1. Heavy Oil Start Up Boosts Kuwait Upstream Sector

    ...en the onshore Wafra field was shut-in (MEES, 15 May 2015). That followed the shut-in of the offshore Khafji field in October 2014 (MEES, 24 October 2014). In the last year of full-production (2013), output from the PNZ averaged 460,000 b/d, with 250,000 b/d from the offshore and 210,000 b/d from th...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 09
    Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2020
  2. Repsol Mena Pullback

    ...rector Didier Lluch said in 2014 (MEES, 20 March 2015). Development of Algeria’s supposed 800tcf of shale gas reserves has again moved up the agenda in the country’s latest ‘Energy Action Plan’ (MEES, 14 February). Debating plans for years on end without actually doing much is an Algerian specialty: the ge...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 09
    Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2020
  3. KRG: Repsol Exits Kurdamir

    ...maining 20%. Repsol inherited the Kurdamir license in 2014 when it bought out Canadian shale-focused firm Talisman Energy for some $13bn, along with the neighboring Topkhana (Repsol 80%, KRG 20%; MEES, 19 December 2014). Initially bullish development plans faded away and the firm has rarely mentioned th...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 09
    Published at Fri, 28 Feb 2020