1. Saudi Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia But Continues To Play The Field

    ...an Bushehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3.5 Rosatom built. Operation intermittent until 2013  Under Co...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017
  2. Iran Reveals Impact Of Bushehr Outages, UAE And Jordan Pass Nuclear Milestones

    ...ants. Iran’s nuclear program has been blighted with a series of delays and setbacks. The 1GW capacity Bushehr plant started up on 3 September 2011 after a long and controversial stop-start development program. Plant manager Hossein Darakshande announced on 8 October that the plant had delivered 8.7TWh of...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014
  3. Nuclear: UAE Pushes Ahead, Iran Waits On Bushehr

    ...e first operational nuclear power plant in the MENA region, which was shut down in February (MEES, 1 March). This is the second major shutdown since it was brought online in September 2011: two months of repairs followed the discovery of debris in the reactor housing (MEES, 18 January).   Ru...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013
  4. SEC Awards PP12 Gas Turbines Contract To GE

    ...neration.   GE has been developing fuel flexibility technologies to enable combined cycle gas turbines – which are significantly more efficient than conventional oil-fired steam boiler technology – to be fuelled by HFO. In 2011 the company commissioned a 310mw combined cycle power plant in Sri Lanka, which op...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2012
  5. Marafiq Extends Jacobs’ Project Management Contract

    ...nbu’ 2 was originally intended to be an IWPP project, but because of problems raising finance under this model, Marafiq opted for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract format (MEES, 13 July 2009).   The Yanbu’ 2 PMC contract was awarded to Jacobs in September 2011 and the EP...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 41
    Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2012