Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 44  

1-Nov-2010

SYRIA

Syria Awards Metka/Ansaldo Contract For Power Project

Syria’s Public Establishment of Electricity for Generation and Transmission (PEEGT) on 21 October awarded a consortium made up of Greece’s Metka and Italy’s Ansaldo Energia a contract for the construction of a 724mw combined cycle power plant in Deir Ez-Zor in Northeast Syria. The contract, worth €671.3mn plus S£460mn (circa...