World Bank2012-03-192012-03-192009-10-01https://hdl.handle.net/10986/3196This report has been prepared by Economic Consulting Associates (ECA) under contract to the World Bank to explore the potential for interconnection and electricity trade among Yemen and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The primary objective for this study is to identify the efficient scenarios to utilize gas and electricity resources through cross-border integration among Yemen and the GCC countries. The analysis includes an assessment of gas resources available for the electricity systems and identification of the potential for cross-border interconnections and integration among the respective countries to identify efficient, ways to utilize the gas resources and generation capacities from national and regional perspectives. The key findings of the study are as follows: a) reform of natural gas pricing policies in the GCC countries would encourage the development of gas resources and discourage the use of gas for energy intensive export industries, petrochemicals, aluminum, etc. This will release natural gas for power generation and could release some gas for export either to GCC neighbors or to the rest of the world; and b) there are no benefits to interconnecting Yemen and Saudi Arabia's networks for trade in bulk electricity. Yemen's power system is too unreliable at present to be considered for reserve sharing as a member of the GCC interconnection scheme. Investigation of the Yemen-Saudi interconnection should therefore be postponed.CC BY 3.0 IGOALTERNATIVE ENERGYALTERNATIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIESASSOCIATED GASAVAILABILITYBALANCEBARRELBOILERSBORDER TRADEBURNING COALCOALCOGENERATIONCONCESSIONCRUDE OILDAILY LOADDEMAND FOR ELECTRICITYDEMAND FOR GASDEMAND FORECASTDIESELDISTRIBUTION COMPANYDISTRIBUTION OF GASDOMESTIC GASDOMESTIC NATURAL GASDOMESTIC NATURAL GAS PRODUCTIONDOMINANT FUELDRILLINGDRILLING ACTIVITYDRY GASELECTRIC GENERATING CAPACITYELECTRIC POWERELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMELECTRICITYELECTRICITY COMPANYELECTRICITY CONSUMPTIONELECTRICITY DEMANDELECTRICITY GENERATIONELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITYELECTRICITY PRICESELECTRICITY PRODUCTIONELECTRICITY SALESELECTRICITY SECTORELECTRICITY SUPPLYELECTRICITY TARIFFELECTRICITY TARIFFSENERGY DEMANDENERGY GENERATIONENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATIONENERGY INTENSIVEENERGY MARKETENERGY OUTLOOKENERGY RESOURCESENERGY SUPPLYEXPLORATORY WELLSEXPORT PIPELINEFEEDSTOCKFEEDSTOCK PRICESFUELFUEL DEMANDFUEL MIXFUEL SOURCESFUEL TYPEFUELSGASGAS AND ELECTRICITYGAS AUTHORITYGAS COMPANYGAS DEMAND PROJECTIONSGAS DEVELOPMENTGAS DISTRIBUTIONGAS EXPLORATIONGAS EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENTGAS EXPORTSGAS EXTRACTIONGAS FEEDSTOCKGAS FIELDGAS FIELDSGAS FLARINGGAS FLARING REDUCTIONGAS INFRASTRUCTUREGAS NETWORKGAS NETWORKSGAS PIPELINE NETWORKGAS PIPELINE NETWORKSGAS PIPELINE PROJECTGAS PLANTGAS PRICESGAS PRICING POLICIESGAS PROCESSINGGAS PROCESSING FACILITIESGAS PROCESSING PLANTSGAS PRODUCTION FORECASTGAS PROJECTGAS PROJECTSGAS RECOVERYGAS RESERVESGAS SALESGAS SECTORGAS SHORTAGESGAS SUPPLYGAS SYSTEMGAS TRANSMISSIONGAS TRANSMISSION SYSTEMGAS TURBINEGAS TURBINESGASIFICATIONGENERATION UNITSGRID WILLHEATHEAT RECOVERYHEAVY FUEL OILINCOMEINTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCYINTERNATIONAL INVESTORSINTERNATIONAL OIL COMPANIESINVESTMENT IN GAS EXPLORATIONLIQUEFACTIONLIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASLIQUIFIED NATURAL GASLNGLNG TERMINALLOAD CURVELOAD FACTORLOAD PROFILEMAIN GRIDMEMBER STATESMINERALNATIONAL GASNATIONAL GRIDNATIONAL OILNATURAL GASNATURAL GAS CONSUMPTIONNATURAL GAS DEMANDNATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTIONNATURAL GAS FOR EXPORTNATURAL GAS LIQUIDSNATURAL GAS MARKETNATURAL GAS PIPELINENATURAL GAS PIPELINE CAPACITYNATURAL GAS PRICESNATURAL GAS PRICINGNATURAL GAS PRODUCTIONNATURAL GAS RESERVESNATURAL GAS RESOURCESNATURAL GAS SECTORNATURAL GAS SUPPLYNEW PLANTSNGLSOILOIL AND GASOIL COMPANIESOIL COMPANYOIL DISCOVERIESOIL EQUIVALENTOIL EXPORTSOIL FIELDOIL FIELDSOIL OUTPUTOIL PIPELINEOIL PIPELINE PROJECTOIL PRODUCTIONOIL RESERVESOPECPEAK DEMANDPEAK ELECTRICITY DEMANDPEAK LOADPELLETSPETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIESPETROCHEMICALSPETROLEUMPETROLEUM COMPANYPETROLEUM CORPORATIONPETROLEUM DEVELOPMENTPETROLEUM EXPLORATIONPETROLEUM GASPETROLEUM PRODUCTSPIPELINEPIPELINE INFRASTRUCTUREPIPELINE LINKINGPIPELINE ROUTEPIPELINESPOWERPOWER CAPACITYPOWER GENERATING CAPACITYPOWER GENERATIONPOWER GENERATION CAPACITYPOWER GRIDPOWER GRIDSPOWER PLANTPOWER PLANTSPOWER PRODUCERPOWER PRODUCTIONPOWER PROJECTPOWER SECTORPOWER SHORTAGESPOWER STATIONPOWER SYSTEMPOWER SYSTEMSPRIVATE INVESTMENTPRIVATE INVESTORSPRIVATE SECTORPROVEN NATURAL GASPROVEN RESERVESREFININGREGIONAL ELECTRICITYREGIONAL GAS PIPELINEREGIONAL GRIDRESERVOIRRESERVOIRSSTEAM TURBINESTEAM TURBINESSTREAMSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTSUSTAINABLE ENERGYTARIFF STRUCTURETHERMAL POWERTHERMAL POWER GENERATIONTHERMAL UNITTRANSMISSION FACILITIESTRANSMISSION LINETRANSMISSION SYSTEMTRANSPORT COSTSUTILITY COMPANYVOLTAGEWORLD ENERGYWORLD ENERGY OUTLOOKWorld Bank10.1596/3196