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Abadi Claims KRG Pipeline Deal As Trucking Plans Fade
...tting first pick of depleted Kurdish volumes. Iraq plans to build its own pipeline to Fishkabur on the Turkish border to replace its 1.5mn b/d link destroyed by Islamic State in 2014. But this would not be operable until 2020 at best. Abdul Mahdy, head of the oil ministry’s contracts division, said on...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Algeria Gas Set For Record 2018 With Start-Up Of Key Southwest Fields
...msung Engineering was the lead construction contractor, having won an $800mn lump sum turn-key engineering, procurement, construction and pre-commissioning contract in February 2014. Total last month doubled down on its commitment to Algeria in the wake of its recent acquisitions of Maersk (planned fo...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Global LNG Trade Hits New Records. More To Come?
...ated to enter service. This reflects the lagged impact of a collapse in investment in liquefaction capacity from a peak of $30bn in 2014 to a mere $3bn for 2017. Shell sees a “potential… supply shortage developing in mid-2020s, unless new LNG production project commitments are made soon…Without new in...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Noble East Med Plans Gather Pace
...d on target for late-2019 start-up, the company says. The sanctioning of the deal in February last year was a “major milestone” for the company after Israel’s upstream remained in stasis for over two years from late 2014 awaiting the result of an antitrust case (MEES, 2 January 2015). The fi...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Middle East Adjusts To Trump’s Foreign Aid Game
...e 1978 Camp David accords, the US has given Egypt an average of $1.6bn/year in foreign aid, with the lion’s share, an average of $1.3bn going to the Egyptian military. The US slashed aid to Egypt by $1.4bn in 2014 following the coup d’état carried out against Muhammad Mursi’s democratically elected go...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Growing Saudi’s Non-Oil Economy: A Mirage In The Desert?
...onomy contracted 0.7% in 2017. Riyadh heeded this advice. Its 2018 budget projected a $52bn deficit, the largest since 2014, with plans to balance the budget pushed back to 2023. The idea now is that the resultant economic stimulus, alongside continued reforms, will facilitate non-oil sector gr...
Volume: 61Issue: 09Published at Fri, 02 Mar 2018 -
Iraq Eyes Oil Revenue Gains And Incremental Production Growth
...09mn b/d higher than in 2014 (MEES, 10 February). Although revenue plummeted over this period, it stands in good stead to capitalize should the latest oil price gains be sustained. Output is constrained by the production agreement in the first half of 2017 – although Iraq remains the tardiest member in te...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
Algeria’s LNG Sales Shrink Further, Piped Gas Jumps 49%
...ruck in 2013 and 2014 between Sonatrach and Eni to reduce deliveries due to weaker demand in Italy (MEES, 16 December 2016). Flows through the Transmed pipeline that runs to Mazara del Vallo in Italy via Tunisia almost tripled from 7.2bcm in 2015 to 18.9bcm in 2016. The deal ended in 2015 and was fo...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
Asian Importers’ Opec Crude Addiction Grows
...ars, Saudi Arabian crude burn has dropped by more than 22% from Q4 to Q1 the following year – the exception was from Q4 2013 to Q1 2014 when it posted a lackluster 5% drop. The largest fall was posted in Q1 2016, when crude burn fell 37%. Saudi Arabia burned an average 497,000 b/d of crude last year, 60...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
Lebanon’s Political And Economic Struggles Continue
...Lebanon achieved a major political breakthrough in October 2016; it ended a two-year standoff between various political groups which had prevented the election of a consensus president to succeed Michel Sulaiman after his term ended in May 2014. But sizeable structural problems persist and it...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
IOCs Continue To Play It Safe In Libya
...arter of 2014 with output of around 700,000 b/d. But state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) is yet to persuade some of its major international partners that its bullish oil and gas production targets for 2017 will be achieved. NOC is targeting production of 1.25mn b/d by the end of the year and pl...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
QP Petchem Merger
...bsite, Qapco saw revenues peak at QR4.45bn ($1.22bn) in 2013, before easing by 1% to QR4.40bn ($1.21bn) in 2014 and falling 8% to QR4.04bn ($1.11bn) in 2015. QVC has capacity to produce 230,000 tons/year of vinyl chloride monomer and 175,000 t/y of ethylene dichloride at its Mesaieed complex. Its ma...
Volume: 60Issue: 09Published at Fri, 03 Mar 2017 -
Iran Back in Business, But Concerns Remain
...e terms of an initial deal signed in 2009, Pakistan was to import 750mn cfd (8.2 bcm/year) of Iranian gas from December 2014, but while Iran has completed its section of the pipeline, the Pakistani side remains incomplete, partially due to funding problems stemming from Iranian sanctions. With nu...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016 -
Taq Taq Reserves Downgrade Hits KRG And Genel Energy Plans
...om alone in being thwarted by the region’s complex geology. The most eye catching example was Hungary’s MOL, which in August 2014 was lauding its Field Development Plan (FDP) for its 800mn barrel Akri Bijeel field in which it had an 80% stake (MEES, 10 October 2014). Barely a year later, MOL slashed th...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016 -
South Sudan Oil Revenues Collapse
...Official South Sudan data obtained by MEES shows oil revenues – almost the sole source of income – collapsing to just $40mn/month, covering a mere 16% of budget spending. The government of South Sudan generated just $984mn from crude sales in the 2014-15 financial year, down by almost 40% on...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016 -
Israel’s Leviathan: New Development Plan, Still No Anchor Sales Deal
...led in December 2014, envisaged a 16.5 bcm/year (1.6bn cfd) floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to be tied-back to shore – exactly where was left unclear (MEES, 27 February 2015). Delek now says that “according to a preliminary estimation, the cost of the whole Development Pl...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016 -
Aramco Dusts Off Plans For $2bn Ras Tanura Clean Fuels Project
...iginally due in place in 2016. Aramco and ExxonMobil are already able to meet the 10ppm limit at their 400,000 b/d Samref joint venture refinery, following the installation of a 60,000 b/d desulfurization train in 2014. However, high project costs appear to have slowed the whole clean fuels program. Be...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016 -
Iraq: Misan In Action, Apparently
...apparent refining experience (MEES, 3 January 2014). Details on Wahan are also thin on the ground, though ministry claims project finance will come from two Chinese state banks – China Development Bank and China ExIm Bank – suggest an affiliation with a Chinese state firm. Misan is one of fo...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016 -
US Imports Of Opec Crude Rebound From 30-Year Lows
...• The US imported 7.90mn b/d of crude in December, the highest volume since September 2013. For 2015 as a whole volumes at 7.35mn b/d were little-changed from 2014’s 20-year low, but they rose strongly late in the year after the December lifting of a 40-year old ban on seaborne crude ex...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016 -
‘Low Cost’ Zohr Moves To Center Stage As Eni Slashes Upstream Spend
...allenging, with production temporarily falling below 300,000 b/d in 2014. This, and concerns over payments, led partner Occidental (23.44%) to announce its intention to sell its stake in November 2015. Eni’s plans to defer spending here mesh with the wishes of Baghdad, which is also looking to cut its sh...
Volume: 59Issue: 09Published at Fri, 04 Mar 2016