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Saudi Eyes Options For Slashing Oil Burning In Power Plants
...The Saudi energy minister’s ambitious plan to vastly reduce the burning of liquids fuels in power plants is a big ask. Can it be done? Saudi Arabia burned just over 900,000 b/d of liquid fuels in its power plants last year, down 7% from the 2017 record (see chart). The volumes involved in...
Volume: 62Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019 -
Repdo Tenders 1.5gw Of Solar
...Sakaka. The Qurayyat project in the current offering will be built further northeast, near the border with Jordan. The Rafha project in the new tender was previously offered in a tender that was canceled in March 2017 (MEES, 18 January). NEW SAUDI SOLAR TENDER SOURCE: REPDO....
Volume: 62Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019 -
Iraq’s Crude Burn Falls From Peak As Generators Exploit Alternative Fuels
...rning in power plants averaged 134,000 b/d over January-November 2017, putting it on course for a more than 20% fall from 2016’s record 169,000 b/d (see charts). The reduced crude burn is enabling Iraq to direct more of its produced crude oil to export markets. Federal Iraqi crude exports for 2017 av...
Volume: 61Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018 -
Aramco In Development Deal For Crude To Chemicals Process
...emicals to the kingdom for the first time (MEES, 18 August 2017). As a gauge of the scale of the Aramco/Sabic oil to chemicals plan, the 26-unit Sadara project was one of the world’s most expensive infrastructure projects and the world’s largest integrated chemicals complex to be built in a single phase (ME...
Volume: 61Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018 -
Oman Lines Up 11 Companies For Misfah Power Project, Eyes Import Options
...ectricity generated and expects the project to be ready for operation in the third quarter of 2017. ROOFTOP SOLAR Oman is also looking to encourage building owners to install small-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems – typically these are installed on rooftops – so they can meet their own power ne...
Volume: 60Issue: 05Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2017 -
Dubai Picks ACWA For Solar Expansion, Plans 200MW
...rldwide.” Phase 2 will deploy solar photovoltaic (PV) technology and be operational by April 2017. DEWA’s solar park will have total capacity of 1GW when completed in 2030. The first phase of the park, a 13MW solar PV plant, was built by US firm First Solar and connected to the grid in October 2013 (MEES, 25...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
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 -
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