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Cyprus Eyes Gas Riches: Cronos And Aphrodite Plans Advance, Destination Egypt
...uld be 2031, 20 years after discovery, before Chevron achieves first output. Cyprus’ 3.5tcf Aphrodite field, the Mediterranean island’s first gas discovery in 2011, has a new development plan after Nicosia on 14 February accepted proposals filed by Chevron in September that envisage 800mn cfd ou...
Volume: 68Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2025 -
Libya Ups Drilling Efforts
...oduced at 95,000 b/d prior to Libya’s 2011 revolution. Effective capacity has been perhaps half this in recent years but leading US-based services firm SLB has been working with Eni and NOC on a campaign to re-enter long-producing wells with its latest stimulation technology. SLB last month said that th...
Volume: 67Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2024 -
Unlocking the East Med Energy Potential: A Vision for the Future
...scovered in 2011, appear to have hit a roadblock as the US major continues to buy for time with a 31 March deadline looming. Next door in Israel, just 30km away, Chevron is also faced with a conundrum – how to expand output at the 23tcf Leviathan field. The options in front of it appear problematic to sa...
Volume: 67Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2024 -
Tunisia’s Upstream: On Its Last Legs?
...cord 98,900 b/d for 2022. With chronic instability since Tunisia’s 2011 revolution having led to an investment collapse the country has gone from domestic oil output almost meeting demand in 2010 to a record shortfall for 2022 when domestic output equated to just 36% of demand (see chart 1). It...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Israel-Egypt Energy Ties Deepen As 2022 Sees Record Gas Flows
...tacks in the Sinai, though growing gas shortages in Egypt were the underlying reason, as well as changing political currents in Egypt following the 2011 ouster of President Mubarak (MEES, 30 April 2012). Sameh Fahmy, the minister who inked the deal with Israel, was thrown in jail post-Revolution, al...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Egypt Gas Output Slumps For Q4, Consumption Down More For 12-Year High LNG Exports
...s the lowest December figure since 2015. Add in the record Q4 imports of 709mn cfd from Israel and Egypt was able to export a bumper 1.62bn cfd of gas for Q4, the highest figure in Jodi data stretching back to the start of 2011. Of this, 1.56bn cfd was exported as LNG and 53mn cfd to Jordan. Fi...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Saudi Efforts To Cut Oil Burn Take Backwards Step In 2022
...e year, crude burn rose sharply in November and December. Crude burn increased by 48,000 b/d month-on-month to a December record of 477,000 b/d, smashing the previous record of 424,000 b/d from 2011 in the process. Meanwhile fuel oil burn dropped by 36,000 b/d for December. Again, this shift to...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Oman Export Revenues Leap 47% To Record $66bn For 2022
...ne 2022. But this proved a temporary blip, with volumes rebounding to 819,000 b/d for September. India took the second highest amount of Omani oil, averaging 85,000 b/d in 2022 – the highest since the record 88,000 b/d set in 2011. However, exports to India fluctuated throughout the year, with In...
Volume: 66Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2023 -
Libya Starts New Field
...untry’s volatile operating environment since the 2011 revolution has stifled many projects which promised to significantly boost production from current levels of about 1.2mn b/d. Security challenges and financial constraints are among the biggest challenges. FURTHER PROSPECTS Agoco ha...
Volume: 65Issue: 08Published at Fri, 25 Feb 2022 -
Israel & Egypt’s Blossoming Energy Relationship
...ntacts have been threadbare (save Israeli tourists in Sharm el Sheik). The first two attempts at energy tie-ups, the 2001 Midor refinery, and the 2008 East Mediterranean Gas (EMG) pipeline built to deliver Egyptian gas to Israel collapsed in acrimony (MEES, 1 August 2011). Even the latest pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021 -
Egypt Downstream: ERC Boosts Output & Exports To 2020 Records Despite Covid Slump
...– at 649,000 b/d the latter was up 21% year-on-year including record output of gasoline (97,000 b/d) and jet-kero (68,000 b/d) with diesel output of 171,000 b/d just fractionally below the all-time high set in 2011. *But for Q2, output of all products slumped versus Q1, with the overall ou...
