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Oman Lays Out Plan For 30% Renewables By 2030
...gure closer to 9.2bcm more likely. MEES estimates indicate that gas consumption will peak at around 10bcm in 2027, before dropping by more than 30% to less than 7bcm by 2030, which would make it the lowest since 2011 (see chart 4). Achieving this decline will require a significant improvement in...
Volume: 69Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2026 -
Saudi Efforts To Cut Oil Burn Take Backwards Step In 2022
...e year, crude burn rose sharply in November and December. Crude burn increased by 48,000 b/d month-on-month to a December record of 477,000 b/d, smashing the previous record of 424,000 b/d from 2011 in the process. Meanwhile fuel oil burn dropped by 36,000 b/d for December. Again, this shift to...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Tunisia Draws Record Power From Algeria In 2021
...WER SUPPLY JUMPS TO ALL TIME HIGH ON RECORD IMPORTS FROM ALGERIA (TWH) *TUNISIA EXPORTED NEGLIGIBLE AMOUNTS TO ALGERIA IN 2011, 2014 AND 2015. IT ALSO EXPORTS POWER TO LIBYA WHICH CAME IN AT 649GWH IN 2020 AND 62GWH IN 2021. SOURCE: STEG, ENERGY MINISTRY, MEES CALCULATIONS. 2: TU...
Volume: 65Issue: 07Published at Fri, 18 Feb 2022 -
Libya Plans Tobruk Power Plant, Revives Stalled Ubari Project
...2011 after the ouster of former dictator Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi. The Ubari project – another nominally gas fired plant that will initially burn oil since no current gas supply infrastructure exists – will comprise four Siemens 160MW turbine-generators. The Libya Herald newspaper says the project is...
Volume: 60Issue: 05Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2017 -
Algeria’s Sonelgaz Eyes Foreign Loans To Bridge $10bn Funding Gap
...15. Former energy minister Youcef Yousfi announced a plan in 2011 calling for 22GW of renewables capacity by 2030. This included 13.6GW of solar photovoltaic capacity, 5GW of wind capacity and 2GW of concentrated solar power. A first phase of 6GW by 2024 was priced at AD1.31trillion ($12.21bn – ME...
Volume: 59Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016 -
Dubai Plans $27bn Green Power Fund, But Considering Expanded Coal Program
...bsidized. The UAE has recently hiked the costs of transport fuels, by linking gasoline and diesel prices to international prices (see p13). However, DEWA has operated a fuel surcharge for electricity and water customers since January 2011, which is adjusted on a monthly basis. DEWA charges consumers a mi...
Volume: 59Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2016 -
MENA Nuclear Program Expanding, But Some Preliminary Schedules Sliding
...rrors the 1992 agreement under which Bushehr-1 was completed in 2011. The difference is that Iran will provide fuel rods, rather than Rosatom as in the original deal. This could prove controversial as Tehran and international governments negotiate to end sanctions, which were imposed because of concerns th...
Volume: 58Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2015 -
MENA Nuclear Plans Move Forward
...d not achieve nuclear-generated electricity until 2011 when Russia’s Atomstroyexport completed the much-delayed 1GW Bushehr plant. The plant has since been shut down for long periods for repairs, and now Bushehr is halted again. Plant manager Hossein Derakhshandeh told Iranian state media the plant sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014 -
Renewables To Spearhead Multi-Billion Dollar Moroccan Capacity Drive
...igibility for a $6.3bn Precautionary and Liquidity Line arrangement over two years. And last September the African Development Bank approved $800mn in loans for the country’s solar and wind power sectors. Planned 2020 renewables capacity is almost equal to Morocco’s 2011 capacity of 6,377mw. Five pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2013 -
SEC Revises IPP Program To Add Second Dhuba Plant, Adjust Timings
...52gw Jiddah South-2 plant, intended for start-up in 2020. Dr Alawaji estimated that Saudi Arabia had a total available power capacity of 53gw and a peak load of 47.3gw to date. He expected electricity demand to grow by 7.6% a year in 2011-15 and 4.7% a year during 2016-20, and predicted that de...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Omani Gas, Power Sector At The Crossroads
...al is to create economic growth and jobs. Electricity Generation 2011 Source: Ministry of National Economy. Power Demand Rising In the short and medium term Oman continues to build gas-fueled power plants to meet demand that is rising at 7-8% per year – total po...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013 -
MENA Steps Up Desalination Capacity Expansion
...2011-16. With Saudi Arabia using about 1.5mn b/d of crude oil to power desalination plants, the report noted that an alternative energy source was already being studied. A solar powered desalination plant – “the first large scale renewable desalination plant” – is being built at al-Khafji under an IB...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013 -
DEWA Reports ‘Remarkable’ 2012 Capacity Increase
... UAE DEWA Reports ‘Remarkable’ 2012 Capacity Increase Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) reported on 28 January a 10.6% increase in installed power generating capacity in 2012, rising to 9.646gw from 8.721gw in 2011. Desalinated water production ca...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013