{"id":1861,"date":"2014-01-06T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T23:00:00","slug":"work-on-thermal-power-plant-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/06\/work-on-thermal-power-plant-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on thermal power plant underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Initial work on a thermal power plant with capacity of producing 200 megawatts of electricity has been launched in northern Jawzjan province, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A Turkish company has been awarded the contract to complete the $37 million <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pajhwok.com\/en\/glossary\/term\/23132\"><em>USAID<\/em><\/a>-funded project, which would electrify villages in Sar-i-Pul, Faryab, Balkh, Samangan and Jawzjan.<\/p>\n<p>Syed Mohammad Patman, the governor\u2019s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News a survey on gas extractions for electricity generation was currently underway. He said each gas well would produce two million cubic meters gas for electricity production.<\/p>\n<p>Eng. Ghulam Saki Saka, the provincial electricity department head, said the power project would benefit residents of Jawzjan and other provinces in the northern zone.<\/p>\n<p>He said two gas-run turbines would be installed, which would generate 200MW of electricity. Currently electricity is imported to northern provinces from Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>Saka said with the completion of the thermal power plant project, residents of Balkh, Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul and Faryab would be extended electricity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police chief Brig. Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani said up to 300 police personnel had been assigned to keep security for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Jawzjan shares border with Turkmenistan and has vast resources of natural gas in Khwaja Gogardak, Yatim Taq, Jurqodak areas of Lailia desert and Shiberghan City, the provincial capital<\/p>\n<p>A survey conducted by Russian experts in 1960 put the number of natural gas wells in Jawzjan at 300. Of them, currently 36 are producing natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/snlip\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/snlip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Initial work on a thermal power plant with capacity of producing 200 megawatts of electricity has been launched in northern Jawzjan province, officials said on Tuesday. A Turkish company has been awarded the contract to complete the $37 million USAID-funded project, which would electrify villages in Sar-i-Pul, Faryab, Balkh, Samangan and Jawzjan. Syed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-coverage-en","category-tapi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mines.pajhwok.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}