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Siemens was the first major German company to agree a deal with
Iran this year, signing a memorandum of understanding to work on
Iran's rail infrastructure worth up to 1.5 billion euros ($1.6
billion) in early January.
Mapna will acquire the technology to manufacture Siemens F-class
gas turbines in Iran and the two parties will cooperate to
deliver more than 20 gas turbines and associated generators over
the next decade.
"With these important agreements we reinstall the long-term
energy partnership between Mapna and Siemens," said Siemens
Chief Executive Joe Kaeser, who witnessed the signing during a
visit of Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian in Berlin.
Kaeser visited Iran last week and said Siemens wanted to pick up
where it left off in Iran, where it had been present since 1868
but stopped doing new business in 2010.
As a first project under the energy deal, Siemens will deliver
two F-class gas turbines and generators for a power plant in the
southern port of Bandar Abbas, with the first unit due to be
shipped shortly.
Siemens also signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly
develop a roadmap with Mapna to expand and improve Iran's
overall power and electricity system.
($1 = 0.9212 euros)
(Reporting by Georgina Prodhan; Editing by Christoph Steitz and
David Holmes)
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