Power & Water

Israel’s state electric company, IEC, has launched a request for proposals for “an estimated” 2bcm/y of gas from the...

Jordan’s debt-ridden power firm Nepco has signed a $265mn concessionary loan deal with the European Bank for Reconstruction and...

Saudi state power firm SEC has signed a revolving credit facility with nine international banks to raise up to...

Saudi has grand plans to spend $150bn to make gas shortages history. It even aims to become an exporter. It will likely have to snag overseas assets to achieve this.

Riyadh is readying power privatization by hiving off SEC’s key generation assets in a separate subsidiary. The split into four private generators is planned.

The Daehan Wind Power Company, a joint venture of Korea’s Kospo and Daelim, awarded an engineering, procurement and construction...

Amman is seeing results from its push toward renewables and gas. But the country’s energy future remains tied to developments abroad—particularly Israel’s Leviathan. Direct Israel-to-Jordan gas sales are contentious, whilst Israel-to-Egypt plans could scupper Jordan's ambition to tap Egypt's gas.

Saudi power generators have increased the gap between capacity and peak load. With planned solar and nuclear additions years off, this capacity cushion may shrink.

The Pearl consortium, key gas producer in Iraqi Kurdistan, has hiked output capacity to 400mn cfd. Extra gas will enable start-up at a new CCGT plant.

Oman state utility OPWP has listed the bidders for a project to build, own and operate Oman’s first utility-scale...

Morocco is the leading Mena wind generator and is expected to double renewables capacity by 2023. Rabat is tendering for LNG imports, but coal is king for now.

Jordan’s Minister of Energy Hala Zawati has announced the start of work on a new wind farm in Tafila...