Investment Potentials in the Energy Sector of the Middle East
Investment Potentials in the Energy Sector of the Middle East

Author: Asgar Abdullazade

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2018-01-22

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 3668618860

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Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1.6, TU Dortmund, language: English, abstract: The Middle East countries Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia that were analyzed for investment potentials possess natural energy resources in copious amounts, share a high dependency on oil or gas while renewables barely play any role and have strong religious tendencies in politics as well as differences compared to western countries when it comes to aspects of cultural, religion, understanding and business practices. The most promising investments that were stated out are: LNG liquefication facility in Iran, since Iran has large natural gas reserves and production capacities, but doesn’t export gas at all. PV modules for Iraq, since expensive projects are comparably risky in this country and some of the population has no or just limited access to electricity – the demand exceeds the supply. For Saudi Arabia, larger scale solar power plant projects like Parabolic Troughs are most promising, since Saudi Arabia is very dependent on oil and has a very high carbon dioxide emission and a weak energy diversity. Especially the liquefication facility in Iran seems to have enormous potential on the long run. The implementation of PV in Iraq is highly dependent on the business model and governmental support. Such support is also needed for the solar power plant in Saudi Arabia, since the electricity prices are subsidized in a way, that the electricity generated through a Parabolic Trough would most likely be not competitive without any form of support. However, such support is likely, since the project is very beneficial for Saudia Arabia and huge investments in the energy sector are planned anyways. For the further realization of such projects its mandatory to make a sophisticated economically and feasibility analysis that considers all the relevant variables and more specific information and data. But especially renewable energies which are massively underrepresented in the Middle East seem to have a good potential which will probably increase further since more experience and better technologies are achieved. The Middle East is a region with large natural resources and therefore with a theoretically enormous amount of investment possibilities. However, big players, state-owned companies, restrictions and difficulties regarding law, culture and business practices can overall decrease the attractivity of investments in this area.

Energy Transitions in the Middle East
Energy Transitions in the Middle East

Author: Katherine Wolff

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-01-25

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0755650379

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How do Middle East energy transitions fit into international energy markets? In this book, energy analysts, geopolitical experts and specialists of political economy examine the new energy potential in the Middle East. The particular focus surrounds how the region's access to finance, combined with the new global regulations and considerations of economic development, shape the region's energy transitions overall. The Middle East is revealed to be a key site of new energy production, sharing and transmission as well as technology innovation. At the same time, the authors examine the variables that determine the success in each country and energy source, including the advantages that hydrocarbon producers will have in renewables and transition fuels, and the risk that these might slow down the energy transition overall. In doing so, the book situates the energy transition in the Middle East in a broader context of economic development, financing models, and regulations, and explains how this context interacts with the development of new energy sources. Energy Transitions in the Middle East is an account of the challenges Middle Eastern states will face in navigating the global energy transition, as well as their key areas of opportunity.

Energy Transitions in the Middle East
Energy Transitions in the Middle East

Author: Katherine Wolff

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-01-25

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0755650395

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How do Middle East energy transitions fit into international energy markets? In this book, energy analysts, geopolitical experts and specialists of political economy examine the new energy potential in the Middle East. The particular focus surrounds how the region's access to finance, combined with the new global regulations and considerations of economic development, shape the region's energy transitions overall. The Middle East is revealed to be a key site of new energy production, sharing and transmission as well as technology innovation. At the same time, the authors examine the variables that determine the success in each country and energy source, including the advantages that hydrocarbon producers will have in renewables and transition fuels, and the risk that these might slow down the energy transition overall. In doing so, the book situates the energy transition in the Middle East in a broader context of economic development, financing models, and regulations, and explains how this context interacts with the development of new energy sources. Energy Transitions in the Middle East is an account of the challenges Middle Eastern states will face in navigating the global energy transition, as well as their key areas of opportunity.

Renewable Energy in the Middle East
Renewable Energy in the Middle East

Author: Michael Mason

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-08-28

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1402098901

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Energy insecurity is not normally associated with the Middle East. However, away from the oil-rich Persian Gulf, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean are particularly vulnerable. Their fossil fuel endowments are low, while their fractious relationships with each other have long fostered wider political insecurities. Focusing on the Jordan Basin (Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Jordan), this timely volume addresses the prospects for the adoption of renewable energy in the oil-poor Middle East. Featuring regional energy experts, it offers an invaluable survey. After outlining the regional security context, this book first reviews renewable energy policy and practices in the Jordan Basin. It then considers options for greening energy use, including promising pilot projects in North Africa. The initiatives discussed encompass renewable energy finance, energy-efficient rural communities, and solar and wind energy. There is significant potential for an increase in the uptake of renewable energy technologies in the eastern Mediterranean. This window of opportunity has been created by high oil prices, energy infrastructure investment opportunities, and the UN climate change regime. In conclusion, the book considers the institutional conditions for collaborative decision-making on renewable energy. Such cooperation would deliver substantial security and human development benefits to the region, and indeed the world.

