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Jordan Signs Agreement For Qatraneh Power Project
...10, while the second combined cycle phase will become operational in August 2011. Jordan needs to increase generation capacity by around 300mw annually to meet rising electricity demand, according to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources strategic plan....
Volume: 52Issue: 40Published at Mon, 05 Oct 2009 -
Emerging Market Sovereign Credit Resilient To Recent External Shocks, Says S&P
...sitive real per capita income growth in 2009, while eight will continue to contract in 2010. The fiscal position of almost every government will be worse than that of the preceding five years as automatic stabilizers operate. Comparing 2007 with 2011, government debt levels are expected to increase by...
Volume: 52Issue: 40Published at Mon, 05 Oct 2009 -
Libya Agrees To Buy Verenex At A Discount After Blocking Chinese Deal
...visages bringing the discoveries made there on-stream by 2011 at an initial rate of 50,000 b/d of oil and 60mn cfd of gas. Along with its partner in the concession, Indonesia’s Medco Energi, which holds a 50% working interest, Verenex has spent $320mn on its exploration activities. A senior Medco of...
Volume: 52Issue: 39Published at Mon, 28 Sep 2009 -
Egypt In Upstream Gas Push, With Eight Development Projects Worth $2.2bn
...ctor, which represents 56% of demand, followed by the industrial sector with 29%. Household consumption is also on the rise, with a plan currently being implemented to provide 1.5mn housing units with natural gas by 2011 and 5.5mn housing units by 2015. As part of this plan, the Upper Egypt gas pi...
Volume: 52Issue: 38Published at Mon, 21 Sep 2009 -
GE And Hyundai Win $2.65Bn Contract To Build 2GW Power Plant at Sabiya
...nerators and a plant control system, as well as long-term services. Hyundai will undertake engineering, procurement and construction. The Sabiya plant is scheduled to come on line in two phases: 1.3gw of capacity will be connected to the Kuwaiti grid in 2011, with a further 700mw in 2012. Natural gas wi...
Volume: 52Issue: 38Published at Mon, 21 Sep 2009 -
Sudan’s Oil Figures Challenged, Minister Expects 520,000 B/D Output In Coming Months
...take place next year, and the referendum on independence for the south in 2011, mistrust between the north and south is not showing any sign of diminishing, especially given that Sudan’s oil production is expected to rise. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Sudan’s debut as an oil producer, th...
Volume: 52Issue: 38Published at Mon, 21 Sep 2009 -
ESI Signs $474Mn Contract With Danielli For New Rolling Mill
...ction beams, columns and sheet piles. The new mill will raise ESI total capacity to 3mn t/y by 2011. The company is also considering boosting its capacity further to 6.5mn t/y by 2013-14 through capacity expansions and acquisitions. With regard to the latter, ESI’s Chairman of the Board Husain al-Nu...
Volume: 52Issue: 38Published at Mon, 21 Sep 2009 -
Basri Proposes New Approach To Budget Planning In Iraq
...under 20% of it value in 2009, according to Dr Basri’s scenario. Iraq Budget Projections: 2010-14 ($Mn) 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Oil Revenue 36,000 49,680 58,500 69,984 83...
Volume: 52Issue: 37Published at Mon, 14 Sep 2009 -
ERC Targets Early 2010 Financial Close For Musturud Refinery Upgrade
...stream in 2011 at a cost of $2.25bn....
Volume: 52Issue: 37Published at Mon, 14 Sep 2009 -
Nord Stream Expects Bank Responses In Early October
...et about 25% of this additional requirement by connecting the European gas pipeline network to Russia, which boasts the world’s largest gas reserves. Nord Stream’s first of two parallel pipelines will be operational in 2011. Each line is approximately 1,220km long, with a capacity to transport so...
