1. Egypt Eyes Summer Power Needs, Looks To Limit LNG Spending

    ...asing their FSRUs, but with the deal to take the Energos Power seemingly close, those talks have not progressed.  EGYPT LNG *IMPORTS BY ORIGIN: Q1 IMPORTS RISE TO 1.10MN TONS, HIGHEST FIRST QUARTER SINCE 2017 AS US REMAINS TOP SUPPLIER BY SOME DISTANCE (MN TONS) *IMPORTS ZERO 4Q18-1Q24. SO...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2025
  2. Egypt Power Fuels Number Crunching: Record Gas Output, CCGT Capacity Sees Collapse Of Liquids Burn

    ...EGYPT’S POWERGEN CAPACITY LEAPT 19% TO A RECORD 55GW AT END-2018 BOOSTED BY THREE CCGT PLANTS TOTALING 14.4GW*. BUT POWER GENERATED ROSE ONLY SLIGHTLY TO 194TWh FOR 2018 2018 MONTHLY GENERATION (TWh) NEVER TOPPED THE JULY 2017 RECORD OF 20.3TWh   THE START-UP OF NEW CCGT CA...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019
  3. UAE’s Nuclear Power Mirage Slips Further Away

    ...The UAE’s Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) appears no closer to awarding an operating license for the country’s first nuclear power plant, with slippage to 2019 or beyond looking likely. Construction of the Barakah-1 plant was completed in May 2017, but the unit is still aw...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 13 Apr 2018
  4. Egypt Secures Saudi, UAE Funding For Power Expansion, Awards Wind Projects

    ...enty 2MW turbines – to be installed at an existing 200MW Gamesa-built wind farm. Gamesa says delivery of turbines for the larger project will begin in October for commissioning in third quarter 2017. Deliveries for the smaller project will begin in the third quarter for early 2017 commissioning. Ga...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016
  5. Jordan: Wind Gathers Pace In Bid To Diversify

    ...nstruction in 2017 with a view to first electricity generation in 2019. Start-up of the Elecnor plant takes Jordan’s installed generating capacity to 4.72GW, after the 99MW Hussein steam turbine plant was decommissioned in January. It is Jordan’s second wind farm following the JWPC consortium’s 117MW pr...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016
  6. New Projects And Policies Cementing Solar Role In UAE Power Generation

    ...MW first phase already in operation since 2013 and a 200MW second phase, which is being built by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and Spain’s TSK for start-up in 2017 (MEES, 30 January). While DEWA’s appetite for solar is expanding, Abu Dhabi’s seems to have waned. Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Au...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015
  7. Oman Expanding Desalination, Prepares Power Shake-Up

    ...-year water purchase agreement with Qurayyat Desalination Company. The project firm is owned 85% by Hyflux and 15% by local firm Modern Channels Services. The agreement is for the supply of up to 200,000 cmd of drinking water over the period 2017-37. Qurayyat lies east of Muscat on the Gulf of Om...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015
  8. Oman Peak Demand To Double By 2020, Gas Burning Up 50%

    ...ll see gas burning rise by a comparatively modest 50% from 7.4 bcm in 2014 to 11.1b cm in 2020. As long as the country’s key upcoming upstream gas project, BP’s $16bn, 10 bcm/year Khazzan tight gas development, comes onstream as planned in 2017-18, power generation’s share of Oman’s gas output wi...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014
  9. OPWP Lines Up Qurayyat IWP

    ...OMAN   OPWP Lines Up Qurayyat IWP   Oman’s OPWP is to shortlist bidders to design, build and operate a 200,000 cmd desalination plant at Qurayyat, south of Muscat. It plans end-2014 award for March 2017 start-up with OPWP to purchase the plant’s potable water under a 20-year de...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014