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Kuwait’s Upstream Foreign Investment Drive Begins
...indication as to where the focus of any exploration would be. Total has previously looked at investing in Kuwait, with then-oil minister Isam al-Marzuq saying in 2017 that the French IOC and Russia’s Lukoil were to be awarded ETSAs for heavy oil development (MEES, 2 June 2017). Those plans ul...
Volume: 69Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2026 -
QatarEnergy Crowns LNG Conference With Two Major Supply Deals
...ES, 7 July 2017). When FID was finally taken on the $29bn NFE in 2021, first gas was targeted for 4Q 2025 (MEES, 12 February 2021). But LNG projects are notoriously complex and prone to delays, and NFE has been no exception, with the startup of the first train pushed back. The latest guidance of...
Volume: 69Issue: 06Published at Fri, 06 Feb 2026 -
Qatar Records Fourth Consecutive Budget Surplus For 2024
...20 AND THE LARGEST SINCE 2017 ($BN) *APRIL-MARCH FINANCIAL YEAR UNTIL 2016. SOURCE: MOF, MEES. 2: STATE SPENDING ON PUBLIC SECTOR SALARIES IN QATAR SURPASSED CAPEX FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2024 ($BN) Graph *APRIL-MARCH FINANCIAL YEAR UNTIL 2016. SOURCE: MOF, MEES....
Volume: 68Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2025 -
Oman’s Long-Awaited 230,000 b/d Duqm Refinery Gets A Right Royal Reception
...y to inaugurate the Middle East’s newest refinery. The ceremony caps nearly twenty years of planning and work on the refinery (MEES, 4 December 2006), with start-up repeatedly delayed from its original 2012 plan (MEES, 12 October 2012). Kuwait joined the $9bn project in 2017 with the signing of...
Volume: 67Issue: 06Published at Fri, 09 Feb 2024 -
Egypt’s Cheiron: FID For 150mn Cfd West El Burullus
...e ‘East Alexandria’ block which was put on offer last month in a bid round launched by state gas firm Egas (MEES, 6 January). Cheiron purchased West El Burullus from Engie in 2017 (MEES, 19 May 2017), with the French firm the previous year having taken FID on the stand-alone development of the WE...
Volume: 66Issue: 06Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 -
OMV’s Upstream Focus Drifts East
...only began producing there in the second half of 2018 when the Sarb & Umm Lulu concession began production. But the firm’s links to the UAE are deep and go back much further than this. Abu Dhabi state investor Mubadala took compatriot’s IPIC 24.9% stake in OMV after the two funds merged in 2017 – IP...
Volume: 66Issue: 06Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 -
Kuwait’s KPC Suffers Steep Budget Cuts
...e third GCC member of Opec is on an altogether different path. Kuwait’s production capacity has been shrinking in recent years. State firm KOC, which is responsible for the bulk of Kuwait’s upstream operations, saw capacity decline from 3.15mn b/d for 2017/18 to 2.63mn b/d in 2020/21 (financial ye...
Volume: 66Issue: 06Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 -
Kuwait Plans ‘Extraordinary’ $87bn Budget For 2023-24
...6.83bn ($22.5bn). Still, absent a huge oil price shock, Kuwait still looks set to generate a sizable deficit next year. Financing the deficit will remain a challenge for Kuwait, which has been unable to raise debt since 2017 as parliament has repeatedly blocked a new debt law. TAPPING STATE EN...
Volume: 66Issue: 06Published at Fri, 10 Feb 2023 -
Iraqi Kurdistan Gas Pipeline Boost: Turkey Exports Next?
