1. Italy’s Enel Signs Gas Cooperation Deal With EGAS

    ...G regasification terminal at Porto Empedocle in Sicily, with a capacity of 8 bcm/y, that is due to enter service in 2011, and which would be a natural destination for the Egyptian gas. Also included in the agreement is the possibility of Enel buying into one or more gas fields in Egypt, and ta...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008
  2. Nematzadeh Outlines Iran’s Refinery Expansion Program

    ...ndar Abbas 360,000 b/d 2011 Condensate refinery Hormuz Bandar Abbas 300,000 b/d 2011 Heavy oil refinery Khuzestan Abadan 180,000 b/d 2011 Feedstock fr...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008
  3. Ras Laffan C IWPP Seeks Bank Participation In Qatari Club-Style Financing

    ...eds. It will produce 2,700mw of power and 63mn gallons/day of water, supplying the country with about one third of its estimated 9,000mw power needs by 2011....

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 15
    Published at Mon, 14 Apr 2008
  4. GCC Downstream Drive Ploughs On

    ...s for power generation and petrochemicals for its Yanbu΄ project, has yet to receive a gas allocation, MEES understands. And the need for gas could delay the project further. With 48-month construction contracts, the projects will likely start up 2012-13, compared to original 2011 target. The Saudi Oi...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 07 Apr 2008
  5. Spain’s Befesa Wins $291mn Ténès Water Desalination Project

    ...ild 13 new desalination plants between 2005 and 2009, with a combined capacity of 2.2mn cmd, would now be achieved in 2011, with 1mn cmd of capacity to be operational before the end of 2009. The new 200,000 El-Hamma desalination complex, built by General Electric at a cost of $250mn and thought to be...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 07 Apr 2008
  6. Construction Of Kazakh Section Of Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Project To Begin In Months

    ...m/year. By the end of 2010 the second pipeline will come into operation, and throughput will rise to 17 bcm/year during 2011. The pipeline is due to reach a capacity of 30 bcm/year in early 2012 and eventually this will rise to 40 bcm/year. “The main point about the pipeline is that it is de...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 07 Apr 2008
  7. Syria And China Sign New Agreement To Expedite Refinery Project

    ...0,000 b/d joint venture refinery at Abu Khashab, northeast of Deir Ez-Zor by the end of 2011. The refinery, to cost an estimated $1.5bn, will process mainly heavy Syrian crude, as well as other suitable crude to meet European and Syrian specifications. The joint venture project with the Chinese has been un...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 14
    Published at Mon, 07 Apr 2008
  8. Egypt Pursues Gas Development Plans

    ...output to 10bn cfd by 2011, from around 6bn cfd now. On top of this, new gas export plans, including the second 5mn tons/year LNG train at Damietta, extra volumes through the Arab Gas Pipeline to Syria and Lebanon and supplies of 1.7bcf/y to Israel, will stretch Egyptian production even fu...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 13
    Published at Mon, 31 Mar 2008
  9. Iran LNG Lines Up Two Consortia To Compete For Liquefaction Plant Contract

    ...rdan announced that the Iran LNG project was scheduled to be brought on-line in January 2011 at a total cost of $4.35bn for the downstream facilities, with the liquefaction plant being developed in two phases, according to a 23 March Fars News Agency report. He said that 995mn cfd of gas for th...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 13
    Published at Mon, 31 Mar 2008
  10. EGAS Chief Outlines Egypt’s Gas Strategy

    ...r an increase in the production of gas to 10bn cfd by 2011, from around 6bn cfd now. First Undersecretary to the Minster of Petroleum Shamil Hamdy told MEES earlier this month that the 10bn cfd target was not likely before 2013. Highlighting Egypt’s gas dilemma, apparently unintentionally, Mr La...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 12
    Published at Mon, 24 Mar 2008
  11. Nozari Claims Iranian Daily Oil Output Record Of 4.2Mn Barrels/Day

