1. Japan Crude Imports: Record Mideast Share As UAE Overtakes Saudi

    ...ES, 6 August). Other UAE volumes for September included a 235,000-barrel cargo of Sharjah condensate, the first time Japan has taken the grade since March 2017.   *Qatar, up 4% at 219,000 b/d for 9M 2021, has overtaken Kuwait, down 18% at 197,000 b/d for number three spot, though Kuwait was ah...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 05 Nov 2021
  2. Egypt $4bn Benban Solar Park ‘Complete’

    ...developers were not satisfied with a Cairo court’s decision, did first EBRD and then the World Bank’s International Financial Corporation (IFC) get behind Benban, backing almost all the projects developed so far (MEES, 3 November 2017).  EGYPT’S BENBAN SOLAR PARK REACHES 1.475GW CA...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2019
  3. PDO Joins Oman’s Shift To Solar

    ...netheless, OPWP is still seeking alternatives to gas-fired power generation, so that of the 6.85GW of capacity awarded and planned by OPWP and PDO more than 40% is in renewables and coal-fired plants (see chart). The fuel for the delayed Misfah project has yet to be announced (MEES, 30 June 2017). Gas fu...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2018
  4. Masdar Completes Financing Of Waste-Burning Power Plant

    ...sdar and Bee’ah and is scheduled to begin operating in 2020. French engineering firm CNIM was awarded a contract in May 2017 to design, build and operate the plant. The lenders to the Sharjah project will be the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Germany’s Siemens Fi...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2018
  5. Egypt’s Largest Solar Investor Ties Up Finance For Benban Projects

    ...18 start-up target represents a slippage from the original EBRD and IFC schedules, which targeted construction on the first of the backed projects by the end of 2017. Before they can begin to supply the grid, EETC must complete at least one of four substations it is building at the corners of the Be...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2017
  6. Jordan 200mw Solar Deal

    ...esel 20 Sepco (2017) Samra HRSG^ 75 Sepco Samra Ga...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 04 Nov 2016
  7. Jordan Picks Rosatom For Reactor As MENA Nuclear Impetus Builds

    ...heduled for 2020, Sinop-1 for 2023. UAE 5.6GW 4 Two 1.4GW plants under construction at Barakah. One plant due online each year during 2017-20. Source: MEES....

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013
  8. Iraq Wakes Up From Power Shortage Nightmare

    ...the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) into a 1,500mw Combined Cycle power station by 2015.   Even after the mega-deal purchases, Iraq plans to spend around $4.5bn/year, or some $27bn, up to 2017, on its electricity sector (see table). This 2012-17 spend will break down as follows: $14bn fo...

    Volume: 55
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012