1. Morocco Generates Gas Sector Momentum

    ...ni Mathar and 385MW Tahaddart) until 2021, the kingdom had been looking to reduce its reliance on imports from its rival neighbor (MEES, 30 June 2017). The latest LNG import infrastructure plans, as well as the planned output from Tendrara, are part of a national strategy to diversify energy su...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2025
  2. Kuwait’s Need For LNG Slumps As New Al-Zour Refinery Ramps Up Fuel Oil Output

    ...FO pipeline from the refinery “will begin commissioning” after “filling and stabilization operations” on the first pipeline are completed. The construction project overseen by KOC also includes a gasoil pipeline. The $850mn pipeline contract was awarded to Italy’s Saipem in August 2017 and in...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2022
  3. Energean’s Karish Sales In Doubt As Israel Gas-To-Power Market Hots Up

    ...y customers for its 7.2bcm/y (700mn cfd) Karish development offshore Israel. Of 7.1bcm/y (684mn cfd) in gas sales contracts, more than half is under threat. Energean’s three largest customers are all looking to back out of their gas purchases on contracts signed with Energean in 2017, citing de...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 17 Dec 2021
  4. Egypt’s Power & Gas Demand Rebound From Covid Slump

    ...20.0TWh for August, the first month since February not to be down year-on-year, and the third highest figure on record behind July 2017 and 2019 (see chart 1). *And the latest gas consumption stats, which are for September, suggest that power generation has continued to rise. The country’s ov...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 11 Dec 2020
  5. Qatar Set For 2019 Power, Desalination Records

    ...NCE MARCH...   2. WITH JAN-OCT UP 22%, 2019 IS ON TRACK TO SMASH 2017'S PREVIOUS ANNUAL RECORD (TWh)   3. QATAR DESALINATION (MN M³) HAS LIKEWISE SEEN A SERIES OF RECORDS... F =FORECAST. SOURCE: QATAR PLANNING & STATISTICS AUTHORITY, ME...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2019
  6. Jordan: Bye-Bye Conventional Powergen?

    ...d-2020 (MEES, 28 April 2017). Operator Eesti Energia of Estonia told MEES this week that the project is on schedule for its phase-1 start up in mid-2020. Commercial viability still remains the issue with Jordan’s oil shale dreams. Shell’s Jordan oil shale subsidiary Josco has developed technology to ex...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2018
  7. Oman Seeks Better Gas Management Through State Energy Sector Shake-Up

    ...ants in percentage terms though absolute volumes are up a touch on 2017. A recent boost to gas production is enabling record LNG exports, which are expected to push total gas consumption close to 45bcm this year (see chart). Oman’s gas output is rising as a result of a number of recent discoveries an...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2018
  8. Egypt, Russia Sign Deal To Start Work On Virgin Nuclear Plant

    ...rget): GW Fuel Beni Suef (Elsewedy, 2017-20) 4.80 Gas Burullus (Orascom, 2017-20) 4....

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 15 Dec 2017
  9. Coal: Dubai Starts Work On 2.4GW Plant, Part Of 21GW Mena Expansion

    ...rada Morocco Sepco III 0.32 1.45 Under construction, start-up 2017 Safi Mo...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016
  10. DEWA Plans $1.9Bn 2014 Projects Spend, Eyes Coal And Solar

    ...pected to be operational in 2017 (MEES, 25 October). More controversially, given growing environmental concerns in the region, Dubai has switched the fuel for its planned Hassyan independent power producer (IPP) project away from gas. Instead it plans to build a 1.2GW coal-fired plant, with the first of tw...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 50
    Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2013