TAQA Arabia is Egypt’s largest private sector energy distribution company with more than 20 years’ experience investing and operating energy infrastructure including gas transmission and distribution, power generation and distribution and marketing of petroleum products. TAQA Arabia provides services through five subsidiaries: TAQA Gas, TAQA Power, TAQA Marketing, TAQA Solar, and TAQA Water.
Gas Distribution & Construction: TAQA Arabia is the largest natural gas distributor in Egypt, with long term concessions covering 16 Egyptian governorates. TAQA Arabia has the largest downstream natural gas engineering and construction division, handling work for the Group's distribution arms as well as private and public sector third parties in Egypt and the MENA region.
Power Generation and Distribution: The leading integrated private power player in the Egyptian market with engineering, development, generation, and distribution operations along the power value chain.
Fuel Marketing: TAQA Arabia is the first local private sector player that sells refined petroleum products and fuel oil to retail, industrial and wholesale customers with a focus on under-penetrated areas with a favorable competitive landscape. Additionally, TAQA Marketing also operates a network of stations to convert and fuel vehicles with compressed natural gas.
On the Renewable Energy front, TAQA Arabia’s EGP 1.35 billion solar power plant in Aswan’s Benban Solar Park is operational and connects 65 MW of solar power to the national grid. The plant is part of a large national solar complex in Upper Egypt. TAQA Arabia has also ventured into the solar and water segments, through TAQA Solar and TAQA Water.
TAQA Water: TAQA Water was established as a subsidiary of TAQA Arabia in March 2021 and boasts an experienced team in the water treatment industry. The company aims to develop a variety of valuable water treatment solutions to serve the industrial, agricultural, touristic and real estate sectors. The company is focused on investing, designing, constructing, automating, installing and operating reliable, cost-effective and smart water solution systems using the latest energy-saving technology and utilizing a wide range of contractual models.
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TAQA Arabia, the energy subsidiary of Qalaa Holdings, and Chillout, a subsidiary of The National Company for Roads, Building and Development, inaugurate the first natural gas station in New Cairo
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Pakinam Kafafi, CEO TAQA Arabia , Qalaa’s Energy Company Named Among Forbes Middle East’s Top 100 Power Businesswomen
Kafafi, who has served as CEO of TAQA Arabia since 2013 has played an integral role in the development of the company’s growth and its recent push into Egypt’s promising solar energy sector with an IPO scheduled in the first half of 2020
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Qalaa Holdings’ Energy Subsidiary TAQA Arabia Signs EGP 1.35 bn Contract with IFC to Finance 50 MW Solar Power Plant in Aswan
As part of the its drive to invest in sustainable energy solutions, Qalaa Holdings’ energy distribution subsidiary, TAQA Arabia has signed an EGP 1.35 bn contract with the IFC to finance a 50 MW power plant that it will construct in partnership with Hassan Allam Holding
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Qalaa Holdings Subsidiary TAQA Arabia Opens Station Number 36 as Part of Ambitious Expansion Plan
TAQA Marketing, a subsidiary of TAQA Arabia, contributes to the growth of the Egyptian economy with new investments to expand its network of service stations
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Citadel Capital Reports 3Q13 Results: Aggregate Revenues at Operational Core and Non-Core Platforms Surges 15.5% y-o-y to EGP 1.5 billion; statutory consolidated net loss narrows 38.3%
Citadel Capital reports a more than ten-fold rise in aggregate EBITDA at operational core and non-core platform companies as it seeks majority stakes in most of its investments in five core industries via ongoing EGP 3.64 billion share issuance
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KHALED ABUBAKR
Taqa Arabia - Executive ChairmanKHALED ABUBAKR
Taqa Arabia - Executive ChairmanAs a renowned industry veteran, Eng. Abubakr served in a number of top-tier leadership positions in the Egyptian gas industry prior to co-founding TAQA, a leading Egyptian energy distributor and a subsidiary of Qalaa Holdings, an African leader in infrastructure and industry. During this period, he was responsible for different strategic projects through the incorporation and leadership of several companies in both the public and private sectors including EGPC, Egypt Gas, ENPPI, Gas & Energy Group, City Gas and House Gas. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Egyptian Gas Association and sits on the board of several business organizations and a number of affiliated power, oil and gas companies such as the International Gas Union (IGU) where he is the Regional Coordinator for Middle East & Africa. His efforts over the past 29 years have led to the use of natural gas in several countries in the Middle East and Africa. He holds a B.Sc. Degree in Engineering from Cairo University, an MBA in management of Oil & Gas companies from HEC - Montreal University, and several advanced diplomas from Harvard University and the University of Texas.
With over 18 years of experience, TAQA is investing and operating energy infrastructure including gas transmission and distribution, power generation and distribution and retail marketing of petroleum products. -
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PAKINAM KAFAFI
Taqa Arabia - CEOPAKINAM KAFAFI
Taqa Arabia - CEOMrs. Pakinam Kafafi, has nearly 25 years of experience within the Energy and Investment Banking sectors. She assumed leadership of TAQA Group as Chief Executive Officer in 2013.
Prior, Kafafi had been serving as the Group’s Chief Investment Officer since 2006 where she successfully contributed to the group’s evolution by acquiring and consolidating several gas distribution companies for BG, ENI, Edison and AMEC. In addition, she led the group’s business diversification strategy into Power Generation and Distribution and Renewable Energy. Kafafi was also the Investment General Manager TAQA’s Gas Division starting 2003.
Before joining TAQA she served as Vice President at EFG‐Hermes Investment Banking where she successfully participated in various acquisitions and privatization projects in Egypt.
In 2016, Mrs. Kafafi was chosen as one of the Top Fifty Influential Women in Egypt. She is also a long-standing member of the American Chamber of Commerce and the British Egyptian Business Association (BEBA).