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Opec+ In 2025: Navigating A Year Of Turbulence And Growth
...AR? Venezuela and Iran are not the only Opec members dealing with significant risks. Libya has struggled with huge political instability in the decade and a half following its 2011 civil war. With the country divided between two governments in the West and East, tensions between warring factions has of...
Volume: 69Issue: 02Published at Fri, 09 Jan 2026 -
Egypt Extends Deadline On Key Offshore Block
...05). A development lease had already been granted based on four gas fields discovered by Apache, and Hess made a further discovery (Dekhila) in 2008 (MEES, 22 December 2008). But though production had been slated to begin in 2009, development never happened. Hess relinquished the block in 2011 having fa...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Egypt Posts 10-Year High LNG Exports Of 6.8mn Tons For 2021
...ghest monthly figures since 2011 (see charts 1 & 2). Egypt has two LNG liquefaction facilities. The 7.2mn t/y ELNG terminal at Idku (Shell 36.75%, Petronas 36.75%, TotalEnergies 2.5% and 12% each for Egypt state firms EGPC and Egas) shipped 3.82mn tons or 58 cargoes for 2021 according to figures fr...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Mideast Drilling At 10-Year Low Despite End-Year Uptick
...nce 2011. Saudi Arabia’s 62 was the lowest since 2005, Kuwait’s 25 the lowest since 2010, Iraq’s 39 the lowest since 2011, and the UAE’s 42 a six-year low (see chart 1). *With regional heavyweights bemoaning the risk of low industry investment, there are signs that they are now backing up ta...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
2021 LNG Imports: Qatar Extends Lead In Korea But Edged Out In Taiwan
...erage price for December suggests a greater reliance on term cargoes. For 2021 as a whole average prices were well within the bounds of historical norms, however. Korea paid an average of $11.17/mn BTU, up almost $3.50/mn BTU on 2020 but below the average price each year for 2011-15. Taiwan paid an av...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
‘The Opportunities Are Massive’: The Risks & Rewards Of Operating In Libya
...mbined production capacity of about 250,000 b/d (see map). A decade of near-continuous instability following the ouster of Gaddafi in 2011 has not done the country’s all-important oil sector any favors. The resulting fighting, mismanagement and forced shutdowns have left infrastructure in ta...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Libya’s 2021 Finances Boosted By Oil Revenues, Skewed By Dinar Devaluation
...nister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh was frequently accused of overspending to boost his popularity: hiking wages, granting generous marriage allowances, and awarding numerous government contracts. But in dollar terms, spending of $19.1bn was the lowest since 2011 – the year in which a bloody civil war ousted lo...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Sonatrach’s $40bn Five-Year Plan: Spending Is Not Enough
...S 2016 HIGH SOURCE: JODI, MEES. 3: ALGERIA COMPLETED CLOSE TO 1300 DEVELOPMENT WELLS BETWEEN 2011 AND 2019 SOURCE: SONATRACH, MEES. 4: ALGERIA MADE 271 OIL AND GAS 'DISCOVERIES' BETWEEN 2011 AND 2020 ENDLESS EXPLORATION Algeria’s rig co...
Volume: 64Issue: 02Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2021 -
Korea, Taiwan 2020 Crude Imports: Volumes Down, Mideast Down Further
...nual figure since 2011, with Q3’s 284,000 b/d the lowest quarterly figure since 2010. Number three Iraq saw volumes fall 34% to a six-year low 220,000 b/d, whilst number four the UAE saw a 15% fall to 206,000 b/d. *As recently as 2017, Iran was Korea’s number three supplier (behind Kuwait). Bu...
Volume: 64Issue: 02Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2021 -
Qatar Keeps Crown As Largest LNG Exporter For 2020
...art 3). India emerged as Qatar’s largest LNG client last year (see chart 4), taking 10.8mn t/y as it outstripped No.2 South Korea for the first time since 2011. Four of Qatar’s top five buyers last year were from Asia. The UK grabbed the fifth spot, but according to Kpler, Qatar’s most recent shipment th...
