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Saudi Power Revamp Progresses Apace Amid Record Electricity Demand
...8GW expansion to the 2.2GW PP12 plant, which is situated around 100km west of Riyadh. PP12 is a modern CCGT power plant running on gas feedstock, which started up in 2014 and is operated by SEC. In a 14 March announcement, Korea’s Doosan stated that SEC has awarded a consortium of it and China’s Se...
Volume: 68Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 -
Abu Dhabi Gas Use Drops As Nuclear Meets Record Demand
...ctor. Despite a 9% annual increase in power generation last year, the power sector burned less hydrocarbons than in any year since 2014 according to state offtaker Ewec. Ewec purchases power from Abu Dhabi’s fleet of power plants as well as two plants in Fujairah with a combined power generation ca...
Volume: 65Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2022 -
Egypt Gas Burn Falls Despite Powergen Record
...el, although the fact that most of Egypt’s gas turbines can also burn HFO means that some of these plants burnt liquid fuel at times during 2014-17 when gas was scarce. Egypt also has 1.87GW or 3.3% of capacity for which light fuel oil (mainly diesel) is the primary fuel. These are mainly older pl...
Volume: 63Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2020 -
Saudi Liquids Burn Edges Up, More Rises To Come?
...eir lowest level since March 2014. Products imports were down across the board, with the kingdom importing no diesel for the first time since January 2011. The upshot was that net-products exports were just shy of December’s record at 1.34mn b/d. And net diesel exports were at an all time high of...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Arabia’s Oil-Fired Power Conundrum
...d jumped from 56.6GW in 2014 to 62.0GW in 2015, but has since fallen thanks to the kingdom’s efforts. As well as electricity consumption declining, increased gas supplies have helped displace liquids from power plants. The Wasit gas plant started up in 2016 and processes 2.5bn cfd raw gas into 1....
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Israeli Gas Development: Can The Domestic Power Market Absorb It?
...soil consumption falling to around 10,000 b/d (1% of demand) since 2014 (see chart, and data, p9). But perhaps the best chance of Noble snagging additional domestic gas customers is from industrial end users. Here demand has been limited by supply with a number of gas-fired industrial projects po...
Volume: 61Issue: 13Published at Fri, 30 Mar 2018 -
Iraq’s Power Generators Gorge On Rising Gas, Cutting Crude Burn
...0,000 b/d in 2016 and the highest level since 570,000 b/d was processed in 1H 2014, just before the Baiji refinery was trashed. Although the ministry’s SCOP engineering unit has been able to repair small refineries and is currently working on rebuilding one of Baiji’s three units, it has had no success in at...
Volume: 61Issue: 11Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018 -
Rosatom Starts Work On New Iran Nuclear Plant, Cementing Russia’s Mena Presence
...Construction at Bushehr began just before Iran’s president visited Moscow where he signed several deals including one for Russian nuclear fuel. Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom has begun building its second reactor at Bushehr on Iran’s Gulf coast under a 2014 agreement. Both parties ap...
Volume: 60Issue: 13Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017 -
UAE Generators Struggle To Take Their Foot Off The Gas
...ban development. In 2015 Fewa imported a total 12.587TWh of electricity from Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Company (Adwec). Adwec says the peak import rate was 2.264GW, a 12% increase on 2014’s peak of 2.024GW. Like the other UAE electricity authorities, Fewa is also considering alternatives to ga...
Volume: 60Issue: 10Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2017 -
Kuwait Boosts Gas-Fired Power Capacity, Prepares Further LNG Imports
...to develop power and water projects on its own, under engineering, procurement and construction contracts (MEES, 13 June 2014). Al-Abdaliyah will be an integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) power project, with total capacity of 280MW, including a 60MW solar unit to improve the efficiency of th...
Volume: 59Issue: 12Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016 -
Moroccan Renewable Plans Have Wind In Their Sails With 2GW Target In Sight
...almost 790MW, according to UAE-based renewables agency Irena. This includes Africa’s largest wind farm, 300MW Tarfaya on the Atlantic coast just north of the border with Western Sahara, which was completed in late 2014 (MEES, 19 December 2014). Morocco plans two other wind farms with a co...
Volume: 59Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2016 -
Egypt Eyes 11.6GW Of Coal-Fired Power, Easing Pressure On Gas Supplies
...built near El Hamarawein. An 18-month site study is due for completion in third quarter 2016 (MEES, 14 November 2014). These four coal-fired projects are among a number of proposed Egyptian coal-fired plants, which Cairo has flagged up since a major economic development conference in March 20...
Volume: 59Issue: 10Published at Fri, 11 Mar 2016 -
Gas Shortages Send Algeria Back To The Steam Age
...ALGERIA Gas Shortages Send Algeria Back To The Steam Age Algeria’s 2014-16 power expansion will need 20 bcm/year of gas – over 25% of current output – pressuring squeezed supplies. For its latest additions Algeria is now looking to steam turbines, less efficient but able to run on li...
Volume: 58Issue: 13Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2015 -
Egypt Announces $43bn Powergen Plans As Part Of Epic Development Program
...pacity reached 31.45GW at the end of 2014. The electricity ministry has already awarded contracts to add 4.33GW of gas and oil fired capacity at new and existing sites and has announced plans to develop a further 31.48GW, including 23GW of coal-fired capacity (MEES, 23 January). It is largely unclear to wh...
Volume: 58Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2015 -
Bahrain’s 1.5GW Plans
...to the grid.” Bahrain currently has 4GW of generating capacity. It has six power stations, of which Al Dur is the largest. Bahrain also has a 600MW transfer capacity link to the GCC electricity grid (MEES, 28 November 2014). Demand reached a peak of 3.2GW in 2014, up from a 2.92GW high in 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2015 -
GE Hints At $2bn-Plus Egypt Megadeal
...mmer Egypt’s diesel and fuel oil demand reached records of 300,000 b/d and 241,000 b/d, respectively, as power generators sought alternatives to burning gas (MEES, 12 September 2014). Though Egypt has long-term plans to raise gas output, officially LNG imports are only seen as a temporary measure until 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015 -
Turkey: CCGT Boost Takes Capacity Above 68GW
...jor new coal development is also envisaged. But, while Ankara has okayed the first nuclear plant, longer-term coal plans are still hazy (see right). Turkey’s recent powergen surge has included a major contribution from renewables – 800MW was added in 2014, taking Turkey’s wind capacity to more th...
Volume: 58Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015 -
Qatar-Japan Consortium Targets Turkey Coal-Fired Power
...I is already building a 510MW coal-fired plant at Soma in western Turkey, which is scheduled to start up in 2017 (MEES, 21 March 2014). Turkey currently has 12.5GW of coal-fired capacity out of a total 67.6GW. Besides the Soma and Afsin-Elbistan projects, the Turkish government has also signed a pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2015 -
Jazan IGCC Comes Into Focus As Saudis Streamline Their Power Options
...mprise five 800MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) units. Yet Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas, on being awarded the Jazan IGCC utilities and off-site facilities in May 2014, cited the 2.4GW figure and also said the gasification unit would produce 50.64mn cmd of syngas. Shortly afterwards Italy’s Saipem wa...
Volume: 58Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2015 -
Power Firms Face Water Shortages
...INTERNATIONAL Power Firms Face Water Shortages Growing demand for limited water is pressuring energy producers to seek alternative approaches, according to UN Water. Launching its World Water Development 2014 report on 22 March, the agency warns that global water demand wi...
Volume: 57Issue: 13Published at Fri, 28 Mar 2014