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Libya Fights To Keep The Lights On
...st has been seven years in the making. Turkish contractor Enka and turbine provider Siemens have been reluctant to return since three Turkish and one South African worker were kidnapped in Ubari two years ago (MEES, 24 November 2017). But Gecol finally appears ready to roll the first unit out ov...
Volume: 62Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2019 -
Dubai Looks To Clean Up Powergen Act With 2050 Plan
...r later release to turbines (MEES, 16 June 2017). The flagship project in Dewa’s solar program is the 5GW MBR Solar Park under development 50km south of Dubai city at Seih al Dalal. In March Dewa invited developers to submit qualification documents for an independent power producer (IPP) project fo...
Volume: 62Issue: 24Published at Fri, 14 Jun 2019 -
Oman’s 2019 Power Start-Ups Are Last Gas Burners In Project Pipeline
...-field operations across the huge Block 6 (MEES, 2 November 2018); and rural electricity provider Raeco’s 50MW wind farm being built at Harweel in the Dhofar region (MEES, 3 February 2017). OPWP has proposed a 1.5GW coal-fired power plant at Duqm on the Arabian Sea coast, but this project may be...
Volume: 62Issue: 23Published at Fri, 07 Jun 2019 -
Morocco Awards ‘Game-Changer’ Hybrid Solar Project
...o PV-CSP hybrids to be built at Midelt. The plan is to install 1GW of capacity across the two sites, with phase two developed like phase one as an independent power producer (IPP) project backed by a 25-year power purchase agreement (MEES, 23 June 2017). Masdar chief executive Mohamed al-Ramahi sa...
Volume: 62Issue: 22Published at Fri, 31 May 2019 -
Sharjah Pushes Gas Power Despite UAE Backing Alternatives
...pacity of 1.39GW, and is likely planned to replace the more inefficient existing plants while reducing (if not eliminating) imports from Abu Dhabi which hit a record 1.3GW peak delivery in 2017. The snag is that Sharjah’s gas production is negligible and the emirate is dependent on importing Qatari ga...
Volume: 62Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2019 -
Morocco Grows Renewables, But Grows Coal More
...reement. ONEE’s overall installed capacity data, particularly the surge in the overall figure to 10.9GW, needs to be treated with caution, however: aging, often mothballed, plants are included. The fact that imports were still needed to meet Morocco’s 2018 peak load of 6.31GW (up 2% on 2017) is suggestive of...
Volume: 62Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2019 -
Kuwait Powers Ahead With CCGT Plans After Projects Hiatus
...nder was issued in September, will help increase Kuwait’s installed capacity by 32% from 18.74GW to 24.79GW, while the two new IWPPs will raise desalination capacity by 48% to 4.07mn m3/d (see table). Meanwhile, peak load rose from 13.80 GW in 2017 to 14.07GW last year, so there was plenty of slack in th...
Volume: 62Issue: 19Published at Fri, 10 May 2019 -
GCC Gas Burn Increasing To Power Aluminium Smelting
...en, which takes electricity from the second largest Saudi generator, SWCC with 7.81GW generating capacity, and the national grid. GCC aluminium production amounted to 4.8mn tons in 2017, equivalent to 7.9% of global output of 60.8mn tons. To power that output the GCC’s six aluminium complexes ge...
Volume: 62Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2019 -
Saudi Goes West With Gas-To-Power Expansion
...15’s 62.26 GW. But while peak load fell sharply to 60.83GW in 2016, it rose back to 62.12GW in 2017, highlighting the government’s struggles to curb power demand amid a rapidly growing population. Increased gas volumes, in particular of non-associated gas, have done the heavy lifting in re...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
Saudi Maxes Out Refineries Despite Crude Output Cuts
...Saudi crude exports as a percentage of overall production fell to the lowest level since late-2017 in February. Crude exports fell below 7mn b/d for the first time since May 2018, and as a proportion of production fell below 69% for the first time since October 2017 according to the latest Jo...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
Egypt Power Fuels Number Crunching: Record Gas Output, CCGT Capacity Sees Collapse Of Liquids Burn
...EGYPT’S POWERGEN CAPACITY LEAPT 19% TO A RECORD 55GW AT END-2018 BOOSTED BY THREE CCGT PLANTS TOTALING 14.4GW*. BUT POWER GENERATED ROSE ONLY SLIGHTLY TO 194TWh FOR 2018 2018 MONTHLY GENERATION (TWh) NEVER TOPPED THE JULY 2017 RECORD OF 20.3TWh THE START-UP OF NEW CCGT CA...
