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Kepco Awards $4Bn Contract To Doosan For Main Facilities At UAE Nuclear Plants
...ing developed independently by Korean firms, and based on a design first introduced in the 1980s. The plants are scheduled to be completed in phases beginning in 2017, and represent South Korea’s first successful attempt to export its nuclear reactor technology....
Volume: 53Issue: 28Published at Mon, 12 Jul 2010 -
Gas Deadlock Resolved As Turkey And Azerbaijan Agree Terms For EU Deliveries (13)
...niz field, which is expected to produce 16 bcm/y by 2017. According to this second agreement, Turkish imports will start at 2 bcm/y in 2016-17, rising to 6 bcm/y by 2019. From the Shah Deniz 2 supply, 6 bcm/y of the 7 bcm/y will be allocated to Botas while the remaining 1 bcm/y will be delivered to Tu...
Volume: 53Issue: 24Published at Mon, 14 Jun 2010 -
Third Turbine At Marib Power Plant Begins Operation
...owing local power demand. Marib-1 is the first of two gas-fired independent power plants (IPPs) expected to come on line at Marib by 2017, with Marib-2 expected to have a capacity of 400mw when it is completed. Eight other gas-fired power plants are also scheduled for completion by then, each with a to...
Volume: 53Issue: 22Published at Mon, 31 May 2010 -
Jordan Signs Oil Shale Agreement With Eesti Energia
...able, Enefit would have access to the shale oil for a period of 40 years, extendable by another 10 years. The agreement covers the production of 38,000 b/d of shale oil and the generation of up to 900mw of electricity from a shale oil fired plant. First power is projected for 2016 and first oil for 2017...
Volume: 53Issue: 20Published at Mon, 17 May 2010 -
Dragon Arranges Short-Term Crude Swap With Iran, Seeks Longer Arrangement
...pply agreement signed earlier this month between Ukraine and Russia (MEES, 26 April). The current lease expires in 2017 and the new lease, supported by 236 members out of 450 total, moves this to 2042. Members of the Ukrainian parliament opposed to the agreement threw eggs and smoke bombs in the ch...
Volume: 53Issue: 18Published at Mon, 03 May 2010 -
Ukraine Gets Russian Gas Reprieve With Amendments To Gas Supply Agreement
...e to expire in 2017, but now in place until 2042. Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula, is a strategic location for Russia’s presence in the Black Sea. Ukrainians in opposition to Mr Yanukovich have criticized the deal, including former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who brokered the current gas ag...
Volume: 53Issue: 17Published at Mon, 26 Apr 2010 -
Korean Consortium Wins Jordan Nuclear Research Reactor Contract
...er a number of firms from Argentina, China and Russia. Construction will begin later this year near the city of Irbid, 70km north of 'Amman, with the reactor expected to be commissioned within five years and a nuclear power plant built by 2017, according to official news agency Petra. Work will involve th...
Volume: 53Issue: 15Published at Mon, 12 Apr 2010 -
ADCO Awards $560Mn Contract For Qusahwira Development
...the expansion are projected for completion by 2017. NPCC will oversee the development of production facilities including central and remote degassing stations, oil producing, water and gas injection wells, and around 350km of pipelines over an estimated period of 33 months. The three-phase ex...
Volume: 53Issue: 13Published at Mon, 29 Mar 2010 -
Shuweihat S3 To Send Out RFP To Developers
...ading. The UAE’s power supply plan includes, from 2017, some large nuclear units, so ADWEA’s projects need to be coordinated with this alternative energy. However, while nuclear power supply is anticipated (see below), ADWEA will still need to continue to implement its own traditional projects. On the S3 pr...
Volume: 53Issue: 10Published at Mon, 08 Mar 2010 -
UAE To Commission First Nuclear Power Plant By 2017
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LIII No 10 8-March-2010 UAE UAE To Commission First Nuclear Power Plant By 2017 The UAE will commission its first nuclear power plant by 2017, the country’s Minister of Energy Muhammad al-Hamili said on 2 March. Speaking at a conference in Abu Dh...
