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Oman Lays Out Plan For 30% Renewables By 2030
...gure closer to 9.2bcm more likely. MEES estimates indicate that gas consumption will peak at around 10bcm in 2027, before dropping by more than 30% to less than 7bcm by 2030, which would make it the lowest since 2011 (see chart 4). Achieving this decline will require a significant improvement in...
Volume: 69Issue: 09Published at Fri, 27 Feb 2026 -
Syria Signs Socar Gas MoU, While Israel Launches Airstrikes
...24). Restoring Syria’s electricity sector, which provided 24/7 service before the outbreak of civil war in 2011 but now manages just a few hours a day in many regions, is a key pillar of the new government’s social contract with the population. Turkey is certainly playing its part in helping the new le...
Volume: 68Issue: 29Published at Fri, 18 Jul 2025 -
Iraq Turns To Turkey To Ease Electricity Shortages
...stem operator TEİAŞ continues to list allocated capacity at up to 300MW out to December 2025. There is also a second line linking Turkey’s Silopi to Kurdistan’s Zakho, but this has not been used since 2011, and attempts to restart the line in 2021 fell apart due to disagreements with Turkish energy tr...
Volume: 68Issue: 24Published at Fri, 13 Jun 2025 -
UAE Nuclear Powergen Soars, As Saudi Seeks US Partnership
...5MW Bushehr-1 reactor in 2011, a decade after work on the plant had resumed in 2001 after being halted by the 1979 revolution (MEES, 7 September 2012). Bushehr-1 generates around 6TWh annually – around 15% of the UAE total (see chart) – but while Iran was a regional pioneer, plans for Russia’s Rosatom to...
Volume: 68Issue: 22Published at Fri, 30 May 2025 -
Nuclear, Renewables Drive Abu Dhabi’s Gas-For-Power Demand To Fresh Lows
...u Dhabi and Fujairah increased by 6% last year to a record 108.5TWh. The continued growth in clean-power generation means that Ewec’s gas consumption fell for the seventh consecutive year to 1.67bn cfd, the lowest figure since 2011 (see chart 2). Ewec’s gas consumption is now down 680mn cfd from its 20...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Kuwait Aims To Award Solar Project By Year End
...cilities at Shagaya. The outgoing minister previously headed up the facility from its inception in 2011. RENEWABLES: 30% BY 2030? Mr Hajraf told the WEF that “we just updated our strategy from a 15% renewables share by 2030 to 30% by 2030.” According to Kuwait’s definition, this entails re...
Volume: 67Issue: 18Published at Fri, 03 May 2024 -
Cyprus Aims For 2025 LNG Imports
...s will have replaced oil as Cyprus’ dominant powergen fuel by mid-2025. The Vasilikos plant is slated to exclusively run gas at its two most modern 220MW combined cycle gas turbine units installed in 2011. Were these units to run flat out they would generate an annual 3.85TWh, just shy of th...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
Saudi Efforts To Cut Oil Burn Take Backwards Step In 2022
...e year, crude burn rose sharply in November and December. Crude burn increased by 48,000 b/d month-on-month to a December record of 477,000 b/d, smashing the previous record of 424,000 b/d from 2011 in the process. Meanwhile fuel oil burn dropped by 36,000 b/d for December. Again, this shift to...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Anbar Power Plants To Build Case For Akkas Gas?
...kas power plant was built by the now defunct Indian EPC contractor Lanco Infratech for $81.26mn after being awarded the contract in 2011 by Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity. The sum excludes the cost of two GE 125MW gas fired turbines that make up the generation units. In 2014, the site fell to the Is...
Volume: 65Issue: 34Published at Fri, 26 Aug 2022 -
Egypt Fuel Oil Burn At 4-Year High As Cairo Prioritizes LNG Exports
...y managed to maintain LNG exports at near-record levels. Egyptian LNG exports of 3.31mn tons for the first five months of 2022 – with an average of 1.12bn cfd of gas delivered to the country’s two LNG plants – are up 10% year-on-year and put 2022 on track for the highest LNG exports since 2011 ac...
