1. QatarEnergy Signs Long-Term LNG Deal With Price-Sensitive Bangladesh

    ...ne 2017). Then in 2021, Qatar signed a deal with trading firm Vitol to supply 1.25mn t/y of LNG to Bangladesh until 2028. This was followed in June 2023 with another QatarEnergy-Petrobangla deal, this time for 1.8mn t/y for 15 years from 2026 (MEES, 2 June 2023). With the new deal’s full 1mn t/y ki...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2024
  2. Egypt’s Upstream Independents Feel The Pinch Of Local Dollar Shortages

    ...aros saw its receivables position rise 54% to end 2023 at $37.3mn. Pharos’ Egypt output comes from 45% stakes in the El Fayum and North Beni Suef (NBS) concessions south of Cairo operated by privately-held Texas-based IPR. Here output fell 21% to 3,070 b/d for 2023, less than half of 2017’s 7,...

    Volume: 67
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2024
  3. Exxon Eyes 25% 2022 Permian Growth

    ...ficiencies and driving technology applications… has worked very, very well, and we’re seeing the results of that.” This references a strategy first set out in 2017 (MEES, 17 February 2017) and expanded upon two years later (MEES, 15 March 2019). Exxon also stuck to its guns and doubled down on the Pe...

    Volume: 65
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 04 Feb 2022
  4. 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: 63
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2020
  5. Adnoc Brings Eni, OMV Into Refining Arm Ahead Of Expansion

    ...e remaining 85,000 b/d is at the Abu Dhabi refinery. Products output in 2017 was 725,000 b/d, of which 512,000 b/d (70%) was exported. Abu Dhabi plans to boost refining capacity by 60% to around 1.5mn b/d by 2025 under its $45bn strategy to turn Ruwais into “the world’s largest integrated re...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019
  6. Sabic Profits Boost From Rising Oil Prices As Horizons Expand With Clariant Buy

    ...tlook for 2018, after “an increase in oil prices reflected positively on petrochemical prices” in 2017. However, the company will look to cut operating costs by 5-7% in 2018, “somewhat similar to 2017,” he told reporters at the firm’s 2017 results presentation on 28 January. Sabic’s net profit wa...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018
  7. Services Firms See Light At End Of Tunnel, In US At Least

    ...lliburton lost $53mn while Baker Hughes lost $14mn. But Mideast resilience is last year’s news. For 2017 the firms’ focus is back on the US, and the Permian shale formation in particular (see p8). US REBOUND TO BOOST PROFITS… Schlumberger says it expects an increase in upstream and E&P activity th...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2017
  8. Kufpec Shells Out In Thai Expansion

    ...ere first oil is expected in the second quarter of 2017, and 9.4% in the Sleipner West producing field. Kufpec says the new Norwegian assets add 46mn boe of net reserves with 9,000 boe/d of production backdated to 2016 and with production expected to rise to 13,000 b/d once Gina Krog comes on...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 03 Feb 2017
  9. 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: 58
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015
  10. Qatar Expands Overseas Ambitions With Brazil Deepwater Deal

    ...ar and will ramp up to 140,000 b/d by 2017.  Excitement Abroad, Dull At Home At home, Qatar does not appear set to end the moratorium on new developments at the North Field over the medium term. Its growth strategy now appears to have shifted abroad, where it will augment the success of its so...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 05
    Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014