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Egypt Eyes Summer Power Needs, Looks To Limit LNG Spending
...asing their FSRUs, but with the deal to take the Energos Power seemingly close, those talks have not progressed. EGYPT LNG *IMPORTS BY ORIGIN: Q1 IMPORTS RISE TO 1.10MN TONS, HIGHEST FIRST QUARTER SINCE 2017 AS US REMAINS TOP SUPPLIER BY SOME DISTANCE (MN TONS) *IMPORTS ZERO 4Q18-1Q24. SO...
Volume: 68Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2025 -
Qatar’s Al Kharsaah Solar PV Plant Poised For Startup
...ES, 4 March). SIRAJ ENERGY: LEADING DIVERSIFICATION √ Siraj Energy was established in 2017 as a joint venture between state-run QatarEnergy (51%) and Qatar Electricity and Water Company (49%), with the aim of developing projects to...
Volume: 65Issue: 14Published at Fri, 08 Apr 2022 -
Saudi Liquids Burn Falls To Four-Year Lows In Early 2021
...ar at an average of 705,000 b/d (see chart 1 and p18 for full data). Not since 2017, the first full year of operation for the 2.5bn cfd Wasit gas processing plant, has oil burn opened the year at such levels (MEES, 24 March 2017). However, as Saudi Arabia has implemented its 1mn b/d voluntary ad...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
UAE, Egypt Lead Mena Renewables Expansion
...rdan took its total wind capacity to 374MW at the end of 2019 with completion of the 89MW Fujeij wind farm 150km south of Amman (MEES, 20 January 2017). EBRD’s $1.7bn investment in Jordan since 2012 means it can now generate 10-15% of electricity from locally-developed renewables capacity (MEES, 28 Fe...
Volume: 63Issue: 17Published at Fri, 24 Apr 2020 -
Saudi Solar Gains Momentum, But Hydrocarbons Still Dominate Project Pipeline
...nstruction contracts for the PP13 and PP14 plants near Riyadh in 2015, while SEC and state petroleum firm Aramco awarded the Fadhili cogeneration project in early 2017, to provide electricity and process heat for the Fadhili gas processing plant, which started up in late 2019. The two solar projects on...
Volume: 63Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2020 -
Saudi Goes West With Gas-To-Power Expansion
...15’s 62.26 GW. But while peak load fell sharply to 60.83GW in 2016, it rose back to 62.12GW in 2017, highlighting the government’s struggles to curb power demand amid a rapidly growing population. Increased gas volumes, in particular of non-associated gas, have done the heavy lifting in re...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
Saudi Maxes Out Refineries Despite Crude Output Cuts
...Saudi crude exports as a percentage of overall production fell to the lowest level since late-2017 in February. Crude exports fell below 7mn b/d for the first time since May 2018, and as a proportion of production fell below 69% for the first time since October 2017 according to the latest Jo...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
Egypt Power Fuels Number Crunching: Record Gas Output, CCGT Capacity Sees Collapse Of Liquids Burn
...EGYPT’S POWERGEN CAPACITY LEAPT 19% TO A RECORD 55GW AT END-2018 BOOSTED BY THREE CCGT PLANTS TOTALING 14.4GW*. BUT POWER GENERATED ROSE ONLY SLIGHTLY TO 194TWh FOR 2018 2018 MONTHLY GENERATION (TWh) NEVER TOPPED THE JULY 2017 RECORD OF 20.3TWh THE START-UP OF NEW CCGT CA...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Solar Drives Mena Renewables In 2017, But Region Remains Global Laggard
...Mena governments have been slow to adopt renewables, but economic diversification plans and competition for conventional generation fuels suggest growth may pick up. Mena region utilities added 1.64GW or 5.7% to their capacity to generate power from renewable sources in 2017. While this wa...
Volume: 61Issue: 17Published at Fri, 27 Apr 2018 -
Saudi Oil Exports Hit New Peak But Crude Burn Rises
...rch). Some 20% of overall products exports in January were sent to OECD Europe, with latest IEA stats showing the region took 1.58mn tons (around 400,000 b/d) in January, well above the 2017 average of 260,000 b/d. This appears to have consisted overwhelmingly, if not entirely, of middle distillates su...
