KEC completes Iraq project

By transmission lines in no | 30 Mar 2004

KEC International yesterday said it has completed its first project in Iraq earlier this month. The project was part of the reconstruction projects underway in Iraq.

KEC, part of the RPG-group, completed reconstruction of a 130-km 400 kV transmission line project worth Rs 195 crore on March 8. It had signed the contract in November last year, acompany release said.

The company has secured new projects worth Rs 75 crore in Iraq, following this assignment.

It will set up a 23-km 400 kV single circuit transmission line from Bayji to Baghdad West and a 30-km 132 kV double circuit transmission lines in northern Iraq apart from a 400 kV transmission line for the Nassariyan Power project and Khor Al-Zubayer power plant, the release said.