Abu Dhabi's Taqa buys Canada land worth $63 mln

DUBAI, July 6 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi National Energy Company TAQA.AD (TAQA) has purchased two blocks of land comprising 1,300 square kilometers in the Horn River Basin in Canada's British Columbia for $63.2 million, Taqa said in a statement.

"Horn River Basin is one of the important gas prone basins in Canada," Taqa said.

Taqa, a diversified energy company that runs oil wells and power plants, is 75 percent owned by the government of the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

(Reporting by Thomas Atkins; editing by Simon Jessop)