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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: 68Issue: 50Published at Fri, 12 Dec 2025 -
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: 65Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2022 -
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: 64Issue: 50Published at Fri, 17 Dec 2021 -
Saudi Government Approves Power Sector Shakeup
...14.9bn ($3.97bn) over the first nine months of 2021 versus a loss of $296mn for the same period of 2020. PRINCIPLE BUYER The SPPC was named as the ‘principal buyer’ of electricity from independent power producer (IPP) projects by the government in 2017. It describes its key responsibilities as...
Volume: 64Issue: 49Published at Fri, 10 Dec 2021 -
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: 63Issue: 50Published at Fri, 11 Dec 2020 -
Kuwait Slashes Crude Burn As Weather Cools
...tal electricity generation of 6.6TWh was the lowest October figure since 2017. The biggest relief for Kuwait was arguably that it was able to significantly curb the amount of crude oil burned, which fell to a six-month low of 55,000 b/d for October (see chart 2). However, despite being down from mo...
Volume: 63Issue: 49Published at Fri, 04 Dec 2020 -
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: 62Issue: 50Published at Fri, 13 Dec 2019 -
Mena Renewables Programs Boosted By Multilateral Financing
...ojects in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia, while in 2018 it provided loans to Lebanon for the first time. Peak Mena funding was $2.27bn in 2017, while total funding amounted to $10.40bn in 2012-18, including $2.74bn in energy (see charts). In 2018 EBRD invested €1.99bn ($2.24bn) in its five Mena in...
Volume: 62Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2019 -
Saudi SEC Shake-Up OKd
...nstruction contract for the two nuclear power plants by the end of 2018, but progress seems to be in the slow lane as not even a site for the plants has yet been confirmed (MEES, 13 October 2017). ...
Volume: 61Issue: 51-52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2018 -
Tunisia Project Delays Threaten 2019 Capacity Crunch
...450MW in combined cycle mode with the start up of the second turbine in May 2020. Japan’s Mitsubishi Hitachi Power System (MHPS) and Sumitomo won the $340mn EPC contract (MEES, 30 June 2017). The capacity crunch is even more worrying than these figures suggest, given the country’s rapidly-ag...
Volume: 61Issue: 51-52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2018 -
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: 61Issue: 50Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2018 -
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: 61Issue: 50Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2018 -
Riyadh Set To Push For Saudi Power Privatization In 2018
...oking increasingly tight (see p14). Similarly, this week Riyadh’s plans to link gasoline prices to international market prices by the end of 2017 were revised, so that a gradual linkage over the 2018-25 period is now the aim (see p16). Given the likely complexities arising from the Aramco IPO and fuel pr...
Volume: 60Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 22 Dec 2017 -
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: 60Issue: 50Published at Fri, 15 Dec 2017 -
Iraq Adds Upgrades To Gas-Fired Plans, Keeping Pressure On Rising Supplies
...e reason for the increased availability of gas for power generation has been reduced flaring. Although Iraq flared more than 60% of its gas in 2016, improved gas recovery – mainly by Basra Gas Company, which recovered 574mn cfd in 2016 and aims to reach 723mn cfd in 2017 and 1bn cfd in 2018 – en...
Volume: 60Issue: 49Published at Fri, 08 Dec 2017 -
Egypt Nuclear Plans Near Go-Ahead, Saudi Looks To Standardize Plant Design
...shehr-2 2024 1.0 1 5.5 Rosatom building. Work started Mar 2017 Pl...
Volume: 60Issue: 48Published at Fri, 01 Dec 2017 -
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: 59Issue: 50Published at Fri, 16 Dec 2016 -
Egypt Sparks Up First Megaproject But Scales Back Expansion Plans
...mbined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant being built by Egypt’s Elsewedy 115km south of Cairo at Beni Suef. The plant’s generating units will be connected to the grid over the period 2017-20. The Beni Suef plant will comprise eight 600MW generating units, each made up of a 400MW gas turbine/generator an...
Volume: 59Issue: 49Published at Fri, 09 Dec 2016 -
Oil-Poor Arab States Get Multilateral Finance Boost For Renewables
...pe that will continue to grow,” EBRD power chief Nandita Parshard says. The first project under the SPREF program will be the 120MW Khalladi wind farm near Tangier, Morocco. Khalladi is being developed by Saudi private energy developer Acwa Power for start-up in late 2017. Morocco currently has 79...
Volume: 59Issue: 48Published at Fri, 02 Dec 2016 -
Key 2016 Power Start-Ups Oil & Gas-Fired Despite Increasing Renewable Focus
...me companies have also been contracted to build the 200MW Noor-2 and 150MW Noor-3 plants at the same location, for start-up in 2017. In Jordan, three solar photovoltaic (PV) plants are scheduled to start up at Ma’an: the Shams Ma’an joint venture is building a 52.5MW plant, while Norway’s Scatec So...
Volume: 58Issue: 52Published at Wed, 23 Dec 2015