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Kuwait Upstream Capacity Tops 3mn B/d
...pacity back up from 563,000 b/d in 2020 to 700,000 b/d (MEES, 26 July 2024), though capacity will remain below its 2017/18 peak of 760,000 b/d. Also in northern Kuwait, a boost came from heavy oil reserves, with KOC earlier this month stating that capacity here has hit 90,000 b/d from 75,000 b/d in 20...
Volume: 68Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025 -
MBS-Trump Investment Pledge Boosts Aramco US LNG Investment Plans
...int venture with Shell. This operated three refineries with a combined crude processing capacity of 1.065mn b/d, but was split up in 2017 with Aramco ending up with a 100% stake in the 600,000 b/d Port Arthur refinery (MEES, 10 March 2017). The Port Arthur plant accounted for 115,000 b/d of Saudi cr...
Volume: 68Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025 -
KRG: Genel Finalizing Taq Taq Exit
...6,000 b/d in 2015, but it suffered a catastrophic output collapse as geological challenges prompted huge reserve downgrades from 2017 (MEES, 31 March 2017). Output was below 5,000 b/d even prior to the 2023 closure of the KRG’s export pipeline, and Genel opted not to produce from it last year (MEES, 26 Ja...
Volume: 68Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025 -
Iraq Breaks From The Past In Fifth Bid Round
...ES, 22 September 2017). The addition of revenue sharing is new to this round, although cost recovery terms still differ from the production sharing agreement model prevalent elsewhere in the region. Still, the majors’boycotting of the licensing round – with the exception of Eni’s optimistic bi...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Energean’s Edison Purchase Thrown Off-Track By Algeria Bureaucracy
...f Alexandria, are in decline. Substantial investment in new ‘North Abu Qir’ wells in recent years saw a temporary boost. But underlying decline has again taken over. Production of 45,500 boe/d (225mn cfd gas and 5,500 b/d condensate) for 2019 is down from 270mn cfd in 2017 when the new wells ca...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Algeria & Morocco: Uneasy Neighbors
...fore GME crosses into Morocco) to the Medgaz jump-off point at Beni Saf (MEES, 22 November 2019). Morocco and Algeria also exchange electricity through three interconnection points. In 2018, Morocco exported 3.9GWh to its neighbor after importing 149.1GWh in 2017. But these numbers pale in co...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Dow Impairs $1.73bn At Sadara, Eyes Debt Rejig
...odwill impairment and asset-related charges” of $1.733bn in 4Q19 associated with Sadara. The 3.22mn t/y Sadara petchems project was developed at a cost of $20bn. Sadara started up its central cracker in August 2016 and the last of its finished chemicals units a year later (MEES, 18 August 2017)....
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
IMF Highlights Kuwait’s Economic Troubles
...ve turned to borrowing in order to fill the budget blackholes, Kuwait’s fractious politics have made this impossible. Unable to get a new debt law through parliament, Kuwait has instead resorted to drawing from its General Reserves Fund since 2017 – a clearly unsustainable strategy. The IMF says th...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Qatar Trade: Surplus Dips In 2019 As LNG Pricing Pressure Augurs Worse To Come
...Lower energy prices caused Qatar’s trade surplus to dip in 2019. An increasingly well-supplied LNG market points towards a further slide in 2020. Qatar’s economy has proven resilient ever since the onset of the regional blockade in June 2017 (MEES, 9 June 2017) as its hydrocarbon-driven ex...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Saudi City Of The Future Signs Up For Solar Desal
...Arguably the most ambitious, and certainly the most headline grabbing, element of Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s plans to shakeup Saudi Arabia’s economy is Neom. The futuristic “robot city” on the kingdom’s Red Sea coast comes with a $500bn price tag and was first announced in 2017 (MEES, 27 Oc...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
SEC: Sales Down, Profits Down
...2016 (MEES, 8 January 2016). The utility’s net profits peaked at SR6.91bn ($1.84bn) in 2017, but have since fallen due to changing consumer behavior (see chart). SEC NET PROFITS ($BN) ...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Saudi PIF Eyes Premier League
...gnate Mike Ashley. The UAE’s Sheikh Khaled bin Zayed al Nahyan failed last year in a bid to purchase the club from Mr Ashley, who put the club up for sale in 2017 (MEES, 31 May 2019). Riyadh has been accused of trying to ‘sportswash’ its human rights record. In December Riyadh hosted the heavyweight bo...
Volume: 63Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020 -
Is Morocco’s Offshore Boom Over Before It Began?
...nference call. “We are very focused on maturing our Morocco… licenses for 2016 and 2017 drilling,” he adds. However with the firm’s first well offshore Morocco – last April’s FA-1 well in 600ms water depth on the Foum Assaka block offshore Agadir – “fail[ing] to find hydrocarbons in commercial qu...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
EGPC Outlay On Refinery Upgrades To Top $17Bn
...pansion Alexandria 60 2017 Alexandria Exp. Alexandria 100 na Sukhna Ain Sukhna 240 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Dubai Picks ACWA For Solar Expansion, Plans 200MW
...rldwide.” Phase 2 will deploy solar photovoltaic (PV) technology and be operational by April 2017. DEWA’s solar park will have total capacity of 1GW when completed in 2030. The first phase of the park, a 13MW solar PV plant, was built by US firm First Solar and connected to the grid in October 2013 (MEES, 25...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Total Snags Stake In New UAE Onshore Concession
...rrent production. ADNOC has had long term plans to increase production capacity of the Adco fields to 1.8mn b/d in 2017, as part of overall plans to raise its total output capacity to 3.5mn b/d by the end of the decade, from 2.9mn b/d currently. Further increments are to come from offshore fields bu...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
ExxonMobil Mum On Abu Dhabi Onshore Plans
...re qualified to bid for the onshore license, where production is set to rise to 1.8mn b/d by 2017. ...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
BP Lays Out Eastern Shift In Global Gas Demand
...rket eastward. In fact, BP sees the US as a net gas exporter as early as 2017. Shale gas production will be one of the key global energy trends through 2035. In the US, shale gas production will likely more than double by 2035 – to 65bn cfd, which will account for 70% of total US gas production. Fo...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
UAE Plans For Long-Term Gas Imports With North American Investment
...rminal in Fujairah. This will be capable of handling 1.2bn cfd of gas from 2016 or 2017 (MEES, 15 November 2013). It already has a floating regasification unit at Jebel Ali in Dubai. “There is a logic to... diversifying the sources and to have a contribution from the US and Canada,” Mr Mazru’i says. “We...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
Abu Dhabi Faces Power Crunch
...ruggle to meet demand in Abu Dhabi and the UAE’s Northern Emirates, when electricity usage spikes during the hot summer months that year. Nuclear Delay? Significant additions to power generation capacity will not materialize before 2017 at the earliest, when the first of four 1.4GW nuclear re...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014