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Oman State Upstream Firm Targets 2025 Growth Via Acquisitions & Upgrades
...cond onshore block OQEP operates after Block 60. OQEP signed an exploration and production sharing agreement for Block 60 back in 2011. By 2014 it brought online the Abu Tabul tight gas field (MEES, 23 January 2015) where output averaged 20.1mn cfd for 1H 2024. This was followed by the discovery of the Bi...
Volume: 68Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 -
Libya’s Mega 2025 Bid Round 2025: 22 Blocks, 235,000 km2, 1.6bn boe
...ins on the back of increased drilling activity have renewed interest in the sector. Spain’s Repsol and Austria’s OMV, as well as Italy’s Eni, recently resumed drilling in Libya for the first time since 2014 (MEES, 1 November 2024), with the former two optimistic about further gains in 2025 (MEES, 28 Fe...
Volume: 68Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 -
Egypt Eyes Takers For Undeveloped Offshore Gas Finds
...05tcf. Notus is the third undeveloped gas discovery of Cluster 2, made in the Oligocene. Drilled in 2013 to a total depth of 7,200ms by UK firm BG (since taken over by Shell), gas in place is estimated at 1.22tcf by EUG. In 2014 BG filed a development plan for Notus but stated that moving forward wa...
Volume: 68Issue: 11Published at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 -
Saudi Arabia Nets $27.7bn Surplus For 2022
...th a 22% increase to $38.3bn. Further gains are planned for this year, with budgeted capex of $41.9bn up 9.4% on last year’s levels. These capex figures remain well below historic levels. Saudi capex peaked at $85.2bn in 2014 before being slashed as oil prices dropped. But it was still running at $45...
Volume: 66Issue: 11Published at Fri, 17 Mar 2023 -
IEA Warns Of 3mn B/D Russian Supply Hit
...ys that OECD inventories dropped by 21.9mn barrels (707,000 b/d) in January to their lowest level since April 2014, and that “preliminary data for February show OECD inventories fell by an even steeper 1.06mn b/d.” If the IEA’s projections bear out, inventories will be drawn down much further ov...
Volume: 65Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2022 -
Opec Set For Bumper Revenues In 2022: Could It Be A Trillion?
...As volatility from the Ukraine conflict roils oil markets, the 13-member Opec group is looking ahead to its highest annual export revenues in eight years for 2022. Even if prices cool slightly from their year-to-date figure, revenues should climb to their highest level since 2014, and if they ri...
Volume: 65Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2022 -
Italy 2021 Crude Imports: Libya Volumes At 9-Year High
...so the lowest since 2014. But add in not only the bumper Libya volumes but Algeria supplies which more than doubled to 29,500 b/d and total Mena volumes rose to a three-year high 46% share. ITALY’S TOP CRUDE SUPPLIERS: AZERBAIJAN KEEPS TOP SPOT FOR 2021 AS LIBYA SURGES TO 9-YEAR HIGH (‘00...
Volume: 65Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2022 -
Petrofac Shut Out Of Key Abu Dhabi Market
...eas in January by a former Petrofac employee [former sales chief David Lufkin] under the Bribery Act 2010 in relation to historic contract awards in the UAE in 2013 and 2014.” The SFO says that the specific contracts were for the 2013 engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for th...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
IEA Shoots Down Speculation Of Emerging Super-Cycle As Oil Price Rally Stalls
...0,000 b/d for the quartet, but that is nothing in comparison to the 2.7mn b/d drop-off since 2014. As such, while the Call on Opec may remain below 2017 levels for the next five years, Opec’s strongest members can look forward to their market share hitting new heights. IEA SUPPLY & DEMAND FO...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
China’s Imports of Iranian Oil Jump: Will Biden Act?
...uld be the highest monthly figure since April 2019 according to Kpler. For what it’s worth the highest ever crude figure in the official Chinese import stats was 798,000 b/d set back in April 2014; April 2019 was just below this at 787,000 b/d. But whilst the official figures – which presumably re...
