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Iraq Turns To Turkey To Ease Electricity Shortages
...stem operator TEİAŞ continues to list allocated capacity at up to 300MW out to December 2025. There is also a second line linking Turkey’s Silopi to Kurdistan’s Zakho, but this has not been used since 2011, and attempts to restart the line in 2021 fell apart due to disagreements with Turkish energy tr...
Volume: 68Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2025 -
Egypt Fuel Oil Burn At 4-Year High As Cairo Prioritizes LNG Exports
...y managed to maintain LNG exports at near-record levels. Egyptian LNG exports of 3.31mn tons for the first five months of 2022 – with an average of 1.12bn cfd of gas delivered to the country’s two LNG plants – are up 10% year-on-year and put 2022 on track for the highest LNG exports since 2011 ac...
Volume: 65Issue: 25Published at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 -
Iraq Targets 22GW Peak Supply This Summer
...ant in north-east Baghdad awarded to the French company in 2011. ...
Volume: 64Issue: 22Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021 -
Libya Fights To Keep The Lights On
...State power firm Gecol is fighting to stop blackouts amid a destructive battle for Tripoli. Libya’s national power company Gecol has struggled to keep the lights on since the 2011 ‘revolution’ which toppled long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi. Years of war, lawlessness and instability have cr...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Gulf Countries Throw Jordan A $2.5bn Lifeline Amid Unrest
...eful economic predicament. After all, the deal, which amounts to $500mn a year, fails to even replace the $5bn aid that Jordan received from 2012-2017. Amid large-scale Arab Spring protests in 2011, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE and Qatar provided Jordan with $5bn (including $2bn from Riyadh alone) in...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
UAE Delays, Jordan Rethink Blur Mena Nuclear Vision
...ntractor Status Iran Bushehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3....
Volume: 61Issue: 23Published at Fri, 08 Jun 2018 -
Tunisia Looks To The Sun To Cut Dependence On Algerian Gas
...ongside seven straight years of falling output since the 2010 peak of 310mn cfd. Initially this fall was due to instability and bureaucratic inertia in the wake of the country’s 2011 revolution, with the slump in oil prices since late 2014 providing a second blow to investment as IOCs slashed capex (MEES, 23...
Volume: 61Issue: 22Published at Fri, 01 Jun 2018 -
Saudi Generator Hikes Capacity By 6%, Fuel Flexibility The Key
...C’s share of total Saudi installed capacity fell from a peak of 82% in 2011 to 74% for 2014. The company says that its actual volume of generated electricity exceed the company’s planned volume for 2014 by 9.1%. However, the company improved the average thermal efficiency of its plants by 1% co...
Volume: 58Issue: 23Published at Fri, 05 Jun 2015 -
Sonelgaz Generating Capacity Up 2GW In 2013, But Finances ‘Fragile’
...this total. He noted that Sonelgaz invested a total AD409bn ($5.2bn) in 2013, an increase of 77.5% over 2012, of which almost half was allocated for power generation.. Sonelgaz Financial Results (Ad Bn) 2011 2012 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 26Published at Fri, 27 Jun 2014 -
Middle East Oil Burn To Rise, Says IEA
...ue.” While the share of gas for power generation increased from 56% in 2001 to 64% in 2010, “oil has been coming back” with its share rising to average 37% for 2011-13. “Despite the region’s continued addiction to oil and gas, renewable sources and nuclear will amount to 6% of total generation by 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 25Published at Fri, 20 Jun 2014 -
Renewables: Turkey, UAE Make Progress But MENA Investment Lags
...e record level in 2011. Of this investment only $9bn was in the Middle East and Africa, and this includes $4.9bn from South Africa alone – less than $4bn, ie well under 2% of the global total, was in MENA (see chart). New Capacity Turkey added 112MW of geothermal generating capacity in 2013, ta...
Volume: 57Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2014 -
Cyprus Lays Out Renewables Plans
...timism is not shared by the Cyprus Green Party which predicts the government could still fall short of its 13% target if more is not done on the renewables front. The Greens argue that following the 2011 Mari Naval Base munitions explosion, which took out much of the island’s main power plant at ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2014 -
Iraq Faces Summer Power Crunch Despite Progress On $75Bn Mega-Plan
...arged Electricity stands out in Iraq’s highly politically-charged environment as the single most controversial sector. It has proved a graveyard for politicians, with successive ministers getting the sack in 2010 and 2011 (MEES, 3 October 2011). There have been major mistakes, including the 2008-09 GE/Si...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
Qatar Plans First IWPP Project In Five Years
...ectricity and Water Company (QEWC) estimates Qatar’s total electricity capacity at 8.77gw and desalination capacity at 327mn gal/day. Qatar’s previous IWPP project was the QR14bn ($3.8bn) Ras Laffan C plant, inaugurated in mid-2011 (MEES, 6 June 2011). The plant has capacity to generate 2.73gw of el...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
Qatari Solar Plans: Dark Clouds Gather
...09 and 2011, the sector’s relatively small size would still let Qatar hit its renewable energy target. This would require about 1.5gw of production capacity (MEES, 28 May). Solar plants only take two years to build. Doha wants to conserve its gas reserves in the North Field, which faces complex ch...
Volume: 56Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2013 -
Kuwait Ponders Long-Term Power Fuel Supply Options: MEES Analysis
...rrently has 14.56gw of power generation capacity. It has no major medium-term plans for renewable energy, and the amir has cancelled tentative plans to build nuclear plants, following Japan’s March 2011 Fukushima disaster. The power plant slated to next come onstream is al-Zour, which has been th...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
MENA Renewables Sector To Continue ‘Massive’ Growth, Says Irena
...newables Report says regional investment topped $2.9bn in 2012, up 40% from 2011. “With over 100 projects under development,” said Irena, “the region could see a 450% increase in non-hydro renewable energy generating capacity in the next few years.” MENA governments have announced additional non-hydro re...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
Algeria In $96Bn Facilities Spend
...port. The company invested AD233.2bn ($3.07bn) in 2012, up 8.3% on 2011. Sonelgaz generated a total 54.09 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2012, said APS, up 10.7% on 2011. Sonelgaz says Algeria’s total generating capacity rose to 12.977gw by end-2012 from 11.392gw at end-2011. The company no...
Volume: 56Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2013 -
Saudi-Egypt Power Link Deal Signed, But GCC Grid Usage ‘Minimal’
...en Oman was connected (see map). But whilst the GCC grid has achieved its primary objective of increasing cross-border electricity supply –unscheduled power exchange doubled from 2010 to 2011 and from 2011 to 2012, according to GCCIA CEO Ahmad al-Ibrahim – traded energy fell to zero in 2012 after a fl...
Volume: 56Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2013