1. IFAD Upper Zakum Contract Set For Q3 Launch

    ...gional producer still pricing its export grades against Platts Oman. Somo previously announced plans to make the switch to DME Oman back in 2017 (ahead of Aramco) but pulled back from making the move (MEES, 15 September 2017). An IFAD Upper Zakum contract may be a tempting benchmark for Somo to price ag...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2023
  2. ARA PetroleumTargets 30,000 boe/d Oman Output

    ...troleum once it has been recommissioned (MEES, 24 February).  BLOCK 44: NEW DRILLING CAMPAIGN            ARA acquired Block 44 (100%) from Thai state firm PTTEP in August 2016 (MEES, 24 November 2017). It used to be ARA’s only gas producing asset, and primarily consists of numerous small non-as...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2023
  3. Occidental’s Mideast Gas Output Booms

    ...oup. Amec Foster Wheeler in 2016-17 carried out the Feed study for the previous phase of Shah expansion (MEES, 15 September 2017) Oxy’s 24.5% stake in the Dolphin consortium which delivers Qatari gas via pipeline to the UAE and Oman netted it a three-year high 161mn cfd last year, including a re...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020
  4. Egypt Oil Output To Fall As Key Producer Apache Slashes Investment

    ...llen in line with changes in drilling activity but with a lag of between 12 and 24 months. Most notably, the firm’s gross Egypt output slumped by 20,000 b/d between late 2015 and early 2017 as the firm slashed capex by 35% in 2015 and a further 45% in 2016 (see chart 3). This suggests that Apache’s gr...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019
  5. KRG-Pearl Reach 20yr Gas Sales Deal

    ...pipeline connection from the Kurdistan Region to its neighbors. Russia’s Rosneft agreed in 2017 to construct a 30 bcm/y pipeline to Turkey by 2020 but the absence of concrete progress means that deadline now looks unlikely (MEES, 22 September 2017). Elsewhere, partners at Pearl have told MEES th...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 08 Mar 2019
  6. Total Expands In Libya With Marathon Waha Purchase

    ....33% partner ConocoPhillips 45,000 b/d each. Hess has 8.16% with Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) the remainder. Though output was shut in for two years from late 2014, it has since rebounded strongly, averaging 210,000 b/d for the last quarter of 2017 and 120,000 b/d for the year as a whole, ne...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 09 Mar 2018
  7. KRG’s 30,000 B/D Atrush Field: Start-Up Imminent

    ...G production, but for helping offset Taq Taq’s continued decline. Though Atrush output may be close to that of Taq Taq by the end of 2017 for the year as a whole output is likely to average around 15,000 b/d. The KRG has failed to provide information on overall output since November, but MEES es...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 10 Mar 2017
  8. Dea Looks To Expand With $10Bn War Chest

    ...5mn cfd 56mn cfd $585mn 2017 Libya: NC193,195 100% n/a 30,000 b/d 30,000 b/d $500mn 20...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2015
  9. BP Still Owed $2.3Bn In Egypt

    ...ak production,” BP North Africa President Hesham Mekawi says. All gas will be delivered to the domestic market. Under amendments to the development agreement, approved by the Egyptian cabinet on 18 December, BP agreed to expedite development with first gas by 2017 in return for a further hike in ga...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2015
  10. More LNG Import Deals?

    ...EGYPT MORE LNG IMPORT DEALS? Egyptian Oil Minister Sharif Isma’il says that there is a “very high possibility” that Egypt will agree additional LNG import deals with Shell and Total to cover the period 2017-20. Egypt recently signed five LNG import deals, including with BP, totalling ar...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2015