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Sonelgaz $7.6Bn Powergen Outlay By End-2017
...mand growth, the company is adding 12.18GW of generating capacity by 2017. It recently awarded contracts for six combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants worth a total $4.05bn. In an interview with the El Watan newspaper, Sonelgaz official Rabah Touileb said that Algeria’s electricity demand is gr...
Volume: 57Issue: 21Published at Fri, 23 May 2014 -
UAE Considers Long-Term Power Strategy
...lar plant in its solar park 50km south of Dubai city, due online in 2017. Small renewables units are ideal for single-site projects: Dubai’s International Humanitarian City complex is installing 5.6MW of rooftop solar capacity. Conventional projects are also planned. Abu Dhabi’s TAQA and the Fe...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
Aramco Scales Back Giant Jazan Plans To 2.4GW
...’s lump sum turnkey contract covers engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning support. TR says the utilities and offsites will be operational in 2017. This represents a one-year delay from the original 2016 start-up schedule. The delay can be attributed to the ma...
Volume: 57Issue: 19Published at Fri, 09 May 2014 -
Turkey Taps EBRD For Hydro Cash; Boosts Nuclear, Wind
...st of wind farms and two small geothermal plants (see table). Beyond 2017, the Ministry of Energy is looking to large nuclear and coal-fired plants for major capacity increments. Furthest advanced of the long-term projects is the first 1.2GW nuclear plant at Akkuyu (MEES, 21 March). Russian nu...
Volume: 57Issue: 18Published at Fri, 02 May 2014 -
Saudi Direct Crude Burn Plan Can Only Work Short-Term, Says FGE
...e last of these plants is due online in 2017 (MEES, 4 April). For 2013 as a whole Saudi Arabia burnt 483,000 b/d of crude and 311,000 b/d of fuel oil. With an additional five heavy fuel oil-fired plants totaling 14GW (as well as the 17GW of gas-fired plant) due online by 2018, the official Saudi ta...
Volume: 57Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2014 -
Oman Hikes Desalination Plan In Line With Population Stats
...14, falling to 461,000 cmd in 2020. While Ghubrah is due to be decommissioned in 2018, OPWP plans to add 57,000 cmd of capacity at Barka-1 and extend the contract for the current 136,200 cmd and add the 200,000 cmd Qurayyat and 225,000 cmd Suwayq plants, due online in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Su...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Oman Peak Demand To Double By 2020, Gas Burning Up 50%
...ll see gas burning rise by a comparatively modest 50% from 7.4 bcm in 2014 to 11.1b cm in 2020. As long as the country’s key upcoming upstream gas project, BP’s $16bn, 10 bcm/year Khazzan tight gas development, comes onstream as planned in 2017-18, power generation’s share of Oman’s gas output wi...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
OPWP Lines Up Qurayyat IWP
...OMAN OPWP Lines Up Qurayyat IWP Oman’s OPWP is to shortlist bidders to design, build and operate a 200,000 cmd desalination plant at Qurayyat, south of Muscat. It plans end-2014 award for March 2017 start-up with OPWP to purchase the plant’s potable water under a 20-year de...
Volume: 57Issue: 15Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014 -
Saudi Arabia In Power Generation Efficiency Drive
...O 2017 U/C PP13 1.65 Gas 2017 PP14 1.65 Gas 2017...
Volume: 57Issue: 14Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014 -
Turkey Sees Power Demand Doubling By 2023, Backs Nuclear And Coal
...e awarded for 2017 ownwards. Nuclear Progress Russia’s Rosatom will begin work in 2015 on the first of four 1.2GW nuclear plants at Akkuyu, near Mersin on Turkey’s southern coast. Start-up is scheduled for 2020. Meanwhile, Japan’s Mitsubishi and Itochu and France’s GDF Suez and Areva will st...
Volume: 57Issue: 12Published at Fri, 21 Mar 2014 -
Morocco Looks To Wind To Lessen Energy Imports
...pacity is coal-fired, 24% oil-fired and 12% gas-fired. ONEE last year announced a plan to raise generating capacity to 11.28GW by 2017, with 45% of new capacity (2.09GW) to be renewables (MEES, 4 October 2013). This is about saving cash, rather than the planet: Rabat also plans to add coal-fired ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2014 -
Algeria Confirms Six CCGT Awards, Plans New Solar, Mobile Units
...e plants will begin operating in open-cycle mode in 2015 and in combined-cycle mode in 2017 (MEES, 20 December 2013). Samsung C&T says its EPC contract is valued at $1.37bn, while plant capacities will be 1.45GW at Mostaganem and 1.163GW at Naama. Earlier Duro Felguera announced that Djelfa ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014 -
MENA Nuclear Plans Move Forward
...REGIONAL MENA Nuclear Plans Move Forward The UAE is on track to become MENA’s second nuclear generator. It is on schedule to begin commercial operations at its first nuclear power plant in 2017, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) says. Korean contractor Kepco ha...
Volume: 57Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014 -
Soma, So Good For Turkey Coal Plant
...ocurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the plant, being built for Turkey’s Hidro-Gen Enerji under a contract awarded in December. Siemens says it will supply two 255MW steam turbines for August 2015-January 2016 delivery, with a view to starting commercial operation in April 2017. The company sa...
Volume: 57Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014 -
Algerian Electricity: Ambitious Plans Vs Tricky Reality
...ALGERIA Algerian Electricity: Ambitious Plans Vs Tricky Reality Noureddine Boutarfa, CEO of Algerian state utility Sonelgaz says it will bring 18GW of generating capacity online by 2017. Yet, speaking on state radio this week, he also said increased electricity and gas pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 07Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2014 -
Oman Shake-Up Eyes Spot Generator Market By 2017
...OMAN Oman Shake-Up Eyes Spot Generator Market By 2017 Oman plans to introduce competition among generators by introducing the Middle East’s first spot market for electricity from independent power producers (IPPs) by 2017. State utility Oman Power and Water Procurement Co...
Volume: 57Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2014 -
Abu Dhabi Faces Power Crunch
...ruggle to meet demand in Abu Dhabi and the UAE’s Northern Emirates, when electricity usage spikes during the hot summer months that year. Nuclear Delay? Significant additions to power generation capacity will not materialize before 2017 at the earliest, when the first of four 1.4GW nuclear re...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Turkey Power Projects Pipeline Seeks To Maintain Fuel Balance
....92GW Additions By 2017 4.40GW Total 2017 62.32GW Source: MEES. *Capacity Expansion,** Possibly Rising To 7gw. † First Plant....
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Jordan Pushes Shale And Wind In Quest For Diversity
...ocurement and construction (EPC) of the 540MW power plant for start-up in the second half of 2017. The ministry expects the plant to save JD350mn ($494mn)/year on importing of oil for power plants. Enefit says Switzerland-based Foster Wheeler will provide a circulating fluidized bed boiler island and Ge...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
Saudi Starts 4GW CCGT Plant, Further 30GW Planned By 2018
...2017 (MEES, 3 January). The plant will burn hydrocarbons but incorporate 20-30MW of solar capacity to reduce saturated steam production and increase fuel efficiency. SEC requested expressions of interest on 25 December for developing the Dhuba-1 IPP in the Tabuk region. The company says the pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2014