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Egypt Blackouts Led By Heatwave, Gas Shortages
...capacity installed in 2018 key to transforming Egypt’s fortunes (MEES, 27 July 2018). These plants were brought online as Cairo’s own gas output was undergoing a resurgence thanks to the December 2017 start-up of the giant 21.5tcf Eni-operated Zohr gas field. Zohr supplies enabled Egypt to ha...
Volume: 66Issue: 30Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 -
Adnoc Awards Key Contracts For Handling Increased Gas Output
...nterpiece of Adnoc’s gas operations, and is central to its expansion plans. Adnoc Gas operates legacy facilities with 4.75bn cfd combined capacity, while the 1.34bn cfd Habshan 5 plant was inaugurated in 2017, bringing total capacity at the complex to 6.09bn cfd. Petrofac says that “comprising three gas co...
Volume: 66Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2023 -
Saudi Gas Expansion Progress
...A key gas processing expansion project in Saudi Arabia is on track to be completed this year. The 1.07bn cfd Hawiyah gas plant expansion is being developed by Italy’s Saipem under a 2017 contract (MEES, 15 December 2017). Gas shortages mean that Saudi Arabia power and water desalination pl...
Volume: 65Issue: 30Published at Fri, 29 Jul 2022 -
Solar Prices Fall To New Record Low With Abu Dhabi Award
...ES, 13 January 2017). Despite the growing momentum, a long path lies ahead. MEES calculates that by end-2022 renewables will account for around 12% of the UAE’s powergen capacity. EXPERIENCED PARTNERS All four members of the consortium have a track-record of operating within the UAE’s de...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
Saudi Solar: Key 2GW Plant Faces Covid-19 Delays
...VELOPMENT Saudi Arabia’s ambitious plans for 27.3GW of renewable energy capacity by 2024 and 58.7GW by 2030 rest on a two-track system of development. The first track is overseen by the Ministry of Energy’s Renewable Energy Project Development Office (Repdo), which was established in 2017 (MEES, 10 Fe...
Volume: 63Issue: 30Published at Fri, 24 Jul 2020 -
Saudi Plans World-Beating $5bn ‘Green Hydrogen’ Project For Neom Future City
...abia’s now-Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman to great fanfare in 2017 with a $500bn price tag (MEES, 27 October 2017). Whether it ever comes close to achieving its grandiose aims is unclear, but there is at least now movement towards developing innovative industries at the site. No-one can accuse Neom of...
Volume: 63Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2020 -
Egypt’s Economy & Energy Sector Reel From Covid-19
...rch alone, and a further $3bn in April and $1bn in May, to end the first five months at just $36.0bn, down almost $10bn on the start of the year and the lowest figure since 2017 (MEES, 12 June). The end-May figure would have been lower were it not for the mid-month receipt of $2.77bn in emergency IM...
Volume: 63Issue: 27Published at Fri, 03 Jul 2020 -
Libya Adds Powergen Capacity But Remains In The Dark
...return but so far, they have been unwilling, fearing for the safety of their staff. Turkish contractor ENKA and turbine provider Siemens pulled their staff out of the Ubari project back in 2017 after four workers were kidnapped and they haven’t returned since (MEES, 24 November 2017). While Ge...
Volume: 62Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2019 -
Algeria Adding Powergen Capacity, But Big CCGT Progress Piecemeal
...kely a long way down the line: 1.44GW Bellara and 1.38GW Oumache are not mentioned in the new 2018 annual report of lead contractor Korea’s Hyundai E&C, but former Sonelgaz head Muhammad Arkab – now energy minister –said Oumache would be operational by 2020 (MEES, 24 November 2017). Korean contractor Sa...
Volume: 62Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2019 -
Egypt Refining Projects Inching Forward As Subsidy Cuts Curb Consumption
...rformance of the refinery, to produce light products including almost 50,000 b/d of low sulfur diesel and 12,000 b/d of reformate, which is a key gasoline blending component. The $4.3bn ERC plant was originally scheduled to start up in first quarter 2017, but construction was delayed and at times halted be...
