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Kuwait Seeks Chinese Help With Solar Expansion
...untry’s power generation , just 0.16TWh for 2024 (see chart 1). The park’s current facilities were commissioned in stages from 2017 to 2019 to serve as a test bed for deploying renewable energy technologies in Kuwait, with the government planning to expand Shagaya to 4.5GW through multiple phases (MEES, 28...
Volume: 68Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 -
Nuclear, Renewables Drive Abu Dhabi’s Gas-For-Power Demand To Fresh Lows
...u Dhabi and Fujairah increased by 6% last year to a record 108.5TWh. The continued growth in clean-power generation means that Ewec’s gas consumption fell for the seventh consecutive year to 1.67bn cfd, the lowest figure since 2011 (see chart 2). Ewec’s gas consumption is now down 680mn cfd from its 2017...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Power Surge: Saudi Arabia’s Electricity Demand Soars To New Heights
...vernment statistics, including strong gains of 7.3% growth in transportation and 7% in hospitality. Last year’s 5% rise in power consumption was the highest annual growth figure since 2017, while the surge in peak demand from 65.3GW to 70.6GW was the biggest annual increase since 2015 (see ch...
Volume: 67Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2024 -
Egypt Power Consumption Hits Record 167TWh For 2022
...modern CCGT capacity and the giant Zohr gas field in 2017-18 made such power shortages a thing of the past (MEES, 3 August 2018). However, today’s capacity surplus is less robust than it seems: an increased reliance on intermittent renewables generation, often located far from population centers, pr...
Volume: 66Issue: 12Published at Fri, 24 Mar 2023 -
Egypt Powergen Rebounds To Record For 2021 As Oil Burn Makes A Comeback
...lated effects coming on top of a long term downward trend from a 2016 peak after subsidies were phased out from 2017. As for the impact of Covid: 2020 household consumption actually was somewhat higher than 2019 as more people stayed at home, whilst for 2021 the main change was a higher summer peak, pe...
Volume: 65Issue: 12Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2022 -
Abu Dhabi Gas Use Drops As Nuclear Meets Record Demand
...nsumed less gas than in any year since 2014 (see chart 3). Gas consumption peaked at 2.35bn cfd in 2017, but has since been steadily falling down to 2.21bn cfd last year. Ewec expects demand to continue rising in the coming years – first to 16.81GW this year, then above 17GW in 2023, before hitting 20...
Volume: 65Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2022 -
Egypt Power: Plentiful Gas, Falling Demand Make Shortfalls A Distant Memory
...fective capacity with blackouts commonplace. Two key events have transformed Egypt’s power supply situation in recent years. The start up of the giant Zohr offshore gas field at the end of 2017 and its subsequent ramp-up made chronic gas shortages a thing of the past (MEES, 14 September 2018). And 20...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
Turkey Gas & Power: Pipelines, Black Sea Find, Nuclear & Renewables Give Ankara Options
...rkey. So it is perhaps not surprising that Russia, holder of the world’s largest gas reserves, has historically been Turkey’s top gas supplier. That said, the last two years have seen Russia’s market share fall to the two lowest figures on record. From a record 28.7bcm in 2017, half of Turkey’s total ga...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
Egypt Gas Burn Falls Despite Powergen Record
...imarily the three giant CCGTs:: capacity rose from 46.03GW at the end of 2017 to 57.05GW at end-2019 (see chart 3). Egypt’s total installed capacity is now 85% higher than the record peak load of 30.8GW hit in August 2018. However, much of the existing capacity is in aging plants that have suffered un...
Volume: 63Issue: 12Published at Fri, 20 Mar 2020 -
Egypt Solar Capacity To Soar In 2019 With Benban Boom
...ansmission line 12km east of the park. In addition, Substation-3 will also be directly linked to a 500kV overhead transmission line which runs just 500m east of the park. 2017 saw work on only one plot (5-1) of the 37.2 km2 park being built in the desert 40km north of Aswan. Egypt’s Infinity Solar says it...
