The Qurayyah plant will add around 11,000 MW of capacity in the kingdom- Image Credit : bfg-global.com

Saudi Electricity Co (SEC) signed a US$2.85 billion power deal with a consortium of companies for construction of a 4,000 MW gas fired power plant Qurayyah plant.

Alstom has signed a contract worth US$93.7mn with Iraq to build and install a power generation plant in the northern province of Nineveh.

Alstom GT13E2 gas turbines

Alstom has secured a contract from the Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) - the oil-refining branch of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) - to partially upgrade four Alstom GT13E2 gas turbines installed at the 500 MW Ruwais gas - fired power plant in the United Arab Emirates.

Investors will be asked to build and operate the power plants

Iraqs semi-autonomous Kurdish region has invited investors to build power plants to 4,500 MW in the area which would increase its capacity to 6,000 MW.