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Cyprus Aims For 2025 LNG Imports
...s will have replaced oil as Cyprus’ dominant powergen fuel by mid-2025. The Vasilikos plant is slated to exclusively run gas at its two most modern 220MW combined cycle gas turbine units installed in 2011. Were these units to run flat out they would generate an annual 3.85TWh, just shy of th...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
India Crude Imports: Saudi Slumps To No.5 With Volumes At 10-Year Low
...Latest official Indian crude import statistics show volumes from Saudi Arabia falling to just 467,000 b/d for February, the lowest figure since January 2011. This comes as New Delhi and Riyadh continue a war of words, with India slamming Opec in general and Saudi Arabia in particular for ke...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
UAE, Egypt Lead Mena Renewables Expansion
...e benefit of exporting oil rather than burning it for powergen. For countries with minor hydrocarbons resources, developing electricity capacity has always been a struggle, although international financial institutions have increasingly backed renewables projects in the wake of the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011. ...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
OMV Restarts Yemen Output
...15. Multiple firms with Shabwa basin operations say the region is safe from combat with upstream infrastructure intact. But pipeline attacks remain a perennial threat and employee safety a constant concern. Yemen produced 300,000 b/d before political stability nosedived in 2011. The 2010 co...
Volume: 61Issue: 16Published at Fri, 20 Apr 2018 -
UAE’s Nuclear Power Mirage Slips Further Away
...ys Barakah-4 construction is around two-thirds complete, with the next phase being the transition from construction to testing. SECOND IN LINE The Barakah plant will eventually become the Mena region’s second operational nuclear power plant, following the start-up of Iran’s Bushehr-1 plant in 2011...
Volume: 61Issue: 15Published at Fri, 13 Apr 2018 -
Algiers Aims For The Sun; Is Its Head In The Clouds?
...ogram to develop 22GW in renewables energy capacity by 2030, comprising 13.6GW of solar PV, 2GW of concentrated solar power, 5GW of wind power and 1.4GW from other sources (see table). The plans were introduced in 2011 and updated in 2015 (MEES, 3 April 2015). According to a 9 April statement by the En...
Volume: 60Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2017 -
Oman’s Forecasts 85% Power Demand Rise To 2021; Gas Shortage A Worry
...18 (MEES, 27 March). OPWP is also assisting the Rural Areas Electricity Company (Raeco) with a 120MW IPP in Musandam for start-up in 2016. Oman completed a 220KV link to the GCC grid in the UAE in 2011, and officially joined the GGC Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) in December. OPWP says this li...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015 -
Saudi Direct Crude Burn Plan Can Only Work Short-Term, Says FGE
...s upstream section and may not start production until 2016. Saudi Peak* Direct Crude Burning (‘000 B/D) Saudi Oil Use For Power Generation (‘000 B/D) 2009 2010 2011 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2014 -
Iran Power Supply Up 4.6%, Capacity Hits 70GW
...n be viewed as remarkable progress given international sanctions. Recent international focus on Iran’s power sector has centered on the 1GW Bushehr nuclear plant, which western powers fear hides a nuclear weapons program. The plant has operated intermittently since 2011 start-up; it is currently sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Alstom Bags Eni Zubair Power Contract
...ant as well as supplying the four gas turbines. The company says the project is similar to one received in 2011 for a 728MW gas-fired plant in Mansuriya oil field, under development by private firm Kuwait Energy. Alstom has also rehabilitated an existing power plant at Zubair, raising capacity by 60MW to...
Volume: 57Issue: 14Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014 -
Egypt Rejoins MENA Nuclear Pursuit, Iran Plans Two New Bushehr Plants
...perimental reactor in Anshas.” The announcement revives a 2007 plan, postponed by the interim government following the February 2011 revolution. Egypt set up its Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) in 1976 and selected Dab’a, 250km west of Alexandria, as the site of its first nuclear plant. It al...
Volume: 56Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2013 -
DEWA Inaugurates UAE’s Largest Power And Desalination Plant
...onomic growth in Dubai. In 2012 electricity production capacity increased by 10.6% compared to 2011.” DEWA said the M Station incorporates six 234mw gas turbines, three 218mw steam turbines, eight 17.5MIGD multi-stage flash (MSF) distillation units, six heat recovery boilers, two 370 tons/hour du...
Volume: 56Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2013