1. Saudi Starts Up Key Fadhili Gas Plant

    ...aning that even after Tanajib starts up it will still be short by nearly 1.5bn cfd (MEES, 15 December 2017). The enormous $110bn Jafurah unconventional gas project is slated to start-up in 2024, but initial volumes are unclear. Given the long ramp-up to 2.2bn cfd sales gas capacity in 2036, Jafurah is un...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020
  2. Algeria’s Hassi Messaoud Gets Boost, More To Come

    ...ES, 21 February). Dodsal is also working on a 66,000 b/d gas-oil separation and compression project at the southern end of Hassi Messaoud, which at the time of its award in 2017 had a 2020 completion target. This is likely to slip however, as Algeria’s 2018 energy activity report released in Oc...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020
  3. Algiers Refinery Hike

    ...ECC, which took over the project in late 2016 after French firm Technip’s original contract was cancelled in 2015 (MEES, 9 June 2017). By that time Technip was already well behind on its initial 38-month work schedule. Fast forward to the “completion” date of 21 February 2019 and it appeared the re...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020
  4. 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
  5. Opec Gets No Cuts In The Time Of Coronavirus

    ...commendation for Opec+ to deepen cuts by 1.5mn b/d (1mn b/d to Opec and 500,000 b/d to non-Opec) for Q2, before returning to Q1 levels for the remainder of 2020, Brent settled below $50/B for the first time since July 2017. A matter of hours later, Opec released a fresh announcement that it recommended the 1....

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 10
    Published at Fri, 06 Mar 2020