UAE gas supply is 2o% below peak demand

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http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Oil_and_Gas/10191380.html

UAE gas supply is 2o% below peak demand

Reuters
Published: February 21, 2008, 01:15

Abu Dhabi: When summer temperatures soar and power stations work at full capacity, gas supplies in the the UAE are around 20 per cent below demand, an official said on Wednesday.

Power demand and the population in the UAE are rising 10 per cent to 13 per cent per year, Khalid Al Awadi, gas operations manager at retailer Emirates General Petro-leum Corporation (Emarat) told an energy conference.

When air-conditioning units worked at full blast across the country last summer, gas demand peaked at around 5.5 billion cubic feet per day (cfd), a billion cfd above current maximum supply of 4.5 billion cfd, he said.

"The peak shortfall is about one billion cfd per day, which is being met with expensive diesel oil," he told reporters. Apart from burning oil products such as diesel, industrial users also turned to coal in some parts of the UAE last year.

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1. The sheiks need to stop buying other country's property and...

....start investing in their own infrastructure.