1. Egypt Looks To New Gas Finds To Ease Record Energy Deficit

    ...ping deficit that will likely get worse this year, Cairo is sticking with ambitious 2017 target start-up dates for its two key gas output expansion projects. Needless to say, gas output of 4.31bn cfd for 2015 was at a 10-year low; it has already fallen further, to 4.07bn cfd, and will almost certainly av...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016
  2. Algeria Boosts Its Share In Spain’s Gas Imports In 2015

    ...taling 2.67mn t/y, with Iberdrola, Endesa and Cepsa. The 0.75mn t/y contract with Iberdrola is expected to expire in 2017, with the other two set to end in 2022. SKIKDA STILL OUT Algeria’s 4.5mn t/y Skikda LNG complex remains out of action for maintenance, according to reports. The mega train was ru...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016
  3. Algeria’s Sonelgaz Eyes Foreign Loans To Bridge $10bn Funding Gap

    ...nerators and petrochemicals producers, not to mention export customers. However, gas supply prospects received a welcome boost last week with the start-up of four fields in the Southern Fields expansion program at In Salah. These are slated to provide a gross addition of 4.5 bcm/year by 2017, though th...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016
  4. IEA Warns Of Future Price Spike As Opec Divisions Deepen

    ...The supply glut of crude oil is set to extend into 2017 due to the resilience of non-Opec production, according to the IEA’s 2016 Medium Term Oil Market Report (MTOMR), released 22 February. But with global production capacity growth slowing over the report’s 2015-21 timeframe due to in...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016
  5. Middle East Refiners To Add 2.3mn B/D Capacity By 2022-IEA

    ...pected to complete its 146,000 b/d Ras Laffan 2 condensate splitter, while the 81,000 b/d expansion of Oman’s Sohar refinery – officially due for 2016 start-up – is expected “around 2017.” Saudi Arabia’s next big refinery, a 400,000 b/d plant at Jazan, is still slated for 2018 but “could well be delayed” as...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016
  6. Egypt Tying Up Deals For $2.2bn Dairut Power Plant

    ...art-up during 2017-20 (MEES, 29 January). Turbines for the three 4.8GW plants are being provided by Germany’s Siemens, under an €8bn ($8.81bn) contract. German trade credit insurance agency Euler Hermes is underwriting a €4.1bn, 12-year loan to the Egyptian government to help fund the Siemens de...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 08
    Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2016