1. Tunisia: 200mw Solar Plan

    ...lls for proposals in the past have met with threadbare success. The first such ‘call for projects’ in 2017 saw four projects totaling 22MW built, including the country’s only 2023 start-up – 10MW at Meknassy – whilst the three subsequent rounds (2018, 2019, 2020) have resulted in a princely 6MW of ca...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2024
  2. Hayan Abdulghani Appointed Iraq’s Oil Minister

    ...tired in 2020. He was previously the chairman of Basrah Gas Company (BGC) and director general of South Gas Company (SGC). Mr Abdulghani was appointed director general of SGC in 2017, switching from his previous role as director general of Basrah Oil Company (BOC), which oversees Iraq’s largest oil fi...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2022
  3. BP/Equinor Algeria Gas Output Crash

    ...s in 2Q20. Partners BP, Equinor and Sonatrach have struggled to halt production declines over the years, despite the completion of field tie-in and compression projects at the fields in 2017 and 2018 (MEES, 7 February 2020). Though Algerian gas output has seen a major turnaround this year (ME...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 29 Oct 2021
  4. Qatar Axes HSFO Sales

    ...e of the first countries to limit the availability of marine fuels to only grades that are compliant with the International Maritime Organization’s 2020 regulation.” QP and state fuel retailer Woqod began providing bunker fuels in June 2017 to meet the fuelling needs of the Qatargas LNG fleet an...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019
  5. ACWA, Aramco Eye Bangla LNG

    ...ich is expanding its activities and in April traded its first LNG cargo (MEES, 7 June). State firm Petrobangla has two 3.75mn t/y floating storage and regasification units (FSRU), which are overwhelmingly supplied by Qatar. A 2.5mn t/y supply deal was signed with Qatargas in July 2017 and supplies be...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019
  6. Eni: Gulf Of Suez Boost

    ...y to increasing the country’s oil output which fell to 613,000 b/d for August, the lowest since March 2017 (MEES, 16 August).  ...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 25 Oct 2019
  7. Iran Testing Star Project

    ...litter plants, the PGS units deliver naphtha into a reformer for processing further into reformate, a key blending component for gasoline. NIORDC is already operating two phases of PGS, the first being brought online in April 2017 and the second in February this year. The PGS project is central to Iran’s bi...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018
  8. Kuwaiti MPs Prepare Grillings As ‘Summer’ Ends

    ...bah and Oil Minister Bakhit al-Rashidi. The return of parliament frequently marks the exit of government ministers, and indeed the previous government resigned en-masse in November 2017, leading to Mr Rashidi’s appointment that December (MEES, 15 December).    EGYPT’S FOREIGN RESERVES* HIT RECORD $44...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 43
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018