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Iraq Turns To Turkey To Ease Electricity Shortages
...DED THEIR CONTRACTS IN 2017 SOURCE: IRAQ'S MINISTRY OF ELECTRICITY, MEES. ...
Volume: 68Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2025 -
Saudi Arabia Burning Record Oil Volumes
...ar. Crude oil burn is up year-on-year, but is broadly within historical norms. At 407,000 b/d in April, it was up by 52,000 b/d year-on-year to the highest April figure since 2017. For fuel oil meanwhile, consumption of 637,000 b/d was up nearly 100,000 b/d from 2020, to by far the biggest April fi...
Volume: 64Issue: 24Published at Fri, 18 Jun 2021 -
Dubai Looks To Clean Up Powergen Act With 2050 Plan
...r later release to turbines (MEES, 16 June 2017). The flagship project in Dewa’s solar program is the 5GW MBR Solar Park under development 50km south of Dubai city at Seih al Dalal. In March Dewa invited developers to submit qualification documents for an independent power producer (IPP) project fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Mena Countries Eye Oil, Gas Savings From Renewables Plans
...ficient CCGT plants) or 78,000 b/d of liquid fuel (see table). This is less than 10% of the oil burnt by Saudi Arabia alone (974,000 b/d for 2017: 458,000 b/d crude and 465,000 b/d fuel oil). Only for Morocco, and to a lesser extent Jordan and Tunisia (MEES, 1 June), have new renewables significantly de...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Egypt: Power Price Hike, Or Back To The Future?
...nancial year. But it saw spending on power subsidies soar to hit E£64bn for 2016-17. The 2017-18 budget estimated a fall to E£28.6bn (MEES, 25 May). The plan was that electricity subsidies would have been completely phased in the upcoming financial year. But, wary of public opinion, President Sisi re...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Gulf Countries Throw Jordan A $2.5bn Lifeline Amid Unrest
...cent recovery in oil prices, the GCC states are in a better position to fulfill their latest promises and disburse the pledged aid promptly to cash-strapped Jordan, but the aid still won’t even meet the gap left between 2017 and 2018 after the 2011 GCC package expired. PLAYING HA...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
EBRD Kick-Starts Egypt Solar With $500mn Investment In 16 PV Projects
...nstruction before the end of 2017.” SOLAR STORM The Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) pegs Egypt’s total end-2016 renewables capacity at 3.66GW. However almost 3GW of this is hydropower – primarily Nasser’s flagship 1960s Aswan High Dam megaproject – some 750MW is wind, wi...
Volume: 60Issue: 24Published at Fri, 16 Jun 2017 -
Oman Targets Up To 2GW Of New Post-2020 Capacity
...rayyat IWP 200 2017 Salalah 2 IPP 445 2018 Barka 3 IWP 280 2018 Sohar 2 IWP 250 2018 Dhofar IWP 80 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 24Published at Fri, 17 Jun 2016 -
Oman’s OPWP Targets 5% Efficiency Improvement In Power Generation
...0 2017 Dhofar Wind 50 2017 Salalah 2 IPP 445 2018 Ibri & Sohar 3 IPP 2,...
Volume: 58Issue: 24Published at Fri, 12 Jun 2015 -
Kuwait Ponders Long-Term Power Fuel Supply Options: MEES Analysis
...art-up at 60,000 b/d in 2017, and ramping up to 270,000 b/d by 2030. Another project included in the 4mn b/d target is the 500,000 b/d Wafra field development (Kuwait’s share is 250,000 b/d) in the Neutral Zone, which Kuwait shares 50:50 with Saudi Arabia. But the Chevron-led project has sl...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
SEC In Talks With ACWA After Rabigh-2 Fuel Switch
...ter the project’s economics. It could also threaten the schedule – SEC had brought forward the completion date to 2016, but when it chose the ACWA-led consortium as first-ranked bidder, the planned completion date was put back to 2017 (MEES, 18 January). SEC awarded the 1.8gw capacity Ra...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013