arabia
Polysilicon Technology Co. (PST) signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract to set up a polysilicon plant in Jubail to manufacture solar-energy cell material.