1. UAE Faces Gas Crisis

    ...ms to boost crude production capacity from 2.8mn b/d to 3.5mn b/d by 2012-15. But serious gas increments will only start to arrive in 2012. And observers of the UAE energy scene view 2011 as a potential crisis year. The first increment is the 1bn cfd Shah ultra-sour gas development, which will pr...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 25 Feb 2008
  2. Yemen Accelerates Upstream Efforts As Oil Production Falls

    ...meni government.” Nexen’s PSA on Block 14 (Masila Block, operator, 52%) ends in 2011 (with a possibility for a five-year extension) and setting in place the EOR technology would take two-to-three years in itself. Only if the existing PSA is extended will it make sense to use EOR, Mr Mawhinney said, wi...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 25 Feb 2008
  3. Bouteflika Pledges Energy Cooperation With Russia On State Visit To Moscow

    ...vested… $60mn and have already discovered two oil deposits that are due to produce above 60,000 b/d by 2011.” The two Russian firms won the exploration rights to Block 245 South in 2000, in partnership with Sonatrach which holds a 40% interest, and have since made a number of oil and gas discoveries th...

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 25 Feb 2008
  4. Pathfinder Banks Appointed For Musturud Refinery Financing

    ...troleum Corporation (EGPC). It will start up in 2011 producing 2.2mn tons/year of diesel and 700,000 t/y of high octane gasoline....

    Volume: 51
    Issue: 08
    Published at Mon, 25 Feb 2008