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Saudi Power Revamp Progresses Apace Amid Record Electricity Demand
...8GW expansion to the 2.2GW PP12 plant, which is situated around 100km west of Riyadh. PP12 is a modern CCGT power plant running on gas feedstock, which started up in 2014 and is operated by SEC. In a 14 March announcement, Korea’s Doosan stated that SEC has awarded a consortium of it and China’s Se...
Volume: 68Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 -
Egypt Gas Burn Falls Despite Powergen Record
...el, although the fact that most of Egypt’s gas turbines can also burn HFO means that some of these plants burnt liquid fuel at times during 2014-17 when gas was scarce. Egypt also has 1.87GW or 3.3% of capacity for which light fuel oil (mainly diesel) is the primary fuel. These are mainly older pl...
Volume: 63Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2020 -
Saudi Liquids Burn Edges Up, More Rises To Come?
...eir lowest level since March 2014. Products imports were down across the board, with the kingdom importing no diesel for the first time since January 2011. The upshot was that net-products exports were just shy of December’s record at 1.34mn b/d. And net diesel exports were at an all time high of...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Kuwait Boosts Gas-Fired Power Capacity, Prepares Further LNG Imports
...to develop power and water projects on its own, under engineering, procurement and construction contracts (MEES, 13 June 2014). Al-Abdaliyah will be an integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) power project, with total capacity of 280MW, including a 60MW solar unit to improve the efficiency of th...
Volume: 59Issue: 12Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016 -
Egypt Announces $43bn Powergen Plans As Part Of Epic Development Program
...pacity reached 31.45GW at the end of 2014. The electricity ministry has already awarded contracts to add 4.33GW of gas and oil fired capacity at new and existing sites and has announced plans to develop a further 31.48GW, including 23GW of coal-fired capacity (MEES, 23 January). It is largely unclear to wh...
Volume: 58Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2015 -
Bahrain’s 1.5GW Plans
...to the grid.” Bahrain currently has 4GW of generating capacity. It has six power stations, of which Al Dur is the largest. Bahrain also has a 600MW transfer capacity link to the GCC electricity grid (MEES, 28 November 2014). Demand reached a peak of 3.2GW in 2014, up from a 2.92GW high in 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2015 -
Turkey Sees Power Demand Doubling By 2023, Backs Nuclear And Coal
...ll rise to 450 TWh in 2023 from 235 TWh in 2013, having already risen sharply from 132 TWh in 2003. The company expects consumption to reach 256 TWh in 2014. The ministry is working to reduce Turkey’s dependence on imported gas for power generation, through the diversification of primary energy so...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014