1. Eni Greenlights Egypt’s Zohr

    ...ducing its average breakeven price of new projects to $27/boe from $45/boe in its previous plan. The firm’s baseline price assumption is somewhat higher at above $60/B for 2018-19. With prices at this level no divestments will be needed, it says. Between 2012 and 2014, Eni “completed divestments” of €17...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  2. KRG Production Set To Fall In 2016

    ...timates at its key Taq Taq field earlier this month was a hammer blow to the region. Rather than being at the forefront of efforts to ramp up production, Genel’s latest projections have the field producing below 2014 levels this year (MEES, 4 March). And even those projections depend on investments that co...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  3. Iran, Saudi Arabia Main Drivers Of Opec NGLs Outlook

    ...ency notes that the 275,000 b/d Shaybah NGL development, which will supply feedstock to the domestic market, was originally scheduled for 2014, but is “running more than a year behind schedule due to technical issues.” The differential between the 165,000 b/d forecast increase in Saudi NGLs and the 27...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  4. Kuwait Boosts Gas-Fired Power Capacity, Prepares Further LNG Imports

    ...to develop power and water projects on its own, under engineering, procurement and construction contracts (MEES, 13 June 2014). Al-Abdaliyah will be an integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) power project, with total capacity of 280MW, including a 60MW solar unit to improve the efficiency of th...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  5. Iran, Iraq & Saudi Step Up Battle For Market Share In Asia And Europe

    ...2015, up 854,000 b/d on 2014, whilst November and December 2015 and January 2016 were the three highest months on record with average volumes just shy of 3.9mn b/d (MEES, 11 March). With the key gains coming from the south of the country (see graph 1) it should be no surprise that the bulk of the ex...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  6. MEES Special Report: Jihadist Instability In North Africa And Beyond

    ...the city is imminent. That same day, IS also engaged in small arms fire against Firebase Bell, a US artillery outpost in northern Iraq. US forces returned to Iraq in 2014, but Firebase Bell is the first independent US base of its kind, having only been staffed two weeks earlier, and came under fi...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  7. Total: Adco Boosts Oil Output But Gas Lower On Yemen conflict

    ...s net UAE output rising from 115,000 b/d in 2014 to 274,000 b/d in 2015. This 159,000 b/d increment equates to 78% of the firm’s overall output gains. Even more indicative of the importance of Adco is that for 2014 – between the end-2013 expiry of the previous concession and Total taking the renewed st...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  8. Majors Have Another Year To Forget In The Middle East

    ...oduction for ExxonMobil in 2014, overtaking the Middle East. The gap widened further last year (see graph 4). Production growth from the UAE’s offshore Upper Zakum field led incremental overall regional growth of 18,000 b/d, to 398,000 b/d, well down on 2013’s 545,000 b/d. However, both the US and Middle Ea...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  9. Iraq Oil Revenue Falls To New 7-Year Low

    ...TO THOSE OF THE CBI DURING 2014 (MEES, 20 MARCH 2015). SOURCE: IMF, CBI....

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  10. Jordan Strains Under Demographic, Fiscal Pressure

    ...pulation is increasing, the freshly-released results of Jordan’s first national census in 11 years were still startling. The census included not only citizens but also foreign residents, and reported that Jordan’s total resident population is now 9,531,712, compared to the World Bank’s 2014 estimate of 6,...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  11. Jordan’s Fiscal Situation Grim, Debt Nears 100% Of GDP

    ...dgeted for foreign grants of JD 1.13bn (which in turn was down on the 2014 actual figure) only for actual 2015 grants to come in JD 240mn lower. Jordan has blamed the shortfall on Qatar’s failure to stump up previously-pledged funds (MEES, 13 November 2015). Jordan is currently hosting around 1.5mn Sy...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016
  12. Iran Boosting Exports Of Products As Well As Crude; Gasoline Exports To Follow?

    ...low this (see p24), but there is no doubt that export volumes are on the rise. •  Iran’s January refinery runs were 1.79mn b/d, the highest since January 2014, but still 170,000 b/d short of the July 2013 record 1.96mn b/d (see graph 1). •  Gross crude plus products exports averaged almost 1....

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 12
    Published at Fri, 25 Mar 2016