Çalık Holding undertakes another project in the Middle East and Turkic Republics. Çalık Holding’s energy subsidiary Çalık Enerji has signed a deal to build combined-cycle power plant in Uzbekistan.
Çalık Enerji, one of the largest investment groups in the Middle East and the Balkans with a global work force of 19 thousand people in 12 countries, has undertaken yet another project, as part of its overseas investments; to build a combined-cycle power plant in a consortium with Initec (a Spanish engineering company) in Uzbekistan. The company, through projects such as “Samsun-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Project” that will transport oil from the Black Sea port of Samsun to the Ceyhan terminal on the Mediterranean coast and from there to the world, maintains a high profile in the energy field. In line with the agreement entered into with Uzbekistan’s state-run company Uzbekenergo, which is responsible for the production and distribution of electricity in Uzbekistan, the new combined-cycle power plant, with an electricity generating capacity of 472 megawatts, will be built in the industry region of Navoi, 500 Km to the West of the capital Tashkent. The construction which is set to start in October is expected to be completed in three years.
Çalık Enerji’s scope of supply in the project that is worth 336 million euros include the purchasing of all auxiliary equipment for the construction, transporting the materials, constructing the power plant, installation work, testing of and starting the operation of the power plant after its completion. Initec’s scope of supply, the leader of the consortium, include besides the provision of ancillary equipment, the engineering of the project and provision of the gas and steam turbines to be purchased from the Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Çalık Enerji will provide technical supervision for the delivery and installation of this equipment in the power plant.
About Çalık Enerji:
• Çalık Enerji (subsidiary of Çalık Holding, established in 1998) is operating the gas distributions of two cities in Turkey.
• Company purchased Bursagaz in 2004 and became partners with EWE, a Germany based international energy corporation. Çalık Enerji purchased Kayserigaz in 2007 and made a partnership agreement with EWE in 2008. EWE’s shares increased to 80% in time over these two companies which operate 7% percent of Turkey’s total natural gas consumption.
• Çalık Enerji is active in the projects of oil-natural gas drilling in Turkmenistan and operates in all areas of energy from drilling to sales in oil and natural gas. The company’s drilling projects, in Erzurum, Şanlıurfa and Gaziantep and natural gas projects in the Thrace region continue in Turkey.
• Çalık Enerji is responsible for the construction and management of the “Samsun-Ceyhan Pipeline” and refinery project in Ceyhan. The Company is planning to start and complete within three years the Samsun-Ceyhan Pipeline Project with Eni, an Italian based company.
• Ceyhan Refinery Project, one of the largest projects of Turkey, will have a capacity to produce 10 to 15 million tons of oil products and refine USD 6 billion of investments over a very short time in the region.
• The Company has made agreements that intensify the strategic collaborations with the Russian companies Gazprom and Rosneft in oil, gas and electricity sectors.
• Çalık Enerji is operating as an investor and contractor company in the construction of power plants. Çalık Enerji, in addition to the 5 power plants the total electricity generating capacity of which add up to 900 MW, is now planning to build the sixth one with a generating capacity of 254 MW, in Turkmenistan. In addition, in Turkey, Çalık Enerji has a license to build a total 11 power plants (2 wind, 2 thermal, and 7 hydroelectric). The Company is planning by 2020 to increase its total installed power capacity to 5000MW.