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Egypt Arbitration Award Paves Way For LNG Restart
...t a six-and-a-half year high 6.07bn cfd in July, latest data shows, just shy of the December 2011 record 6.22bn cfd (see chart below). Egypt’s other LNG export facility, the 7.2mn t/y ELNG plant at Idku, operated by Shell has continued to export small quantities despite Egypt’s gas deficit, to av...
Volume: 61Issue: 36Published at Fri, 07 Sep 2018 -
Libya’s Blackouts Continue, Power Needs Fail To Trump Instability
...e entire Gecol board. The incoming Gecol chief executive, Ali Muhammad Sassi, has blamed the ongoing blackouts across the country on a combination of an “unprecedented” rise in energy consumption and the fact that plans to build new power stations have been delayed since 2011. Although low te...
Volume: 60Issue: 38Published at Fri, 22 Sep 2017 -
Iran Starts Work On Nuclear Plants, Eyes Local Fuel Supply
...heduled to begin in two years time. Rosatom’s Atomstroyexport subsidiary will build the two plants on a turnkey basis. The company built the Bushehr-1 plant, which was connected to the grid in September 2011 and reached full capacity in August 2012. PROBLEM PROJECT Bushehr-1 is the Mena re...
Volume: 59Issue: 37Published at Fri, 16 Sep 2016 -
Minister Outlines Iraq’s Power Sector Woes As IMF Warns On Rising Subsidies
...ys there has been a shift in the structure of Iraq’s electricity consumption in recent years. In particular, the share of government and public sector consumption has risen to 32% in 2014 from 23% in 2011. Meanwhile, industry’s share of consumption has fallen to 17% in 2014 from 25% in 2011. Ho...
Volume: 58Issue: 36Published at Fri, 04 Sep 2015 -
Tehran Seeks Increased Power Productivity
...red], Bandar Abbas [1.28GW oil] and Shahid Montazeri [1.6GW oil] power plants.” Tehran and Moscow have been talking for some time about Russia’s Rosatom building two new 1GW nuclear power plants alongside the plant at Bushehr that is completed in 2011....
Volume: 57Issue: 38Published at Fri, 19 Sep 2014 -
Turkey Completes 900MW Gas Plant As Part Of Ambitious Capacity Expansion
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Volume: 57Issue: 36Published at Fri, 05 Sep 2014 -
Abu Dhabi Capacity Hits 15.5GW With Shuweihat S3 Completion
...pco) and the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA, for which ADWEC is the sole buyer of electricity and water). Sapco developed Shuweihat S3 at a cost of $1.5bn, under a 25-year build-own operate agreement with ADWEA. Construction started in March 2011 (MEES, 21 February 2011). Siemens su...
Volume: 57Issue: 36Published at Fri, 05 Sep 2014 -
MENA Generators Pushing Non-Conventional Power Projects
...its electricity from oil shale by the end of the decade (MEES, 28 November 2011). Jordan’s Petra-JNA news agency also said that the government has signed an MOU that day with China for the construction and operation of a 300MW wind farm by China’s CWE and Goldwind, without giving further details. Th...
Volume: 56Issue: 39Published at Fri, 27 Sep 2013 -
AES Jordan Secures OPIC Funding For New Power Plant
...gime in early 2011. OPIC said that electricity generated by the new ‘peaker plant’ – it will provide electricity during periods of peak usage, such as evenings and summer months – will be taken by Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (Nepco) under a power purchase agreement with AES Jo...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Iraqi Electricity Industry Poised For 20,000MW Lift-Off
...nisters (MEES, 3 October 2011). Generation has risen this year slightly to 8,450mw, but high loss rates erode effectiveness to around 7,000mw. This is not much higher than the woeful levels Iraq has been stuck at for several years, and it includes around 1,600mw of imports. However, now re...
Volume: 55Issue: 39Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2012 -
Syria’s PEEGT Extends Deadlines For Power Plant Tenders
...gust 2011. The deadline for Zara bidding has been put back from early July to 10 December and for the Traifawi plant the deadline has been changed from late August to end-September. According to the Syria Report of 4 September: “Although PEEGT did not provide explanations, the extensions ar...
Volume: 55Issue: 38Published at Fri, 14 Sep 2012 -
Iran’s Bushehr At Full Capacity, MENA States Pursue Nuclear Programs
...st October the Bushehr nuclear power plant was connected to the country’s national grid for the first time (MEES, 17 October 2011). The output of the power plant has been gradually increased up to 50% and then 75% of full capacity and tests have been carried out at every stage to check the safety of th...
Volume: 55Issue: 37Published at Fri, 07 Sep 2012 -
Dubai 2Q Electricity Demand Up 3.8%, Says DEWA
...rengthen the infrastructure and meet the growing demand of all sectors on electricity and water.” DEWA operates 10 power plants, with a combined generating capacity put at 8.721gw for 2011, up from 7.361gw in 2010. Last year total power consumption was 34.606gwh, compared with 33.742gwh in 2010. In August DE...
Volume: 55Issue: 37Published at Fri, 07 Sep 2012