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SEC To Sign Rabigh-2 Power Plant Deal, Concludes $2Bn Sukuk
...ovince Under construction 2014 Rabigh IPP2 1,800 140km north of Jiddah Pre financial close stage 2016 Dhuba IPP1 550 North West Red Sea Coast Planning stage 2016 Dhuba IPP2 1,...
Volume: 56Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2013 -
UAE Makes Progress On Nuclear Plant, Iran’s Bushehr Off-Line
...actors. FANR issued construction licenses for Units 1 and 2 in July 2012, and first concrete for Barakah-1 was poured shortly afterwards. ENEC plans to apply for an operating license for Unit 1 in 2015 and will pour concrete for Unit 2 in mid-2013. Delivery of fuel for Barakah-1 will begin in 2014...
Volume: 56Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2013 -
ADWEA Studying Bids For Al-Mirfa IWPP
...ia Power Investment BV, a joint venture of ADWEA (60% equity), Sumitomo (20.4%) and Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco – 19.6%). Shuweihat S3 is scheduled for completion by January 2014 and will have 1.6gw generation capacity. A consortium of South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering and Construction an...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
EMAL Awards Generator Contracts To GE
...e end of 2014. The expansion is expected to cost $4.5bn, and will make EMAL one of the largest single-site producers of primary aluminium in the world (MEES, 1 August 2011). EMAL is a 50:50 joint venture between the Abu Dhabi government investment and development company, Mubadala, and Dubai Al...
Volume: 56Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2013 -
Iran Shuts Down Bushehr Nuclear Plant, Progressing Arak
...at fuel rods are ready to be transferred to the site. He said Iran will begin operating the facility in the next Iranian year (20 March 2013 – 20 March 2014). However, Washington’s Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) maintains this schedule is not realistic (MEES, 23 November 20...
Volume: 56Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2013 -
Jiddah South Contract Awarded To Mitsubishi
...ptember 2014 and March 2015. The plant will be the first heavy oil fired supercritical power plant in Saudi Arabia. The use of supercritical boilers – Mitsubishi says these units typically operate at a 250 atmospheres pressure and temperature of 600°C – enables operating efficiencies of 40%, compared with ar...
Volume: 56Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2013 -
Renewables To Spearhead Multi-Billion Dollar Moroccan Capacity Drive
...ogram 2011-20 (mw) Installed Capacity 2012-14 Additions 2014-20 Additions Project Capacity Project Capacity Pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2013 -
SEC Revises IPP Program To Add Second Dhuba Plant, Adjust Timings
...eration stages 2013 Qurayyah IPP 3,927 Eastern Province Under construction 2014 Rabigh IPP2 1,800 140km north of...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
TAQA Secures Financing For Morocco Coal Plant Expansion
...th a combined capacity of 1.356gw. Two new units with a combined capacity of 700mw will be added, taking the plant’s total capacity to 2.056gw. The first of the new units is scheduled to be commissioned in December 2013 and the second in April 2014. TAQA said on 28 January that the expansion is now 80% co...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Omani Gas, Power Sector At The Crossroads
...e project will set a new price range the government is prepared to pay gas producers to attract upstream investment. It is due to start up in the first half of 2017 – further slippage on a project that was originally scheduled to produce 1bn cfd in 2014. Under the January 2007 deal, BP agreed to la...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013 -
MENA Steps Up Desalination Capacity Expansion
...M joint venture with King ‘Abd al-‘Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). The plant is expected to provide up to 30,000 cmd of drinking water and is due online in 2014 as part of a national initiative to build several solar powered desalination plants. IDA says the largest thermal de...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013 -
SEC Profits Up 20% In 2012
...ne in 2015. SEC is also working with partners on four independent power producer (IPP) projects: 1.2gw Rabigh-1 and 1.729gw Riyadh PP11 are due on line in 2013; 4.0gw Qurayyah is scheduled for 2014; and 1.81gw Rabigh-2 is slated for completion in 2017 (MEES, 18 January). SEC’s fifth planned IPP will be...
Volume: 56Issue: 04Published at Fri, 25 Jan 2013 -
SEC Lines Up ACWA-Led Consortium For Rabigh-2 IPP
...P 4,000 Eastern Province Under construction 2014 Rabigh IPP2 1,700 140km north of Jiddah Planning stage 20...
Volume: 56Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2013 -
Turkey’s EÜAŞ And TAQA Sign Powergen/Mining Deal
...10 TAQA awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the expansion to Japan’s Mitsui and Company and South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering and Construction. The spokesperson said that commissioning of Units 5 and 6 is scheduled for completion in December 2013 and April 2014 re...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
AES Jordan Awards Tri-Fuel Plant Contract To Wärtsilä
...avy fuel oil (HFO), distillates or natural gas as fuel. It is scheduled to be operational by July 2014. Jordan’s gas supply from Egypt has been erratic since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in early 2011, forcing it to keep its options open as it pushes to expand generating capacity. Wä...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
MENA Power Generators Pushed Diversity In 2012
...E’s sourcing of fuel and technology from a number of countries with uranium resources and nuclear technology (MEES, 21 December 2012). Delivery of fuel will begin in 2014-15 for the first of four 1.4gw to be built at Barakah by Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) and due on-line during 2017-20. La...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
Saudi Arabia Tackles Water Demand Jump
...ants. King ‘Abd al-Aziz Center for Science and Technology has helped developed a 30,000 cmd plant at al-Khafji, which will start up in 2014. Saudi Arabia is developing a plan where renewables will receive subsidies to make them competitive in power generation – many of the desalination plants’ power ge...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
UAE Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia
...ntract between Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and Russia’s Tenex for the UAE’s first nuclear power plant at Barakah. In August ENEC awarded nuclear fuel contracts worth a combined $3bn to six international firms. Beginning in 2014-15, Canada’s Uranium One and UK’s Rio Tinto will provide na...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
SWCC Awards Yanbu’ 3 Power Plant As Capacity Expansion Takes Shape
...at 55% of work had been done on the Ras al-Zour power and desalination project, for which contracts worth a combined SR15.7bn ($4.2bn) were awarded in November 2010. He said that electricity generation at Ras al-Zour was scheduled to start in April 2013, while desalination would begin in 2014. The Ra...
Volume: 55Issue: 51Published at Fri, 14 Dec 2012 -
Aramco Prepares To Enter Saudi Power Market
...ll scale procurement of up to 3gw. “KACARE recognizes that first projects will be pioneers – the objective is quality, utility-scale plants, rather than a fixed megawatt target,” he said. The next two phases – bidding for the first round will start in 2014 – could take the total to 6....
Volume: 55Issue: 50Published at Fri, 07 Dec 2012