Volume: 53Issue: 10Published at Mon, 08 Mar 2010 -
Korean Consortium Wins UAE Nuclear Energy Contract
...ur civil nuclear power plants in Abu Dhabi. The first of the four units, each with capacity of 1.4gw, is expected to begin providing electricity to the grid by 2017, with the others to be completed by 2020. Construction is scheduled to commence in 2012. The consortium also includes Hyundai, Sa...
Volume: 53Issue: 01Published at Mon, 04 Jan 2010 -
UAE Nuclear Energy Body Formally Established
...can develop this technology safely and efficiently, and begin producing electricity for the homes, businesses and people of the UAE in 2017.” The government expects electricity demand to double by 2020. The organization will be regulated by the independent safety body, the Federal Authority fo...
Volume: 53Issue: 01Published at Mon, 04 Jan 2010 -
Libya Delays Plans To Raise Production Capacity To 3Mn B/D Until 2017
...Middle East Economic Survey VOL. LII No 50 14-Dec-2009 LIBYA Libya Delays Plans To Raise Production Capacity To 3Mn B/D Until 2017 Libya has delayed its plans to boost oil production capacity to around 3mn b/d until 2017 because of budget constraints and the market situation, th...
Volume: 52Issue: 50Published at Mon, 14 Dec 2009 -
Kuwait Moves Towards Water/Power Privatization Through First IWPP
...lf countries in the process, and its energy and water demand is increasing rapidly. By 2017 the MEW plans to double its power and water capacity, which is currently pegged at almost 13gw of power and 430mn gal/day of water. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain all have well developed IW...
Volume: 52Issue: 38Published at Mon, 21 Sep 2009 -
Debt Swap In Eurobonds Sustained Lebanon’s Sovereign Rating, Moody’s Reports
...tings, said Moody’s Investors Service on 16 March. The exchange, which had a total face value of $2.3bn for longer-dated foreign currency bonds set to mature in 2012 and 2017, is not classified as a ‘distressed exchange’ by the rating agency. Moody’s changed the outlook on Lebanon’s low B3 sovereign ra...
Volume: 52Issue: 12Published at Mon, 23 Mar 2009 -
DEWA’s Ratings Constrained By Debt, Helped By Central Role In Dubai
...an, which involves addressing a $2.2bn loan maturity by April next year, he explained. DEWA continues to execute an ambitious investment plan which is expected to add 15.5gw of additional generation capacity by 2017. Its rating is also a function of the close ties – operationally, strategically an...
Volume: 51Issue: 49Published at Mon, 08 Dec 2008 -
OMV Starts Nabucco Gas Supply Talks With Shah Deniz Consortium
...rameters of their cooperation. A draft of the agreement has been circulated in recent weeks. The Nabucco partners envisage first phase capacity of 8-12 bcm/year to start up in 2013, with completion of a second phase by 2015 and a third phase in 2017-18. Mr Auli said that, while Nabucco’s proposed fi...
Volume: 51Issue: 47Published at Mon, 24 Nov 2008 -
Syrian Parliament Ratifies Extension Agreements With Shell And Total
...tal, which were approved by the Syrian Council of Ministers on 5 August and signed on 3 September (MEES, 8 September). The extension with Shell covers agreements which are due to expire during the period 25 December 2008 to 31 December 2017, while that with Total extends the existing license for 10 ye...
Volume: 51Issue: 47Published at Mon, 24 Nov 2008 -
Azeri Energy Minister Announces Readiness To Join Nabucco Project
...bucco – one branch of a gas pipeline which will give us the opportunity to deliver gas from the Caspian region to Europe.” Mr Aliyev also noted that Azerbaijan estimated that its future gas production would reach 32 bcm/year by 2014 and 40 bcm/y by 2017. This was the first time the Azeris have su...
Volume: 51Issue: 36Published at Mon, 08 Sep 2008 -
Jordan Seeks Development Of Iraqi Gas Fields
...raise the supply of gas to Jordan via the Arab Gas Pipeline (AGP) to about 1bn cu ms/year (bcm/y) from the previous 700mn cu ms/year (MEES, 14 April), but that this was not sufficient because Jordan needs 1.5 bcm/y for industrial use alone until 2017. He added Egypt is unable to supply this ad...
Volume: 51Issue: 35Published at Mon, 01 Sep 2008