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SEC Switches Privatization Plan From Sell-Off To IPPs
...abian Bemco for Qurrayah (MEES, 10 January 2014); and Acwa and Korea’s Samsung for Rabigh-2 (MEES, 6 December 2013). Of the 2019 projects, 10MW Layla Al-Aflaj solar, built with government institutes Kacst and Taqnia, started up in January. The 1.5GW Al-Fadhili cogeneration plant, built with state pe...
Volume: 62Issue: 46Published at Fri, 15 Nov 2019 -
Egypt May Ax Coal Plans On Back Of Major Gas, Solar Expansion
...eliminary agreement. The latter is among projects earlier reported as likely to be postponed, along with gas-fired expansions at Damanhour and Mahmoudia (MEES, 16 August). Though final awards were only made last year they are the culmination of a now-outdated strategy set out in 2014 and 2015 as dw...
Volume: 62Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2019 -
Algeria’s Renewables Plans Struggle To Advance
...en much better since, with a number of plants coming online. Although it has taken some time, of the big eight CCGT projects awarded in 2012 and 2014, at least two have started up (see map & table). The 1.016GW Ain Arnat CCGT plant in the northeastern Setif province first started up in open-cycle mo...
Volume: 62Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2019 -
Jordan: Gas Oversupply Threatens Key Startups
...rsue an FSRU at Aqaba (MEES, 21 June 2013) accompanied by an LNG purchase agreement with Shell (MEES, 10 July 2015), establish a slew of new powerplants via independent power producer (IPP) agreements (MEES, 1 August 2014) and focus on long-term domestic alternatives via renewables and oil shale (MEES, 14...
Volume: 62Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2019 -
Morocco Pushing Renewables, Eyes LNG Imports In Bid For Cleaner Power
...art). Morocco overtook Egypt as Mena’s largest wind generator in 2014 (MEES, 27 April). Morocco added to its wind capacity in June with the completion of the 120MW Khalladi wind farm at Jbel Sendouq, 30km from Tangier. The farm was developed by Saudi private firm Acwa Power at a cost of $170mn, wi...
Volume: 61Issue: 46Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2018 -
Algeria Eyes 2.4gw Power Capacity Boost By Mid-2018, But Money Is Tight
...ojects which have been announced by Sonelgaz in recent years – 26 plants with a combined capacity of 13.7GW were listed by Sonelgaz as scheduled to begin commissioning during 2014-16 (MEES, 6 November 2015). While some of these have been completed and others are progressing, the overall rate of progress ha...
Volume: 60Issue: 47Published at Fri, 24 Nov 2017 -
Abu Dhabi’s Taqa: Power Steady But Upstream Slumps With Capex Cuts
...20.71bn ($5.64bn) in Q1-3 2014 when Brent prices averaged $107/B. POWER VS UPSTREAM: THE HARE & THE TORTOISE 2014 also marked the peak of the relative importance of the firm’s upstream oil and gas segment relative to the much more steady earnings mainly from Abu Dhabi’s power market wh...
Volume: 60Issue: 46Published at Fri, 17 Nov 2017 -
Abu Dhabi Completes 1.6GW Gas-Fired Plant
...d Construction and Hyundai Engineering, and Italy’s Ansaldo Energia (MEES, 11 July 2014). DASH FROM GAS The additional 1.24GW of combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) capacity will add up to 170mn cfd of fuel to Adwea’s gas requirement. The project is the last large gas-fired power plant in Abu Dh...
Volume: 60Issue: 45Published at Fri, 10 Nov 2017 -
Morocco Awards Three PV Projects, As Mena Gets Serious About Solar
...solar capacity over two sites near Manah and Adam, respectively 150km and 170km southwest of Muscat. Iran plans 100MW of solar at Aran va Bidgol in Isfahan province. Bahrain built a 5MW solar pilot plant in 2014, and now plans new laws to encourage building owners to install rooftop solar. In No...