Volume: 64Issue: 11Published at Fri, 19 Mar 2021 -
US Shale In The Time Of Lower Prices
...e heir to former Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi’s 2014-16 strategy of focusing on market share at the expense of price (MEES, 19 December 2014) Having been abandoned in late 2016 (MEES, 2 December 2016) this strategy was subsequently branded a failure. But it certainly succeeded in keeping US ou...
Volume: 63Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2020 -
Oil Price Crash Puts Vulnerable Mena Economies At Even Greater Risk
...st – whose economies have never truly recovered from the late 2014 price-downturn – the economic and political implications of a prolonged price depression could be catastrophic. To be sure, the key Gulf monarchies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar are robust enough to withstand a short-te...
Volume: 63Issue: 11Published at Fri, 13 Mar 2020 -
Shell Boosts Egypt Gas Output, Retains LNG Force Majeure
...llapse (see chart). Shell long stalled on new investment in Egypt due to a dispute over monies owed by state firm EGPC and the diversion of its gas output from LNG exports to the domestic market (MEES, 31 January 2014). But early last year it reversed course and sanctioned the 10-well Phase 9B de...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Kuwait: IEA Pessimistic
...2024 at least. Stagnation is at least still better than the IEA’s pre-2016 projections when it routinely expected Kuwaiti capacity to trend downwards. In 2014, the organization said that due to political opposition to IOCs operating in the upstream sector, “capacity looks set to decline by 41...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
US Shale: Major Growth Planned, Indies Crimp Spending
...ird fewer rigs (six versus nine) in the oil-focused Midland and Delaware basins. Already for Q4 2018, Apache, with 98,600 b/d oil output, topped 2014’s previous high but with just a fifth of the 42 rigs the company was running in late-2014 (see chart). But whilst output per rig is up massively, th...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
OPEC Faces Prospect Of Declining Global Clout
...e market to cut prices following the November 2014 meeting (MEES, 5 December 2014), Opec changed tack in November 2016 and agreed to cut output (MEES, 2 December 2016). The move initially paid dividends for Opec, which saw demand for its crude rise from 31.9mn b/d in 2016 to 32.6mn b/d in 2017 ac...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Arabia’s Oil-Fired Power Conundrum
...d jumped from 56.6GW in 2014 to 62.0GW in 2015, but has since fallen thanks to the kingdom’s efforts. As well as electricity consumption declining, increased gas supplies have helped displace liquids from power plants. The Wasit gas plant started up in 2016 and processes 2.5bn cfd raw gas into 1....
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Lebanon Power Overhaul Gathers Pace
...e map) was supposed to be the main driver. Work on ‘Deir Ammar-2’ restarted last year after the energy ministry and contracting firm J&P Avax renegotiated a previous $435mn EPC deal into a 20-year BOT agreement, thus settling a scandalous multi-million-dollar arbitration dispute dating back to 2014. Bu...
Volume: 62Issue: 11Published at Fri, 15 Mar 2019 -
Eni Swoops For Abu Dhabi Offshore, Sells Mubadala 10% Of Egypt’s Zohr
...an in 2009, but made the decision to hand over the Darquain field in 2010 (MEES, 10 May 2010), completing the process in 2014. Eni signed an MoU in June 2017 to study boosting Darquain output from 150,000 b/d currently to 220,000 b/d, and for the Kish offshore gas field where Iran is targeting 2bn cf...
Volume: 61Issue: 11Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018 -
Sudan’s Upstream Oil & Energy Sector: Investors Sought But IOCs Remain Cautious
...gure at 45% in 2014), with hydropower and oil burning accounting for almost all of the country’s installed capacity (see below). In a 27 November speech Mr Osman flagged up increasing capture of associated gas and pursuing a program to exploit non-associated gas reserves as a priority. But, wi...
Volume: 61Issue: 11Published at Fri, 16 Mar 2018