1. Qatar Trade Revenues Fall From 2022 High

    ...Qatar’s exceptional 2022 revenues from record oil and gas prices subsided in 2023 but its $66bn trade surplus was still the second highest since 2014. With a clear path to further hike earnings, Doha has snagged a credit rating upgrade. Like most hydrocarbon producers Qatar made ex...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2024
  2. KRG’s Oil Sector Hangs By A Thread As Iraq-Turkey Arbitration Nears Closure

    ...mpromise on the region’s independent oil sector, or whether the KRG instead doubles down and pushes more volumes onto the grey market. WAITING ON PARIS             The origin of the dispute is in 2014, when the KRG completed its own independent pipeline connecting its oilfields to the Turkish bo...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2023
  3. Opec Revenues Rise 50% To Eight Year High In 2022

    ...erged from 2020’s catastrophic Covid depths (see chart 1). Despite the huge back-to-back revenue gains, last year’s Opec export revenues look to have remained below 2014’s levels as the group’s fortunes have yet to fully bounce back from the price slump that began in the second half of that year. It is...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2023
  4. Iraq’s Crude Export Revenues Surge To 10-Year High

    ...aqi crude was selling at $105/B, while in January the figure was $83.25/B. This was the first month since October 2014 that Iraqi crude has retailed at more than $80/B. February has gotten off to a strong start with oil prices high, and Iraq will be looking to push export volumes up amid the easing Op...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022
  5. Calvalley Shuts Yemen’s Block 9 Over Security Concerns

    ...p). Calvalley last year said output from Block 9 was averaging 6,700 b/d, a slight increase from 2013 pre-conflict output of 6,000 b/d (MEES, 7 February 2014). Having declaring force majeure in 2015 (MEES, 23 January 2015) the firm resumed operations in July 2019 and spent $35-45mn on rehabilitating ke...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022
  6. Algeria’s 1mn B/D Challenge

    ...present a substantial decrease on previous programs. But if spent right, this need not be a bad thing (MEES, 15 January 2021). Surging oil prices will provide some comfort – Brent hit $90/B for the first time since 2014 last week – but it is important this doesn’t spark a return to wasteful spending pr...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022
  7. Qatar Export Revenues Surge To Seven Year High

    ...venues jumped to a seven-year high in 2021. The $87.2bn that Qatar’s exports brought in last year was the highest figure since the $100+/B days of 2014 (see chart 1), and the ongoing global gas crunch ensures that 2022 will get off to a strong start. Indeed, with Qatar exporting a near record 7.35mn to...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022
  8. Saudi Arabia’s Sabic Hails Exceptional 2021

    ...Sabic recorded earnings of $6.14bn for 2021, the highest since 2014. While Sabic may boost revenues in 2022, the firm expects profits to dip from last year’s “exceptional” highs due to rising feedstock prices. Saudi petchems giant Sabic raked in its highest profits in seven years for 2021 as...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022
  9. Gazprom & Sonatrach Greenlight Algeria Gas Project

    ...The international upstream arm of Russia’s Gazprom and Algerian state oil firm Sonatrach this week greenlighted a project to develop two gas fields in Algeria’s Berkine Basin. The project centres around the 2010 Rhourde Sayah and 2014 Rhourde Sayah North discoveries located on the El As...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022
  10. Kuwait Cuts Long Term Targets For Giant Burgan Field

    ...ture field, having first been discovered in 1938, and production capacity has fallen in recent years (see chart). In 2014, capacity was around 1.7mn b/d and KOC’s goal was to maintain capacity at that level. BP was brought to the field in 2014 under a technical service agreement (TSA) to help maintain Bu...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021
  11. Services Firms Diversify Away From Volatile Us Shale

    ...ia’ share of revenue rose to a record 36.3%, above that of North America (just 24.0% for 2020) for the first time in four years (see charts). Mideast & Asia 2020 revenue was 72% of the 2014 peak: North America revenue is down two-thirds and overall revenue down 50% over the same period. Ha...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021
  12. Libya’s Power Sector In A Race Against Time

    ...at Libya has had rival eastern and western governments since 2014 hasn’t exactly helped matters. The parallel administration in the east has its own power authority which has complicated efforts to coordinate operations and policies. Libya’s new unity leadership which was in the process of being se...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021
  13. Qatar Export Revenues Fall 30% In 2020

    ...s current level of 77mn t/y in 2011. The figure is considerably lower than at the height of the collapse precipitated by the oil price slump from late 2014. Then annual revenues bottomed out at $57.3bn in 2016 (see chart 1). However, Qatar has had considerable success in reducing its import tab in...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021
  14. Tunisia’s Net Energy Imports Hit Record In 2018

    ...ovisional data) are far outweighed by 78,000 b/d of net products imports (see chart 5). When combined with fluctuations in oil prices this means the country’s net energy import bill hit a record $2.35bn for 2018, beating the previous record of $2.14bn set in 2014 (see chart 6). The $670mn (40%) in...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019
  15. Algeria: Gazprom Stalls On El Assel

    ...January, Russian energy minister Alexander Novak said Gazprom is preparing a commercial offer for development of the 2010 Rhourde Sayah (RSH) and 2014 Rhourde Sayah North (RSHN) discoveries but does not plan to participate in development of the Zemlet er Rekkeb (ZER) or Zemlet er Rekkeb North (ZE...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019
  16. LNG: A Record Year As Qatar & Oman Both Hike Sales

    ...nthly basis for the first time in October, may well snatch the overall spot for 2019. *The one key market which is stagnant is the world’s largest, Japan. Japan imported a total of 82.9mn tons in 2018, down 0.9% on 2017 and over 6% lower than the record of 88.5mn tons set in 2014. Here Australia is th...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019
  17. Qatar 2018 Revenue Surge Finances Renewed Checkbook Diplomacy

    ...ntinued largely without hiccup. With prices at multi-year highs last year, Doha raked in bumper revenues. Total export revenues surged 25% year-on-year to a four-year high of $84.3bn in 2018 (see chart). This was, however, still substantially down on 2014’s $130.7bn. Hydrocarbons accounted for 88.5% of...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019
  18. Sabic Reports Higher Profits As It Prepares For Aramco Buy-In

    ...nference that the results reflect the “success of the company’s transformation initiative, which was designed to make Sabic even more competitive globally.” The 2018 net profit was the biggest since 2014’s $6.23bn, though short of 2013’s record $6.74bn. Mr Benyan says Sabic’s business transformation in...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019
  19. Iraq Northern Refining Boost At Baiji

    ...ptember although Oil Ministry statements suggest current capacity may be as low as 47,000 b/d. The refinery had been offline since it was ransacked by Islamic State (IS) in 2014 (MEES, 26 September 2014). Because of the extensive damage to all three Baiji units (the two 70,000 b/d older Salahuddin un...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019
  20. Aramco Advances Crude-To-Petchems Plans

    ...arted up in 2014.  ...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019