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Tue, 03/29/2011 - 16:23
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Turkey's Calik Enerji assumes another project in Iraq

BAGHDAD (A.A) - 29.03.2011 - Calik Enerji, a subsidiary of Turkey's Calik Holding, assumed another project in Iraq.
Calik Enerji will construct Nainawa Natural Gas Power Plant in the 60km south of Mosul with an investment of 388.5 million U.S. dollars. The company earlier assumed a project on a 445.5 million U.S. dollar power station near Karbala. 
Calik Holding Executive Board Chairperson Ahmet Calik, Calik Enerji Executive Board Chairperson Osman Saim Dinc, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Husayn Ibrahim Salih al-Shahristani and officials attended a signing ceremony on the project that took place in Baghdad.
Calik said in the ceremony that they were glad to take part in projects that would ease life of Iraqi people.
After the ceremony, Dinc told reporters that they earlier undersigned the project on natural gas power station whose power was 1,250 megawatts near Karbala in January, stating that they also won a tender on construction of 750 megawatt power plant in Nainawa.
Calik Holding, located in Istanbul, focuses on major business lines such as construction, energy, textile, finance, telecommunication and media, and provides high value added, world-ranking products and services to its customer group including associated local and international corporations and private end-users. The Holding employs 19,855 employees with its business initiatives in different countries.
Originally founded in 1987, Group's energy flagship Calik Enerji was restructured in 1998 under the trade name Calik Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. Established with the aim of supplying Turkey with the energy resources in the neighboring territories, Calik Enerji currently operates in the fields of power systems, as well as oil and natural gas. The Company undertakes projects in a wide area across Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Balkans, Eastern Europe, CIS countries and Central and North Africa.

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