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Morocco Pushing Renewables, Eyes LNG Imports In Bid For Cleaner Power
...art). Morocco overtook Egypt as Mena’s largest wind generator in 2014 (MEES, 27 April). Morocco added to its wind capacity in June with the completion of the 120MW Khalladi wind farm at Jbel Sendouq, 30km from Tangier. The farm was developed by Saudi private firm Acwa Power at a cost of $170mn, wi...
Volume: 61Issue: 46Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2018 -
Houthis Eye Tempting Target
...Since Aramco began building the Jazan refinery and associated oil terminal in 2014, the local geopolitical situation has deteriorated sharply, with Riyadh supporting the Yemeni government in its campaign to quell Houthi rebels, whose area of operation is just south of Jazan in northern Ye...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018 -
Aramco Ready To Fire Up Power Plant As Key Jazan Projects Near Completion
...C First phase 1mn t/y steel billets, second phase 1mn t/y Steefco (2014) 0.04 Within JEC Forming, coating 180,000 t/y of steel rebar and mesh U/C: Jazan refinery (2019) 7.00 Within JEC 400kb/d CDU. Output in...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018 -
SEC Takes First Steps Toward Saudi Power Sector Shake-Up
...ectricity tariffs is also shown in consumption data, with SEC’s grid-delivered electricity consumption falling from a peak of 214.6TWh for 2014 to 206.0TWh for 2016 and 204.6TWh for 2017. The 2017 report reflects a Saudi move towards burning more fuel oil and less crude in power plants. In 2017 steam tu...
Volume: 61Issue: 37Published at Fri, 14 Sep 2018 -
Mena Coal Plans Get Big Boost From Egyptian Project With Chinese Cash
...35 700MW expansion completed in 2014 Mohammedia Morocco ONEE 0.30 1....
Volume: 61Issue: 36Published at Fri, 07 Sep 2018 -
Aramco Advances Jazan Plans With $8bn Gas-To-Power Deal
...e IGCC. INDUSTRIAL HEART Aramco began building the Jazan refinery and terminal in 2014 as the “industrial heart” of government’s Jazan Economic City (JEC) project. JEC’s purpose is to “stimulate manufacturing and industry in the kingdom’s southwest” and “place Jazan as a commercial and in...
Volume: 61Issue: 33Published at Fri, 17 Aug 2018 -
Algeria Makes Electricity Gains, But Struggles To Power The Future
...2 2012 Bellara Hyundai E&C/Daewoo 1.44 194 2014 Ou...
Volume: 61Issue: 25Published at Fri, 22 Jun 2018 -
Gulf Countries Throw Jordan A $2.5bn Lifeline Amid Unrest
...financial and development aid over a five-year period (MEES, 25 January 2013). Agreements to disburse some of this aid were signed in early 2013, and some funds were actually allocated to specific development projects. But the flow of GCC aid slowed with the 2014 crash in oil prices. With the re...
Volume: 61Issue: 24Published at Fri, 15 Jun 2018 -
Tunisia Looks To The Sun To Cut Dependence On Algerian Gas
...ongside seven straight years of falling output since the 2010 peak of 310mn cfd. Initially this fall was due to instability and bureaucratic inertia in the wake of the country’s 2011 revolution, with the slump in oil prices since late 2014 providing a second blow to investment as IOCs slashed capex (MEES, 23...
Volume: 61Issue: 22Published at Fri, 01 Jun 2018 -
Algeria Eyes Solar To Power Oil Operations, But ‘It’s A Long-Term Job’
...om renewables. These will be small projects whose capacity is around 100MW.” Algeria’s solar capacity has risen quickly of late, although from a low level, to 425MW at the end of 2017, while wind capacity has languished at 10MW since 2014 (see chart). The solar increase is attributable to small-sc...
Volume: 61Issue: 20Published at Fri, 18 May 2018 -
Saudi Oil Exports Hit New Peak But Crude Burn Rises
...-year but were the highest since 2014 (see chart 3). However, February’s fall in fuel oil consumption meant that total oil burn that month remained down year-on-year. Sizeable cuts in oil-fired power generation are unlikely until 2019 when the 2.5bn cfd Fadhili plant is due to come online (ME...
Volume: 61Issue: 16Published at Fri, 20 Apr 2018 -
OMV Restarts Yemen Output
...curity situation forced delays, production hit a record 14,500 b/d in 2014. OMV in early 2015 forecast the completion of the phase-2 wells and the central processing facility by the end of the year with plateau output of 23,000 b/d hit in 2016. But the firm halted its Yemen operations from April 20...
Volume: 61Issue: 16Published at Fri, 20 Apr 2018 -
Israeli Gas Development: Can The Domestic Power Market Absorb It?
...soil consumption falling to around 10,000 b/d (1% of demand) since 2014 (see chart, and data, p9). But perhaps the best chance of Noble snagging additional domestic gas customers is from industrial end users. Here demand has been limited by supply with a number of gas-fired industrial projects po...
Volume: 61Issue: 13Published at Fri, 30 Mar 2018 -
Iraq’s Power Generators Gorge On Rising Gas, Cutting Crude Burn
...0,000 b/d in 2016 and the highest level since 570,000 b/d was processed in 1H 2014, just before the Baiji refinery was trashed. Although the ministry’s SCOP engineering unit has been able to repair small refineries and is currently working on rebuilding one of Baiji’s three units, it has had no success in at...
Volume: 61Issue: 11Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018 -
Dewa Awards Gas-Fired Power Project
...tensive LNG export commitments – around 90% goes to Japan, which took 4.68mn tons in 2017 down from 4.99mn t in 2016 and a record 5.70mn t in 2014 (see chart, MEES, 16 February). This means that the UAE only achieves gas balance by importing 1.7bn cfd via the Dolphin pipeline from Qatar to Abu Dhabi as...
Volume: 61Issue: 07Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018 -
Iraq’s Crude Burn Falls From Peak As Generators Exploit Alternative Fuels
...NERATION (MW) Plant type 2014 2015 2016 2017 Steam turbine 3,...
Volume: 61Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018 -
Saudi Electricity Borrows $2.6bn To Fund Capital Projects As Debts Soar
...test loan is the firm’s largest from the international finance sector, it is dwarfed by a $13.2bn government ‘soft loan’ provided in 2014 (see table). The firm’s total stock of finance market lending is now almost double that sourced from the government. Nevertheless, money owed to the Ministry of Fi...
Volume: 61Issue: 04Published at Fri, 26 Jan 2018 -
Israel-Jordan Spat Threatens Already Precarious Cooperation
...ivately-owned Arab Potash plant at the southern end of the Dead Sea has been taking gas from Israel’s Tamar field (also operated by Noble) since Q1 2017 under a 1.9bcm, 15-year deal inked in 2014. On an economic level the Leviathan deal looks to be a boon for Israel and Jordan alike. Israel has st...
Volume: 61Issue: 03Published at Fri, 19 Jan 2018 -
Saudi Shortlists Two In Solar Tender – But Not The Cheapest
...ant, which was inaugurated in 2014 after being built as a pilot project by state petroleum firm Bapco to supply some electricity to its Awali refinery. Iran is the largest renewables operator in the region, with 11.64GW of end-2016 capacity. However, 11.49GW (99%) of this is hydropower. Iran’s en...
Volume: 61Issue: 02Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2018