based Dao Al-Jomaih Group and China's Machinery Engineering Corp. tendered the low bid of $204.4 million to install four gas turbines in Iraq's southern Basra province, the electricity ministry said Tuesday. Salam Qazaz, Iraq's deputy electricity minister, said the units will have a total generating capacity of 500 megawatts (MW) and will be installed at a power plant in Al-Najibiya, a district in Basra, Iraq's southern oil hub. The units are to be installed within 17 months, he added. "Final approval of the deal will be decided after we study the technical aspects of the tender," Qazaz told reporters in Basra. The bid beat tenders submitted by Swiss engineering group ABB, Turkey's Enka Insaat and South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd, the ministry said.
