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World’s first floating power plant destined for Iraq
Karkey, a subsidiary of Karadeniz Holding, is building the vessel at the Sedef dockyard in İstanbul’s Tuzla district. Iraq has also commissioned a barge to be constructed in Singapore for the same purpose. The vessels have the ability to move in the sea while generating electricity and run on dual fuel systems that are able to convert fuel oil into natural gas in just one day.
Iraqi Electricity Minister Kareem Waheed Hassan visited the construction site on Thursday to see one of the ships, named Karadeniz Powership Doğan Bey, and was briefed there by Karadeniz Holding Chairman Osman Murat Karadeniz and the group’s energy department president, Nuri Doğan Karadeniz.
Hassan told the press that Iraq has ordered one of the ships from Turkey for electricity generation purposes, with a capacity of 125 megawatts. Construction is in the final phase, and soon the ship will be dispatched to Iraq. “We hope the ships will start helping Iraq meet its electricity needs by the beginning of next year,” he said.
Iraq has already completed work on the installation of necessary electricity transmission and fuel transportation systems, the minister noted.
“The power plant is running on heavy fuel oil, pure or nearly pure residual oil, and we hope they finish the powership soon. The installation of the power generating equipment in the powership is almost complete, and the first activation is scheduled to commence shortly,” Hassan said.
Iraq has a huge electricity program, he recalled, and added: “In the future, Iraq may start selling electricity to Turkey because Iraq is a source of energy since it has oil and natural gas. Iraq also has strategic relations with Turkey.”
The powership, 188 meters in length, will be in the Umm Qasr port in the Persian Gulf to mainly provide energy for the port. The remaining electricity will be diverted to residential areas in Basra. All the personnel aboard the powership and the barge will be Turks.
The barge that is being built in Singapore is named KPS-3 and doesn’t have an engine. It will be 110 meters long with the same capacity as the Doğan Bey.
The minister later headed to the “Turkish-German Cooperation in Iraq” meeting in İstanbul Speaking at the meeting, President of the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) and the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said Turkish businessmen have never been hindered by security concerns in war-torn Iraq, which is one of the most important reasons why Turks are successful in Iraq today.
He recalled the construction of the İstanbul-Baghdad Railway by both German and Turkish engineers and workers a hundred years ago and said the same cooperation is quite likely to happen in Iraq today.
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