Volume: 52Issue: 37Published at Mon, 14 Sep 2009 -
Syria Has No Surplus Gas For Export At Present
...cond half of 2010. The Jihar Gas Project is expected to start up in 2011 with full production capacity of 3.7mn cmd. Syria Prepares For Egyptian Gas Flow To Lebanon Meanwhile, Syrian oil sources report that preparations are underway in Syria for the flow of Egyptian gas to Lebanon from AGP, wi...
Volume: 52Issue: 37Published at Mon, 14 Sep 2009 -
UAE Central Bank Targets Cheaper Interbank Lending
...both national and foreign banks and are subject to review at the beginning of 2011. In October last year, the Ministry of Finance had stipulated Tier one capital ratio of 11% by end June 2009 and 12% by end June 2010. Fitch Ratings said that the clarification by the central bank appears to ha...
Volume: 52Issue: 36Published at Mon, 07 Sep 2009 -
Ex-Im Bank Approves Funding For Al Dur IWPP
...pacity of 1.234gw and a desalination capacity of 48mn gallons/day (218,000 cmd) of water and is due to start initial production in 2010, with full commercial operation to commence in 2011. After recently selling 30% of Al Dur to Bahraini investors (the Social Insurance Organization of Bahrain, In...
Volume: 52Issue: 36Published at Mon, 07 Sep 2009 -
Nile Commercial Bank Rescued Again
...velopments at Nile highlight the problems for the south, which will be holding a referendum on its independence in January 2011, the fact that the authorities have been willing to step in at least illustrates the desire for financial stability. Southern Sudan has a conventional banking system, which is ov...
Volume: 52Issue: 36Published at Mon, 07 Sep 2009 -
Syria And Turkey Ink MOU To Expedite Integration Of Gas Networks
...ncluding a number of agreements, including a short-term sales agreement to supply Syria with 0.5-1.0bcm/year from Turkey’s gas supplies for a period of five years starting in 2011.The MOU was signed during a visit by Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz to Damascus to meet his Syrian counterpart Sufian 'Al...
Volume: 52Issue: 35Published at Mon, 31 Aug 2009 -
North Africa Forges Ahead With Refinery Upgrades, Expansions More Elusive
...amant that the project will be completed by the second quarter of 2014. However, he concedes that the global financial crisis, which caused difficulties in securing financing and procuring materials, has delayed the project and driven up the costs. It was originally due on stream in 2011 at an estimated co...
Volume: 52Issue: 34Published at Mon, 24 Aug 2009 -
Putin’s Visit To Ankara Signals Partial Shift In Russian Gas Strategy
...vember 2010. This is the second time that Russia has brought forward South Stream project deadlines. Originally work on the Black Sea routing was not intended to start before late 2011 or early 2012. Now Russia appears to be in a hurry. Ukraine, no matter what the composition of the next government in...
Volume: 52Issue: 34Published at Mon, 24 Aug 2009 -
Political Comment (24 August 2009)
...erican plans to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by August 2010 and to leave the country altogether by the end of 2011. Hamas Confronts Salafists With the Palestinian leadership already divided between the secular nationalists of Fatah in the West Bank and the Islamists of Hamas in Gaza, a fu...
Volume: 52Issue: 34Published at Mon, 24 Aug 2009 -
QAPCO Secures $200Mn Murabaha Facility From Qatar Islamic Bank
...the two companies. The LDPE-3 project is scheduled to be completed in December 2011 and will be the last in a matrix of connected plants, which includes Qatofin, and Q-Chem. The Qatofin and Q-Chem 2 projects completed their financing on 16 November 2005 (MEES, 28 November 2005). Q-Chem 2’s to...
Volume: 52Issue: 33Published at Mon, 17 Aug 2009 -
BP Plans $2Bn Investment In Algeria By 2014
...ploration wells, which it expects to drill in the next three years. Separately, Algeria’s biggest international oil producer Anadarko announced in a quarterly earnings conference call on 4 August that it expects to see first oil from its 150,000 b/d El Merk project in late 2011. The US company’s CEO Ji...
Volume: 52Issue: 32Published at Mon, 10 Aug 2009