Jordan Plans to Expand Regional Interconnections

Trilateral energy cooperation between Egypt, Jordan and Iraq is deepening. Jordan acts as a hub, importing electricity from Egypt and exporting electricity to Iraq in turn. Discussions are underway with both Egypt and Jo...

Masdar Closes Saudi Solar Financing

Abu Dhabi state renewables firm Masdar announced on 19 August that financial close has been achieved for the 2GW Al Sadawi solar PV plant in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The project is being developed by Masdar alo...

Iran Inaugurates NGL Plant | MEES

Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian inaugurated the NGL 3100 gas processing facility in the western Ilam province on 17 August . The $1.6bn project has suffered long delays and was developed to handle associated gas fro...

Israel Approves Leviathan Expansion Plan

Israel’s Energy Ministry approved an updated development plan for the Chevron-operated 22.3tcf Leviathan gas field on 21 August, under which capacity will be increased to 2.1bn cfd by 2029. “This plan inter alia incl...

Kurdistan’s Miran Partners Target 2027 First Gas

First gas from the Miran field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq could be achieved as soon as 2027, making it the semi-autonomous region’s third non-associated gas field to come online. The joint venture partners, US fir...

Egypt and IRH Advance Mining Partnership Talks

Egypt and IRH Advance Mining Partnership Talks

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, met with Shailender Sinha, (MAusIMM), Vice President of Exploration at the UAE-based International Resources Holding (IRH), and Conrad Alderton, IRH Principal Ge...

GKP Restarts Shaikan Field | MEES

Gulf Keystone announced this week that it has restarted production at its Shaikan oil field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The field was shut-in as a precaution on 16 July following drone attacks on neighboring oilfiel...