Volume: 62Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2019 -
Abu Dhabi Adds Solar Giant To Powergen Fleet
...S BURN HAS STEADIED (TWH) NUCLEAR DELAYS Abu Dhabi state nuclear firm Enec is developing four nuclear reactors with combined capacity of 5.6GW at Barakah on the coast 50km west of Ruwais. Start-up of the first unit was expected in 2017, with the others following at yearly in...
Volume: 62Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2019 -
Egypt Completes 14.4GW Gas-Fired Megaproject In Record Time
...W coal-fired plant at Hamrawein on the Red Sea (MEES, 29 June). At least this is a more economic option than Egypt’s other long-term megaplan, a 4.8GW nuclear plant to be built by Russia’s Rosatom which comes with a jaw-dropping $29.4bn price tag (MEES, 15 December 2017). EGYPT’S KEY POWER PR...
Volume: 61Issue: 30Published at Fri, 27 Jul 2018 -
Abu Dhabi, Dubai Push Power Capacity, Diversify From Gas Fuel
...so supplies other emirati utilities. In 2017 Adwec delivered 13.97TWh (a daily average of 1.59GW) to the Federal Electricity & Water Authority (Fewa), which supplies the northern emirates, and 6.93TWh (791MW average) to Sharjah Water & Electricity Authority (Sewa). Fewa and Sewa have generating ca...
Volume: 61Issue: 29Published at Fri, 20 Jul 2018 -
Saudi’s PIF Increases Stake In Local Private Firm Acwa Power
...ma Foreign Holdings. PIF is slated to have a key role in achieving Crown Prince Muhammad’s Vision 2030 economic diversification strategy – aimed at ending the Saudi “addiction to oil” (MEES, 17 November 2017). Acwa Power’s finances and ownership structure are opaque. But disclosures at the time of...
Volume: 61Issue: 28Published at Fri, 13 Jul 2018 -
Oman Reduces Peak Electricity Load Forecast, Targets Lower Gas Burn
...rough 2024, despite a steady 7% a year growth in electricity generation. OPWP says that in 2017 electricity demand in the MIS grid grew “at a relatively slow pace compared to the historical average.” Peak demand increased by 3.3% to 6.12GW in 2017, compared with an average 7% a year during 2010-17, wh...
Volume: 61Issue: 27Published at Fri, 06 Jul 2018 -
Saudi Approves Scaled-Back Nuclear Plans, Studies Reactors Large And Small
...tchdog IAEA setting out 13 priorities for Riyadh during 2017-21. The IAEA says the agreement provides a medium term reference for both parties’ planning. The priorities listed in the agreement include: nuclear energy planning and implementation; regulatory infrastructure; a research reactor; nuclear se...
Volume: 60Issue: 30Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2017 -
Saudi Wind Deja-Vu As New 400MW Project Tendered
...mat Al Jandal closes on 10 August 2017.” After this, qualified companies will proceed to the request for proposals (RFP) stage, as managing participants or technical participants or both, based on their “experience in delivering IPP projects of this scale.” Repdo says bidders qualifying for the Du...
Volume: 60Issue: 29Published at Fri, 21 Jul 2017 -
Egypt: Has Gas Boost Made Blackouts History?
...st-tracked to “accelerate gas production commitments to Egypt…before peak demand in summer 2017” (MEES, 12 May). With Eni’s 24 tcf Zohr field set to ramp up to 1.2bn cfd from November, Egypt has become increasingly confident of gas availability (MEES, 7 July). According to state gas firm Eg...
Volume: 60Issue: 28Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2017 -
Oman Cuts Power Payout
...Oman’s power regulator says spending on subsidies will fall by 10.6% to OR456mn ($1.186bn) in 2017. The regulator says this is thanks to a rise in revenue from electricity consumers following the introduction of cost-reflective tariffs for large industrial, commercial and government co...
Volume: 60Issue: 28Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2017 -
Egypt Awards 650MW Dual Fuel Power Plant, Suggesting Gas Supply Worries
...cent years caused gas output to bottom out at 3.89bn cfd in early 2016. Egypt has since improved terms for gas producers and new fields have been started up, bringing output to 5.22bn cfd in May, the highest since October 2013 (see p4). Egypt’s gas demand will be around 6bn cfd for 2017 rising to 7b...
Volume: 60Issue: 27Published at Fri, 07 Jul 2017