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Oman Lays Out Plan For 30% Renewables By 2030
...an is driven primarily by the residential and economic sectors. Residential demand is simply a function of a growing population and urbanization requiring more electricity. Government data show residential consumption rose by 67% from 2014 to 42.2TWh in 2024. Like the rest of the Gulf, the majority of...
Volume: 69Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2026 -
Amea Joins $290mn Morocco Desalination Project Amid Controversy
...adir reverse osmosis desalination project in Morocco, the UAE-based firm announced on 1 August, marking its first such project in North Africa. Development of the 275,000 m³/d first phase was awarded in 2014 to Spanish firm Abengoa and came online in 2022 (MEES, 21 November 2014). Abengoa has since be...
Volume: 68Issue: 32Published at Fri, 08 Aug 2025 -
Saudi Power Revamp Progresses Apace Amid Record Electricity Demand
...8GW expansion to the 2.2GW PP12 plant, which is situated around 100km west of Riyadh. PP12 is a modern CCGT power plant running on gas feedstock, which started up in 2014 and is operated by SEC. In a 14 March announcement, Korea’s Doosan stated that SEC has awarded a consortium of it and China’s Se...
Volume: 68Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 -
Israel-Egypt Gas Flows Top 1bn Cfd For November, Helping Cairo Cut LNG Imports
...pplement gas, domestic output of which fell to a seven-year low 4.494bn cfd according to latest oil ministry stats (MEES, 6 December). Egypt burned an eight-year high 214,000 b/d of fuel oil in August and while it has dipped since, October’s 188,000 b/d was the highest for the month since 2014 (see ch...
Volume: 67Issue: 51/52Published at Fri, 20 Dec 2024 -
Aramco The Big Winner In Egypt LNG Import Tender
..., TotalEnergies and Shell as well as trading houses Trafigura, Glencore, Gunvor, Vitol and BB Energy as well as the less well-known Hartree and Mex International. Saudi Arabia has been a staunch ally of Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi since he took power in 2014 and Riyadh has helped fi...
Volume: 67Issue: 38Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2024 -
Powering The UAE’s Northern Emirates
...ectricity which was equivalent to around 50% of consumption, but this slumped to just 399GWh in 2014 before eventually ceasing during 2021 (see chart 1). At the same time, electricity consumption in the northern emirates has been rising sharply since the Covid-19 pandemic. Having largely plateaued at ar...
Volume: 67Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 -
Oman Starts Work On 500MW Solar In Bid To Triple Renewables Capacity By 2025
...s awarded alongside. The remaining 50MW of Oman’s current capacity comes from the Dhofar Wind Power Project at Harweel in the south of the country. Abu Dhabi’s Masdar, Spain’s TSK, and US firm GE were given the go-ahead in 2014 leading to generation starting in 2019 (MEES, 16 August 2019). 30...
Volume: 66Issue: 38Published at Fri, 22 Sep 2023 -
Egypt Blackouts Led By Heatwave, Gas Shortages
...ports of piped Israeli gas. The blackouts bring to an end a near-decade long period of steady electricity. Recognizing the importance of steady electricity supply, President Sisi has invested heavily in upgrading the country’s power fleet since coming to power in 2014, with three CCGTs totaling 14.4GW of...
Volume: 66Issue: 30Published at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 -
Saudi Efforts To Cut Oil Burn Take Backwards Step In 2022
...atistics (see p19 for full data) show a counter-seasonal increase in oil burn (crude and fuel oil) to 1.083mn b/d in December. This marked the second consecutive monthly rise, with December’s burn the highest on record for the month (see chart 2). The previous December record of 1.021mn b/d was set in 2014...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Abu Dhabi Power Sector’s Gas Needs Dwindle
...ergy plants” (MEES, 20 January). As a result, thermal power plants generated just 71.5TWh in 2022, the lowest annual figure since 2014’s 70.6TWh. Moreover, upgrades to this fleet of power plants means that more electricity can be generated with less gas than in 2014. Gas consumption dropped to an 11...
