1. Oman Set For New Gas Highs With Block 10 Start-Up

    ...CORD GAS OUTPUT        Shell and TotalEnergies have greatly increased their presence in Oman’s exploration acreage in recent years following BP’s successful development of Block 61’s 1.5bn cfd tight gas reserves. Block 61’s Khazzan development came online in 2017 and revitalized Oman’s gas se...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023
  2. Oman’s Blocks 3 & 4 Suffer Output Fall For 2022

    ...REAM              As it stands, all of Tethys’ production comes from Blocks 3 & 4, and even before last year’s problems the firm was keen to diversify. It snapped up three additional blocks between 2017 and 2020 and is optimistic about beginning commercial operations at one in the near future. After di...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023
  3. South Korea Crude Imports: Saudi Up 23% To Record 995,000 B/D For 2023

    ...*South Korea, the world’s number four crude importer behind China, the US and India, saw volumes rise 7% to 2.81mn b/d for 2022, a three year high but 220,000 b/d shy of the record 3.03mn b/d set in 2017 (see table).   *With volumes from Russia – 2021’s number five supplier with 15...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023
  4. Aramco Trading Launches American Subsidiary

    ...ade fuels and base oils,” Aramco says. The ‘Port Arthur’ refinery has been wholly owned by Aramco since it paid $2.2bn to Shell to acquire the major’s 50% stake in the facility in May 2017 (MEES, 10 March 2017). Under the deal signed in March 2017, the 50:50 Motiva JV was broken up, with Aramco ge...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023
  5. Intra-Kurdish Rift Risks United Position In Baghdad

    ...ghdad. That is no longer the case, especially since the 2017 death of PUK founder and long-time leader Jalal Talabani. With the KDP and PUK backing different factions in last year’s lengthy government formation process, the fissures between the two deepened further (MEES, 17 June 2022). That melodrama ha...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 03
    Published at Fri, 20 Jan 2023