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Saudi Direct Crude Burn Plan Can Only Work Short-Term, Says FGE
...s upstream section and may not start production until 2016. Saudi Peak* Direct Crude Burning (‘000 B/D) Saudi Oil Use For Power Generation (‘000 B/D) 2009 2010 2011 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 17Published at Fri, 25 Apr 2014 -
Iran Power Supply Up 4.6%, Capacity Hits 70GW
...n be viewed as remarkable progress given international sanctions. Recent international focus on Iran’s power sector has centered on the 1GW Bushehr nuclear plant, which western powers fear hides a nuclear weapons program. The plant has operated intermittently since 2011 start-up; it is currently sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 16Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014 -
Alstom Bags Eni Zubair Power Contract
...ant as well as supplying the four gas turbines. The company says the project is similar to one received in 2011 for a 728MW gas-fired plant in Mansuriya oil field, under development by private firm Kuwait Energy. Alstom has also rehabilitated an existing power plant at Zubair, raising capacity by 60MW to...
Volume: 57Issue: 14Published at Fri, 04 Apr 2014 -
Algeria Confirms Six CCGT Awards, Plans New Solar, Mobile Units
...ntracts Sonelgaz has been charged with raising total generating capacity quickly in the short term, following riots over power outages during 2012. While 3.77GW of capacity has been added since the end of 2011, Minister of Energy and Mines Youcef Yousfi has forced the pace of development since his return to...
Volume: 57Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2014 -
MENA Nuclear Plans Move Forward
...d not achieve nuclear-generated electricity until 2011 when Russia’s Atomstroyexport completed the much-delayed 1GW Bushehr plant. The plant has since been shut down for long periods for repairs, and now Bushehr is halted again. Plant manager Hossein Derakhshandeh told Iranian state media the plant sh...
Volume: 57Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2014 -
Jordan Pushes Shale And Wind In Quest For Diversity
...barak overthrow of 2011, as the country has been massively reliant on expensive oil imports to fuel its rapidly-growing power demand ever since (see graphs). The Energy Ministry is studying an electricity tariff proposal from Attarat Power (Apco), a joint venture of Estonia’s Enefit, Malaysia’s YTL Po...
Volume: 57Issue: 03Published at Fri, 17 Jan 2014 -
SEC Awards Revised Rabigh-2 IPP Project
...rayyah was originally conceived as a 1.8GW plant, but its capacity was hiked due to cost savings on tariffs (MEES, 26 September 2011). The 1.73GW Riyadh PP11 project, led by France’s GDF Suez, reached full capacity in early 2013, having begun early power generation of 600MW in June 2012 (MEES, 19 April). Ar...
Volume: 56Issue: 49Published at Fri, 06 Dec 2013 -
Oman Plans First Solar Unit Under Rural Plan
...pacity is linked to two grids: the Main Interconnected System (MIS) and the Salalah system. This year peak MIS demand is expected to reach 4.82GW, with 424MW in Salalah (MEES, 24 May). But off-grid rural demand is growing faster than in the main networks, having recorded an 11.6% increase from 2010 to 2011...
Volume: 56Issue: 48Published at Fri, 29 Nov 2013 -
Egypt Plans Nuclear Tender, UAE Progresses First Reactor
...June that Egypt was ready to invite bids, having enacted a nuclear law, established an independent regulatory body, selected a technology, developed a fuel strategy and prepared a bid specification in line with IAEA requirements. Earlier tender plans were postponed following the January 2011 ov...
Volume: 56Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2013 -
IEA Labels Mideast As Key Driver Of Electricity Demand Growth
...REGIONAL IEA Labels Mideast As Key Driver Of Electricity Demand Growth World electricity demand is set to increase by more than two-thirds over 2011-35, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The agency’s latest World Energy Outlook, published on 12...
Volume: 56Issue: 46Published at Fri, 15 Nov 2013 -
Nuclear: UAE Pushes Ahead, Iran Waits On Bushehr
...e first operational nuclear power plant in the MENA region, which was shut down in February (MEES, 1 March). This is the second major shutdown since it was brought online in September 2011: two months of repairs followed the discovery of debris in the reactor housing (MEES, 18 January). Ru...
Volume: 56Issue: 41Published at Fri, 11 Oct 2013 -
Morocco’s ONEE Announces 2013-17 Electricity Plan
...ovision of $100mn to Morocco to support the building of further solar and wind plants in a number of remote areas. ONEE had more than 4.7mn customers at the end of 2012, an increase of 7.4% compared with end-2011. Morocco’s electricity demand was 31.06TWh in 2012, up 8% on 2011. Demand growth av...
Volume: 56Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2013 -
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 -
Cyprus Completes Vasilikos Rebuild After 2011 Blast
...CYPRUS Cyprus Completes Vasilikos Rebuild After 2011 Blast The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) has completed repairs to the Vasilikos power station two years after it was badly damaged by a blast at an adjacent military site. An explosion of munitions stored at the Ma...
Volume: 56Issue: 35Published at Fri, 30 Aug 2013 -
Morocco Awards 2 Power Projects, Lines Up Solar Bidders
...gher than on the same day last year; and 5.7% above than last year’s peak demand recorded on 17 July 2012. Morocco Electricity 2011 (Gwh) Sales 25,634.00 Net demand 28,751.90 Pr...
Volume: 56Issue: 33Published at Fri, 16 Aug 2013 -
GCC: UAE And Saudi ‘Readiest’ For Renewables
...ssil fuels and subsidized energy prices present “prominent barriers to investment in renewable energy projects,” the organization’s ‘Renewable Energy Readiness Assessment Report: The GCC Countries 2011-12’, published on 22 July says. The UAE gets the highest score of 4.75 out of 7, while Sa...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013 -
Baghdad And Kurds Choose Different Power Paths
...ntract structure. A 500mw phase 1 for Irbil power plant, came on stream in November 2008, with expansion to 1,000mw achieved in November 2011. Sulaimaniyah power plant was brought on stream at the end of 2009 at 500mw, with a phase 2 to 750mw implemented in April 2011, and expansion to 1,000mw in August 20...
Volume: 56Issue: 29Published at Fri, 19 Jul 2013 -
Iraq Faces Summer Power Crunch Despite Progress On $75Bn Mega-Plan
...arged Electricity stands out in Iraq’s highly politically-charged environment as the single most controversial sector. It has proved a graveyard for politicians, with successive ministers getting the sack in 2010 and 2011 (MEES, 3 October 2011). There have been major mistakes, including the 2008-09 GE/Si...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
Qatar Plans First IWPP Project In Five Years
...ectricity and Water Company (QEWC) estimates Qatar’s total electricity capacity at 8.77gw and desalination capacity at 327mn gal/day. Qatar’s previous IWPP project was the QR14bn ($3.8bn) Ras Laffan C plant, inaugurated in mid-2011 (MEES, 6 June 2011). The plant has capacity to generate 2.73gw of el...
Volume: 56Issue: 26Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2013 -
Qatari Solar Plans: Dark Clouds Gather
...09 and 2011, the sector’s relatively small size would still let Qatar hit its renewable energy target. This would require about 1.5gw of production capacity (MEES, 28 May). Solar plants only take two years to build. Doha wants to conserve its gas reserves in the North Field, which faces complex ch...
Volume: 56Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2013