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SEC Lines Up ACWA-Led Consortium For Rabigh-2 IPP
...pointed in June 2011. The consortium submitted the lowest bid of 7.416 hals/kwh of electricity, with a plant capacity of 1.96gw. Qurayyah was initially intended to be a heavy oil plant, but SEC opted instead for a gas-fired unit. The project is slated for start-up in mid-2014 and is expected to cost $1....
Volume: 56Issue: 03Published at Fri, 18 Jan 2013 -
Turkey’s EÜAŞ And TAQA Sign Powergen/Mining Deal
...mmissioning the new unit by 2015. TAQA has non-coal power plants in the UAE (Abu Dhabi and Fujairah), Oman, Saudi Arabia, the Kurdistan region of Iraq, the US and Ghana. Its total global power generation capacity in 2011 was 15.413gw. The TAQA spokesperson said that, besides the Turkey project and th...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
AES Jordan Awards Tri-Fuel Plant Contract To Wärtsilä
...avy fuel oil (HFO), distillates or natural gas as fuel. It is scheduled to be operational by July 2014. Jordan’s gas supply from Egypt has been erratic since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in early 2011, forcing it to keep its options open as it pushes to expand generating capacity. Wä...
Volume: 56Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2013 -
MENA Power Generators Pushed Diversity In 2012
...velopments in the area of Sirri Island. The most conspicuous of Iran’s power projects has been the 1.0gw Bushehr nuclear plant – the region’s first, beginning operation in September 2011. It reached full capacity a year later (MEES, 7 September 2012). The plant was shut down in October 2012 af...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
Saudi Arabia Tackles Water Demand Jump
...d Riyadh. Three plants at Yanbu’, Ras al-Khair and Jubail will add 1.7mn cmd – state-owned Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), which produces most of the country’s desalinated water, currently produces 3.5mn cmd. In 2011 the SWCC governor said Saudi Arabia plans to invest $106bn in building ne...
Volume: 56Issue: 01Published at Fri, 04 Jan 2013 -
UAE Signs Nuclear Deal With Russia
...dertake the study failed to “submit its report on time.” Worldwide uranium production was estimated at 54,610 tons in 2011, while proven global uranium resources amounted to 5.33mn tons at end-2011. Meanwhile, Iran is the only country in the region to have built a commercial-sc...
Volume: 55Issue: 52Published at Fri, 21 Dec 2012 -
Qatar Launches Solar Program To Conserve North Field
...lar plants, as its much-vaunted Masdar clean energy initiative stalls. Doha wants to conserve its gas reserves in the North Field, which faces complex challenges, including pressure drops (MEES, 12 December 2011). Qatar is unlikely to end the moratorium on further development when the study in...
Volume: 55Issue: 50Published at Fri, 07 Dec 2012 -
Saudi Crude Burning For Power Continues To Rise
...rget, it will struggle to keep pace with power sector demand. According to data given by Saudi Arabia to Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI), Saudi direct crude oil burning in power stations rose 3.7% to 779,000 b/d in the peak month of August from 751,000 b/d in August 2011 – although some an...
Volume: 55Issue: 49Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012 -
MENA Pushing Solar As Climate Change Talks Start In Doha
...a substantial fall in costs, because of widening deployment and substantial oversupply. The agency’s World Energy Outlook 2012 envisages global solar PV capacity increasing from 67gw in 2011 to 600gw in 2035. Yet in 2035 solar PV will account for only 7.5% of global renewables capacity – half will co...
Volume: 55Issue: 49Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012 -
Algeria Awards Ain Arnat Contract To Korean Firms
...mand growth of 12.3% a year between now and 2017. Sonelgaz noted that demand on the grid outstripped supply in August, with record demand of 10.06gw exceeding the 2011 peak by more than 14% (MEES, 27 August). Sonelgaz was forced to undertake load-shedding over the summer, particularly in the southeast, be...
Volume: 55Issue: 49Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2012 -
Iran Nuclear Plant Shut Down, UAE Gauges Impact Of Korea Safety Scam
...rrently on hold (MEES, 7 September). Iran Nuclear Power Plants Location Capacity (MW) Status Bushehr 1,000 Start-up September 2011. Reached full capacity September 20...
Volume: 55Issue: 48Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2012 -
Jordan Continuing Power Capacity Push With Alstom Awards
...contracted gas supplies from Egypt since the overthrow of the Husni Mubarak regime in January 2011. Alstom said the first contract involves the delivery of a GT13E2 gas turbine and associated spares for a new fast-track simple-cycle gas-fired plant being built by Metka at Zarqa, near ‘Am...
Volume: 55Issue: 46Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2012 -
MENA Solar Power Progressing In Small Steps
...derstanding (MOU) with Morocco’s Agency for the Development of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (Aderee) for the exchange of expertise in developing energy policy and regulation. DII is currently developing joint projects with Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. In May 2011, DII and Masen signed an MOU for a re...
Volume: 55Issue: 45Published at Fri, 02 Nov 2012 -
Iraq Wakes Up From Power Shortage Nightmare
...litical boon for their rulers – there were regular and occasionally violent protests against power cuts, leading to the sacking of successive electricity ministers in the wake of both summer 2011 and summer 2010. Furthermore, years of deprivation taught Iraqis self-reliance and substantial off-gr...
Volume: 55Issue: 44Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2012 -
Turkey Turning To Nuclear Power, Counting On Coal
...wer generation by 2023, the republic’s centennial year. The disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011 and its repercussions forced a re-think in Ankara about nuclear power, but it now appears that Turkey’s future energy needs have convinced the government that reactor-ge...
Volume: 55Issue: 43Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012 -
Wärtsilä-Led Group To Build Jordan Power Plant
...om Egypt was reduced following the overthrow of the Husni Mubarak regime in early 2011 (MEES, 12 October). Wärtsilä’s partner in the project is South Korea’s Lotte Engineering and Construction. The Finnish firm noted that it has a minority interest in ‘Amman Asia Electric Power, where th...
Volume: 55Issue: 43Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2012 -
SEC Awards PP12 Gas Turbines Contract To GE
...neration. GE has been developing fuel flexibility technologies to enable combined cycle gas turbines – which are significantly more efficient than conventional oil-fired steam boiler technology – to be fuelled by HFO. In 2011 the company commissioned a 310mw combined cycle power plant in Sri Lanka, which op...
Volume: 55Issue: 41Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2012 -
Marafiq Extends Jacobs’ Project Management Contract
...nbu’ 2 was originally intended to be an IWPP project, but because of problems raising finance under this model, Marafiq opted for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract format (MEES, 13 July 2009). The Yanbu’ 2 PMC contract was awarded to Jacobs in September 2011 and the EP...
Volume: 55Issue: 41Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2012 -
AES Jordan Secures OPIC Funding For New Power Plant
...gime in early 2011. OPIC said that electricity generated by the new ‘peaker plant’ – it will provide electricity during periods of peak usage, such as evenings and summer months – will be taken by Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (Nepco) under a power purchase agreement with AES Jo...
Volume: 55Issue: 40Published at Fri, 28 Sep 2012 -
Iraqi Electricity Industry Poised For 20,000MW Lift-Off
...nisters (MEES, 3 October 2011). Generation has risen this year slightly to 8,450mw, but high loss rates erode effectiveness to around 7,000mw. This is not much higher than the woeful levels Iraq has been stuck at for several years, and it includes around 1,600mw of imports. However, now re...
Volume: 55Issue: 39Published at Fri, 21 Sep 2012