Volume: 65Issue: 25Published at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 -
Energean & Vitol Eye Israel-Cyprus FLNG Tie-Up
...esumably the choice of Cyprus, rather than Israel, as a location for the FLNG is with the aim of securing supplies from one of the three discovered gas fields off the south of the island: Chevron’s 4.1tcf Aphrodite (2011 discovery), Eni’s 6-8tcf Calypso (2018), and US major ExxonMobil’s 2019 5-8tcf Glaucus di...
Volume: 65Issue: 18Published at Fri, 06 May 2022 -
Iraq Poised For 500MW Turkey Power Imports
...nce at least 2019. Ministry plans seen by MEES show two planned links. The first uses an existing 132KV line from Silopi in Turkey to Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan which was last used in 2011 at an average 5MW. A contract for 150MW of 2021 imports did not go ahead after Turkish energy trader Aksa Aksen as...
Volume: 65Issue: 10Published at Fri, 11 Mar 2022 -
Tunisia Draws Record Power From Algeria In 2021
...WER SUPPLY JUMPS TO ALL TIME HIGH ON RECORD IMPORTS FROM ALGERIA (TWH) *TUNISIA EXPORTED NEGLIGIBLE AMOUNTS TO ALGERIA IN 2011, 2014 AND 2015. IT ALSO EXPORTS POWER TO LIBYA WHICH CAME IN AT 649GWH IN 2020 AND 62GWH IN 2021. SOURCE: STEG, ENERGY MINISTRY, MEES CALCULATIONS. 2: TU...
Volume: 65Issue: 07Published at Fri, 18 Feb 2022 -
Riyadh, Cairo Sign $1.8bn Power Connection Deals
...ows have fallen well below their 2011-12 peak. Electricity sent to Jordan was down 12% year on year at 278GWh for 2019-20, an implied average flow of just 32MW, while that received from Jordan was up 36% to 95GWh, according to the latest stats from Egypt’s Electricity Holding Company (EEHC). Flows to Li...
Volume: 64Issue: 40Published at Fri, 08 Oct 2021 -
Israeli Utility IEC Bags Price Cut For Tamar Gas
...ke or pay volume of 3bcm/y under a 15-year deal signed back in 2012, although this was due to carry forward volumes. This contract set a fixed base price of $5.042/mn BTU as of 2011 with subsequent annual adjustment according to US inflation (CPI) plus 1%, switching to minus 1% from 2020. By 2020 th...
Volume: 64Issue: 29Published at Fri, 23 Jul 2021 -
Iraq Targets 22GW Peak Supply This Summer
...ant in north-east Baghdad awarded to the French company in 2011. ...
Volume: 64Issue: 22Published at Fri, 04 Jun 2021 -
Delek Readies New East Med Spin-Off
...8% of Tamar (see charts and MEES, 4 December 2020). The 22.7tcf Leviathan field produced 1.04bn cfd for Q1, whilst operator Chevron (36.66%) has advanced expansion plans since taking over Noble Energy late last year (MEES, 23 April). Cyprus’ 4.1tcf 2011 Aphrodite discovery, also now operated by Ch...
Volume: 64Issue: 18Published at Fri, 07 May 2021 -
India Crude Imports: Saudi Slumps To No.5 With Volumes At 10-Year Low
...Latest official Indian crude import statistics show volumes from Saudi Arabia falling to just 467,000 b/d for February, the lowest figure since January 2011. This comes as New Delhi and Riyadh continue a war of words, with India slamming Opec in general and Saudi Arabia in particular for ke...
Volume: 64Issue: 13Published at Fri, 02 Apr 2021 -
Egypt Power: Plentiful Gas, Falling Demand Make Shortfalls A Distant Memory
...mediate aftermath of Egypt’s 2011 revolution when the country was chronically short of gas, and thus fuel flexibility – the plant can also run on liquid fuels – was paramount (MEES, 5 July 2013). The next plant set for start up is also a conventional steam turbine plant commissioned when Egypt was st...
Volume: 64Issue: 12Published at Fri, 26 Mar 2021 -
East Med Geopolitical Waters Remain Far From Smooth
...e division of reserves from the 4.1tcf Aphrodite field, which though around 90% lies in Cypriot waters, straddles the countries’ maritime border. Nicosia hopes that this deal will increase the chances of the 2011 discovery by Noble Energy (now Chevron) being developed along the lines of a de...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021