Record-Breaking Oman LNG Signs New Sales Deals

...G sector over the past seven years has been remarkable. Exports bottomed out in 2015 at just 7.91mn tons amid a narrative of decline as rising domestic demand from the power generation sector crimped feedstock availability. The September 2017 start-up of the 1bn cfd Khazzan tight gas development co...

Egypt Extends Deadline On Key Offshore Block

...der-performance – the WND Phase-1 Libra and Taurus fields which came online in 2017 are no longer producing while Phase-2 Giza and Fayoum have dwindled to 250mn cfd – has left substantial ullage at the pipelines and onshore processing facilities. These processing facilities near Idku adjoin those us...

Qatar Holds Off US To Remain Global No.2 LNG Exporter

...rgest LNG market, emerged as Qatar’s largest buyer in 2021 (see chart 2), with Qatar shipping 11.46mn tons there according to Kpler. Korea had been the largest market for Qatar since 2017, but when its demand cratered in 2020 during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the East Asian country was ov...

Qatar Inks Major LNG Contract With Kuwait

...awater were rejuvenated in the first half of 2019 (MEES, 10 May 2019). However, the projects have again been cancelled, with Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) telling MEES it hopes they will be retendered soon. KUWAIT LNG IMPORTS (MN T/Y) HAVE DIPPED FROM THEIR 2017 HIGH, WHILE QATAR'S MA...

Iraq Nears 5mn b/d Production Capacity Ahead Of Schedule

...its parts. Iraq’s oil sector rounded off months of record form in December, with wellhead production at an all-time high of 4.70mn b/d (see p6). For 2018 as a whole, output averaged 4.53mn b/d, up 100,000 b/d year-on-year from 2017, which itself was a record year. That Baghdad has managed to gr...

Libya Revenues At 5-Year High But Remain Unstable As Noc Eyes Gas Boost

...venues for 2018, a figure that could have been substantially higher if it wasn’t for intermittent outages at key fields and export terminals, mainly due to civil strife, storage capacity woes and bad weather. 2018’s 78% hike in revenues comes thanks to average oil prices almost $20/B higher than 2017...

Iraq Rushes To Jumpstart Projects Ahead Of May Election

...cremental gains this year are set to come from the 200,000 b/d Halfaya field (CNPC 45% and operator, Petronas 22.5%, Total 22.5% and Iraqi state Maysan Oil Co. 10%) in Maysan province. Phase 3 to double output to 400,000 b/d by end-2018 was greenlit in April (MEES, 28 April 2017). Work is underway, with CN...

Iran Prepares To Boost Gas Exports

...an. Armenia appears on track to have imported around 400mn m³ (39mn cfd), again in line with normal levels. In terms of new export markets in 2017, Iraq is the likeliest destination. In November 2015, the two countries inked an agreement for Iran to deliver 700-1,200mn cfd of gas by pipeline to th...

CCED Ups Oman Output But 2017 Target Fades

KRG Set For Modest Oil Output Gains After Painful 2016

...IOCs in Iraqi Kurdistan are targeting modest production gains in 2017. But the KRG’s ability to pay remains problematic, while geological woes continue. Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil sector suffered a turbulent 2016 marred by attacks on export infrastructure, geological downgrades and failure to pa...

Iraq Crude Exports Hit Record High

...ntrolled pipeline to Ceyhan in Turkey have yet to be released but will likely be slightly up on November’s 54,000 b/d. As for 2017, H1 exports are set to fall from their current heights under the planned Opec production curbs. Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi confirmed this week that it is currently im...

Iran Inaugurates New South Pars Phases, But Ambitious Targets Look Unrealistic

...oduction at the two phases has begun and they are to become operational by April 2016. Fars News reports that output at the two phases is currently around 23mn cmd (800mn cfd). Production at phases 20 and 21 is planned to begin around June 2016.   “This year [to mid-March 2017] will be the year of ec...

Iraq Expects West Qurna-2 Start-Up By End-February

...ft, said in a statement that a first line with capacity of 60,000 b/d would come onstream in the near future. Output is forecast to reach 170,000 b/d by 2017 and is expected to remain at this level for seven years, the company said. Any significant future increases in capacity will depend on the ti...

IOCs Welcome New Egyptian Bid Round As Sign Of Progress

...fore Prime Minister Hazim al-Biblawi announced last month that $1.5bn of this debt would be repaid immediately, and a further $3bn would be paid in instalments by 2017. “They are trying to project the image that Egypt is a good place to invest,” said Joe Versfeld, regional exploration manager for US...

Petroceltic Focuses On North Africa As Investment And Production are Set To Slump

...r completion in 2017, “is substantially agreed and should be signed during Q1 2014,” the company said in a 7 January release. The Ain Tsila consortium – Petroceltic, Algeria’s state oil company Sonatrach and Italy’s Enel – are aiming to award the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract du...

UAE Misses 3Mn B/D Crude Target, Set To Become Net Gas Importer

...6mn b/d in December he told a forum in Abu Dhabi. He also revealed that the Hormuz bypass oil pipeline is delayed and admitted that the country is set to become a net gas importer – a sure sign that its gas crisis is deepening.   Abu Dhabi is also unlikely to hit its 2017 target of 3.5mn b/d crude pr...