Volume: 62Issue: 15Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019 -
Egypt Solar Capacity To Soar In 2019 With Benban Boom
...ansmission line 12km east of the park. In addition, Substation-3 will also be directly linked to a 500kV overhead transmission line which runs just 500m east of the park. 2017 saw work on only one plot (5-1) of the 37.2 km2 park being built in the desert 40km north of Aswan. Egypt’s Infinity Solar says it...
Volume: 62Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Liquids Burn Edges Up, More Rises To Come?
...ril being 100,000 b/d below March. They are going to match the lowest in 2017-18.” That low was 9.91mn b/d in December 2017, so Saudi Arabia may in fact be cutting significantly below 2017 levels. This would be a massive fall of around 500,000 b/d from January production of 10.29mn b/d (10...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Arabia’s Oil-Fired Power Conundrum
...2020, situated further up the Red Sea coast. It is currently undergoing testing, despite state-owned power and desalination plant operator SWCC in January 2017 canceling the $1.5bn EPC contract that was awarded to Korea’s Samsung and partners China’s Sepco3 and Saudi firm Al Toukhi in late 2012 (ME...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Oman Looks To Privatization To Modernize Power Grid
...nai says. OPTIMISTIC VALUATION It is unclear how he arrived at this valuation. OETC, by far the larger of the two firms, owned assets with a net book value of $437mn as of end-2017 whilst its gross revenue was $38mn. MEDC’s earnings were just $3.7mn for 2017. Nama says 11 companies su...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Masdar: Abu Dhabi’s Flagship Renewables Firm With A Global Footprint
...heduled for start-up in April 2020 (MEES, 24 March 2017). Among Masdar’s international projects are two of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, the UK’s London Array and Dudgeon. In the Hywind wind farm offshore Scotland, Norway’s Equinor and Masdar have installed the world’s first battery storage fa...
Volume: 62Issue: 09Published at Fri, 01 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Renewables Plan: More Answers, More Questions
...ergy still costs money to generate. Assuming the government is serious about the Repdo plans, it needs to act quickly. A stepping stone 2024 target of 27.3 GW is no easy feat – the Mena region’s total installed wind and solar capacity as of 2017 was just 5.7GW. Planned 2019 tenders amount to 3....
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
GCC Small-Scale Solar Programs Inch Forward
...dermine the economics of solar. But recent sharp falls in the cost of solar panels have boosted not only large solar projects. They also make small-scale plants increasingly viable. International Energy Agency (IEA) data show GCC solar PV capacity only taking off in 2017, when an annual tripling of ca...
Volume: 62Issue: 07Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019 -
UAE Power Strategy Sees Abu Dhabi, Northern Emirates Join Forces
...pporting role has seen its ‘exports’ of electricity (ie transfers outside Abu Dhabi) rise more than threefold over 10 years, from a total of over 6TWh in 2008, 15% of power generated, to 21TWh (25%) in 2017 (see chart). Abu Dhabi’s rise to UAE power domination was due to its holding most of the UAE’s ga...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019 -
Iraq: Gas Output Up As Crude Burn Falls To New Lows
...18). Iraq’s crude burn peaked in 2015-2016 when it averaged 170,000 b/d (see chart 2), falling to a still sizeable 119,000 b/d in in 2017 as volumes were progressively dialed back. But in 2018, Iraq brought the figure under 40,000 b/d, including two months where no crude was burned in powerplants (see ch...
Volume: 62Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2019