    ...,800 b/d in 1999. He added that the western unit aimed to raise its capacity to 500,000 b/d by 2011. Meanwhile, NIOC Director of Planning Abdol Delparish told Fars News Agency on 10 March that Iran should be capable of producing an average 4.27mn b/d of crude oil in the next Iranian year (21 March 20...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 12
    Published at Mon, 24 Mar 2008
  12. JPMC Reports 187.5% Rise In Profit In 2007

    ...nstruction of the fertilizer plant is to start in the next four months and production will begin in late 2011.   ...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 12
    Published at Mon, 24 Mar 2008
  13. Petrofac Awarded Letter Of Intent For Gas Plant In Syria

    ...d offsite facilities, gathering pipelines and living quarters. The project is due for completion in the first quarter of 2011. Petrofac has previously completed several EPC projects in Syria. Hayan Petroleum Company is a joint stock company owned equally between the Syrian Petroleum Company (SP...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 12
    Published at Mon, 24 Mar 2008
  14. Caspian And Central Asian Export Pipelines Assume Aura Of Most Serious Game

    ...13 Azerbaijan, Middle East 2 AMBO Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania 900 750,000-900,000 B/D $1.2-1.5bn 2011 Caspian, Russia 3 BAPline Burgas, Bulgaria-Alexandroupolis, Greece 279 70...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 11
    Published at Mon, 17 Mar 2008
  15. Details Of JPRC/Government Agreement Revealed

    ...urth expansion and upgrading project is completed, but not later than 2011. The 100,000 b/d capacity Zarqa refinery is receiving about of 20,000 b/d of Iraqi Basra crude – medium and heavy – at discounted prices, delivered by road tankers to Jordan.  The project will cost about $1.7bn and will re...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 11
    Published at Mon, 17 Mar 2008
  16. DEWA In Talks With Sino Global For First Private Power Plant

    ...e 2,000mw hydrogen-fired plant, expected to cost around $3bn, should start operations in 2011, said DEWA CEO Sa΄id al-Tayir on 11 March. It will be implemented either on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) or a build-own-operate (BOO) basis. Sino Global will import hydrogen produced from coal in the US...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 11
    Published at Mon, 17 Mar 2008
  17. Caspian Sea Region Pipelines – Existing and Proposed

    ...rkey’s Bosphorus and Dardanelle Straits it has been on the drawing board since the mid-1990s. Construction is expected to begin in late-2008 and the target date for operating is 2011. The 900km crude oil pipeline (750,000-900,000 b/d capacity) will cost $1.2-1.5bn and carry Russian and Caspian Sea cr...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 11
    Published at Mon, 17 Mar 2008
  18. Algeria Pursues Gas Export Plans Ahead Of Production Hike

    ...dustrial gas supplier Air Products and Chemicals Inc (APCI) on 22 January. The equipment is due to be delivered in late 2009, with the plant scheduled for completion in 2011. The 4mn tons/year integrated Gassi Touil LNG plant is currently under consideration, with no contracts having been awarded si...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 10
    Published at Mon, 10 Mar 2008
  19. North Africa Struggles To Meet Soaring Power Demand

    ...pected to be ready in November 2011 and to cost around $1.6bn (MEES, 21 January), and phase two of the North Cairo power station, which was completed in October 2007 and doubled the plant’s capacity to 1,500mw. High Hopes For Renewables At the inauguration of the North Cairo plant’s expansion last ye...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 09
    Published at Mon, 03 Mar 2008
  20. IPIC And KazMunaiGaz Conduct Feasibility Study For Petrochemical Plants

    ...e hydrocarbon production areas in the west of the country to the populated south, which is dependent upon gas imports from Uzbekistan. The project is estimated to cost $3.8bn and cover 1,500km. The pipeline is scheduled to start operation in 2011 with a capacity of 5 bcm/year, which will la...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 09
    Published at Mon, 03 Mar 2008