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Amea Joins $290mn Morocco Desalination Project Amid Controversy
...adir reverse osmosis desalination project in Morocco, the UAE-based firm announced on 1 August, marking its first such project in North Africa. Development of the 275,000 m³/d first phase was awarded in 2014 to Spanish firm Abengoa and came online in 2022 (MEES, 21 November 2014). Abengoa has since be...
Volume: 68Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2025 -
Anbar Power Plants To Build Case For Akkas Gas?
...t the country’s ongoing political stalemate has prevented any contracts from being signed. Akkas, located in Iraq’s western Anbar province was originally to be developed by Korea’s Kogas under a 2010 contract. But instability in the region deterred Kogas, and the firm declared force majeure in 2014...
Volume: 65Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2022 -
Bahrain’s Oil Sector Optimism Spreads To Powergen
...hrain’s largest plant with 1.25GW capacity. Bahrain’s power plants run almost entirely on gas, with gas burn for power generation amounting to 5.38bcm in 2018, down from a record 5.62bcm in 2014 that was almost matched in 2017 (see chart). Although Bahrain’s domestic gas production of around 2.1bn cf...
Volume: 62Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2019 -
Egypt: Are Power Shortages History?
...stalled powergen capacity over the five years to June 2019 (the end of the Egyptian financial year), from 32.0GW in June 2014 to 55.5GW currently. Central to the surge have been three giant combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) projects taking EEHC’s total CCGT capacity to just over 30GW (see chart). Eg...
Volume: 62Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2019 -
Aramco Advances Jazan Plans With $8bn Gas-To-Power Deal
...e IGCC. INDUSTRIAL HEART Aramco began building the Jazan refinery and terminal in 2014 as the “industrial heart” of government’s Jazan Economic City (JEC) project. JEC’s purpose is to “stimulate manufacturing and industry in the kingdom’s southwest” and “place Jazan as a commercial and in...
Volume: 61Issue: 33Published at Fri, 17 Aug 2018 -
Saudi Electricity Taps $1.75bn Loan For Capacity Expansion
...hieved. The deal is SEC’s largest syndicated loan to date. It takes to $36.2bn the outside funding the utility has secured since 2007, although the biggest single contribution was a $13.2bn ‘soft loan’ from the Ministry of Finance in 2014 (see table). The syndicated loan is SEC’s first foray into the in...
Volume: 60Issue: 34Published at Fri, 25 Aug 2017 -
Bahrain: $670mn CCGT Funding
...oject. The Line 6 plant will have 540,000 tons/year output capacity, taking total smelting capacity to 1.5mn t/y. The power plant will normally burn gas, requiring up to 240mn cfd at full capacity. Bahrain’s annual gas output has been steady at 1.5bn cfd during 2014-16. Bahrain is expanding capacity of...
Volume: 60Issue: 32Published at Fri, 11 Aug 2017 -
Egypt Hikes Electricity Prices To Cut Subsidies Bill, As IMF Agrees $12Bn Loan
...stated in the government plan approved by the parliament.” As Egypt looks to raise revenues and rationalize spending, he said the budget for 2016-17 “will adopt the VAT law after approval by the parliament, and will continue the program begun in 2014 to rationalize energy subsidies.” Go...
Volume: 59Issue: 32Published at Fri, 12 Aug 2016 -
Algeria Brings Combined Capacity To 17.68GW Despite $10bn Funding Deficit
...dustry. State petroleum firm Sonatrach has seen its five-year investment budget cut to $73bn for 2016-20, from $90bn for 2015-19 and $100bn for 2014-18. And it is not only cashflow that may be a problem for Sonelgaz beyond 2018. At the end of 2015, Algeria’s 17.24GW of generating capacity comprised ro...
Volume: 59Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2016 -
Oil Burning In Gulf Countries On Course To Top 2014’s Record
...Oil Burning In Gulf Countries On Course To Top 2014’s Record TOTAL OIL BURN* (‘000 B/D) DIRECT CRUDE BURN: 1H15 DOWN ON YEAR EARLIER BUT JUNE FIGURES SUGGEST RECORD SUMMER (‘000 B/D) SAUDI FUEL OIL CONSUMPTION UP STRONGLY ON YEAR-AGO LEVELS (‘000 B/D)...
Volume: 58Issue: 35Published at Fri, 28 Aug 2015 -
Turkey Coal Power Boost
...ns/year of lignite fuel. Start-up of the Bolu Göynük plant takes Turkey’s coal-fired capacity to 12.8GW. Coal represents a significant part of Turkey’s generating capacity, which amounted to 67.6GW at the end of 2014, and could potentially increase its share as Ankara seeks to limit its de...
Volume: 58Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2015 -
UAE’s RAK Plans Privately Financed Desalination
...ich is due to start up in 2016 (MEES, 19 December 2014)....
Volume: 58Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2015 -
Egypt Powers Ahead To Supply Record As New Capacity Comes Online
...st power plant. Yet this is a marked improvement on last summer, when the system collapsed under the strain of years of underinvestment and there were severe blackouts across Egypt (MEES, 12 September 2014). Since the summer 2014 power meltdown, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has led a charge to re...
Volume: 58Issue: 34Published at Fri, 21 Aug 2015 -
Israel Closes $1bn Solar Financing
...e 121MW CSP project last year (MEES, 18 July 2014). Megalim laid the cornerstone for the 121MW project in June, with a view to connecting to the Israeli grid in 2017. The partners expect the plant to deliver 320GWh of electricity to the grid annually. The plant will comprise a 240m high solar to...
Volume: 58Issue: 32Published at Fri, 07 Aug 2015 -
Dubai To Spend $15Bn On 20% Capacity Hike By 2021
...UAE Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) chief executive Sa’id al-Tayir says DEWA’s capital budget for 2014-18 is Dh55.216bn ($15.03bn). DEWA plans to add three power plants totaling 1.9GW over the next five years raising DEWA’s total capacity by almost 20% to 11.56GW by the end of...
Volume: 57Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2014 -
Gulf States Eye Demand Management But Progress Slow
...mpared with current global thinking. The OECD’s International Energy Agency (IEA) says Middle East governments plan to spend a total $169bn on improving energy efficiency during 2014-35 (MEES, 6 June). Yet the IEA’s recent World Energy Investment Outlook warns that “energy prices are critical to de...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 -
Wind Power Dominates Near-Term MENA Renewables Projects Mix
...entified six potential sites for new wind farms in the Gulf of Suez area. It has invited companies to prequalify to develop 100MW projects. France’s GDF Suez is currently building Africa’s largest wind project, the 300MW Tarfaya wind farm in Morocco. This is due online at the end of 2014. Meanwhile, in Tu...
Volume: 56Issue: 34Published at Fri, 23 Aug 2013 -
Morocco Awards 2 Power Projects, Lines Up Solar Bidders
...cond in April 2014. TAQA recently secured $1.4bn in finance for the project (MEES, 8 February). Solar Prequalification The Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) meanwhile announced it had prequalified a number of consortia to build the Noor-2 and Noor-3 concentrated solar power (CSP) pl...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013