Volume: 64Issue: 02Published at Fri, 15 Jan 2021 -
Opec Responds To Turbulent Start To 2020
...s, Opec exited 2019 with average production of 29.38mn b/d in December. This represented a massive 2.40mn b/d year-on-year decline. Over 2019 as a whole Opec production averaged 29.86mn b/d, down 2.18mn b/d on the 2018 average of 32.03mn b/d and the first time since 2011 that production has av...
Volume: 63Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2020 -
Taiwan Makes Slow Progress In Cutting Gulf Crude Dependence
...nce 2011 whilst the 72.3% 4Q19 Gulf share was the lowest since 2010 and December’s 68.2% the lowest monthly figure since 2011. A TALE OF TWO REFINERS Taiwan’s 1.14mn b/d of crude distillation capacity is split between two refiners. And the two have markedly differing records in diversifying su...
Volume: 63Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2020 -
Global LNG: China Challenges Japan As Top Importer
...ough here price will be a key factor. *As for Japanese LNG demand, the key variable has been the status of the country’s nuclear power fleet. Japan’s LNG imports peaked at 87-88mn t/y in 2012-14 in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster which led to all of the country’s then-op...
Volume: 63Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2020 -
Israel Accelerates Coal To Gas Shift
...e in electricity production, with coal supplying 30% of the country’s electricity needs in 2018, from 59% in 2011, whilst gas has risen from 35% to 65% over the same period. Prior to Leviathan coming online the country’s gas needs were met by the 11tcf Tamar gas field which produces at around 1bn cf...
Volume: 63Issue: 02Published at Fri, 10 Jan 2020 -
Libya Revenues At 5-Year High But Remain Unstable As Noc Eyes Gas Boost
...volutionary year of 2011. At a press conference in Benghazi on 6 January NOC chief Mustafa Sanalla said the country’s current output is 953,000 b/d, with a 2018 average figure of 1.107mn b/d. The latter figure, presuming that it is accurate, almost certainly includes NGLs. MEES estimates Libya’s 2018 cr...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
Egypt Delays Subsidy Reform With Economy On The Mend
...tbacks since the 2011 ouster of former President Husni Mubarak. Revenue has slowly picked up since the October 2015 downing of a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula but it appears trouble is never far away. On 29 December a roadside bomb in Giza killed three Vietnamese tourists and their Eg...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
Algeria Set For 11th Straight Deficit In 2019
...dget anticipating a $17.4bn deficit. Algeria has run up cumulative budget deficits of over $100bn since 2009, with deficits recorded even in 2011-14 when oil prices were over $100/B. They have ballooned since as oil prices tanked (see charts 1 &2). 2017 was the closest Algeria has got to ba...
Volume: 62Issue: 02Published at Fri, 11 Jan 2019 -
Key Middle East Producers Ease Off Drilling Going Into 2018
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Volume: 61Issue: 02Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2018 -
US Oil Output Soars: Did Opec Create A Frankenstein’s Monster?
...a share of demand rising from an annual average of 71.5% in 2017 to 77.1% in 2018 and 80.4% in 2019, and this despite demand continuing to rise over the forecast period. The US was reliant on imports to meet well over 50% of demand as recently as 2011. But a sub-plot is that the mismatch of bo...
Volume: 61Issue: 02Published at Fri, 12 Jan 2018 -
Aramco Awards Ras Tanura Clean Fuels, Seals Indonesia Deal
...ar (MEES, 4 March 2016). Front end engineering design (FEED) was carried out by US firm Jacobs Engineering in 2011 under Aramco’s General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) scheme, which pairs international firms with local contractors to encourage Saudization. CILACAP EXPANDED The Ras Ta...
Volume: 60Issue: 02Published at Fri, 13 Jan 2017