1. Energean Karish FPSO Sets Sail, Adds Gas Sales Deal

    ...pply 0.8bcm/y (77mn cfd) to the newly privatized 700MW East Hagit Power Plant in northern Israel (MEES, 21 January). It is the second GSPA that Energean has signed with lead partner Edeltech, following an October 2017 deal to supply 2.5bcm of gas over 14 years (see table). Energean flags up that th...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 06 May 2022
  2. Kuwait Receives Bids For $1bn Jurassic Gas Production Facilities

    ...5mn b/d to 1.7mn b/d (MEES, 5 February). A key gathering project for Burgan, the $1.3bn 120,000 b/d GC-32 is facing significant delays. Under a 2017 award, UK firm Petrofac was due to bring GC-32 online in mid-2020, but the latest targets are for a start-up later this year. Kuwait newspaper Al An...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 07 May 2021
  3. GCC Gas Burn Increasing To Power Aluminium Smelting

    ...en, which takes electricity from the second largest Saudi generator, SWCC with 7.81GW generating capacity, and the national grid. GCC aluminium production amounted to 4.8mn tons in 2017, equivalent to 7.9% of global output of 60.8mn tons. To power that output the GCC’s six aluminium complexes ge...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 03 May 2019
  4. Saudi Renewable Plans Thrown Into Confusion By SoftBank Power Play

    ...ar had agreed to invest $45bn with SoftBank (MEES, 26 May 2017), informed state utility Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) that it would partner with SoftBank to create the 2030 solar plan. However, SEC said only that PIF and SoftBank planned to launch a 3GW solar project in the kingdom in 2018. Pr...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 04 May 2018
  5. Mena Renewables: Capacity Growing But At Half The Global Pace

    ...cording to the Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). This compares with a 7.3% hike to 2.11TW for the world as a whole. While Mena renewables capacity continues to be dominated by hydropower, the agency’s Renewable Energy Capacity Statistics 2017 report shows a 42.4% hike in re...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 05 May 2017
  6. OPWP Pushing Spot Market Development, Eyes GCC Electricity Trading

    ...VELOPMENT    Barka 1 Ph 2   55 2016 Qurayyat IWP   200 2017 Salalah 2 IPP 445   2018 Barka 3 IWP   280 2018 Sohar 2 IWP   250 20...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 06 May 2016
  7. UAE Tendering 1.15GW Of Solar, Dubai Receives Record Low Bid

    ...pansion project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2017.  UAE POWER GENERATION CAPACITY   Plants GW Adwea 10 Gas-Fired, 1 Solar* 15.5 Dewa 10 Gas-Fired, 1 Solar^ 9.66 Sewa 6 Gas/Di...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 06 May 2016
  8. DEWA Urges Consumers To ‘Think Smart’ Under New Electricity Strategy

    ...0 Total 9,656 470 Planned Additions     Solar Park 2 (2017) 200   Jebel Ali M Expansion (20...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 01 May 2015
  9. Turkey Taps EBRD For Hydro Cash; Boosts Nuclear, Wind

    ...st of wind farms and two small geothermal plants (see table). Beyond 2017, the Ministry of Energy is looking to large nuclear and coal-fired plants for major capacity increments. Furthest advanced of the long-term projects is the first 1.2GW nuclear plant at Akkuyu (MEES, 21 March). Russian nu...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 02 May 2014
  10. SEC Awards PP13/14 Management Contract To WorleyParsons

    ...cle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants.   The plants will each have 1.65gw generating capacity. Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for PP13 and PP14 are expected to be tendered in 2014, with a view to start-up in 2017.   WorleyParsons said the EPCM scope of work in...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 18
    Published at Fri, 03 May 2013