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Oman Eyes Headline Projects To Move Up Oil & Gas Value Chain
...har refinery to 197,000 b/d (MEES, 17 February 2017). The plan also solves another of MOG’s main concerns: What to do with all its newly discovered gas? State-led Petroleum Development Oman (PDO; Oman 60%, Shell 34%, Total 4%, Partex 2%) announced the discovery of the (at least) 4.5tcf Mabrouk NE fi...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Israel Firm Eyes Groundbreaking Egypt Upstream Entry
...0,000 barrels of oil storage capacity: enough for Phase-2 tie-back of output from 1.2tcf Tanin field 40km away should additional sales deals be secured. The Greek firm was also awarded five blocks (12, 21, 22, 23, 31) following 2017 bidding, that fall to the south and southwest of Karish, adjacent to...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Egypt Awards Fertilizer EPC
...p during 2013-16 that saw fertilizer plants shut down because of a lack of gas feedstock. They only began receiving full allocations of gas again in early 2017 (MEES, 19 May 2017). El Nasr currently operates one gas-fueled fertilizer plant at Suez, with capacity to produce 132,000 t/y ammonia, 20...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Opec Slams US Sanctions For Heightened Instability
...Opec+ with the capacity to open the taps to do so. SAUDI AND RUSSIA ON THE SAME PAGE? Russia certainly appears to be more hesitant over the benefits of continuing the Opec+ agreement, but then that is largely in line with the past two and a bit years (MEES, 1 December 2017). Russia’s sl...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Saudi Liquids Burn Edges Up, More Rises To Come?
...ril being 100,000 b/d below March. They are going to match the lowest in 2017-18.” That low was 9.91mn b/d in December 2017, so Saudi Arabia may in fact be cutting significantly below 2017 levels. This would be a massive fall of around 500,000 b/d from January production of 10.29mn b/d (10...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Sabic Reorganization Continues Ahead Of Planned Aramco Takeover
...rformance for 2018 was the best since oil prices crashed in 2014. Sabic made a profit of $5.73bn in 2018 on revenues of $45.1bn, figures which were respectively 17.0% and 12.8% up on 2017, though prices for Saudi Arabia’s key Arab Light crude were up even more at 33.5% (MEES, 1 February). SABIC OUTPUT TO...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Algeria’s Economic Sclerosis: Political Change Is Not Enough
...2017. ^INCLUDES VOLUMES TO SPAIN AND ITALY. TURKEY AND FRANCE HAVE BEEN ALGERIA'S TOP TWO LNG CUSTOMERS SINCE 2015. SOURCE: JODI, IEA, CORES, SNAM, SONELGAZ, OPEC, MEES ESTIMATES & CALCULATIONS. SCLEROTIC MODEL Prices for Algeria’s light sweet Saharan Blend crude averaged $110/B for th...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019 -
Spain 2018 Gas Imports: Record 19.5bcm From Algeria But Volumes Slide In Q4
...rope (GME) pipeline handled 9.3bcm, up 21% on 2017, whilst the 8bcm/y-capacity Medgaz pipeline handled 7.1bcm, up 6% year-on-year. But Algerian LNG volumes fell to a multi-decade low of 1.5bcm, just 8% of Algerian supplies. Overall, LNG volumes comprised 43% of Spain’s 2018 gas imports. *Wh...
Volume: 62Issue: 12Published at Fri, 22 Mar 2019