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Article: Work starts on Deir Ali.(SYRIA)(gas pipeline construction)(Brief article)
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- September 29, 2006
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Work has started on the new 750-MW combined cycle power plant at Deir Ali, to be powered by Egyptian gas feedstock from the Arab Gas pipeline under construction. The local Al-Shatta for Technical Engineering, a subsidiary of Germany's Siemens, has the civil works package on the new gas-fired plant. Construction will be split into three phases. The first phase is expected to take 22 months, phase 2 24 months and the phase 3 26 months.
A German joint venture of Siemens and Koch was awarded in September 2005 the $522 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract. The scope of works calls for the supply and installation of two 250-MW gas ...