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Egypt: Apache Eyes Gas Gains As Eni Output Slumps
...ES, 17 October 2014), Egypt returned to (joint) top billing in Apache’s Q4 results on 27 February. The US independent says it is “building a sustainable base, anchored by [the] Permian and Egypt.” Following a late-2024 agreement that brings “gas-focused investment to economic parity with oil,” by hi...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Libya Upstream Enters ‘New Era’ With Launch Of Long-Awaited Bid Round
...aly’s Eni, recently resumed drilling in Libya for the first time since 2014 (MEES, 1 November 2024). ‘LIBYA IS BACK’ Ç In a televised event in Tripoli, acting NOC chief Massoud Suleiman launched the bid round, saying it marks the end of 17 years of “neglect” of Libya’s resources and “ye...
Volume: 68Issue: 10Published at Fri, 07 Mar 2025 -
Libya Gas Exports At 13-Year Low
...BYA’S ANNUAL GAS EXPORTS TO ITALY: 2023’s VOLUMES WERE ALREADY A POST-REVOLUTION LOW (MN CFD) *ENI LOWERED ITS OFFICIAL CAPACITY FIGURE FROM 11BCM/T TO 8BCM/Y IN 2014. SOURCE: SNAM, ENI, MEES. 3: ENI'S MELLITAH* GAS OUTPUT IS SET TO FALL BUT WILL GET MID-DECADE BOOST FROM BOURI THEN ST...
Volume: 67Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2024 -
Saudi Oil Revenues Stabilize As USA Extends Lead As World’s Top Exporter
...cade. US shale has proven extremely resilient, with a breakeven price comfortably below $50/B, leaving Opec+ producers with the invidious choice of either cutting production or risking a renewed price war such as in 2014-16 when Brent prices dropped below $40/B. If US production growth does indeed sl...
Volume: 67Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2024 -
Baghdad’s New Contract Model: Can It Reverse IOC Exodus?
...rdistan, where Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) were on offer, despite Baghdad threatening to blacklist any firms which signed deals with the KRG (MEES, 12 September 2014). Lack of interest in new acreage was just the beginning. Things soon deteriorated further, with IOCs beginning to exit the co...
Volume: 66Issue: 10Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2023 -
Chariot Advances Morocco Gas Development Plan
...her nearby leads on the Lixus permit could take reserves to 6tcf. Spain’s Repsol discovered Anchois back in 2009, before declaring it uneconomic and relinquishing the acreage in 2014. Repsol’s discovery formed part of a surge of exploration interest in Morocco’s ‘Atlantic Margin’ that petered ou...
Volume: 66Issue: 10Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2023 -
ARA PetroleumTargets 30,000 boe/d Oman Output
...aller firms such as CCED, Medco and Tethys. One player which often escapes the limelight is Omani independent E&P firm ARA Petroleum which operates three assets in the country. ARA was founded in 2014 by parent company Al Zubair, formally known as Muscat Trading Company. The firm specializes in “un...
Volume: 66Issue: 10Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2023 -
Iraqi Kurdistan Unilaterally Imposes New Payment Formula On IOCs
...pacted by government diktats. Payment delays are not a new development in Kurdistan, with previous instances following the 2014/15 price collapse and the Covid-19 pandemic. But firms speaking at a SpareBank 1 conference in Norway earlier this month expressed puzzlement at the delays this time. DNO CF...
Volume: 66Issue: 10Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2023 -
Iraq Looks To New Karbala Refinery To Cut Record Fuel Import Bill
...Hyundai Engineering awarded the EPC contract nine years ago (MEES, 10 January 2014). Since then, the primary gains to Iraq’s refining capacity have come from repairing existing units such as those at the Baiji refinery. Another key project is the construction of a 55,000 b/d FCC complex at the 35...
Volume: 66Issue: 10Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2023 -
Petronas To Exit Egypt: LNG & Upstream Stakes On The Block
...ar dispute between Cairo on one side and Shell (formerly BG) and Petronas on the other (MEES, 21 January 2014). Though Shell sought to calm the waters with a return to investment in 2018 (MEES, 23 March 2018), this remains a live issue. The major’s freshly-released 2021 annual report flags up as...
