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Acwa Power Secures 800MW Solar PV Projects In Morocco
...and CSP technologies in a ‘game-changing’ hybrid model (MEES, 23 June 2017). The 800MW project was awarded back in May 2019 to Abu Dhabi state renewables giant Masdar in partnership with France’s EDF Renewables and local firm Green of Africa (MEES, 31 May 2019). But over five years later, li...
Volume: 68Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2025 -
Leviathan Supplying Jordan’s DEAD Sea Industry
...oor. Leviathan already supplies Jordan’s state utility Nepco. Chevron’s other Israeli field, the 13.7tcf Tamar has been supplying the Arab Potash and Jordan Bromine plants on the Dead Sea since 2017, likely the customers for the new Leviathan volumes, with volumes which averaged around 20mn cfd last year. ...
Volume: 68Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2025 -
Oman: Sohar CDU Down
...vernment data. Capacity at the refinery expanded in 2017 from 116,000 b/d to 197,000 b/d with mechanical completion of a second crude distillation unit, a new vacuum distillation unit, and kerosene Merox units (MEES, 17 February 2017). It is unclear how long the outage will last, but lengthy do...
Volume: 67Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2024 -
Saudi Aramco Gas Output Leaps In Q2
...elds) and the more modest 75mn cfd Midyan plant in 2017. In order to be better able to meet domestic demand during peak periods, Aramco has also commissioned the Hawiyah Unayzah Gas Reservoir Storage facility. Aramco injects gas into the facility during low-demand periods, and once fully operational it...
Volume: 66Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 -
Oxy Hits Payday In Oman
...US independent Occidental (Oxy) is optimistic about the prospects at its Block 65 asset in northern Oman. Oxy was awarded Block 65 in Oman’s 2017 licensing round (MEES, 21 December 2018), with the asset lying in a crescent of acreage being developed by the firm running across the north of the su...
Volume: 66Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 -
Iraq’s Output Hits Export Capacity Limits
...to a nominal 5.4mn b/d, in reality capacity is considerably lower due to storage constraints, inadequate pipeline capacity and insufficient pumping stations. A further 600,000 b/d-capacity terminal, Khor al-Amaya (KAAOT), has been offline since 2017 due to pipeline leaks. Perhaps wary of a re...
Volume: 65Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 -
Oman’s Economy Rebounds With $2bn 1H Surplus
...ndensate’s exemption from Opec+ cuts since January 2020 (MEES, 6 December 2019). GAS AMBITIONS Ç And condensate output is set to continue to rise over the longer term given the sultanate’s focus on developing gas/condensate plays. The 2017 start-up of BP’s 1bn cfd Khazzan tight gas project re...
Volume: 65Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 -
Italy Imports Record Volumes Of Russian Crude
...erall crude imports leaping 16% year-on-year and by 23% versus Q1 to 1.35mn b/d for Q2, the highest figure since Q3 2019 and within 50,000 b/d of the all-time record set in Q4 2017. *Unlike, for example, TotalEnergies and Shell in northern Europe, Italy’s refining sector is dominated by in...
Volume: 65Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 -
Eni Sees Egypt Receivables Again Raise Their Head
...s field with gas-in-place reserves of 30tcf (MEES, 4 September 2015). Zohr started up in December 2017. But even before then, the prospect of bumper times ahead led Eni to go easy on berating Cairo for monies due. Under a March 2015 deal struck with EGPC intended to eliminate receivables, Eni ag...
Volume: 64Issue: 32Published at Fri, 13 Aug 2021 -
Técnicas Reunidas Looks To Move On From Jazan Fiasco
...ado predicts. RAS TANURA CFP: ALMOST DONE TR adds that the latest $80mn Ras Tanura award is a “new and independent contract” from the $1.5-1.8bn clean fuels upgrade contract that the firm was awarded at Ras Tanura refinery at the end of 2016 (MEES, 13 January 2017). Work on this is “cu...
Volume: 63Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 Aug 2020 -
Ruwais Fix: OMV Upbeat
...uid catalytic cracker (RFCC) – one of the world’s largest – at its 417,000 b/d Ruwais West refinery. The RFCC was damaged in a fire in early 2017 and wasn’t fully functional again until last year (MEES, 22 February 2019). Even then, problems persisted. Adnoc implemented a general turnaround at Ru...
Volume: 63Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 Aug 2020 -
Kurdistan’s Shaky Outlook For Gas Exports
...The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq has ambitious gas export plans. In 2017 it signed up Russian state firm Rosneft to construct a 30bcm/year pipeline to supply Turkey with gas by 2020 (MEES, 22 September 2017). But there is little sign of any progress on expanding the existing pi...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Egypt Falls Further Behind Oil Output Plan
...ntinue, at least in the short term as Apache slashes spending. Apache’s spending in Egypt was reduced to $107mn (including Chinese state firm Sinopec’s 1/3 stake in Apache Egypt) in Q2, the lowest quarter since 1Q 2017 and 35% down on the same quarter last year. Apache plans to reduce its average rig co...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Egypt Gas Output At Record Level
...bra and Taurus fields (MEES, 15 March). BP says Giza and Fayoum output is around 340mn cfd, implying around 360mn cfd from Libra and Taurus, a significant fall from the initial 700mn cfd the two fields produced when they were brought online in May 2017 (MEES, 12 May 2017). Phase 3 of the project, th...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
LNG Market Depressed, But For How Long?
...rsus a year earlier. Key Asian importers of LNG, China in particular, were left short of cargoes in the 2017-18 winter (MEES, 5 January 2018). Fearing a repeat, they took in a bumper 58.8mn tons in 4Q 2018, up 11% year-on-year, boosting average prices to over $11/mn BTU. But the winter turned out to...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Saudi Utility SEC Cuts Spending Plans As Power Demand Levels Off
...fline as more advanced facilities are developed. Total capacity available to supply the grid – including firms which generate electricity to supply their own operations and deliver any excess to the grid – peaked in 2017 at 79.1GW and declined to 75.1GW at end-1H 2019. 2018’s demand peak represents 82...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Saudi Arabia Slashes Budget Deficit In 1H 2019
...rtails its capital spending programs. Real GDP growth is forecast by the IMF to fall to 1.7% this year from 2.2% for 2018 and a 0.7% contraction for 2017. Revenue was $135bn for 1H 2019, up 15% year-on-year. The key element was unsurprisingly oil revenue, which rose by 15% to $92bn, 68% of the total. Th...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Qalaa Hydrocracker Stake Shrinks
...the plant, built alongside the aging Cairo refinery to upgrade its residual fuel oil output into transport fuels. The ERC plant, whose capital requirement was estimated at $4.3bn at the time of project go-ahead, was first scheduled to start up in early 2017, but construction has been slowed by fu...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Qatar’s Kahramaa Targets Solar
...gust. Full commercial operation is scheduled for first quarter 2022. Qatar originally intended the project’s capacity to be 500MW and envisaged start-up in mid-2020 (MEES, 29 September 2017). However, gas-rich Qatar has been slow to recognize the benefits of solar power, with solar capacity amounting to ju...
Volume: 62Issue: 32Published at Fri, 09 Aug 2019 -
Saudi Power Capacity Tops 90GW As Planning Shifts To ‘Clean’ Energy
...amco completed cogeneration plants at two oil processing plants and a gas processing plant in 2016, while the first 660MW unit at SEC’s Jeddah South plant was online in May 2016 and the plant fully operational by the end of 2017. Rawec, utilities supplier to the Petro Rabigh refining and petrochemicals co...
Volume: 61Issue: 32Published at Fri, 10 Aug 2018