Volume: 66Issue: 07Published at Fri, 17 Feb 2023 -
Jordan Aims To Supply Iraq With Power In 2023
...habilitating damaged power infrastructure in the western Anbar province. Transmission infrastructure in Anbar underwent extensive damage with the rise of ISIS in 2014. Work includes rehabilitating the key Qaim 400kV substation needed for interconnecting to Jordan (MEES, 26 August). GE will eventually bring the li...
Volume: 65Issue: 43Published at Fri, 28 Oct 2022 -
Anbar Power Plants To Build Case For Akkas Gas?
...t the country’s ongoing political stalemate has prevented any contracts from being signed. Akkas, located in Iraq’s western Anbar province was originally to be developed by Korea’s Kogas under a 2010 contract. But instability in the region deterred Kogas, and the firm declared force majeure in 2014...
Volume: 65Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2022 -
Iran Braces For Summer Blackouts
...ta from the ministry of energy show that installed capacity stands at around 88GW, available capacity is almost 24GW lower at 64GW, a figure that has not budged since 2014 despite a nominal increase of almost 15GW in the headline figure over the same period. Available capacity peaked at 66.6GW in 20...
Volume: 65Issue: 17Published at Fri, 29 Apr 2022 -
Abu Dhabi Gas Use Drops As Nuclear Meets Record Demand
...ctor. Despite a 9% annual increase in power generation last year, the power sector burned less hydrocarbons than in any year since 2014 according to state offtaker Ewec. Ewec purchases power from Abu Dhabi’s fleet of power plants as well as two plants in Fujairah with a combined power generation ca...
Volume: 65Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2022 -
Upstream Gains Drive Taqa Revenue Boost
...venue gains came from Taqa’s smallest segment – the upstream sector. Upstream revenues jumped by 77% year-on-year to $2.02bn as the oil market rapidly recovered from 2020’s Covid-hit lows. Indeed, after dropping to 13-year lows in 2020 they bounced back to hit the $2bn mark for the first time since 2014...
Volume: 65Issue: 07Published at Fri, 18 Feb 2022 -
Tunisia Draws Record Power From Algeria In 2021
...WER SUPPLY JUMPS TO ALL TIME HIGH ON RECORD IMPORTS FROM ALGERIA (TWH) *TUNISIA EXPORTED NEGLIGIBLE AMOUNTS TO ALGERIA IN 2011, 2014 AND 2015. IT ALSO EXPORTS POWER TO LIBYA WHICH CAME IN AT 649GWH IN 2020 AND 62GWH IN 2021. SOURCE: STEG, ENERGY MINISTRY, MEES CALCULATIONS. 2: TU...
Volume: 65Issue: 07Published at Fri, 18 Feb 2022 -
Algeria Launches 1GW Solar PV Tender
...hers, these projects are massively delayed. The contractor for Naama, Korea’s Samsung C&T is also working on the 1.45GW Mostaganem CCGT which has now been further pushed back to 2025. When the plant was awarded in 2014 the target for completion was 2017. Spanish contractor Duro Felguera’s 1.26GW Dj...
Volume: 65Issue: 01Published at Fri, 07 Jan 2022 -
Abu Dhabi Reaps Clean Energy Rewards
...3 trillion BTU of natural gas last year, which equates to around 2.2bn cfd. This was the lowest figure since 2014, thanks in large part to the start-up of Barakah. Although Ewec’s total power generation also dipped last year, at 84.7TWh, it was still the second highest annual figure on record. NU...
Volume: 64Issue: 26Published at Fri, 02 Jul 2021 -
Iraq Targets 22GW Peak Supply This Summer
...rporation (CMEC) is now nearing completion. CMEC restarted work on the site in mid-2018 after leaving the project when large swaths of the country’s western and northern provinces fell to ISIS in 2014. On 17 May, the first 630MW unit was inaugurated, with the second 630MW unit due to enter service by Ju...
Volume: 64Issue: 22Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021 -
Iran Deepens Iraq Energy Role With 3GW Basra Power Plant
...to Iraq’s energy sector. The $2.5bn Rumaila IPP project was directly awarded to the Amman-based Iraqi conglomerate Shamara Holding Group (SHG) by the Ministry of Electricity in 2014 under Federal Iraq’s first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The PPA is for 15-17 years and Iraq’s Ministry of Fi...
Volume: 64Issue: 20Published at Fri, 21 May 2021