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Abu Dhabi Faces Power Crunch
...ruggle to meet demand in Abu Dhabi and the UAE’s Northern Emirates, when electricity usage spikes during the hot summer months that year. Nuclear Delay? Significant additions to power generation capacity will not materialize before 2017 at the earliest, when the first of four 1.4GW nuclear re...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Turkey Power Projects Pipeline Seeks To Maintain Fuel Balance
....92GW Additions By 2017 4.40GW Total 2017 62.32GW Source: MEES. *Capacity Expansion,** Possibly Rising To 7gw. † First Plant....
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Force Majeure A Reminder Of Risks For Energy Producers In Egypt
...vernment in December announced it would pay back $1.5bn of the roughly $6bn it owed international oil companies (IOCs) in unpaid receipts, vowing to repay a further $3bn in instalments by 2017. It has also pledged to improve the terms for offshore gas developments. In the final days of 2013, state-ow...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Qatar Expands Overseas Ambitions With Brazil Deepwater Deal
...ar and will ramp up to 140,000 b/d by 2017. Excitement Abroad, Dull At Home At home, Qatar does not appear set to end the moratorium on new developments at the North Field over the medium term. Its growth strategy now appears to have shifted abroad, where it will augment the success of its so...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Omani Gas, Power Sector At The Crossroads
...e project will set a new price range the government is prepared to pay gas producers to attract upstream investment. It is due to start up in the first half of 2017 – further slippage on a project that was originally scheduled to produce 1bn cfd in 2014. Under the January 2007 deal, BP agreed to la...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013 -
KNPC Brings Total Onboard As $9Bn China Refinery Project Talks Progress
...edstock necessitates multiple secondary units. And MEES understands that even if the partners reach a final investment decision soon, completion might not be until 2017-18, although Mr Zanki expects it “much sooner”. In addition to a 296,000 b/d crude distillation unit, the Guangdong refinery will, an...
Volume: 55Issue: 05Published at Mon, 30 Jan 2012 -
Delay Pays Dividends For Abu Dhabi’s SAS Development
...layed crude production capacity expansion from around 2.75mn b/d currently to 3.5mn b/d by 2017-18. Spanish firm Tecnicas Reunidas and Athens-based CCC won the $1.3bn Shah and Sahil field development contracts (Package B), while the UK’s Petrofac won the contract for the development of Package A – th...
Volume: 52Issue: 05Published at Mon, 02 Feb 2009 -
Bush Calls For Reduction In US Gasoline Consumption, Backs Renewables
...ports by the equivalent of three-quarters of all the oil we now import from the Middle East,” he said. President Bush said that alternative and renewable fuel use must be mandated to reach 35bn barrels by 2017 in order to achieve the gasoline consumption cut – a new objective five times the existing ta...
Volume: 50Issue: 05Published at Mon, 29 Jan 2007