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Riyadh, Cairo Sign $1.8bn Power Connection Deals
...ows have fallen well below their 2011-12 peak. Electricity sent to Jordan was down 12% year on year at 278GWh for 2019-20, an implied average flow of just 32MW, while that received from Jordan was up 36% to 95GWh, according to the latest stats from Egypt’s Electricity Holding Company (EEHC). Flows to Li...
Volume: 64Issue: 40Published at Fri, 08 Oct 2021 -
Saudi Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia But Continues To Play The Field
...an Bushehr-1 2011 1.0 1 3.5 Rosatom built. Operation intermittent until 2013 Under Co...
Volume: 60Issue: 41Published at Fri, 13 Oct 2017 -
Iraq’s Tentative Gas Gains Insufficient To Stem Oil Burn Growth
...cessary infrastructure to process the gas, resulting in sky high flaring levels. The percentage flared has increased from 51.1% in 2009 to 69.4% last year. However, the situation is improving, with flaring falling to 63.5% so far this year, on course for the lowest level since 2011 – although the volume fl...
Volume: 59Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2016 -
Jordan’s Power Strain
...alth and education). But deficits by the National Electric Power Company (Nepco), which are considered sovereign debt and have helped push Jordan’s debt-to-GDP ratio back up to 80%, are off-budget. Nepco has been a major burden for the treasury since 2011, when “Arab Spring” instability brought an...
Volume: 58Issue: 44Published at Fri, 30 Oct 2015 -
Oman Turns To Wind To Cut Rural Generating Costs
...13 to 195MW in 2020. This projection excludes a proposed aluminum smelter under consideration at Duqm, which would consume 1GW. Oman Rural Electricity Supply* (Gwh) 2009 2010 2011 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Iran Reveals Impact Of Bushehr Outages, UAE And Jordan Pass Nuclear Milestones
...ants. Iran’s nuclear program has been blighted with a series of delays and setbacks. The 1GW capacity Bushehr plant started up on 3 September 2011 after a long and controversial stop-start development program. Plant manager Hossein Darakshande announced on 8 October that the plant had delivered 8.7TWh of...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014 -
Solar Gets Key Financing Boost, But Much More Needed
...vestment since 2011, committing $590mn to date. Other World Bank investment in the MENA region targets economies hit by the Arab Spring, which need urgent structural reforms to break the vicious circle of slow growth and political instability. Oil importers Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon in particular ha...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Egypt Eyes 2016 Start For 650MW Suez Plant
...censing round suggests the country’s ailing gas sector will soon get a much-needed boost, even if exploration takes off it will take years for this to feed through into significantly higher output (see p2). Egyptian gas output has fallen consistently since the ‘Revolution’ of early 2011, hitting a 9-year lo...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Nuclear: UAE Pushes Ahead, Iran Waits On Bushehr
...e first operational nuclear power plant in the MENA region, which was shut down in February (MEES, 1 March). This is the second major shutdown since it was brought online in September 2011: two months of repairs followed the discovery of debris in the reactor housing (MEES, 18 January). Ru...
Volume: 56Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013 -
Morocco’s ONEE Announces 2013-17 Electricity Plan
...ovision of $100mn to Morocco to support the building of further solar and wind plants in a number of remote areas. ONEE had more than 4.7mn customers at the end of 2012, an increase of 7.4% compared with end-2011. Morocco’s electricity demand was 31.06TWh in 2012, up 8% on 2011. Demand growth av...
Volume: 56Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2013 -
Iraq Wakes Up From Power Shortage Nightmare
...litical boon for their rulers – there were regular and occasionally violent protests against power cuts, leading to the sacking of successive electricity ministers in the wake of both summer 2011 and summer 2010. Furthermore, years of deprivation taught Iraqis self-reliance and substantial off-gr...
Volume: 55Issue: 44Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012 -
Turkey Turning To Nuclear Power, Counting On Coal
...wer generation by 2023, the republic’s centennial year. The disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011 and its repercussions forced a re-think in Ankara about nuclear power, but it now appears that Turkey’s future energy needs have convinced the government that reactor-ge...
Volume: 55Issue: 43Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012 -
Wärtsilä-Led Group To Build Jordan Power Plant
...om Egypt was reduced following the overthrow of the Husni Mubarak regime in early 2011 (MEES, 12 October). Wärtsilä’s partner in the project is South Korea’s Lotte Engineering and Construction. The Finnish firm noted that it has a minority interest in ‘Amman Asia Electric Power, where th...
Volume: 55Issue: 43Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012 -
SEC Awards PP12 Gas Turbines Contract To GE
...neration. GE has been developing fuel flexibility technologies to enable combined cycle gas turbines – which are significantly more efficient than conventional oil-fired steam boiler technology – to be fuelled by HFO. In 2011 the company commissioned a 310mw combined cycle power plant in Sri Lanka, which op...
Volume: 55Issue: 41Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2012 -
Marafiq Extends Jacobs’ Project Management Contract
...nbu’ 2 was originally intended to be an IWPP project, but because of problems raising finance under this model, Marafiq opted for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract format (MEES, 13 July 2009). The Yanbu’ 2 PMC contract was awarded to Jacobs in September 2011 and the EP...
Volume: 55Issue: 41Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2012