Volume: 64Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021 -
Qatar 2019 Trade: Europe No Panacea As Revenues Fall Despite LNG Volume Surge
...ipments of condensate are also imported from Qatar for instance – it is the key one. The biggest increase in volumes appears to have been to the UK. Imports of LNG from Qatar peaked at 21.6mn tons in 2011, but steadily dropped in the ensuing years and reached a 10-year low of 2.9mn tons in 2018. Pr...
Volume: 63Issue: 08Published at Fri, 21 Feb 2020 -
Taiwan Crude Imports Hit 8-Year High, Opec Share At Record Low
...*Taiwan imported 892,500 b/d of crude in 2018, the highest figure since 2010. Imports peaked at 1.046mn b/d in 2006. *Gulf suppliers have not been the beneficiaries of this rise in volumes; the Mideast share of the Taiwan market fell to 77.6%, the lowest level since 2011 (see chart). Vo...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Australia Challenges Qatar For Taiwan LNG Top Spot: Just The Prelude?
...ll ahead for 2018 as a whole, a seemingly-comfortable 2.1mn tons ahead of number two Malaysia with Australia a further 230,000mn tons behind in third place (see data, p22). That said Qatar’s 4.89mn tons for 2018 was down almost 8% on 2017 and the lowest annual figure since 2011. Qatar’s 29% market sh...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Gulf Loses Patience With Sudan
...an 450,000 b/d prior to the secession of South Sudan to 115,000 b/d in late 2011 and has fallen further since. The government puts current production at between 70,000-75,000 b/d; even this is probably an overestimate, says Mr Elhaj. On 13 February the Sudanese pound fell to a record low of SP 83 to...
Volume: 62Issue: 08Published at Fri, 22 Feb 2019 -
Abu Dhabi Awards Offshore Stake To State-Owned Firm Cepsa
...ter an Indian consortium was awarded 10% in the 360,000 b/d Lower Zakum concession (MEES, 16 February). Cepsa, a Spanish-based integrated oil firm, was acquired by Abu Dhabi investment vehicle IPIC in 2011. IPIC then merged with fellow state-firm Mubadala last year, with the combined entity known as...
Volume: 61Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2018 -
Egypt Gas Hub Plans: Goal Or Own Goal?
...rminals at Idku and Damietta on the Mediterranean coast. Noble and Delek’s partner Anglo-Dutch major Shell at Cyprus’ 4.2tcf Aphrodite. Talks have taken place this week to send gas to Egypt, although they remain at a preliminary stage. Aphrodite was discovered in 2011 and a development plan has yet to be an...
Volume: 61Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2018 -
US Poised To Compete With Saudi Arabia As World’s Largest Oil Exporter
...0,000 b/d (9%) year-on-year (see table for full data). This was largely driven by major export cuts in Q3, when volumes of 6.65mn b/d were the lowest since Q1 2011. Crude exports bottomed out at 6.55mn b/d in September (the lowest since March 2011) but exited the year at 7.05mn b/d in December. MEES es...
Volume: 61Issue: 08Published at Fri, 23 Feb 2018 -
Baghdad-Erbil Refining Deal Signals Pragmatism Winning Out
...yala provinces, most likely crossing into Iran around Naft Shah. This is where a 10bcm/year gas pipeline from Iran to power stations supplying Baghdad is meant to cross into Iraq. The deal was signed in 2011 but the project has stalled due to security concerns in Diyala province. Despite recent mi...
Volume: 60Issue: 08Published at Fri, 24 Feb 2017 -
Egypt Looks To New Gas Finds To Ease Record Energy Deficit
...oducts demand has risen by over 80,000 b/d (11%) since 2011, including a 37,000 b/d rise last year alone (see table). This saw the country’s overall oil deficit more than double to 250,000 b/d last year (see chart). Tariq ‘Amir, Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) says that the country hopes to...
Volume: 59Issue: 08Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016