Tissue giant helps ease gas demand

By John A. Vignoli and J. Scott Applewhite

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The first of several planned wind farms in the UAE is nearing completion and is expected to provide 8.2 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity from a single plant, or enough to meet about 70 percent of the country's total electricity demand.

In addition, the project will allow the company to make a major effort to reduce emissions to the atmosphere and, if all goes well, will also help meet its target for reducing fuel consumption by 12 to 15 percent from 2010 levels by 2035 and provide around 4.6 billion tons of CO2 equivalent (tonnes) of economic and environmental benefits over the life of the project.

The UAE National Energy Authority (NEA), a project joint venture with German and Spanish energy majors Tepco (to which it is a licensee) and Royal Dutch Shell (to which it is a subcontractor), is aiming to achieve the same aims in the country by 2036.

"I am confident the UAE is poised for a huge increase in energy security," says A. M. Akwaib Shafiq, head of the NEA, who led a meeting of the project's five stakeholder groups with representatives from the government and business, and representatives of the private sector and the private sector firms. "This announcement shows that the energy security of the UAE is at the highest and best level."

The NEA believes the development of its new gas field can be a positive part of efforts to reduce emissions. At the same time, Shafiq acknowledges the difficulty of achieving the ambitious target: "At the moment, when the project is under construction, we are experiencing an unexpected windstorm."

He hopes the windstorm will have calmed by the end of 2015 and that the construction of the new gas field will start up in earnest in 2016. However, Shafiq admits that progress must be made before the windstorm will be quietened: "The windstorm could be over in three weeks. We must be ready in time to take the best measures to ensure the project is successful."

The new gas field lies between Baraki, in the south of the country and Baraki at Kifa, a major production facility in the eastern province of Al Dhafra. Its total power requirements are 5.1 billion kilowatts—about 15 percent of all UAE's power needs—over the course of the project.

The construction of the project is part of a campaign by the NEA to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2030 by taking advantage of the country's energy diversification resources.

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