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The Jordan Oil Shale Company (JOSCo) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc and registered in Jordan to explore for and evaluate the commercial potential of the deeper layers of Jordanian oil shale.

The long-term success of the project depends on the outcome of a number of defined consecutive project periods potentially leading to a commercial project in the late 2020s. Such a project would use an enhanced production technology called In-situ Conversion Process (ICP) to produce shale oil and gas that would not otherwise be producible using currently available oil shale technologies.

Unlike other oil shale technologies, ICP has the potential to access deeper, richer and thicker oil shale resources without the complications of surface and subsurface mining. ICP also produces light crude oil that requires less refining steps to produce high quality transportation fuels.

JOSCo was granted a large concession agreement to explore and has committed to relinquishing most of this area back to the government along with oil shale data it gathered through exploration operations thereby increasing the government’s knowledge about its resources.

In the first stage of its project, JOSCo’s drilling operations collects oil shale samples for lab analysis and subsurface modelling. The Jordan Oil Shale Company has dedicated mobile drilling rigs, a laboratory run by a team of experts, and an office location in Amman. This stage employs around 170 staff, mostly Jordanian.





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Arab Potash Co. (APC) was established in 1956, as a pan Arab Company. It was granted a concession by the Government of Jordan to extract salts and Minerals from the Dead Sea for one hundred years. The first plant began production in 1982 after seven years of constructing the infrastructure and the elaborate pond system at a cost of around 460 million Dollars. APC is the only Arab producer of Potash which is used as a primary fertilizer for improving production of food worldwide. The Company annual production is around 2.5 million tones and is exported to more than twenty countries through the company facilities in Aqaba. The company aims at bringing forward economic returns to the Jordanian Economy, contributing to the development of fertilizers industry, and developing the competencies of technically trained staff in Jordan.




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ACWA Power International

ACWA Power is a developer, owner and operator of power generation and desalinated water production plants structured on a concession or utility outsourcing contract model co-funded within a limited recourse, project finance framework. The company, incorporated in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is as a privately owned Joint Stock enterprise with a paid up capital of Saudi Riyal 3.71 Billion. As the lead developer of each opportunity it elects to pursue, ACWA Power always endeavors to select the optimal technical solution, acquire the appropriate engineering, procurement and construction solutions, prepare a robust business case and a financial model, structure equity and debt financing, and submit a competitive and comprehensive offer to supply water and/or power.

To date, the ACWA Power consortium strategy has translated into seven mega projects: Rabigh IWSPP, Shuaibah IWPP, Shuaibah Expansion IWP, Marafiq Jubail IWPP, Shuqaiq IWPP and Rabigh IPP all in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Barka 1 IWPP in Oman. This portfolio of projects, some of which are operational, will collectively deliver approximately 6,485 MW of power and 2.31 million cubic meters/day of desalinated water, all representing an asset value of Saudi Riyal 45 billion.




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AES Jordan PSC

Introduction
The Amman East Power Project is a 370MW combined cycle power plant (CCGT) located 30km east of Amman. The Project is built, owned and will be operated (BOO) by AES Jordan PSC, a company owned by a consortium of AES Oasis Ltd. (subsidiary of AES Corporation) and Mitsui &Co. Ltd. The Amman Ease power project is the first Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Jordan.

The project has opened a new investment window in Jordan through joint venture participation of large investors from USA and Japan namely AES Corporation and Mitsui & Co. Ltd.

The Project
The Amman East Power Plant facility is a gas/oil-fired combined cycle, electric generation plant of 370MW (net) consisting of 2X123.4 MW Ansaldo V94.2 Gas Turbines, 1X139 MW Fuji Steam Turbine, and 2XHeat Recovery Steam Generators.

The Amman East Power Plant Facility is designed with the most recent state of the art technology for new power plants emphasizing the need of high operating reliability and affiance and lowest possible emissions and other environmental aspects.

In Jordan, the Amman East Power Project has introduced financing through participation of multilateral lenders OPIC and JBIC jointly, with commercial lenders SMBC under the IBRD risk guarantee. The success of the financing in Amman East Project is considered as one of the important milestones of foreign investment and multilateral financing in Jordan. Amman East Power Project is the first and at the time of finical close was the largest foreign investment power generation project in the kingdom and is completed a cost of approximately 300 million US dollars in August 2009.

AES Jordan PSC will operate and maintain the power plant facility on a build, own and operate (BOO) basis for the next 25 years.

Project Contributions
The Amman East Power Project currently generates approximately 18% of the total Electricity demand in the country ever since July 2008, on completion of the second phases in August 2009.

The Project Provides low priced electricity to the Government of Jordan (GOJ) that has enabled the GOJ to reduce the effective electricity generation cost substantially. Furthermore, the timing of completion of the Project has enabled National Electric Power Co. (NEPCo.) to meet the increasing demand of electricity at time when the real growth rate of Jordan has consistency improved over the past few years. The project has also facililated NEPCo. To export surplus power in neighboring countries which substantially supports the objective of the GOJ.