...reement, Kurdistan was to supply Turkey with an initial 4 bcm/year from 2017, rising to 10 bcm/y by 2020 with the option of increasing to 20 bcm/y (MEES, 17 January 2014). A 2017 agreement for Rosneft to construct a pipeline with up to 30 bcm/y capacity also came to naught. Progress since then has been es...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Syria Says Oil Sector War Damages Hit $100bn As Assad Loyalists Scoop Contracts
...y asset in Kurdish-held territory is the 20,000 b/d Block 26 along the Iraqi border, which since January 2017 has been operated by Syrian state firm GPC under a revenue-sharing deal with the local Kurdish authorities (MEES, 11 June 2021). Despite GPC’s operatorship, production from Block 26 appears to...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Majors Capex Down Again To Lowest In Over A Decade, 2022 To Remain Restrained
...ropean firms’ 2021 spending was disciplined, their US counterparts’ outlay was positively anemic. ExxonMobil’s spending fell by 22% to just $16.6bn, falling below that of Shell to make 2021 the first year since 2017 that Exxon has not been the top spending major. But Exxon is also penciling in the la...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Dubai’s Coal U-Turn Simplifies UAE Energy Messaging
...pacity to handle domestic demand without Hassyan. Capacity (including the first 600MW at Hassyan) exited 2021 at 13.2GW, and rose to 13.4GW last month, while MEES estimates that peak load was around 10GW (see chart 1). REVISING 2050 TARGETS When the UAE in 2017 set out its National En...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
BP/Equinor Algeria Gas Output Rebounds In 2021
...is was still almost 300mn cfd lower than 2017’s record 815mn cfd. In Salah’s output rose 19% to 571mn cfd in 2020 – the second lowest on record after 2020’s 481mn cfd. Partners BP, Equinor and Sonatrach have struggled to halt production declines over the years, despite the completion of field tie-in...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
Oman’s Majan: Heavy Challenge At Block 71
...tput (MEES, 7 December 2018). PDO discovered the field in the 1980s but failed to develop it, instead attempting to attract a potential developer in 2017 to no avail. Has Majan the tools to crack Habhab? While the field contains an estimated 2bn+ barrels in reserves, its sub-10°API bituminous crude wi...
Volume: 64Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2021 -
Sweden’s Tethys Eyes Big Year Ahead In Fashionable Oman
...nerated to snap up three exploration blocks since 2017 and says that its acreage now covers 18% of Oman. Oman’s upstream sector is undergoing a renaissance, with IOC interest in the sultanate growing tremendously since BP started up the Khazzan tight gas field in 2017 (MEES, 29 September 2017). Tethys Ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2021 -
Algeria: BP/Equinor Drop
...eadily declined since a $700mn compression project saw volumes hit a record 815mn cfd in 2017. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of a Q4 rebound for In Amenas where volumes on a quarterly basis in 2020 have stayed somewhat steady. This suggests the overall slump is likely to be structural. 1: IN...
Volume: 64Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2021 -
Egypt's 2020 Gas Output Down 9% On Enforced Shut-Ins. Now For The Rebound?
...quefaction plants, ties in with their desire for upstream projects that can provide a rapid return on investment (see p12). Eni repeatedly flagged up such benefits for Zohr, which came online just 28 months after the field’s August 2015 discovery (MEES, 15 December 2017), and whose price tag of $10.6bn is...
Volume: 64Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2021 -
KRG: DNO Buys Out Exxon At Baeshiqa, Eyes Development
...rformance in recent years – growing year-on-year output since 2018 – the gains have all been from expansion at existing fields. Until Chevron brought the 20,000 b/d Sarta field online in late 2020 (MEES, 22 January), there had been no greenfield startups since 2017’s Peshkabir and Atrush. But good news th...
Volume: 64Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2021 -
Iraq Mulls Power Sell-Offs Amid Cash Crunch, Pre-Election Rivalry
...rliamentary elections planned in October. Kar’s most prominent role is as operator of the 160,000 b/d Khurmala Dome of the Kirkuk field in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. It also contentiously operated Kirkuk’s Avana Dome and the nearby Bai Hassan field between 2014 and 2017 until federal forces re...
Volume: 64Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2021 -
Egypt 2020-21 Fundraising Boosted By $3.75bn Bond
...$7bn for 2016-17 and 2019-20 and $6.5bn for 2017-18 and 2018-19, in order to plug its financing needs (see chart 2). Despite its successful exit from the fund’s three year program in 2019 (MEES, 21 June 2019), the pandemic has exacerbated the country’s financial plight and MEES understands Egypt wi...
Volume: 64Issue: 06Published at Fri, 12 Feb 2021