Volume: 59Issue: 47Published at Fri, 25 Nov 2016 -
Oman Power: Foot Off The Gas Despite Khazzan Progress
...readbare international project pipeline. When asked on the firm’s 1 November Q3 earnings call “Given the [cost] deflation you have seen, is it time to step up the FIDs [final investment decisions]?” CFO Brian Gilvary says “we rebuilt the company over 2011 to 2014 [with a massive sell-off of assets to fund ‘De...
Volume: 59Issue: 45Published at Fri, 11 Nov 2016 -
Egypt Joins MENA Nuclear Club Through 4.8gw Deal With Russia
...actors at Bushehr, under a four-plant deal. However, the deal envisages Iran making its own fuel rods, which may prove a sticking point as the deadline for lifting international sanctions against Iran draws close (MEES, 21 November 2014). Meanwhile, Jordan has signed an agreement with Rosatom for two 1G...
Volume: 58Issue: 48Published at Fri, 27 Nov 2015 -
Egypt Tying Up Gas-Fired Finance, Looks To Advance Renewables And Nuclear
...pacity and some new plant start-ups, the Ministry of Electricity managed to deliver a daily peak record load of 29.1GW, which was 5.4% higher than the 27.6GW peak load recorded in 2014 (MEES, 21 August). The electricity ministry is looking to diversify its fuel mix away from gas and oil by en...
Volume: 58Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2015 -
IEA: Mideast Staying Reliant On Gas For Electricity, Despite Renewables
...Gas-fired plants accounted for 65% of Middle East power generating capacity in 2013, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts their share will fall to 56% by 2014. Yet the contribution of gas-fired plants to electricity generated will actually increase, from 64% in 2013 to 67% in 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015 -
Algeria’s Peak Power Demand Soars, New Capacity Starting Up
...ALGERIA Algeria’s 2015 peak power demand was almost 1.5GW up on 2014. Algiers has an ambitious program to expand capacity. But, amid growing fuel shortages and a cash crunch, curbing subsidies is a better bet. Algeria’s Electricity Ministry says that the country’s electricity demand re...
Volume: 58Issue: 45Published at Fri, 06 Nov 2015 -
Subsidies Limit Gulf Progress On Energy Efficiency
...nsumption figures, both in per capita terms and per unit of GDP (‘energy intensity’). The International Energy Agency (IEA), in its 2014 World Energy Outlook (WEO) released last week, says Middle Eastern primary energy intensity fell by almost 1.5% a year during 2010-13. Though this fall is welcome, it is lo...
Volume: 57Issue: 47Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2014 -
Turkey Backs Gas, Renewables; May Take Nuclear ‘In-House’
...4Q15. The Turkish Wind Energy Association says installed wind capacity amounted to 3.58GW at the end of September 2014. This was 926MW or almost 35% higher than at the end of August 2013. Wind capacity now accounts for more than 5% of Turkey’s power capacity. The association predicts Turkey’s wi...
Volume: 57Issue: 45Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2014 -
Hydrocarbons Remain Key To MENA Power Expansion
...nagement contract for PP13 and PP14 to Australia’s WorleyParsons. SEC plans to award engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the plants in 2014 with a view to 2017 start-up (MEES, 3 May). In September, Korea’s Hyundai awarded France’s Alstom a €170mn contract for four 720MW steam tu...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
Oman Plans First Solar Unit Under Rural Plan
...ar. Start-up is scheduled for June 2014. AER decreed in March that Raeco must incorporate renewables technology – either solar or wind – in each project for which it seeks authority funding. AER estimates Raeco’s total generating capacity at 282MW from 45 diesel-fired plants. Most of Oman’s ca...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal
...UAE RAK Plans Solar And Water Bids, Eyes Coal Ras al-Khaimah (RAK) plans to invite bids for separate solar power and desalination plants worth a combined $450mn in a tender to be organized in 2014 by local private utility Utico. The solar plant will have 20MW capacity, wh...
Volume: 56Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2013 -
Güriş Orders 53 Turbines For Wind Farms
...30 October that the projects are expected to be commissioned between late 2014 and summer 2015. The scope of work includes turbine delivery and a five-year service agreement. Siemens said that 25 turbines with a combined capacity of 77MW will be installed at the Fatma wind farm in Muğla. A to...
Volume: 56Issue: 44Published at Fri, 01 Nov 2013