The Political and Economic Challenges of Energy in the Middle East and North Africa
The Political and Economic Challenges of Energy in the Middle East and North Africa

Author: David Ramin Jalilvand

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1351783483

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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in disarray, and shifts in the field of energy have the potential to drastically affect the course of political and economic developments in the region. Declining oil prices, skyrocketing domestic demand, the rise of unconventional oil and natural gas production in North America, as well as shifting patterns of global energy trade all put severe pressures on both producing and importing countries in the MENA region. Policy-makers are facing fundamental challenges in light of the duality of grand transformations in (geo)politics and energy. Changes in the field of energy require substantial political and economic reforms, affecting the very fabric of sociopolitical arrangements. At the same time, the MENA region’s geopolitical volatility makes any such reforms extremely risky. Including contributions by academics and analysts from both inside and outside the MENA region, this volume explores the changes in global and regional energy, the impact of changing international energy dynamics on politics and economies in the MENA region, and the challenges that will result. This is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates, and professionals in Middle Eastern and North African politics, global energy governance and regionalism.

Energy Developments in the Middle East
Energy Developments in the Middle East

Author: Anthony H. Cordesman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-09-30

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0313026750

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The Middle Eastern and North African region (MENA) dominates world energy exports today and will likely do so for decades to come, even if world consumers make steady progress in conservation, renewable energy sources, and increases from gas, coal, and nuclear power. The MENA region, however, has been the scene of both internal crises and external conflicts. On several occasions, these crises have affected either the flow of MENA energy exports or the development of energy production and export capacity. The politics, economics, and social dynamics that shape threats to regional stability are complex. Cordesman details the factors behind these diverse forces and outlines current supply levels and future trends, taking each of these variables into consideration. The MENA area includes at least 22 states, with a combined population of nearly 300 million, each with different political, economic, demographic, and security conditions and needs. It is divided into at least four sub-regions including the Maghreb (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia); the Levant and the Arab-Israeli confrontation states (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria); the Gulf (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Oman); and the Red Sea states (Yemen, the Sudan, and Somalia). This important guide outlines the forces affecting each sub-region, including supply, demand, and financing, and forecasts the likely impact that different scenarios would have on energy resources under varying world conditions.

Energy Investment Advisory Series No. 3
Energy Investment Advisory Series No. 3

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Sometimes the greatest investment opportunities are in those areas where the least progress seems to be taking place. This report describes energy-based developments taking place in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. The 8 Gulf states are building their nations; each has large minority groups and swelling populations; their economies are built on one product (hydrocarbons). Large expatriate populations, being integrated into local societies and economies, have led to hostility and guarded access to contacts with the outside world. Gulf nations cannot benefit from any oil price rise as they did in the past, as their populations have grown too rapidly. Policies change daily and can be changed back to original ones as well as into new ones. Since the oil and gas industries are the primary source of government revenue, oil and gas are likely to remain longest under government control. A breakdown of energy-base investment potentials in the Middle East is tabulated: upstream oil, refining, domestic oil marketing, upstream gas, LNG, electricity, petrochemical.

Energy and Environment in Saudi Arabia: Concerns & Opportunities
Energy and Environment in Saudi Arabia: Concerns & Opportunities

Author: Nahed Taher

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 3319029827

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The vast oil resources in Saudi Arabia have for decades encouraged a generous system of oil subsidies, making the Kingdom one of the leading countries in the world with the cheapest domestic price of oil. Such subsidies have, however, encouraged inefficient utilization of oil, which is largely consumed in the power, water and transportation sectors, contributing substantially to CO2 emission in the country. These problems are exacerbated by demographic dynamics, urbanization, changes in income and consumption patterns, and industrialization. On current trends of domestic consumption patterns, Saudi Arabia will consume the whole of the oil it will produce by 2030, which will reflect negatively on the financial capacity of the government to execute its development programs. It is this revenue constraining concern, rather than ecological challenges, that has started to attract policy attention in Saudi Arabia. This book gives a unique perspective on these challenges by looking at them as investment opportunities, not financial constraints on the government budget. It sets out to examine the nature and extent of the energy and environmental challenges facing Saudi Arabia, and to explore various options for turning these challenges into profitable investment opportunities that could create jobs, boost income, develop capability in clean energy technology and promote environmental sustainability.

Electricity-sector Reforms in the MENA Region
Electricity-sector Reforms in the MENA Region

Author: Leila Benali

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 331996268X

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This book uses electricity-sector reforms to question some of the preconceived ideas concerning the MENA region and to provide a broader analysis of related political economy issues. It presents potential further developments of MENA’s electricity-sector reforms, taking into consideration the region’s unique constraints and opportunities, and discusses the practical limits of reform and deregulation. Specifically, it examines the relationship between reforms and oil prices from a new perspective and presents alternatives to the Single Buyer Model. Complementing existing research on electricity-sector reforms in other emerging markets, the book provides a new analytical framework for assessing reforms that can be easily applied to other markets and sectors.