Volume: 65Issue: 10Published at Fri, 11 Mar 2022 -
Dana Petroleum Quits Key Egypt Assets
...it Bay, South October and South Wadi Dara – as well as 30% of the Eni-operated West Abu Gharadig in the Western Desert. The firm also retains 100% stakes in two Upper (southern) Egypt exploration concessions, West Dakhla-1 and -2, which it signed up for in December 2013 (MEES, 3 January 2014). PO...
Volume: 65Issue: 10Published at Fri, 11 Mar 2022 -
Shell Sells Egypt Western Desert Assets To Cairn & Local Firm Cheiron
...ploration, with Shell and Apache securing a deal that would have paid them $4.60/mn BTU for shale gas production from the acreage (MEES, 19 December 2014). This compares to the $2.65/mn BTU paid for all current onshore gas output, including that of Shell. The three exploration blocks – South East Horus, We...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
Egypt LNG Exports At 9-Year High Amid Seasonal Buying Bonanza
...rst made these claims at the start of 2014 they were somewhat spurious: MEES number-crunching at the time showed that, whilst Cairo had indeed diverted gas to the domestic market, output decline was the primary reason for BG’s failure to meet export commitments (MEES, 7 February 2014). With WDDM ou...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
Saudi Deficit More Than Doubles To $78bn For 2020
...udi Arabia, bringing the cumulative deficit since 2014 to $437bn. Ministry projections point to continued deficits out to at least 2023, which would take the cumulative total to $502bn. This year’s deficit is at least projected to fall back closer to 2019 levels at $37.6bn. This is primarily pr...
Volume: 64Issue: 10Published at Fri, 12 Mar 2021 -
Egypt Eyes Long-Awaited Oil Output Hike As Apache Plans Capex Boost
...en immune to the decline. The company slashed Egypt capex in the wake of the late-2014 oil price collapse: by 2016 spending of $477mn was just 35% of the 2014 figure. And the 2019 spend was lower still at $465mn, though at least lower costs mean that Apache got more wells for its buck (75 vs 60 for 20...
Volume: 63Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020 -
Algeria’s Hassi Messaoud Gets Boost, More To Come
...ude output, which came in at 1.03mn b/d for 2019 and 1.01mn b/d in February (see p9). Like most projects in Algeria, the new compression and reinjection facilities have been dogged by delays. Awarded in June 2014 to Dubai-based Dodsal Engineering, the AD50bn ($635mn) project initially had a 36...
Volume: 63Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020 -
Gas Project Set To Hike Eni’s Algeria Output
...mpany has a chance of topping its Algeria output record of 109,000 boe/d set in 2014. For 2018, the latest available data, Eni’s net Algeria production was 85,000 boe/d. But this still might not be enough to prevent the Italian firm from losing its No.1 foreign producer crown to Total, though this is...
Volume: 63Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020 -
US Output:2019 Sees Slew Of Records But 2020 Forecasts Scaled Back
....23mn b/d for 2019, some 1mn b/d ahead of number two Russia (MEES, 3 January), with Saudi Arabia on 9.75mn b/d in distant third spot. The 1.24mn b/d (11.3%) of output gains that US producers notched up in 2019 were the third highest on record, behind 2018’s phenomenal 1.64mn b/d rise and 2014’s 1....
Volume: 63Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020 -
Chevron Downplays PNZ Ramp-Up…
...vels prior to the shut in of the offshore Khafji field in 2014 and onshore Wafra in 2015. But US major Chevron, which operates the Saudi portion of the Wafra field, is much less bullish. The major, in the operations supplement to its 2019 annual report released this week, says it expects “ramp up to...
Volume: 63Issue: 10Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020 -
Tunisia’s Nawara Gas Project: Too Little Too Late?
...wara is set to add will only boost Tunisia’s overall output to around 250mn cfd – lower than it was in 2014 when FID was taken on Nawara (see chart 1). But make no mistake, the added volumes will provide much needed relief to Tunisia which in 2018 was reliant on 371mn cfd of imports from Algeria to me...
Volume: 62Issue: 10Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019