- Sort by:
- Score
- Published ▼
-
Kuwait Seeks To Reboot Stalled Power Projects
...at instance bidders were assessed throughout late-2016 and early 2017, only for the whole process to fall apart in mid-2017 after PPP laws were amended. By mid-2019, KAPP and the Ministry had re-configured the main planned feedstock for Khairan from very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) to natural ga...
Volume: 67Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2024 -
Algeria Launches 1GW Solar PV Tender
...hers, these projects are massively delayed. The contractor for Naama, Korea’s Samsung C&T is also working on the 1.45GW Mostaganem CCGT which has now been further pushed back to 2025. When the plant was awarded in 2014 the target for completion was 2017. Spanish contractor Duro Felguera’s 1.26GW Dj...
Volume: 65Issue: 01Published at Fri, 07 Jan 2022 -
Ground-Breaking Mena Power Plants Due Online In 2020
...id as well as to power the mining and processing operations. Estonia’s Eesti Energia is lead developer, but sold part of its stake to China’s coal power plant operator Yudean to secure Chinese financial backing (MEES, 28 April 2017). Much of Kuwait’s recent power capacity expansion has been ad...
Volume: 63Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2020 -
Saudi Power Project Schedules Slide,But Outlook Stable
...ES, 5 October 2018). Saudi Arabia’s third largest power plant under development, oil-fired 3.1GW Yanbu 3, is undergoing tests, despite state-owned power and desalination plant operator SWCC in January 2017 canceling the $1.5bn EPC contract that was awarded to Korea’s Samsung and partners China’s Se...
Volume: 62Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2019 -
Saudi Awards Key Desalination Plant
...wa had equity in assets with a combined capacity to generate 22.6GW of electricity and desalinate 2.7mn m³/d of water as of the end of 2017, mainly in Saudi Arabia but also in Oman, UAE, Jordan and Morocco as well as outside the Mena region (MEES, 21 September 2018)....
Volume: 62Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2019 -
Jordan Lines Up More EBRD Cash For Renewables Projects
...ectricity grid operator Nepco. Acwa says the project will deliver electricity at JD0.042/kWh (US¢5.92/kWh), a record low for Jordan but much higher than recent bids for bigger projects in the Gulf region which bring economies of scale (MEES, 6 October 2017). Acwa Power managing director Thamir al-Sh...
Volume: 61Issue: 01Published at Fri, 05 Jan 2018 -
Jordan Wind Farm Deals Concluded, Shale Still Awaiting Chinese Go-Ahead
...stas, for installation at the 89.1MW Fujeij wind farm to be built 150km south of Amman. Kepco has also secured finance from Korean and Japanese institutions. Vestas says turbine deliveries to Fujeij will begin in the fourth quarter of 2017, with commissioning starting in third quarter 2018. The to...
Volume: 60Issue: 01Published at Fri, 06 Jan 2017 -
Oman Budget Reforms May Ease Pressure On Gas-Fired Power Plans
...rther last year. BP’s 1bn cfd capacity Khazzan tight gas project, due online in 2017, is Oman’s only hope for a major domestic gas boost in the medium term. Any cuts in gas subsidies could only ease the pressure. OPWP has already begun talks with the Ministry of Oil and Gas (MOG) about the potential fo...
Volume: 59Issue: 01Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2016 -
MENA Power Survey: Generators Seek Fuel Diversity; Capacity Up 3.4% To 370GW
...rbine (CCGT) plant. However, the gas squeeze has forced the UAE to pursue nuclear power, renewables and also coal. Central to the UAE’s planning are four 1.4GW nuclear reactors being built at Barakah in Abu Dhabi for start-up at a rate of one per year during 2017-20. Ras al-Khaimah’s Utico is building a 27...
Volume: 58Issue: 01Published at Fri, 02 Jan 2015 -
MENA Power Survey - Regional Capacity Rises 4.4% to 350GW In 2013
...mpletion in 2015 (MEES, 22 February 2013). It started work on two 1.65GW CCGT plants, PP13 and PP14, due online in 2017 (MEES, 29 November 2013). It also awarded a second supercritical technology oil-fired plant, 2.64GW Shuqaiq, due online in 2017 (MEES, 16 August 2013). SEC also awarded the 2.1GW Ra...
Volume: 57Issue: 01Published at Fri, 03 Jan 2014 -
MENA Power Generators Pushed Diversity In 2012
...E’s sourcing of fuel and technology from a number of countries with uranium resources and nuclear technology (MEES, 21 December 2012). Delivery of fuel will begin in 2014-15 for the first of four 1.4gw to be built at Barakah by Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) and due on-line during 2017-20. La...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013