JOHANNESBURG--January 11, 2013--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Energy major GDF Suez (OTC:GDSZF) (Paris, France) is leading a consortium that has been awarded the contract for the construction of a 1,500-megawatt (MW), gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant at Az Zour in Kuwait. Kuwait's Partnerships Technical Bureau awarded the contract for the Az Zour North Independent Water & Power project.