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UAE’S First Waste-To-Energy Plant Begins Testing
...become the Middle East’s first zero-waste city.” The plant, developed by Abu Dhabi state utility Adpower, incorporates moving grate technology to process and burn waste to drive a steam turbine generator set EWEC is led by Abu Dhabi state renewables firm Masdar and was formed in 2017 with the go...
Volume: 65Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2022 -
Oman Smashes Output Records
...,000 b/d in 2017 to 148,000 b/d so far this year – mainly a product of the Khazzan gas field ramp up and 2018 and the Rabab Harweel project coming online last year (MEES, 6 December 2019). ...
Volume: 63Issue: 22Published at Fri, 29 May 2020 -
BP: New North Africa Chief
...me online in March 2017. Together with a 10% stake in Eni’s giant Zohr field (see p6) WND helped boost BP’s net Egypt gas output to a record 952mn cfd for 2019. The North Africa total was 1.14bn cfd including 86mn cfd from Algeria. Oil output was 49,000 b/d (34,000 b/d Egypt, 15,000 b/d Algeria). Bu...
Volume: 63Issue: 21Published at Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Egypt Lines Up Ammonia Project
...ll provide feedstock for a 350,000 t/y ammonium nitrate plant that EHC started up at Ain Sukhna in 2017. Tecnimont says the project will take 36 months from the contract effective date, which “will be triggered by financial closing of the project.” Tecnimont says EHC is negotiating with Italy’s Sace an...
Volume: 63Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2020 -
Qatar: Record Q1 Power Output
...Qatar’s state generator QEWC delivered record Q1 output of 8.64TWh for the first three months of 2020 (see chart 1). This follows a record 48.6TWh for 2019, up 23% on 2018 and 11% above the previous record of 43.9TWh in 2017. But it remains to be seen if the monthly record of 5.65TWh set la...
Volume: 63Issue: 19Published at Fri, 08 May 2020 -
Adnoc’s Ruwais At 46% Capacity
...alysts’ call that “we see a ramp-up in the next two months.” Mr Seele noted that there have been problems with the residue fluid catalytic cracker at 417,000 b/d Ruwais West and that he was optimistic the shutdown would be used to improve RFCC reliability. The refinery was shut down in January 2017 af...
Volume: 63Issue: 18Published at Fri, 01 May 2020 -
Egypt: 1.5GW Power Awards
...0MW. MHPC says the upgrades will increase output, improve efficiency and reduce downtime at the plants. The upgraded plants are expected to begin operating in the first half of 2021. MHPS also says it this month completed an upgrade of the 1.5GW Cairo North CCGT under a contract awarded in August 2017...
Volume: 62Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2019 -
Korea’s Hyundai Signs Up To $2.45bn Iraq Seawater Project
...sra’s oil fields to boost production. While not yet finalized, this is a major step forward for a project that has struggled to get off the starting line, with Baghdad initially hoping for 2017 start up (MEES, 7 June 2013). Talks are ongoing with ExxonMobil and PetroChina for the South Iraq In...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Petroceltic Renamed Sunny Hill
...ES, 8 April 2016). The firm’s key asset is the 3.5bcm/y Ain Tsila project in Algeria, where start-up is scheduled for 2022 (MEES, 15 March). Its other North Africa assets are in Egypt where it produced 79.8mn cfd of gas from three concessions in the onshore Nile Delta in 2017. The firm is also em...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Sonatrach Goes West
...servoir but without disclosing further details. Such opportunities may be a long time coming given that Tindouf is over 500km from the nearest producing gas field, Reggane, which entered service at the end of 2017. ...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Libya: Security Situation Worsens
...most 20,000 b/d for Q1, up from 2018’s 7,600 b/d and 2017’s 12,100 b/d. While there was no damage to the Zella field or its facilities, the assault highlights the security challenges facing Libya’s lifeline oil sector. It also comes on the back of a 29 April rocket attack on the frequently shut-in 30...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Rosneft Begins Pilot Production in Iraqi Kurdistan
...Russia’s Rosneft announced in its Q1 results this week that “experimental production started at the Bijeel field at Block 11.” This is one of the five blocks that the state-led firm signed up to in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2017 (MEES, 16 June 2017). Bijeel has production facilities with capacity of...
Volume: 62Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2019