Volume: 62Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Liquids Burn Edges Up, More Rises To Come?
...ril being 100,000 b/d below March. They are going to match the lowest in 2017-18.” That low was 9.91mn b/d in December 2017, so Saudi Arabia may in fact be cutting significantly below 2017 levels. This would be a massive fall of around 500,000 b/d from January production of 10.29mn b/d (10...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Arabia’s Oil-Fired Power Conundrum
...2020, situated further up the Red Sea coast. It is currently undergoing testing, despite state-owned power and desalination plant operator SWCC in January 2017 canceling the $1.5bn EPC contract that was awarded to Korea’s Samsung and partners China’s Sepco3 and Saudi firm Al Toukhi in late 2012 (ME...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Oman Looks To Privatization To Modernize Power Grid
...nai says. OPTIMISTIC VALUATION It is unclear how he arrived at this valuation. OETC, by far the larger of the two firms, owned assets with a net book value of $437mn as of end-2017 whilst its gross revenue was $38mn. MEDC’s earnings were just $3.7mn for 2017. Nama says 11 companies su...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Masdar: Abu Dhabi’s Flagship Renewables Firm With A Global Footprint
...heduled for start-up in April 2020 (MEES, 24 March 2017). Among Masdar’s international projects are two of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, the UK’s London Array and Dudgeon. In the Hywind wind farm offshore Scotland, Norway’s Equinor and Masdar have installed the world’s first battery storage fa...
Volume: 62Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2019 -
Israeli Gas Development: Can The Domestic Power Market Absorb It?
...e country’s most recent bid round. All are close or adjacent to Karish and Tanin (MEES, 15 December 2017). The reference to liquids storage capacity is particularly eye-catching given that Israel has no current oil production and that there has been no extended production test at Karish. That sa...
Volume: 61Issue: 13Published at Fri, 30 Mar 2018 -
Egypt’s Gas Balancing Act As Power Demand Eats Into Growing Supply
...it during 2017-20 represent the power sector’s biggest new gas requirement. Germany’s Siemens is providing turbines and generators for three 4.8GW plants: Egypt’s Orascom is building plants at Burullus and a proposed ‘new capacity city’ just east of Cairo, while local firm Elsewedy is building a pl...
Volume: 61Issue: 12Published at Fri, 23 Mar 2018 -
Iraq’s Power Generators Gorge On Rising Gas, Cutting Crude Burn
...ocessing volumes of 900mn cfd by the end of December 2017. The company recovered a record 676mn cfd for 2017 as a whole and plans to reach 1bn cfd by end-2018. December’s commissioning of a gas processing plant at the Gazprom Neft-operated 85,000 b/d Badra field later this month will add 155mn cfd to Ir...
Volume: 61Issue: 11Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018 -
Oman Taps Major Players For 500MW OPWP Solar Project
...cal firms (see table). OPWP revealed plans for a first utility-scale solar project in October 2016 (MEES, 21 October 2016). Encouraged by a string of record low bids for regional solar projects, OPWP announced in late December 2017 that the project would be a 500MW plant to be built 300km west of Mu...
Volume: 61Issue: 10Published at Fri, 09 Mar 2018 -
Saudi Pushes On With Nuclear Plans Despite US Concern
...dioactive waste management (MEES, 28 July 2017). With US President Donald Trump wanting to boost the chances of US firms, particularly Westinghouse, securing nuclear contracts in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh’s plan to exploit its own uranium resources could create an entry barrier. While Saudi Arabia has signed th...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Rosatom Starts Work On New Iran Nuclear Plant, Cementing Russia’s Mena Presence
...24 1.0 2 5.5 Rosatom building. Work started Mar 2017 Planned: Iran Bushehr-3 20...
Volume: 60Issue: 13Published at Fri, 31 Mar 2017