Volume: 61Issue: 16Published at Fri, 20 Apr 2018 -
OMV Restarts Yemen Output
...clear if all are operational. The bulk of Yemen’s 2017 crude output (and all exports) came from Blocks 10 and 14, operated by state firm PetroMasila in the east of the country, much further away from the front line with Houthi rebels. This output of around 50,000 b/d was piped to and exported from th...
Volume: 61Issue: 16Published at Fri, 20 Apr 2018 -
UAE’s Nuclear Power Mirage Slips Further Away
...The UAE’s Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) appears no closer to awarding an operating license for the country’s first nuclear power plant, with slippage to 2019 or beyond looking likely. Construction of the Barakah-1 plant was completed in May 2017, but the unit is still aw...
Volume: 61Issue: 15Published at Fri, 13 Apr 2018 -
Saudi: Ambitious Solar Push Could Spell The End For LNG Import Plans
...ll have spurred on greater measures than a more modest goal. His two most eye-catching domestic measures to-date are the Vision 2030 plan to radically overhaul the economy (MEES, 29 September 2017), and the $500bn “robot city” Neom (MEES, 27 October 2017). But, in terms of concrete progress, the om...
Volume: 61Issue: 14Published at Fri, 06 Apr 2018 -
Jordan Pushes Ahead With Oil Shale-Fired Power Plant, Lining Up More Solar
...velopment: 957 2017: Enviromena/TSK Quweira Solar 103 2018:Sepco Sa...
Volume: 60Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2017 -
Algiers Aims For The Sun; Is Its Head In The Clouds?
...ntracts, 55% of revenues from taxes on gas flaring and (as of the 2017 budget) 10% of revenues from VAT on energy-consuming goods and appliances. It is also seeking funding from overseas. On 6 April, Energy Minister Noureddine Boutarfa met in Algiers with Rémy Rioux head of France’s foreign aid de...
Volume: 60Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2017 -
Foreign Firms Line Up For Algeria Renewables Work
...sin. Here “production start-up was achieved… at the end of the year [2016], with start-up of six wells and linkage to the existing treatment facilities of the MLE project. The development activities are expected to be completed during 2017,” Eni says in its 2016 Factbook, released last week. A pa...
Volume: 60Issue: 17Published at Fri, 28 Apr 2017 -
Iraq Fires Up 1GW Gas-Fired Capacity But Is There Enough Gas?
...anks to an increase in wellhead output, from 2.06bn cfd in 2013 to 2.91bn cfd for the first two months of 2017, and an increase in the proportion of this gas that is captured – though over 60% of wellhead output is still flared. For 2015, the last year for which fully comprehensive data is av...
Volume: 60Issue: 16Published at Fri, 21 Apr 2017 -
Egypt Tenders Wind Project As Three Megaprojects Begin Supplying Grid
...NSTRUCTION Project (contractor, online): GW Fuel Beni Suef (Elsewedy, 2017-20) 4.80 Gas Bu...
Volume: 60Issue: 14Published at Fri, 07 Apr 2017 -
Egypt Secures Saudi, UAE Funding For Power Expansion, Awards Wind Projects
...enty 2MW turbines – to be installed at an existing 200MW Gamesa-built wind farm. Gamesa says delivery of turbines for the larger project will begin in October for commissioning in third quarter 2017. Deliveries for the smaller project will begin in the third quarter for early 2017 commissioning. Ga...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016 -
Jordan: Wind Gathers Pace In Bid To Diversify
...nstruction in 2017 with a view to first electricity generation in 2019. Start-up of the Elecnor plant takes Jordan’s installed generating capacity to 4.72GW, after the 99MW Hussein steam turbine plant was decommissioned in January. It is Jordan’s second wind farm following the JWPC consortium’s 117MW pr...
Volume: 59Issue: 15Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016